It was very clear the over-reaction from St. Louis Cardinals fans was in full force about this time last week.
Then again, Cardinal fans weren't used to what was happening with their team.
Last Sunday, the Cardinals were coming off a tough sweep against the New York Yankees. Their record had fallen to 3-9, the worst record in the National League and only ahead of the Blue Jays' 2-10 record for worst in the majors.
This marked the Cardinals' worst start to a season since 1988, and the first time they were six games below the .500 mark since finishing the 2007 season with a 78-84 record.
The "Best Fans in Baseball" were starting to lose it. Some of them probably began to throw in the towel for the season.
The thing is, there were still 24 weeks left in the season. That's a lot of baseball to play, a lot of time to make up ground.
Well, look what happened in one week's time. The Cardinals returned home to sweep the Pittsburgh Pirates, then worked their way to Milwaukee and started that four-game series with wins in two of the first three games against the Brewers.
See? In less than a week, St. Louis turned the page and is now 8-10. It was only a matter of time before the law of averages caught up with the Cardinals in a good way.
What I couldn't understand was how some Cardinal fans were calling for manager Mike Matheny to be fired after that sluggish start. I can only assume they haven't been satisfied with him for a while now, and were just looking for an excuse for him to get ousted.
I mean, the guy has a 469-359 record in the regular season as the Cardinals manager. What free-agent manager could do better than that?
Some folks were wanting to point the blame at general manager John Mozeliak. They felt it was his fault for assembling a team that couldn't win more than three of its first 12 games.
I may not be the most knowledgeable baseball pundit, but I do know Matheny and Mozeliak aren't to blame. In fact, the answer seems pretty easy to me. It's the players.
For the most part, every Cardinal not named Mike Leake or Jose Martinez went through a slump in the first two weeks. Slumps happen. They're part of the game, because if they weren't, then Milwaukee's Eric Thames would break Barry Bonds' single-season home run record this year.
But here was the weird part about the Cardinals' woes. The slumps weren't coming one or two at a time. It was contagious, and everybody seemed to catch the slump bug at once.
Case in point, through last Sunday's series against the Yankees, five Cardinals literally weren't hitting their weight: Randal Grichuk (.182 batting average, 205 pounds), Matt Adams (.174, 260), Kolten Wong (.148, 188), Dexter Fowler (.143, 195) and Jhonny Peralta (.120, 225).
Throw in a slow start to the season by Adam Wainwright, some unlucky breaks for Carlos Martinez and a bullpen that blew a few late-game leads, and you have a formula that produced more losses than wins.
But just as things were beginning to look bleak, the Cardinals swept a team that just swept the defending world champions on the road. Then they went to their home away from home - Miller Park - and extended their streak to 24 consecutive games with at least one home run in Milwaukee's home stadium.
One of the best pieces of advice my mom has given me was to never look at my retirement fund monthly statement. She said the last thing you should do is make a rash decision out of frustration with your portfolio when you have one month in the red.
She told me to not worry, that it will all even itself out in the long run.
Well, I'd like to offer that same advice to Cardinal fans.
Listen, I understand you're used to winning. I get it. The team has made the playoffs in 12 of the past 17 seasons, and as I mentioned earlier, your team hasn't had a losing season in 10 years.
But do me a favor. Don't look at the standings on a daily basis. Wait until mid-August, when they actually begin to matter.