leaky

They almost convinced everyone that their injury-plagued summertime swoon, their painfully leaky bullpen and their shaky World Series performance meant that the most expensive collection of talent ever assembled was vulnerable.

Her then-17-year-old mother, who still doesn’t know how to swim, remembers crossing the South China Sea without her parents on a leaky boat crowded with nearly a dozen strangers.

Like the kids, their leather is leaky, their arms are toast, their best hitter is their best pitcher, their silly celebrations are pure playground — shimmy shakes and sunflower seed showers.

But as an observer once described it, we’ve been managing rather than solving the crisis and essentially bailing a leaky boat with a teaspoon.

A new ombudsman will tackle leaky pipes, incorrect bills and other issues people have with water companies, the government has annnounced.