After a stirring come from behind win over the Brewers on Wednesday, the Cardinals were hoping to reel off a streak to win the wild card. Unfortunately, they started the wrong kind of streak and got swept in Houston. They are 6.5 games out of the Wild Card race. It's not looking too hopeful. Of course, if you had told me at the start of the year that Wainwright would miss a couple of months and Carpenter, Mulder, and Clement would not supply a single win between them, I would have thought the Cardinals would be fighting to stay out of last place..
My feeling is they really need to play a lot of their young players to see what to do for next year. They have a lot of decisions to make over the winter. Do we try to resign Lohse, Looper, or Springer? I assume we don't try to do anything with Mulder or Isringhausen. Does Rasmus come up to play next year? Will Duncan ever play again? What do we do with this glut of outfielders? Can we find a middle infielder with a little bit of pop in his bat?
On the very bright side, Kentucky won much more handily than I would have ever thought over Louisville at Papa John's. I actually felt bad for local Tilghman product Hunter Cantwell. Between being pressured all day, his receivers dropped a lot of throws. Kentucky's offense didn't do much better. Their defense scored two touchdowns plus set up ten more points.
Such is the life of a sports fan :-)
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