I am an eternal pessimist. I'm overjoyed to actually see the Twinks in this position at present, but decades of following Twinkie Ball tells me it's a fleeting thing. How fleeting, I'm not sure at this point, but I'm toying with the idea of an over/under date for the last time we see 1st place this season. Call me a Cassandra, but I'm thinking it's somewhere toward the end of this month. But hey- the most encouraging thing is that maybe, just maybe, we're seeing the debuts of the crowd that's going to do some contending in the next few years. I really want to see some of those young (and not getting any younger) BP arms up here by around AS break, as well as another starting option or 2 (Mejia and....?) I don't care if we take lumps through the dog days, but let's not do it with the likes of Belisle and Breslow and Tepesch and (insert place-holder name here). I also wanna see a long-term commitment from the dugout to give more ABs to Vargas and Kep (against LHP), and less from Ol' Joe in the 2 or 4 hole (especially against LHP).