I voted for "average, 'meh'" but if I had to get more specific, if someone told me at the start of the season the Jays would have this record, i would have been substantially disappointed.  However, if someone had also explained to me the injuries and bad luck the jays have experienced so far< I'd have been quite okay with their present record.

...so it all kind of evens out to a "meh"

I said average but in truth, I feel worse than that.  I can't say "bad show all the way around" though because there have been so many encouraging individual performances, including AJ, Accardo, Janssen, Marcum, Rios, and Hill's power (though I expect better average).

At the end of the day, this team hasn't stepped up to win those games that were "there for the winning".

I too am extremely disappointed with the season as well. But when I look at who has to get hot, who's going to come back from injury as well as the individual performances, it is exciting. Playoffs are a real longshot at this point, but we have as much chance as the Yankees do, and the only way we get to the playoffs (young pitching stepping up) actually seems to be aligning properly.

They seem to have the rotation more or less figured out with Doc, AJ, McGowan, Marcum, and Ohka with Janssen or Thomson coming into the mix possibly. This is a positive. Going from two decent starters to four or even five and finding them before June will lead to success.

In the end, I believe the Jays will be able to go for a run, but these runs usually happen to one team every year, and I still don't think they have what it takes to be those 2006 Twins. But things look to be solid next year, at least pitching wise.

Of course once the pitching gets things together for next year, Glaus will get really old fast, as well Thomas, and Zaun and we'll be looking towards 2009.

I find myself disappointed with this team because I don't see the injuries as having a direct impact on the type of inconsistency the Jays have shown. To me, the team should have been hit hardest by the injuries in the pitching department (with Halladay and Ryan and an already thin rotation to begin with), but its not like the Jays are putting up the numbers offensively and the pitching replacements are coughing up game after game. Should injuries to Reed Johnson and Gregg Zaun hurt the offense so badly though? No one else is stepping up, and the most consistent guys are the youngsters, Rios and Hill. Very uninspiring baseball to watch.

I gave a D.  The reason is that from the start, most people identified us as having a horrible bench with a couple of sinkholes in the batting order.  With the money we had to spend this offseason, I do think that we should have been able to fill at least one of those holes (Ohka, Thomson, and Zambrano all found a way to get money to deliver essentially the nothing that most expected).  I can't believe that a better option at backup catcher, infield, and a true backup outfielder couldn't have been found (either trade or free agent) for some of that money.

I don't actually place any blame on the players as outside of Frank Thomas, who is performing pretty much on par with this time last season, everyone has done about what I would expect, but I do blame most everyone in management for leaving the roster in such a futile spot where losing one bat (Reed) essentially means that you've only got 6 major league caliber hitters in your lineup.  So "bad show all the way around" may be a bit of a stretch, as the bad show is isolated to those that put this team together.

C-.  The results to date weren't exactly out of the realm of expected for me.  At best I was hoping for maybe a game or 2 over .500 by this point in the season.