But every now and then, over the course of a long season, problems can arise.
When he returned the next season, problems arose with point guard Stephon Marbury.
The Mets can look to a number of reasons for their demise this season: the loss of power from second baseman Edgar Alfonzo, Steve Trachsel's early season problems and their puny offense, underscored most by failure with the bases loaded.
Throughout the season, problems in his pitching arm flared up again, restricting him to just innings pitched and 20 games started.
In an ill-timed recurrence of an early-season problem, the Yankees went 2 for 11 with runners in scoring position, and they stranded 10 runners in all.
Then came the late-season problem — plenty of apples but rainy weekends at harvest time, which meant fruit sales at the farm store suffered.
With the possible exception of a miscue that gets under Steinbrenner's skin (let's say, in an interleague game against the Mets), this should not be much of a regular-season problem.
Since most of the low-lying areas in the Galle District frequently subjected to flooding during the rainy seasons, problem of Gin river flooding is considered as leading environmental hazard of the district.
Weisberg: It's sort of a first-season problem, that if you want to have the impact of killing these people, it would have been nice to know them better first.
The lack of security in the six-year, $96 million contract Revis signed as a part of a 2013 pre-draft trade with the New York Jets could become an off-season problem for Tampa Bay.
— Maybe the answer to the Rangers' early-season problems is a simple matter of geography.
