To Whom it May Concern in Milwaukee,
This is an open letter to inform your professional baseball organization that they're dead meat. By which I mean...a minnow in the mouth of a shark. A mouse in the mouth of a big cat. Dead in the water. Doneski. To put it short: you're the fish and we're the dynamite.
This happens every year. But to your credit you held on a little bit longer this season. In fact, you're still holding on. A measly six game lead that you can see dwindling in your best nightmares. You're not even worried about us, you know we're going to win the division, but what you're really thinking right now is: we have to hold off Piniella's Cubs.
Everybody jumped on your bandwagon right away. ESPN. FOX. MLB. Whatever. Whether you think he is or not, J.J. Hardy isn't Albert Pujols. And did you see So Taguchi tonight? Have you seen So Taguchi period? He's closer to Ichiro than Hardy is to Pujols. Scotty Ballgame's heating up (.319 the last month), Jimmy Edmonds is hot (.292, 3 homers the last week), and Prince Albert is..well...King of Baseball (.313, 5 dingers, 14 rbis the last month). Brad Thompson's got four wins in five decisions since coming over from the 'pen. And did we mention we've closed the gap to six games AND we have Chris Carpenter and Mark Mulder coming back. Mulder, traveling with the Cardinals and throwing off the mound is getting scary close. Not to mention BIG Walt Jocketty in the general manager's box. WOW.
And you. Well, you've got a team of youngsters bound to collapse in the second half. Simply put.
Get off your high horse, Milwaukee. It's over. Congrats on the extended run but we're coming for you. And we've got the best player in baseball and the best pitcher in the national league getting ready to hunt.
And our beer is better than yours.
Sincerely,
World Champions
8 comments:
That's pretty bold. I like it, though.
Wow looking at another 83 wins again this year? Or how about having 2 of the Mets starters out in the playoffs again? How about a starter who can last longer than 5 innings or anyone who can do better than Kip Wells. Playing better ball they are, but the Cardinals do not have the pitching to win the division and the bullpen will be fried by the end of July.
Wow anonymous, sounds like the same thing everybody was saying last year. Considering the Cardinals are getting Carp back and hopefully Mulder, I would say their pitching might not be too bad. Last year's Cy Young in the NL and Mulder was dang good only a couple years back. A solid starter and the best in the NL ain't to shabby, and believe it or not Izzy ain't doing to bad. And I forgot the Cards have one of the best, if not the best hitter in the game, King Albert. I would gamble with them come August time.
If the Cardinals would just get Delino DeShields back, they'd be a solid contender for the NL pennant. Bottom line.
The cards weren't that good in the regular season last year but they had a few inning eaters on the staff that could take a lot of the pressure off the pen. I almost guerantee Carpenter will not be his old self IF he returns which I still question and Mulder by himself will not be enough. The pen has some solid arms but the starting pitching is not close to where it was last year. The bats are starting to wake up so I think the cards have the ability to stay in a lot of games but not the pitching to win them.
Bigtimer, Carp was the Cy Young winner in 2005, not last year, lets get our stats straight if we want to make an arguement. So unless we had Brandon Webb last year, I think you meant 2005.
I understand the pitching this year is bad. But take a look at some numbers from last year.
Suppan - 12-7 with a 4.12 ERA
Weaver - 3-10 with LAA and a 6.29 ERA, 5-4 with STL with a 5.18 ERA
Reyes - 5-8 with a 5.06 ERA
That is not good pitching.
I'm sorry Jose. I apoligize for my untruthful facts. But, if we want to compare Carp's 2005 and 2006 year. He gave up less hits, runs, and BB's in 2006. His records were a little different yet his ERA wasn't that far off. And his whip was 1.07 compared to 1.06. So, he was dang near close to the same form.
I heard Anthony Reyes was sent back down to college becuase he couldn't cut it with the Riverdogs.
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