Baseball "Experts"

We're just over a quarter of the way through the season and some of these so-called "Experts" are already saying what can and cannot happen in the final three-quarters of the season. Not long ago, the Atlanta Braves were 12-18 and "experts" were preaching about how this wasn't the year for the Braves, that their streak would finally come to an end, and that they were in really big trouble this year. They're now 25-23 and only 3 1/2 games behind the first place Mets. There are 114 games left to go. What, it's impossible to make up 3 1/2 games in the 114 remaining? Even the Kansas City Royals aren't eliminated. It'd take a miracle for them to make a run at the playoffs, but look at what Houston did last year. The Houston Astros started the year 15-30 and what'd they go on to do? Make the playoffs and advance to the World Series. Sometimes (many times), these "experts" are much too quick on jumping the gun. It's 162 game season. One game, one week, the first 48 games of the season aren't going to decide who's in and who's out. It's a very long season. There will be plenty of time to analyze and predict potential matchups and what might happen at the tail-end of the regular season and into the playoffs. Just after the quarter mark into the season is not the time to be doing that, though.