Kevin Millar

Well, A.J., it appears to me that the last three years, the Braintrust of Hendry, Bush, and Piniella likes to find a specific scapegoat for the previous year's failings, then make a singular and usually ill-advised move to remedy it. Then they rub their hands together, put up a huge banner that says "Mission Accomplished", and sit back with satisfied looks on their faces. After the 2007 Division Series sweep, of course, it was announced that we were too right-handed, so we gave a four year deal to Kosuke Fukudome, so-called MVP of Japan, who (as it turns out) couldn't even start for Japan in the following year's WBC.  When we were again swept in the 2008 Division Series, we still lacked left-handed pop, so we essentially laid bad money over bad by signing Milton Bradley.  Well, what are we blaming the abortive 2009 season on?  Sure, injuries, brought on by poor conditioning, the advance of old age, and sheer bad luck, but we also sucked becaus...