00:00You know, we talked about a couple of years back and Jerry's brought it up numerous times and he's been
00:04right about burying teams early on and how they can come back.
00:08And we should stop saying that teams that are bad in April and May have no chance.
00:12But I am ready to declare that they have no chance.
00:14And it's not based on just the fact that they've been bad up until this point.
00:18It's based on the fact that I don't know how they get better because of the way that the team
00:22has been constructed, which I was wrong about going into the season.
00:27I'm willing to admit that I really thought bringing in these professional veteran players and guys that I think David
00:35Stearns identified as good clubhouse guys that would be glue guys.
00:41All of these things that we heard and we were sold in the offseason, I really did think it was
00:45going to work.
00:46It's a terribly constructed roster.
00:48They're not good at anything.
00:50Even if the hitting picks up, the starting pitching throughout is not going to be good enough.
00:54Even if the starting pitching picks up, the bullpen's not going to be good enough and the offense won't be
00:59good enough.
01:00This team isn't going anywhere.
01:01They're not going to have, they don't have a run in them.
01:03They're not going to compete for the postseason.
01:06I don't know if they'll end up in last place with the worst record in baseball.
01:09That would be a total embarrassment.
01:10But anything short of the playoffs will be an embarrassment heading into a potential lockout year.
01:15I mean, I am ready to, on the last day of April, say that they will never put themselves in
01:22a position to compete for a wild card or certainly the division for the rest of the season.
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