Tonight I did the first thing I do when I panic — I listened to the FAN postgame.
It's a good way to calm down, because 90% of the people who call in
are, by comparison, completely insane. And indeed, apparently this is
all Kaz Matsui's spot, and he needs to be benched, moved to the 9 hole,
traded, shot, or all four. Then everything will be fine.
What's wrong with our team? Nothing but a little slice of everything, I
suppose. Tough to win being down by a crooked number after every first
inning. Bad calls. (Glavine, meet Reyes.) Erratic pitching that's just
good enough to lose. (Ishii, meet Zambrano.) Shining with the bases
empty, grounding into double plays with them not. (Wright, meet
Wright.) Lots of hits, none of them bunched. (Everybody, meet
everybody.)
Taken individually, of course, one tends to survive these things. Together, well, you're 0-4 [1] and actually pinning your hopes on Aaron Heilman.