I had tickets to last night's game. I went downtown and promptly sold them. I got ripped off because the Cardinals are pretty awful and Todd Wellemeyer happened to be on the mound - the 8th different starter in 10 games. Oh well, at least the $20 I made paid for dinner and some drinks. (note: the picture to the right has nothing to do with this post).
It turns out the Birds' game wasn't too eventful. The only reason to go at this point is to see Albert Pujols try and reach 100 RBI and Albert didn't make the starting lineup last night. But these guys most certainly did:
So Taguchi
Brendan Ryan
Miguel Cairo
Scott Spiezio
Rick Ankiel
Yadier Molina
Skip Schumaker
Todd Wellemeyer
Brian Barden
Shockingly, it wasn't get away day at Busch and it wasn't a split squad game in Jupiter: this was the real deal. Tough to get excited for that lineup.
To make things more blurry, our crazed sensei Tony LaRussa benched Brendan Ryan after the first inning, the result of Ryan swinging on 3-0 and proceeding to fly out. The crazed sensei also is making headlines in Seattle. Seattle Times baseball reporter Larry Stone says a LaRussa/Jocketty package in the northwest makes sense and is a prime possibility.
And suddenly, the juiciest rumor in baseball is the one linking La Russa, who turns 63 next month and is at the end of a three-year contract in St. Louis, to a managerial opening in Seattle that doesn't even exist.
Buster Olney of ESPN was the latest to broach the subject Tuesday on KJR, even hinting that La Russa and Cardinals GM Walt Jocketty could be a package deal. Fox's Ken Rosenthal floated the possibility of La Russa in Seattle last week.
Super.
At this point, the Cardinals season is the equivalent of a squirrel that just got trampled by a Buick Roadmaster. We're lying on the ground injured, sick and wounded. But we haven't been put out of our misery just yet. These last two weeks represent our tail flopping on and off the pavement - our last signs of life from a miserable experience.
Someone just shoot us in the cranium and call it a season (metaphorically speaking, of course).
I had tickets to last night's game. I went downtown and promptly sold them. I got ripped off because the Cardinals are pretty awful and Todd Wellemeyer happened to be on the mound - the 8th different starter in 10 games. Oh well, at least the $20 I made paid for dinner and some drinks. (note: the picture to the right has nothing to do with this post).
