My only issue is too much of it is you putting your thoughts on the players. "They have no confidence", "they don't want to win". Stuff like that. you have no idea what is in their head. You can't sit and watch from afar and say the players have no confidence or don't want to win simply because they made mistakes or didn't hit or are not screaming in the dugout. Yes, you are negative. Passion isn't an excuse for negativity. I defend what can be perceived as negative posts because MANY are actually accurate in real time. When a team is not hitting at all, popping up, etc... it is accurate to say that our bats are likely preventing a win. It isn't just a negative post. In addition, though it is also realistic for people to acknowledge that when you are down late in a game, the odds are against the offense. Anything can happen at any point but it isn't being a negative nancy when you see a trend that predicts something. Breaking out of a trend is more so the exception. So the main thing I ask is be balanced, don't be hot and cold where you go from the batters suck to "yeah, we have a lead" and don't transpose what you are thinking on them. I am sure Slaw, Peck, Ritter, etc had confidence in themselves and the team. If not, we still don't have any proof that allows us to make that observation.