Cubs win! Sox win!

Can we all get off the ledge now?

Sheesh, I couldn't believe the number of people in both camps lamenting the teams' "poor starts". Going 0-2 isn't a poor start. If a baseball team loses, say, games Nos. 99 and 100 on back-to-back days, nobody says much about it, but when a team loses two games to start the season, why was it such a big deal?

To pick up a little on Rico's rant yesterday: two games does not a season make. The 1977 Toronto Blue Jays started 5-2, spent six days in first place in April...and finished with a 54-107 record. That's how little the first week of the season means. The '82 Braves started the season 13-0 and then had to win on the last day of the season just to make the playoffs. April is more like extended spring training, if a team is playing poorly 25-30 games into the season, it's time to worry. On April 4, not so much.

To paraphrase a quote I once heard in a movie: The baseball universe tends to unfold as it should.

The meaning? Over 162 games it all plays out the way it is supposed to. You only have to win three out of every five games to win 97 in a season.

The moral? Relax and settle in a bit, we still have a long way to go.