It was definitely an overreactionary game thread, myself included. Go onto twitter/X and things are far worse. It’s interesting to look at/wonder why, because things haven’t been bad - 4 out of our last 5 and 14-7 since the AS break.
I think there’s things that contribute psychologically - particularly when the Cubs start playing well we get the feeling that they’ll always continue to play that well, even when baseball has proven time and time again to be a streaky sport (the Cubs themselves have both winning and losing streaks of 10 games this very season).
I think some disappointment over the trade deadline - what we didn’t get, what we got, and what we gave up, is all spilling over too.