I really miss the feeling of this team from the '07/'08 years. Yeah, they fell short in '07, but the lineup with just so loaded with young potential star players. Braun and Fielder looked like potentially the best 2 players in baseball, Hardy was becoming a star, we still thought Weeks would be a star, and guys like Hart really added some real young talent as far as future role players. Yo was breaking into the league. It's really hard to get that same feeling and excitement from this squad. The best 2 players are closing in on 30, and in the case of Gomez, almost certainly not here beyond next year. The other key players on this team are in their 30s (Braun, Garza ), or in some cases, closer to 40 (Ramirez, Lohse ). Some young talent has filled the gaps with guys like Davis, Genett, and Nelson, but they just don't have the ceilings of the guys that we had coming up in '07/'08 to produce that same feeling. Peralta is essentially the 'new' Yo, and an exciting young talent, but there just isn't much else there. It honestly feels to me like the end of an era and having reached a point where rebuild is inevitable. There just aren't strong enough building blocks left in the organization to build a solid foundation upon.