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Originally Posted by scho63
How are you Cardinals fans feeling as Spring Training gets close to wrapping up?
Confident?
Concerned?
Like what you see?
Unsure?
My Pirates are having a good spring training but I don't know more than half of the guys playing this spring.
Jung Ho Kang looks like "he no play baseball in US" this year. He is a drunken mess
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Resigned and oddly ambivalent.
Our ceiling is a wild-card because the Cubs have blown us off the map. So with a wild-card game, you're left with a play in and the hopes that Mike Matheny doesn't somehow mangle the shit of out it (he will). That said, if he gets lucky and the Smash Brothers (Kolten Wong and Matt Adams) drive in 9 while Mike Leake pitches a shutout, we'll advance to a 5 game where we'll again have to ask Mike Matheny to stay out of the way (ideally, just stay home).
Teams might actually be creeped out enough by the zombified flesh of Adam Wainwrights charred corpse that we can steal one of his starts and hope that Carlos Martinez can steal a couple on his own. Then we'll get fisted by the Cubs. And the manager we should've hired.
There's no ceiling on this team. There aren't any true breakout candidates and the young talent is still years off (meanwhile Allen Cordoba will probably stick with the Padres - more nice work, Moe). The Cards will neither commit to a rebuild or take the chances necessary to build an actual contender. So we'll sit in the squishy middle for 5 years and Mozeliak will hope that someone hands him another 2009 kind of draft that he can piss away with his idiot manager and generally risk-averse roster manipulations.