Oh Nooooooooo!

Aaaand…the M’s lost to the Angels 8-6. Hernandez got tagged for three homers, including a three-run blast from slugger Vladimir Guerrero in the 6th that put L.A. up over the Mariners. Of that last fateful pitch the Seattle Times quotes Mr. Hernandez as saying:

“I did what I wanted to do that at-bat. I threw that fastball because I wanted to. He hit it.”

Ah, the confidence of youth…or of Jupiter trine the Sun. As I said earlier, baseball IS a team sport, and there were good things popping up in Guerrero’s chart last night…the Sun was lighting up both his Mercury and Mars (in professional sports players, I seem to find Mercury to be on the prominent side…probably because of the hand-eye coordination aspect); he also had both Jupiter and Saturn approaching trine to his own Jupiter (from opposite ends) and Jupiter showing up in near direct opposition to his Mars. This latter would indicate something big, fat and lucky (as far as his desire/drive/energy is concerned) showing up externally…like a young pitcher throwing a fast ball right down the strike zone. Pow!

Anyway, this is just looking at only one batter…what about the two guys on base that Vlad knocked in? What about the earlier batters hitting homers off Felix? And the Mariners were up 5-4 prior to that three-run shot; there must have been some good things going on for the M’s batters, right?

Sure, maybe…but not necessarily. Ichiro bats consistently all year round…that’s just what he does. The stars can’t always “line up” for him…they’re probably going to mean more to his emotional make-up as anything else.

Same with Hernandez…he felt good about his pitches, he just didn’t get the job done. Hopefully, he sees how he can learn from the experience (Saturn trine Sun) and integrate the game into his psyche, making him a better ball player.

This is one excellent reason not to use astrology for directly picking the outcome of games (especially for betting folks). While you can look at charts for players (or even charts for a team!), my version of astrology is mainly concerned with the internal make-up and effects of the event…and a game can have positive effects even if the team registers an L instead of a W. For example the Seahawks failing to win Super Bowl XL was a pretty tough blow for a lot of Seattleites…but I see a helluva’ lot of Seahawks gear walking around Seattle these days (in the middle of May, no less!). Just playing in the big game brought a lot of pride to this town…and there were no post-game celebratory riots either!

Anyway, the other thing about team sports is that there’s a whole team of players to consider. In this game, I only looked at three players (Hernandez, Guerrero, and Weaver…Jered was pulled early, by the way). Looking at the emotional make-up of every single player on both teams compared to game-time…well, that’s more work than I want to do, even in the relatively short (16 game) NFL season!

All of these professional players are incredible athletes; that’s why they are paid to play the game. I have no doubt that your average WNBA player can smoke 90% of male and female basketball players on any given court…just as your average pro-football player would seem like Ladanian Tomlinson when lined up against the State varsity champs. Sure there are some players that are a cut above the rest (Peyton Manning or L.T. for example), but again it takes more than one or two “stars” to make a championship team.

Chemistry, chemistry, chemistry. Well, that and “good coaching;” which I would argue is also chemistry (most pro coaches being the equivalent of pro players, it’s a matter of getting the ones who can best communicate the game plan to a team for proper execution).