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It's the 14th of April. The season isn't even 2 weeks old. There are 150 games left. 150.
If you're getting this upset this early, you might want to just tune them out. Because you'll have an ulcer by June. If you make it that far.
Baseball is a weird game. Slumps spread like virus' through a team. So do streaks. It's sort of like weather in the midwest. What you see today isn't necessarily what you'll see tomorrow. They could go out tomorrow afternoon, blink on like a lightbulb and give Grienke another win. Then they go on to take 4 of 6 from the Tigers and Twins this week, and suddenly we're looking at an 8-11 team on an upswing instead of a 3-9 one that looks like turd on a stick. Or they could win tomorrow, go on to lose 5 in a row, and maintain their weird early streak (win 1, lose 2, win 1, lose 3, win 1, lose 4 (so far)), and then you can complain about how David Glass sucks because we spent too much on Mike S. Weeney and Octavio Dotel and Gil Meche, or else because he doesn't spend 10 billion on everyone else.
Criticize Glass all you want. He's hired the right GM (according to everyone), he's increased the payroll significantly, and he's shown a new willingness to shell out big contracts. And now it's up to the players.
Beyond that, it's a rebuilding year, where we'll be playing a ton of young guys. Everybody knew it coming in.
Or at least I thought they did.
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