1) You're the Pirates, Reds, Nationals, Royals, Orioles, or Rays at the beginning of the season. Oh wait, the Rays are good this year. Who saw their domination coming?
2) You become a "seller" and trade away your clean-up hitter.
3) You have the worst offense in baseball.
4) You have the worst pitching in baseball.
5) You are 6 games back of getting into the Wild Card or Division lead.
6) You are 5 games back and have to leap frog at least two other teams.
7) You're under .500 (disclaimer: unless you're in the NL West in which you are probably only a game or two back).
8) You reassure your fan base by saying that your future is bright. Go ahead, comb through the farm system and try to find three guys who will impact your team in the next 5 years.
9) You trade Dan Haren, Rich Harden, and Joe Blanton.
10) You fire both managers (both General and specific).
11) You spend $138 million and forget to improve your already bad bullpen.
12) You trade CC Sabathia and replace him with Anthony Reyes.
13) You call out another team's player and then realize he might be the answer to your problems.
14) Karma finally comes back to bite you for winning too damn much.
15) You trade for Randy Wolf and LaTroy Hawkins even though you're almost 10 games out of even the Wild Card.
16) You probably should consider trading your 1 and 2 pitchers for about a gazillion prospects to rebuild your team, or build it for that matter because there is nothing there.
17) You claim Livan Hernandez off waivers and expect him to resurrect your pitching staff. Maybe literally hold them up on his shoulders, but not metaphorically.
So who am I talking about in each line? Answers tomorrow. You can skip 5, 6, 7, and 8 because they will take too long.
2 comments:
6 and 14 both sound like the Cards to me.
Aah, the Cards. I still somewhat naively keep them in contention. 3 games back from the Wild Card gives them time, but they need Carpenter to be healthy. If that happens, Wainwright can be the closer (I still think he should be starting), but if not, he has to start which still leaves the bullpen issue. Yet, three games isn't too much to overcome.
They are too far out from the Division, mainly because I think the Cubs will end up winning that division by 8 over the Brewers or Cards.
Also, maybe I should mention that there could be overlapping if you choose to answer 5-8.
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