They won baseball games. So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know. They also won 50% of the games that did not fit that description. "Confidence" in the team is meaningless. It's a stupid, meatball term. I think they're a decent baseball team in a league with very few great baseball teams to worry about. It's a high-variance sport and they could have an awesome record or a terrible one in five months, but I see no reason to like them less than anyone outside of Washington or LA likes their team. The point, as I'm sure you understood, was that after last nights win many were ready to purchase playoff tickets. Then amazingly after familiar offensive ineptitude people were stunned. The act of being confident in your teams ability to play the game of baseball well enough that you believe they will win more than they lose is in no way "mestbally". Which people were stunned? It seems like most people here are doing the opposite by saying that there are lots of reasons to be optimistic about this team.