Toronto Blue Jays: "Ooh, ahh. That's how it always starts...

...but then later there's running, and screaming" - Ian Malcolm

The Jays' season up until now has been mesmerizing. Fans are coming back to the team, and the buzz around these Blue Jays playing some incredible baseball to start 2009 has made the team look like a legit contender.

But suddenly a small bump in the road has been hit; losing 2 of 3 to the Yankees a week ago before being swept by the Red Sox tonight. Granted this is much less severe than dinosaurs getting out of a cage and eating a lawyer.

It's just two series, but the Jays have been spectacularly sub-par in them—leaving 12 runners base over three games in Boston, Vernon Wells underperforming, and Travis Snider struggling badly enough to possibly be demoted.

It's definately too early to call this team a joke or a non-contender, which many skeptics and nonbelievers have been saying to me based on this series. There's so much baseball left there are plenty of other games left to earn these back.

Yes, a sweep hurts, and it's a setback, but these things happen. Just like there will be more insanely hot stretches of the season, people will go on crazy streaks, and the Jays will win lots of games. But at the same time the pendulum will swing, they will get swept, there will be cold streaks.

Things aren't even that terrible. For how bad of a slide the team is being made out to be on, they're 5-5 in their last 10. The Doc starts tomorrow, then things will get back in the right direction. Just relax, enjoy the ride.