Attempting to time hot and cold streaks of baseball players, grasping for rotisserie success, is like trying to take a hot shower with cold water. It doesn’t work unless your sense of hot and cold differs from reality.
Take Little Joey Mauer – please. I was willing to live with his parade of singles if the parade took awhile to end. It lasted about three days, which isn’t lengthy enough to hear all the bands play. Now, the screaming singles are being caught thin Colorado outfield air. Mauer is going back to the pine at least until he hits one home run and by then his average better be George Brett-like.
Take Alfonso Soriano – quickly; oops-too late. Fonsie is as streaky as they come and he’s been ridiculous lately. He smashed four home runs in two days and lit up the Wrigley scoreboard. It’s Sunday and roster change day for most fantasy leagues. Do you want to bet on continued Cub crushing with Alfonso, or trust his inevitable reverting to slumpdom?
Go figure!
