If you’re the Cardinals, White Sox, Yankees, Phillies, Mets, or any other underachieving team, a poster of the 2019 Nationals team should be hanging on your clubhouse walls. I mean, everybody wants to start off 20-10.Īnd sometimes, a god-awful start can be swatted off like a mosquito on a muggy summer night. But for me, it’s about staying the course and trying to get the players to relax a little bit. 'On paper, everybody says this team should do this or do that. 'April is just weird, it can go in all kinds of directions,' Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez told USA TODAY Sports.

And you don’t want to be anywhere near 35 th and Shields in Chicago where fans want owner Jerry Reinsdorf to sell the team, but not before he fires everyone in the front office and takes Grifol with him. The Phillies fans’ honeymoon with Thomson has abruptly ended. Louis are making Phillies fans blush with their incessant booing over the team’s worst start in 50 years. Why, just in the last week, Yankees fans were chanting 'Fire Boone' after they blew a ninth-inning lead, while hoping GM Brian Cashman goes out the door with him. It doesn’t matter that the baseball season is barely a month old, the first day of summer is a month away, the trade deadline is 10 weeks away and there are five months left in the season. Yep, this is the world we live in these days. We have absolutely zero patience.Īnd whatever you do, you better perform to our standards. Is Mike Shildt still available to come back to St. Isn’t it time to fire rookie manager Pedro Grifol and bring back Ozzie Guillen in Chicago? Hasn’t Rob Thomson’s expiration date come in Philadelphia? PHOENIX - Why is Aaron Boone still managing the last-place Yankees?

Heads will roll slowed