^ Edit: What he said, with numbers. ^
1998: 8 - 2
1999: 3 - 7
2000: 5 - 5
2001: 4 - 6
2002: 2 - 8
2003: 4 - 6
2004: 6 - 4
2005: 6 - 4
2006: 5 - 5
2007: 4 - 6
Overall: 47 - 53
Source: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/
First 10 games of the season for the last 10 years. 98 was strong, 99 and 02 were miserable, the rest were completely average.
I'm looking forward to the AL East beating the crap out of itself this year.