Detention Lecture: Your 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks

As the postseason soldiers on, the eliminated teams are facing an offseason filled with golf rounds and hot-stove strategery. But we're not going to let them get off that easy. No sir. No way. In an attempt to bring some closure between franchise and follower, we're giving a blogger from each team the opportunity to detain their squads for the equivalent of a Saturday morning detention stay. Up next in our series is Jim McLennan of AZ Snakepit, the preeminent snake site on the Internet. He's thinking of buying the site some ad space on Ryan Roberts. In educational terms, this year was like having Buffy Summers transfer to your school, only for her to be a model student. Expecting disaster, you're just relieved nothing involving demons occurred. Having braced ourselves for another losing season, this campaign was a very pleasant surprise for Arizona Diamondbacks supporters. After being universally ignored by the pundits, we won the NL West and survived longer into...