08-04-2009, 09:45 AM
If I told you on Opening day that the following things would be true on August 4 (I stole this from an email my buddy sent me), how many of you would have thought we would be in first place?
• Ramirez will miss 2 full months
• Someone named Randy Wells will have more wins than Zambrano, Dempster and Harden plus no one will have more than 9 wins
• Bradley will have less than 10 HRs and less than 30 RBIs playing mostly full time
• Marmol will walk more than one batter per inning plus have 10 HBP
• Soriano will endure the worst slump of his career, hitting about .175 for about 2 months with little or no power
• Soto will hit about .230 with a low OPS and get busted for smoking pot and be injured a few times.
• The following players will spend time on the DL in addition to Ramirez: Lilly, Dempster, Zambrano, Soto, and Johnson, but oddly not Bradley or Soriano
• The starting 3B for the Cardinals is Mark DeRosa. The starting LF is Matt Holliday, Carpenter is completely healthy and one of the best starters in the NL, Franklin will make the all star team and is one of the best closers in the NL, Pujols is the run away MVP, Rasmus is a solid OF if not a future star, many Cardinals have horrible mustaches and look like 70’s porn stars, Larussa is still a prick
seriously, things couldn't have gone much worse for us, and we are 8 games over .500, in first place. You can rip Hendry for signing Bradley instead of Ibanez (I don't, but you can), but if you do, you also have to credit him for having Wells, Fox, Guzman, etc in place to take over when our supposed studs went down.
All things being equal, things could be much much worse.
• Ramirez will miss 2 full months
• Someone named Randy Wells will have more wins than Zambrano, Dempster and Harden plus no one will have more than 9 wins
• Bradley will have less than 10 HRs and less than 30 RBIs playing mostly full time
• Marmol will walk more than one batter per inning plus have 10 HBP
• Soriano will endure the worst slump of his career, hitting about .175 for about 2 months with little or no power
• Soto will hit about .230 with a low OPS and get busted for smoking pot and be injured a few times.
• The following players will spend time on the DL in addition to Ramirez: Lilly, Dempster, Zambrano, Soto, and Johnson, but oddly not Bradley or Soriano
• The starting 3B for the Cardinals is Mark DeRosa. The starting LF is Matt Holliday, Carpenter is completely healthy and one of the best starters in the NL, Franklin will make the all star team and is one of the best closers in the NL, Pujols is the run away MVP, Rasmus is a solid OF if not a future star, many Cardinals have horrible mustaches and look like 70’s porn stars, Larussa is still a prick
seriously, things couldn't have gone much worse for us, and we are 8 games over .500, in first place. You can rip Hendry for signing Bradley instead of Ibanez (I don't, but you can), but if you do, you also have to credit him for having Wells, Fox, Guzman, etc in place to take over when our supposed studs went down.
All things being equal, things could be much much worse.
I wish that I believed in Fate. I wish I didn't sleep so late. I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders.