Gary Parrish

You can start pointing to lack of NCAA tournament appearances, lack of NCAA tournament success, but you can also go straight to his Wikipedia page and find a pattern that's undeniable and that this guy almost always had a good basketball team relative to the conference with which he was in.

He was always finishing top two or top three or top four or in that range over a long period of time.

in multiple schools, in multiple conferences.

And what that said to me is that this person might not be a future Hall of Famer, but this person knows how to run a basketball program, and if you give him the resources, he'll have a shot.

It's a tough job in a tough league, but you have somebody who, quote, knows what he's doing running the thing, and that's a good sign.

It would be impossible for me or you or anybody else

to try to accurately make sense of what a completely new roster with a bunch of players who have quite literally never met each other, how that's going to look in November.

But to your point, it does seem like they've got a clear idea of what they're trying to get done in a time where

There are other rosters out there that are still in desperate need of just adding bodies.

They've added a bunch of bodies pretty quickly.

I'm so mad.

I spend all basketball season looking forward to like, man, I can't wait to get home, put my suitcase up and just watch baseball with the kids and the wife.

And it's just before I could even put my suitcase up, they were out of it.

They're 10 games below 500 now.

I've sort of made up my mind.

I'm not going to start paying attention again until it's like four games under 500.

If they get there, I'll dive back in.

But

It's been awful, just absolutely depressing.

To a non-baseball fan, you can't grasp how incredible it is to spend that kind of money on a roster and be literally the worst team in the National League.