The St. Louis Cardinals are my team and they didn't even make the playoffs--which would prolong the season for me. On paper, they were a great team. They have two of the game's greatest hitters--Albert Pujols and Matt Holliday. They had three of the game's best pitchers--Adam Wainwright, Chris Carpenter, and Jaime Garcia. Wainwright is up for consideration for the Cy Young Award. Garcia might get consideration for Rookie of the Year.
Still, that was not enough. The team had injuries--lots of them, to their pitchers, and to their third baseman, David Freese who was eventually out for the season.
The Cardinals were expected to win their division championship. Instead, team members are headed back home. As in other things in life, if you are going to be a champion, you have to play the games and you have to win them.
Fate got in the way. I'm counting the days until the start of spring training!
2 comments:
My team the Detroit Tigers did not make the playoffs either. The last time they played in the post season was a few years ago when they lost to your Cards in five games. No shame there as the Cards were the best team.
But hey, there's always next year!
Stephen Tremp
Sorry they didn't make the playoffs.
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