I’ve been reading blogs and comments, here and elsewhere, and so far this season I’ve seen suggestions that Lamb&Everett ought to be returned to Houston by spaceship, that Monroe ought to be cut loose as soon as possible, that Liriano is currently unfit for a major-league uni, that Morneau is going to kill his team (an opening series rant), that Tolbert should get 500 ABs, that Joe Vavra should be fired, that the bullpen reeks … and so on.

I know that my frustration with Oof Onser and Jesse Crain has been quick trigger too.

Then I read this week’s Hank Steinbrenner rant. You know, the Joba Chamberlain thing where he said: “I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now. There is no question about it, you don’t have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a set-up guy. You just don’t do that. You have to be an idiot to do that.”

But Hank’s screed reminded me that, as tempting as a bad stretch makes it, 20 games into the season isn’t the time to pass final judgment.

Just a thought.

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