curse reversal?

i wondered aloud to mrs. rabid last night if there had been a reworking of the rabid redbird curse, i.e. that the cardinals would lose if i didn't post here. i promised to investigate, so here, for the sake of experiment, is the test post. if the cardinals win tonight, i will try to post at least a little before every game. if not, i will give up my silly superstitions.

on the whole, the cards haven't played such bad baseball these last two games, but they haven't been able to get all of the good baseball into one inning. last night, there were some timely hits that weren't followed up by timely hits. bloop, bloop is good when followed by blast, or even when followed by bloop, bloop, bloop, ad nauseam.

glavine and el duque are good pitchers, so it isn't the end of the world by any means. kip wells actually looked (to mike and john, sounded to me) pretty good last night, apart from the error. albert's double and rolen's homer were promising signs, but i get the feeling that team hasn't gelled yet. how many double plays can one hit into? one would hope we've knocked out a good portion of ours for april in these first two games.

there is no curse. last year, when rabid redbird began and the youngest member of the rabid family was born, we won the world series. remember that every day. remember catching siouxs! (mrs rabid) when she came running in from the kitchen between the final out being announced on the radio and actually seeing it on tv. remember the look on yadi's face, and remember that the guy who got that final out will see a lot more innings this year.

oh, there they are

last night we got a little reminder that this team did limp into the post season. as evidenced by the series versus the padres and the first three games of the nlcs, they are capable of some stunning baseball. as perfectly shown by the play in which edmonds, belliard, and (correct me if i'm wrong) eckstein watched a ball fall that any one of them could have caught. we were an offensive force last night, but we were up against an offensive juggernaught.

it doesn't matter, though. everything so far this series has been a bonus for a team that finished the season only a few games over .500 in a division full of weaklings. it's now a three game series. we stand a chance in a three game series, just as any team would (hell, the royals swept the tigers at the end of the regular season... anything could freakin' happen).

now, if the new driver we hired will shut up today about the met blowout, we can all move on. just a three game series.