I didn’t come here to be the typical vitriol spitting StL Cards X ranter. But as I’m reading this it dawned on me that we are a tight hammy or elbow tightness away from Drew Rom starting a game in April in a real Major League Baseball game. Think about that. At the tail end of one of the worst seasons in Cardinals’ recent history, we saw real games started by dudes like Dakota Hudson and Drew Rom. After we shipped off half the pitching staff due to a failure of roster construction, the club simply needed guys to throw innings and finish this miserable season. The scared realization: This front office didn’t learn dick. As we get further away from 2023, you can tell the club has adopted this throwaway line like “everything that could happen bad last year happened”
We’ve heard it from BDW, BD3, and Mo 5,000 times.
And I’m realizing last year didn’t teach them anything. The club had 5 starters penciled in this year, same as last season. Waino went down early in ST last year, zero additions made. Gray goes down early, “patience” and nothing else said from Mo. enter Zach Thompson.
What happens if there’s a 4-10 start this season? Mo gonna hold his bullshit little press conference, talk about injuries and “give us patience, we’ve done this before”
Okay, I’m done. I just have this nagging feeling that last year didn’t teach these guys shit and their tired ass, aging model works, last year was a total anomaly, and were complacent and arrogant. (Thanks 2015, for really making Mo and the FO think they are geniuses)
That's now three key players on the DL the Cardinals are counting on this season to help turn things around. Not time to panic, but certainly not off to the start we were hoping.
Hopefully Saggese can pick up a few credit hours this summer to keep working toward that Leadership degree. At the very least, maybe earn a merit badge or two when he can to help his cause.
I didn’t come here to be the typical vitriol spitting StL Cards X ranter. But as I’m reading this it dawned on me that we are a tight hammy or elbow tightness away from Drew Rom starting a game in April in a real Major League Baseball game. Think about that. At the tail end of one of the worst seasons in Cardinals’ recent history, we saw real games started by dudes like Dakota Hudson and Drew Rom. After we shipped off half the pitching staff due to a failure of roster construction, the club simply needed guys to throw innings and finish this miserable season. The scared realization: This front office didn’t learn dick. As we get further away from 2023, you can tell the club has adopted this throwaway line like “everything that could happen bad last year happened”
We’ve heard it from BDW, BD3, and Mo 5,000 times.
And I’m realizing last year didn’t teach them anything. The club had 5 starters penciled in this year, same as last season. Waino went down early in ST last year, zero additions made. Gray goes down early, “patience” and nothing else said from Mo. enter Zach Thompson.
What happens if there’s a 4-10 start this season? Mo gonna hold his bullshit little press conference, talk about injuries and “give us patience, we’ve done this before”
Okay, I’m done. I just have this nagging feeling that last year didn’t teach these guys shit and their tired ass, aging model works, last year was a total anomaly, and were complacent and arrogant. (Thanks 2015, for really making Mo and the FO think they are geniuses)
That's now three key players on the DL the Cardinals are counting on this season to help turn things around. Not time to panic, but certainly not off to the start we were hoping.
Hopefully Saggese can pick up a few credit hours this summer to keep working toward that Leadership degree. At the very least, maybe earn a merit badge or two when he can to help his cause.