lashing out? you're obviously just trolling and perpetuating pessimism. it's annoying as [expletive]. i'm not worried at all. it's frustrating for everyone. what's annoying as hell are these stupid posts that are not insightful or intellectual and do literally no good. complain about the play of the game in the game thread? fine. but talking about bag heads at wrigley is stupid and uncalled for. i know you are smart enough to understand this situation, so stop acting like you're not. you're lying when you say you're not worried about the pitching. there's still a ton to be optimistic about, but this is getting into scary territory that was kind of unthinkable a couple months ago. Yeah, it's one thing to be sure they're nowhere near this bad and will straighten things out, but it's another to continually be insisting there's nothing to worry about. It's a good starting rotation, but it's far from impossible that we're seeing some serious regression/age issues contributing hugely to this.