[sportscurmudgeon]

The impatience of the front office in the past would make it hard to believe that they would be able to tolerate losing seasons in order to "get better in the end".

The FO mentality seems to be like a gardner who plants a tree one week and then digs it up every other week for the next year to see how the roots are developing. That gardner knows just enough to be dangerous; he knows that without a solid root system, the tree will die. What he does not realize is that by "inspecting" the root system he prevents the tree from developing properly.

Before anyone thinks this comment is some kind of "hate message" for Danny Boy and Vinnie Boombatz, it is not. It simply reflects how this franchise has done business for the last decade. And it has not worked all that well...