Perspective is an interesting concept. When it comes to sports, for whatever reason, I’m generally a negative person. In nearly any other aspect of life, in general, I’m an optimist. I’m politically cynical, mainly because I’m informed. But sports? Negative. Probably because I follow Kentucky football.

I’ve been pretty bearish on Louisville City for the last few weeks. My mood and outlook reflect the recent results. Los Morados are a perfectly pedestrian 2-3-2 in the league since May 1. That’s two wins in the last seven matches, nine points from a possible twenty one. Yes, I’m omitting four wins in the U.S. Open Cup. Those are games City has played and won, and those do matter. But when many of us were trashing Cincinnati last year for being flippant about league games and focusing on the USOC, it makes me/us look hypocritical now that City is arguably doing the same thing.

They aren’t, of course. O’Connor has put the best eleven he can cobble together from his short and shorter bench every match. Substitutions we can argue about, but it’s not like he’s rotating in players he isn’t sure about on Saturdays.

If you take one step back, though, things aren’t so bad. As Reddit user u/AlphaleteAthletics said a day or so ago, City’s in the same position with respect to records that it was through thirteen games last year, and we won the title. If you take two or three steps back, maybe it’s not such a bad thing for a team like this to put its chips in the Open Cup basket for just one season. You only get so many shots at the Lamar Hunt Trophy when you’re a second division club, and if you’ve got a good one you might as well take it.

What the Boys in Purple need is a win or two in the league and a damn break. Like five or six days. If we get those two things, I think the ball starts rolling again. Links!