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When It's Early And You're Squirrely...

I just got back from the game, and let me just say: Hey, that was boring, stupid, and awful.

So your team is 7-10, leading the league in errors, missing its leadoff hitter and "captain," its best overall player, its closer, is 0-6 in day games, 0-7 in games decided by 1 or 2 runs...and you are trying to make that important yet difficult decision about whether you should panic.

A baseball season is indeed a marathon, not a sprint, and as a result any three-week sample is usually "four-parts mirage to one part water". As for the early part of the season, one good guiding principle is that you can't really win a division early so much as you can lose one.