Ryan Lefevre

Your statement about there's more of a mean now because everyone's reading from the same analytics, that's interesting.

But yes, there have been some good teams who have gotten off to a mediocre start.

There are some mediocre teams right now that are bad, and we just haven't seen that they're bad yet.

They got off to a good start.

They're playing with some momentum.

But on paper, they just don't appear to be playoff-caliber teams.

And I go back to a line that Denny shared with me years ago

that Whitey Herzog used to say, you don't want to play horse bleep teams early in the season because they haven't figured out that they're horse bleep yet.

And so early in the season, it's cold.

Nobody feels right yet.

I mean, there's, in our case, rain delays, tarp on the field, days off, whatever.

And just good teams haven't gotten into a rhythm.

And I think mediocre teams and less have taken advantage of that.

Yeah, I don't think it's something that's missing that's gone for the season.

I think it's

And I was talking about this earlier today.

Two years ago when they went to the playoffs, they realized on offense they were going to have to be a team that paid attention to details on offense.

They were going to have to move runners.

They were going to have to hit with runners in scoring position.

They were going to have to get runners in from second with nobody out.