That whole off season was just shit to start with. They waited too long to go and acquire a 3c after losing Bonino, then spent a good part of camp and whatever else, on convincing themselves they'd be fine and make a move when needed, then it became obvious they needed to make one when the options from within were absolute garbage and it just kept getting worse from that point out.
Beef with Cole, the weird usage of Brassard, trading way Reaves, trading for Sheahan and then not being happy about it, etc. It seemed like the coach wanted to be a baby about a lot of the things, JR was in panic mode and just making dumb ass deals left and right.
I think that was also the year they called up Blueger and never played him for whatever idiotic reason Sullivan had.
