I know better than to wade through hysterical posters on Dodger discussion forums and blog comment sections, but I always wind up doing it and feeling something akin to heartburn afterwards, especially when the posters want to blow up the team after a week of bad games.
The futile weekend series versus the Angels and then last night’s loss against the Brewers have shot panic levels to epic proportions. Oy! The stress you would not believe.
With that in mind, here are the official Top 9 Trolley Dodger Reasons Why You Should Remember To Breathe.
- Your failure to understand the logic of or not knowing the full story behind Dodger front office decisions does not mean there is no logic or reason behind those decisions.
- It doesn’t matter if you have a subscription to Baseball America, obsessively monitor the news feeds, refresh the forums every 5 minutes, and Read Every Blog: you don’t know everything, and there is always more to the story than the public knows.
- Does this mean the Dodger front office is always right? Absolutely not. But then, neither are you.
- The Dodgers are hovering in first place in a dogfight division. We are likely to fall out of first place. If we do, we are likely to get back into first place. Jumping off a cliff in the interim is a bad idea — what are you, Cub fans?
- Choosing dependable vets (yes, even dependably mediocre) over untested kids at the beginning of the season is insurance, not veteran deference, and definitely not willful obstinacy.
- If our outfield on opening day was, say, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, and Jason Repko, we’d be one injury or slump away from the 2005 season. You remember 2005, right?
- The Dodgers do not, as one poster opined today, have the second worst front office in baseball behind only the Rockies. Ask a Colorado fan how it is with a really bad front office and get back to me.
- The Yankees will not trade A-Rod for Brett Tomko, Wilson Betemit, and every other Dodger player you hate.
- It’s May 22nd, and it’s a beautiful day outside.