Russo madness, part 1

Making sense of Chris Russo's syntax can be a bit like trying to understand cricket if you hail from the non-Caribbean Americas. Yet it is only in those rare instances where his sentences contain all the vital parts of speech, placed in the proper order, that you can you fully appreciate how lost he actually is.

A recent example of a sentence, from earlier today: "The problem with Johnny Damon is that he's inconsistent as a player." Damon is struggling, and he is on the downturn of what's been a good career. But just how has he been "inconsistent"?