Sunday notebook

DK delivers DL quotes in his Sunday notebook.

"Obviously, I was disappointed with our play in Kansas City, as everybody was. But, before that, we had a nice trip where we were 4-3 and played some very good games against St. Louis and Minnesota. There's no doubt that you can't accept losing, whether they're close ones or not. But we were in very good games. And to go from that period to having three poorly played games in K.C. ... that's what happens."

You can't accept losing, but that's what happens. Way to make sense, Dave.

Later DL declines to throw Ollie under the bus:

"I would say it's important to keep in mind that he's 24 years old and that he's very talented," Littlefield said. "We're obviously aware of his inconsistencies the past couple years, and those are things we have to keep working to address. We've got to use our skills as teachers and coaches to figure out what we can do to help him."

The teachers and coaches DL has hired have managed to get a NL-worst WHIP of 1.57 out of a above average pitching staff that shouldn't suck this bad. Dave should reserve talking about "using skills" in the first person to discussions about issuing meaningless, contradictory, glib doublespeak or being the Worst G.M. in baseball.