Monday, March 31, 2008

facing wain? pray for rain.

i forced myself not to reference alanis morissette in the title of this post. you can than me later.

rained out first game, but so far, so good. i guess albert will have to hit two dingers tomorrow to make up for the erased one today. it's too bad that wainwright won't get the chance to get an opening day win, but at least he won't take the loss either.

in lieu of the cards game, i've been tuned to every other baseball game available, and i have to say this. eric gagne is a big ball of fuck. after coughing up the lead in the cubs/brewers game so fast you'd think he was paid off, he managed to pitch his way through one inning (purportedly his job) and take the win from ben sheets, who started and shut out the cubs for six plus innings.

auspicious beginning for fukudome, however. ah, they'll still fuck it up.

tomorrow, lohse versus kip "kip wells" wells. i set the over/under for kip's era after tomorrow at infinity. any takers?

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

dear braden looper

you had your moments as a starter, but if the last half of last season and this spring training have taught us anything, it's that coaches eventually turn back into pumpkins, finery turns back into rags, and aging relievers don't suddenly revive their careers by working every fifth day.

remember the 'pen? all the joking and good times? remember being the one they counted on when the pressure was on, but then usually not being on the hook for the loss?
anthony reyes doesn't belong in the bullpen, though he'll gladly go there instead of memphis. he's not a reliever, and right now, he's our number two or three starter (small sample size notwithstanding). let him know we're rooting for him to be a starter someday soon, and that we even hope it's with the cardinals.


please forward this message to your boss, and tell him that resolve is admirable, but pig-headedness is asinine.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

on second thought

this should prove to be an interesteing year for the cards. if we can just forget the mistake that is cesar izturis sooner rather than later, we may have a chance to see a real youth movement at busch. we already have the majority of our players on this side (only for a few more months, for me) of thirty, if memory serves. all of them are at least somewhat intriguing, so even if we aren't a contender, we could be seeing the future of our cardinals.

the missus left for st louis tonight; i expect her call to let me know she arrived safely any time now. i will be going tomorrow for a total of thirty-six hours or so before returning and getting back to the ol' vino slinging. ah well, at least i'll be able to stop by the stadium for a few minutes with jackthedamned.

Thursday, March 06, 2008

oh, eight.

seeing as how this blog is receiving more traffic than the other, more general of my two, i guess i'd better post at least a little something before i go off to work.

happy 2008, folks. anything that the cardinals do well this season is going to be something to marvel at, considering health issues and whatnot. to be quite honest, if they finish as high as third in the division, i will consider that a moral victory. not that i want things to be this way, of course, but i'm trying to be realistic here. all but one of our pitching options who are worth watching are injured or coming off injury, our power numbers, which have been fading for three years, are at an all time low (though glaus should boost them a little), our middle infield is so lackluster that i'm considering breaking out my second baseman's glove from when i was 8, and the greatest baseball player of our generation has a bum elbow. but other than that, we're just peachy.

i might just get a little fantasy team going. if anyone has any interest, let me know soon via comments on this blog.