Writers who cover every single MLB team reach this point at some juncture every season. Well, at least 29 of them do, as someone somewhere is going to cover a club that wins the whole damn thing.
Some make it to Game 4 of a League Championship Series. Some, like those of the Miami Marlins, probably hit that wall in the first week of May.
It’s become something of an annual rite of passage to reach this point with the Cincinnati Reds at some juncture shortly after the trade deadline. It’s at that point that their season isn’t totally, completely on the fritz, but is dangling perilously close to falling into the one more lost season abyss.