Don’t be fooled by early MLB standings

There’s no reason to freak out, Red Sox fans. Don’t you worry just yet. Five months and two weeks is plenty of time to right the very wronged ship with which your team has left harbor. Oh,(wealthmass) and if you’re an Indians or Orioles fan, please reconsider setting aside that hard-earned income for World Series tickets. It’s probably just a tad early to be constructing your “World Series or Bust” posters.
The truth is, the first ten games of the regular season are simply not enough to know what a team is made of, or for the pessimist, which it seems many Red Sox fans are these days (did you hear the ‘nation’ boo Dice-K Monday night?), what teams sincerely lack. In fact, it’s usually not until about 60 games into the season when fans can either run the white flag up the pole or fill their hopeful minds with dreams of a title. Ten games? Come on, man. (Mlb Jerseys )If for some reason Kansas City fans can’t remember, or maybe they simply choose not to, the Royals began the 2003 season 11-1. That team finished 83-79 and well out of the playoff hunt.
And to those Indians fans that are just ripe with hope for the young season, think back to 2002 when the Tribe began 11-1, just like Kansas City, only to follow it up with a run of 15 losses in 17 games. Cleveland would finish 14 games under .500 and 20.5 games behind the Twins in the Central. We’ve read this Nora Roberts novel before; we know what’s going to happen in the end. Teams which erupt off of the starting blocks to early leads end up falling at blinding speed back to the cellars of their respective divisions as summer rolls on. Those teams with superior talent, at least on paper, and swollen payrolls (such as the combined $363 million of the New New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, who presently trail behind the O’s, or the $350 million of the Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers who lurk behind Kansas City and Cleveland) have absolutely nothing but time.