Cubs vs Cardinals

It seems that both our teams wound up in Shitsville this season. The baseball gods picked up a broom and beat up all the Cardinal starters (pitchers and defensive players) with one end of it, then flipped the broom over and swept the Cubs right out of the playoffs.

And here we sit, hoping for the D-Backs or Rockies to save our beloved NL. I guess there isn’t so much to say at this point other than better luck next year. We all know that “next year” will be the Cubs’ year, as I always say, the same way that Joe’s Crab Shack offers “free crabs tomorrow”.  .  .

And the Cardinals are facing uncertainty now that Walt Jocketty is out and La Russa and Duncan will (most likely) be soon to follow. If that’s the case, will we get Joe Girardi? Will Joe Torre take the helm again in St. Louis? Will it be Jose Oquendo? Who knows. For all we know, if La Russa is out, that means Ozzie Smith will show up to games again, which means we might be able to bring the Runnin’ Redbirds out of hiding now that the game will shift from the ‘roid-rage era back to a speed and defensive brand of baseball. I can just hear Jack Buck saying “. . .and the rabbits are loose” as a new era of Cardinals start stealing bases like they were white people’s cars in East St. Louis, IL. Ahh, the good old days.

Whether you are Cubs or Cardinals, at least we can all agree that the Red Sox and Yankees are still giant douches.

Fear not Cub fans, Lou Piniella knows how to handle a pitching staff. Rather than burn through them Dave Duncan style and risk winning a world championship, Lou-Lou is saving Carlos Zambrano for game four. Since Lou is new in town he can be excused for not knowing that Cubs playoff appearances are as rare as that Sam’s club hamburger that just got recalled(sorry to digress, but The Pope is very concerned with the public welfare). So I applaud Lou for giving Zambrano several years rest between playoff starts, Who knows, maybe Prior and Wood will be rested enough to appear in the next Cub playoff debacle. God Bless Bartman, The goat and Dusty Baker. (well maybe not Dusty)