madden

They are so abbreviated and less than clear that it’s maddening.

This week’s series at PNC Park — the fourth straight the Dodgers have dropped here over the last four years — has epitomized the team’s maddening current form.

Not only do I miss my daughter for her own sweet, occasionally maddening self, I miss the structure she, and her siblings, imposed on my life.

But then, Friday and Saturday produced the kind of maddening, reality-check performances that have dogged the club repeatedly over the second half of the season.

Every pump of the brakes, every maddening mile in traffic that can be more stop than go, puts him closer to hearing his dad’s voice and seeing his mom’s smile.