This would be a huge breakthrough if he actually makes this effort to improve.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

The flipside, Old Man River, is that Kosuke is functioning well at the top of the order. He's getting on base and it's set up a couple big innings.

Slumping left-fielder Alfonso Soriano sat for the third time in eight games Wednesday and isn't at all happy about it.
When manager Lou Piniella spoke to Soriano last week in Pittsburgh and told him he would be giving him a few more days off, Soriano said he understood. But Soriano was miffed when he learned his name wasn't in the starting lineup Wednesday after he had a pair of hits Tuesday night.
"That's why I'm mad," Soriano said. "If he had told me yesterday, then I wouldn't come today ready to play."
Piniella typically gives Soriano a heads-up when he will get a day off, but declined to do so this time.
"That's a surprise to me today," Soriano said. "Because I think he could have said to me last night, 'OK, take a day off,' especially because [Thursday] is an off day. I'd be like, 'OK, I'll take the two [days]." But I like to know before I come here."
Soriano, hitting .182 over his last 40 games, said his knee pain isn't enough to prevent him from playing.
"I can play," he said. "If I can play, it's not bothering me. It bothers me if I'm not playing though."
Asked if he would talk to Piniella about his complaint, Soriano simply replied: "No."

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.