Back from vacation and I feel like kicking a tin can down the main street of this ghost town of a blog.

Guess I'll start with the negatives, as is interwebs protocol: I am starting to realize that I gave this team basically four full months of daily dedication, taking a week off to sin, and then trying coming back to the state I used to be in where I'd watch all the games has been really difficult. Why? This is going to be a trash season and it's hard to care about these players. No two-ways about it, and that's just the ebb & flow of Friarlife.

Rizzo didn't do diddly shit at the bigs, and you get the feeling that, like the early 2000s, few-to-none of the players will be relevant in the team's long term plans. Shit baseball games save the good pitching. So it's hard to get the motivation to watch a lot of these contests.

Having that been said, I'm watching this 5-1 whoppin of the Buck-Os right now.