I have seen some improvement this past week and have been overall entertained by most games this year.

Main frustrations: Oswalt hasn't had a good breaking ball all year and has given up so many hits it is crazy. I am going to watch his last game today to see if I can find out if he is injured.

Pence looks like he is swinging a little better recently. He still looks like he is pressing very hard but I feel like you have to keep batting him every day to get him out of this. The kid is just massive and he has so much physical talent, he will get his head together I think.

Nagging injuries seem to be mounting and it may effect the club in the coming week since it seems they are playing with about 22 guys instead of 25.

And the poor record which I feel from chance could be reversed just as likely.

Good stuff: It is probably the optimist in me for the new season but I feel a lot more stuff goin well than bad.

Tejada has been more in every way than I had expected.

Berkman was leading the league in XBHs as of yesterday and is raking from the R and L sides. He looks horrible physically though. Looking pretty Kruk-esque these days.

SP and most RP has been pretty good so far. I think they have done as well as they can so far.

The overall entertainment value has been pretty good so far as well as I am concerned.

For a club that is supposed to have upgraded its offense, those averages look really bad. If we must have a catcher that hits .200, at least Towlie has some power and manages to draw some walks. We can’t play a CF who hits .213. Somewhere Willie Taveras is laughing.