Yes, because day after day after day, you just knew that the team had no chance of winning in September 2011. The Rays weren't playing great ball. We were just horribly bad. The Sox had the worst September ever. In 1978, Zimmer wore out his guys and they went into an August slump. The Yankees (playing around .700 ball) were white hot while we were slumping. The Sox fell out of first in August, not September is my recollection. The Sox made a comeback in the last couple of weeks coming from about 3 games back to tie the Skanks on the last day. I think the 78 Sox won their last 7 or 8 games to force the playoff game. Losing the playoff game was rough, but living with the pain of a one game playoff loss or a short series loss was easier for me than the 30 day water torture of September 2011. I was nauseous almost every night about an hour before game time, because I knew that we were trotting real garbage to the mound every night.