11-14 for Apr. I don’t really see a Shark Prime within my division, but there are a couple leaving spreading blood pools around the NC in general, and they’re sure to cruise into this local shoal from time to time.
We had a bad month, but not a critically bad month, not yet. It just looks like one of those oddity-laden slow starts. Losing at Home, for example–we don’t generally lose at home. Zone rating is disturbingly average, instead of among the best. Strikeouts-we’re fanning away merrily but not getting any out of the arms, also unusual. Oddities.
The starters are getting abused early on, but we know they’re better than what they’ve shown thus far. Apply more Crisco, boys.
The hitters are settling into familiar patterns. Nothing to worry about there.
Don’t know. I’ll just issue the shark warning flare guns. My hunch says it’s just one of those early-season beatings that doesn’t persist, but I don’t have that ominous disaster “feel” for this season yet. You know the ones, a season where all the wheels come off completely. It could be that kind of a season, but we’re not seeing the signs and hoping it isn’t.
Think it’s going to come down to how often the sharks cruise through the local shoal.
[Editor: May opens with two back-to-back shark attacks, and a third later in the month. Could be a terrible Spring.]
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