I was apprehensive when the game started, but I didn't expect the rest of the crowd to be. When DeRo hit the homer, memories of 2008 came flushing over me, and suddenly I got the confidence I had in the regular season back. But when the offense did nothing the next 2 innings, I started counting the outs, something that's never good to do in the 4th inning. Honestly, until Loney hit the HR, I expected Demp to get out of it. But once that HR was hit, I felt like I got punched in the stomach. Suddenly my confidence turned into extreme pessimism, and you couldnt convince me the Cubs would come back I was pretty close to that, though I wasn't counting down the remaining outs. I was counting down the remaining outs until Dempster would be done and hopefully turn it over to Marmol. I was watching his pitch count the entire game, though, so counting the outs until the 8th soon turned into the 7th...and then the 6th.