Once again, it happened the other day. The deplorable, the mundane... the very definition of the thing I'm talking about. Did it happen in spite of it all? Or because of it all? If so, I can only pretend to presume why.
And that brings me to this... if Mike Matheny knocks the cobwebs off as a first-year manager, and if the starting staff can stay healthy, I do believe that that thing I alluded to can begin to take shape. Surely no one will disagree that the ripple effect of such a high order could be manifested in some sort of artificial way, right? I mean, structure is structure, and tradionalists are traditionalists. But the bullpen? Blah!
Agree?