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For what it's worth, that game would've made me far more angry had it not been so predictable.
Everyone knew coming into the season that we had serious problems with our middle infield defense. We also knew that Franklin was faltering and we had no depth outside of him due to McClellan being shifted to SP. Finally, McGwire proved last season that he has no interest in coaching situational hitting and yet he's back again.
And what happened? Awful interior defense, poor relief work and miserable situational hitting doomed us.
That game will be a microcasm of this season. If you think that's the only game (or even 5% of the games) we'll be losing due to pitiful interior defense, bad relief pitching and shoddy situational hitting...well I'm sorry to hear that.
Cardinals fans have become a little spoiled. Over the last decade we haven't had a 'bad' baseball team. We've had a few that were bitten by injuries and a few that underachieved, but we never had a bad baseball team so its impossible for us to conceive of the possibility.
Well face the horror, gentlemen. This is a bad baseball team. It has 5 or 6 good players on it, but it's a bad team because our general manager is over his head and our esteemed General Mubarek has lost his goddamn mind.
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