From my perspective the Guardians have picked the wrong time of the year to go into the funk they have been in lately. Not only is it starting to sabotage their chance to win the division and get a possible bye in the first round of the playoffs but now that College Football and the NFL are starting, some people will just completely bail out on paying attention to the Guardians instead of suffering through watching the way they have been playing. No matter what, football is always going to be more popular than baseball. So the Guardians are fighting for viewers and eyes to pay attention already and this slump along with the start of football doesn’t help. If they don’t turn it around and just continue to limp into the playoffs, all the talk will be football all the time. At one point it looked like they could make a World Series run. Now it looks like they need to keep the ship afloat to have the fans even want to pay attention to how this season ends.