May is now. These are always troubling on the field for the Milwaukee team. Off the field, they offer a kind of perverse comfort. They excuse the failings. They soothe the mind, although not the soul.
Nobody's deep enough to lose that many players and overcome it.
But you have 25 people wearing the uniform of a big-league club. You could fairly expect that some of them would step forward and be, if only temporarily, great. Or at least a few of them. Or maybe one of them. And that's what makes slumps.