Funny enough, the other day on syndicated "King of the Hill" they had the episode where Connie's thug cousin from LA comes to town and suckers Bobby into cooking meth for his school science project.
That's been their story for most of the 00's. They'll surge out to an early lead in the NL Central with their hot bats, then their bad pitching catches up with them and they fall into the basement
...but at least they're not the Pirates