Found June 16, 2009 on Batter's Box:
Gonna free fall out into nothingGonna leave this world for a whileIt was just about this time last season when a three week death spiralcost John Gibbons his job. What's different about this one? Two things, mainly. This one has gone on a little longer. The bad streak from last year covered 19 games. The team went 4-15, and Gibbons walked the plank when it reached 4-13. The 2009 team has just lost 17 of 24 games. That's the bad news.The good news is that this year's slide has left the 2009 team just about where the 2008 team was when their bad stretch started. The 2008 squad was 31-26 when they plunged off the cliff, and woke up to find themselves at 35-41. Anyway, what's gone wrong?Pretty much everything. You don't play .292 ball for most of a month without a whole lot of players failing to contribute. Here is what the hitters have done, ranked, as is my custom, by Runs Created:    G  AB  R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS SH SF HBP GD...
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