***Official 2024 STL Cardinals Thread ***

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I'll say 1 under.

They're a team w/ roughly .500 talent. 85 wins if they stay healthy all season but they won't (and haven't).

And .500 teams tend to hover around .500. We regressed to the mean (progressed?) to get back to level, but that's just the law of large numbers at work.

They'll be within a game or two of .500 either way. And every time they win 4 of 5, they'll lose 5 of 7 and over the course of any 12-14 game stretch they'll be a roughly .500 ballclub.

That's why it just doesn't make sense to view any series at all as being meaningful. When it's all said and done, they'll be roughly .500. Because that's all they made any effort to be.

They get to a game over - immediately lose 2 in a row to the damn Marlins. Wonder of ****ing wonders, a .500 team can't seem to get away from the .500 mark.

This team is exactly what many of us think it is. It's just mediocre as hell. And it's going to continue to be mediocre all season. No 10-12 game sample of extremely good (or even extremely bad) play will change that.

These guys are just...there.