This team is punchless, and it's not going to get better. There's no one to call up from the minors- they've all been here already and they've sucked, even though they were hitting .370 or whatever in Vegas. And being punchless, it means that there's no margin for the sloppy defensive play that seems to be a nightly event. So we're staring at the abyss, another hundred games or so of 3-2 and 2-1 losses. And unless something happens, 2016 is going to look a lot like 2015. Firing Collins won't change this, even though he annoys me. These guys are professionals, even though some (most?) are playing out of position. But they haven't been playing professionally for a while except for brief spurts of competence. We at least weren't fooled by The Streak, but I'm betting Sandy was hoping he could leverage that enough to get through the season. But they're back to .500 now and falling fast. And the ripcord on the parachute seems to be stuck.