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the seeming disfunction at the managerial level, the lack of ANYbody getting off to a truly hot start to the season, the collapse of Brad Miller so far, the fiasco in center field, the slow start by Cano with respect to big hits, the big time SP injuries, the bullpen problems, all this STUFF that has left me feeling this club is the same old same old, and yet the team is at .500. I dunno if this really means anything with the season just a little over a month old, but this 8 out of 10 streak has salvaged some hope. Heads up, guys.
This is DaddyO speakin' here. I have always insisted that we gotta look at the fundamental EVIDENCE first, and I've based my critique of the Zduriencik regime primarily on the cold hard fact of their record. Now I gotta admit that though this team definitely looks discombobulated in so many ways, it's record suggests that if they can play .500 ball with all this centrifugal stuff going on, what can they do if centripetal stuff starts to happen and things coalesce? What happens, for example, if Brad Miller starts to work out of his funk like Seager did? Saunders finally seizes his opportunity and doesn't ruin things by running into a wall? Cano starts to hit for more power and get more big hits? All this is precisely the kind of hope I've pooh-poohed for two years now, and I'm still skeptical. But it wouldn't take much for this club if it's already playing .500 ball without those things.