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Overreacting violently to small sample sizes

The first series of the season is in the books for the Diamondbacks, and it wasn't pretty, as the home team lost three of four. They were likely lucky to win that one, needing three straight batters to reach base without a hit in the ninth inning. It is, of course, a long season. We are not even one-fourtieth of the way through the season. So it's the equivalent of about 8 1/2 minutes into the second quarter of an NFL team's opening match. But why should that stop us from engaging in knee-jerk judgments? It's what we do as fans!