like any real fan, the ultimate gift the team you are rooting for is to bring you to the cusp of a champioship, but we might be going ahead of ourselves to declare we are contenders..one step going there is to at least qualify for the playoffs to give us a real credible chance..i am praying we do, but our struggles have clearly shown our vulnerability, teams are catching up and we are slowly sliding down..i don't want to be in the bosox scenario, to decide our fate on the last playing day of the season, and that was painful..we can still avoid it but that's if they start helping themselves..i say we make it to the playoffs by the slimmest of margins...