Am Not Japanese But Hey!

The Hanshin Tigers have been just horrible this season and it looks as though they are on their way to be the new Yokohoma Baystars. This is unbelievable. Pointing fingers does not work this time around because everyone is at fault. The Tigers went from #2 in the Central (They would have one the Regular Season Championship but failed horrible in the last month of the season.) to this. It is not even possible. Is it? How could a team with such high paid superstars be playing so terrible. Let's see. For starters the team did start the season without starting catcher A.Yano. They did have a good replacement in Kanoh as he has been playing wonderful. They also have been with out several pitcher at one time or another. Iwata, Kubota, Fujikawa, Andoh, and several other have been hit with injury bug at some point or another. But Arai is back and healthy. Well he still is not hitting. The Tigers also picked up import Kevin Mench and he was a just a bust. They spend so much money and for th second year in a row they tried to get a Right Fielder but came up with lemons (08 Lew Ford). This team is underachieveing terribley and that is one of the worst things. Mayumi the new manager for the team seems to not even know what he is doing at all. Even the owners don't have clue at what it going on with the team. They have not been this bad since the early 90's even before I started to watch the NPB. Something has to change here. I think that the tigers will not make a post season run for the first time in years. They have too many holes to address at the moment and I dont think they have the ability to dig themselves out at this point. We need Superman, Moses, or Aliens to fix this problem. This season has just been awful but they have had some small silver linings such the siging of Craig Brazell. This guy is an amazing hitter. I have not seen a player hit this many homeruns in such a short time. He came on to the time in the middle of Inter League play and has just been crazy. They have also been showings of flash from Sakaruai and the fore mentioned Kanoh. Something has to give or the whole team might out on its ear. Even the owner said that he is thinking about releasing under performing older players. They need to interject some kind of life before is completely too late but the only thing now is that is could already be too late.