Someone made a different thread comparing this year to 2001. To me, it feels more like 1998. There are so many old guys on this team that have no future in this organization (well, I'm sure they will all fill out the minor league coaching staff in three years). Young teams need to come up and lose together before they are able to figure things out and become a winning team. Let everyone with a legitimate shot to be a part of the future play and take their lumps together. Hunter, Suzuki, Mauer, Robinson, Pelfrey, and Boyer are this year's version of Molitor, Steinbach, Nixon, Tewksbury, and Aguilera. Both are/were directionless teams and that gives me less hope than a team full of 20 somethings getting their asses handed to them night after night.