I know that a few days ago I said I wasn't worried about the Phillies' bullpen, but I think I'm changing my mind. They've all been pretty much terrible this spring. Maybe that means nothing, because spring stats don't mean anything and are often deceptive, and of course not every reliever on the team is going to be horrible, that just doesn't happen, but really, none of them have stepped up and impressed me or anyone else. They've all been awful, every one of them, and not just the journeymen and the minor leaguers fighting for jobs, no, the guys who are considered "locks" for the bullpen have been awful too. I should probably have numbers to show you to prove my point, but I don't, so go to the Phillies site and look at all the box scores. Rampant horribleness! So, yes, I've talked myself into being worried. Yeah, that sounds like something I would do.

I wrote a letter to the Inquirer sports page this morning. The gist of it was that Stephen A. Smith is a mean, crazy idiot. They won't print it, but I had to get it off my chest. I mean, his basic point (that last night's Sixers game, in which they lost by 50 points, is an appalling, embarrassing indictment of the franchise) is totally true, but I can't stomach his angry, shrill horribleness. I definitely felt better after writing it, even if he'll never see it, or give the slightest damn what I think if he ever does. There really might be something to this whole "writing" concept!