Barry Zito -- The perpetual fifth starter  Barry Zito -- The
perpetual fifth starter February 16, 2012, 3:47 pm Share This
Post  You are about to be given the usual boatload about spring
training as the happiest time of the year, as a time of rebirth
and optimism and warm-and-cuddlies all around.  And who are we
to disabuse you of that myth if it keeps you warm? I mean, it
isnt like spring training is a Turkish prison, either.  But in
the middle between bucolic rite of spring and hellish nightmare
in a God-forsaken land lies the truth that this when the angst
of the season begins to build.  Yes, angst. You know where the
story lines of the year begin the arduous process of being
beaten to death.  And we know the worst of them, dont we? The
one that never ends, no matter how many times it is dismissed as
the ephemera it is.  Yes. Barry Zito. The Perpetual Fifth
Starter.  REWIND: Barry Zito stats  And this isnt even his fault
any more. It hasnt been for awhile, either. He hasnt been a
problem child, or a diva,