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Beltre Article in the P.I.

I knew it would come sooner or later. Somobody in the papers finally said it. The past few nights have looked all to familiar. We wait and we wait. We watch foul balls birthed of hittable pitches and fly balls that might make it out of your neighborhood little league park. The signing that we convinced ourselves was a steal in the off season before 2005 is still trying to get comfortable...Still trying to find his stroke. The longer he searches, the more likely he is to find himself in a dark alley. The dark alley will be the end of his career. Or it will be a place where pissed off fans pull a Tanya Harding on him. My question to my fellow M's fans is when do we finally consider the Beltre signing a giant bust? Give him back the nickname "Bustre". (USSM 2005) I want to hold out and say that his day is coming, he's just too talented to fall like this. Like it or not, if he keeps performing this way, he's still going to be around a while. You don't just eat that contract. Make him clean the seeds and spit cups out of the dugout if nothing else. I think we are going to see the good Beltre soon. Fortunately, sooner or later he'll have to crash UP to the mean. Will it be lasting? Will we all make fun of the Beltre non-believers? I dunno. I just want him to hit a damn 88mph straight fast ball again.