Jay GreesonIt’s becoming tougher and tougher to be a baseball fan around these parts, you know?
The Atlanta Braves won Wednesday, and that’s great. In truth, they should have considered canceling the rest of the month so they could head into June with a one-game winning streak.
But the struggles of the once-proud franchise are well documented. Heck, going into Thursday’s game, Atlanta outfielders had fewer homers than New York Mets starting pitchers. We know this. And this is not going to change soon. (That said, here’s a tip of the strategy cap to burning it to the ground rather than spinning your wheels in perpetual pretty good.)
But this week’s main baseball discussion comes from Chicago.
No, it’s not about the sheer shock value of the Cubs losing a Wednesday doubleheader to the San Diego Padres, a feat that constitutes their first two-game slide of the season. It’s not about their staggering run differential, which is currently higher than what last year’s World Series champion Royals posted at the end of the regular season.