Blue Jays at Cleveland, June 21-23

You're not asking me, surely? 

Temperamentally, I seem committed to an eternal optimism that believes the team I'm cheering for can still prevail until the mathematics say, generally some time in September, that it's no longer possible. I am skeptical of the utility of selling off your assets unless you're awfully confident about what you're receiving in return. And I disapprove with every molecule in my body of tanking. Not just because I'm too old to suffer through multiple seasons of bad baseball; but also because there's no guarantee that you will be rewarded for your lack of effort, as the Detroit Tigers can probably tell you.