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The Cardinals Have Hit Rock Bottom · Kenny Wallace Media

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  I think it's time to have that uncomfortable conversation,
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  don't you think? Don't you think it's time when
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  you lose? A series at.
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  Home. To the freaking Chicago White.
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  Sox who now Just so you know, they're not the worst team in
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  baseball. Because after this two of three.
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  Against the Cardinals, they're now tied.
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  For the worst record in. Baseball with.
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  The Colorado Rockies. I did just look that.
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  Up. I looked.
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  Up a couple. Stats here, first of all.
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  I want to hear from you guys, man.
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  Just. An ugly ugly.
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  Freaking series. How about we'll we'll start
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  let's. Start with Saturday night, well,
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  Saturday. Day.
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  Which turned in to Saturday night.
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  First of all, could you imagine? You are sitting there.
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  With the game about to end, 9th inning, two outs and then you
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  have to wait out. A3.
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  Hour rain delay, which then the game comes back and it ends in
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  like what 2 minutes? Was it a minute?
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  Was it 2 minutes on a terrible? Call.
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  From CB Bucknorm. Which?
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  We're kind of. Used to from.
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  Him by now. Is he the is he the second
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  worst, by the way? Besides Angel Hernandez, I'd
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  have to look that up. It seems like he's always in the
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  mix, always mixing up with Ollie.
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  The last couple years. And then today's game.
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  So, Matthew. Liberatore pitched well.
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  Let's give him credit there. We'll see.
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  We'll see how that goes. We'll see what they do with that
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  spot. Steven Matt's.
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  Hurt right now. And then Gio Gallegos just
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  implodes. I watched the.
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  Post game and Ali said. He just doesn't.
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  Look right, Velo's not there. The bite, the finish on his
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  pitches isn't there. And this isn't coming from me.
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  I I think we can all see it, but even Ali is saying this, so I
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  think you can read into that we're probably going to have an
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  IL stint coming up. For Gio.
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  One of those We joke about this in the past.
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  Is it a? Is it a?
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  Fake IL. Stint meaning, meaning he's bad
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  and he has to figure things out. Probably.
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  Feels like they're going in that direction.
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  You know, you could have some some shoulder tightness.
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  Hit the IL, try to reset. He looks really, really.
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  Bad right now. But I think, I think overall,
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  look, Cardinals are in. Last place, again.
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  They're just not good. That's the thing.
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  The Cardinals aren't a good baseball team.
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  Their record, by the way. Against teams.
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  With a 500 or better record. Is now Well, it's seven and. 12
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  that record. Changes when teams go above or
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  below 500. So there's seven and. 12 versus
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  teams with a 500 or above. Record.
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  That's pretty bad. And then?
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  You play. Essentially the worst team in
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  all baseball at home this weekend and you win the first
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  game. Of the series.
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  And you? Lose the series.
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  To the Daggum, Chicago White Sox and John Brevia and Tommy Pham
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  and Paul Deyoung. Some former Cardinals.
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  Coming back and doing some damage against their former
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  team. Look, it's.
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  It's. Still early and me saying that
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  I'm not making excuses. But I feel like it's.
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  The time. For for bold statements.
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  To be made because I just. I just look at this team.
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  And this organization. And I just don't.
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  Feel like they're a well. Run organization anymore and
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  that's about the worst thing you could say about a sports team.
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  And I hate to say it it it brings me no joy in saying that.
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  Now I joke around on. Twitter and make some jokes,
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  because hey. What else are you going to do
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  when a team loses A freaking. Series to the worst team in.
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  Baseball, basically. But I just think I'm thinking
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  big picture. Just look, not just.
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  The series, but this year, Last year, go back 5-6 years,
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  whatever it is, and I'll. Just go off the top of my head.
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  I mean, here's a team that hasn't won a.
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  Playoff series since. What, Since 2019 they had an
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  awful. Year last year they're.
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  Mid at best right now Doesn't look like they'll make the
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  playoffs. This year.
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  It look it looks more like. A last year situation where
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  there could. Be a sell.
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  Off now, of course. There's a couple of months to
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  get back into the season and I'm not saying they can't do that
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  and and and the reason they'll be able to do that is.
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  Because. There's so many.
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  Wild card spots that. I didn't even look, but I.
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  Looked a couple days ago and they're.
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  Only like 2 games out. Two or three.
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  Whatever. It is, and I didn't look today.
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  But still, with all these wild cards like you have to be really
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  crappy. To not be within striking
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  distance. Of a wild card spot, but just.
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  I mean, I mentioned no. Playoff Series wins.
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  Since 2019. Do the Cardinals win trades or
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  lose trades? More often in the last five,
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  seven years. I think it's fair to say they.
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  Lose most trades. Do the Cardinals make smart?
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  Free agent signings in the last five to seven years and look.
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  This this. This year, I mean Sonny Gray.
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  Pretty Dang good, I think. Look, Lance Lynn wasn't good the
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  other day. Kyle Gibson's been been really
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  nice, but I'm talking. Big Picture.
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  I'm I'm going back here. And and if.
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  You're saying I'm going too far back?
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  For the Dexter. Fowlers and the Mike Leakes and
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  the. You know the.
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  Matt Carpenter extension You know Brett Cecil?
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  Whatever it is. You know, do do they?
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  Do they usually spend their money wisely?
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  And I would say the answer. Is no.
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  In the last five to seven years, do they win?
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  Trades. In the last five to seven years,
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  no, they don't win. Trades do they give away?
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  Freaking All Star. Talent starting pitchers.
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  All Star caliber. MVP vote getting.
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  Outfielders, yes. The list goes on and on and on.
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  There's a million outfielders you can go back to El Contro and
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  Zach Galen and all that, and then also it just.
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  Seems like players leave the Cardinals and get.
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  Better. And it used to be the opposite.
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  And I'm, you know, I'm ringing off a bunch of negative things
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  right now, but I'm being, I think I'm being realistic.
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  This didn't used to be. The case.
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  For the Cardinals. And that's the thing.
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  And it didn't used to be the case for John Mozelak.
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  He used to win. Every single trade right The
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  Cardinals. Coaching staff used to have a
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  competitive advantage. Players would come here in the.
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  Dave Duncan Era and these. Pitchers would get.
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  Better when they came to the Cardinals.
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  And I feel like now the opposite happens now.
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  Players leave the Cardinals and other.
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  Teams seemingly are able to unlock their talent.
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  That the Cardinals weren't. Able to do and then just look
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  at. It from from a coaching.
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  Staff standpoint and it's not all on Ollie and I've said a
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  million times, I don't think Ollie deserved the extension,
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  but. Whether it's what's?
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  Going on with the hitting staff, I mean, how long does it take?
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  And and by the way, it's more on the players.
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  Just so everybody knows, like, I blame the.
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  Players way more. Than the coaching staff and
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  Ollie and and really all of this comes down to the front office.
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  It all comes down to MO and his guys.
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  With I I just feel like the Cardinals have, really.
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  Fallen off. And you know, I hate.
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  I hate to say that. I just, I don't think they're a
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  well run. Organization anymore and.
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  It's just. It's just one of those things
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  where. I said this.
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  The other day on the podcast with Brendan Schaefer, Low
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  hanging Fruit and And this is maybe the biggest indictment.
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  Of the Cardinals. I no.
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  Longer offer. Them the benefit of the doubt
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  that they know what they're doing, you know what I'm saying,
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  Like in the. Past.
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  If the Cardinals made a decision, I would go yeah.
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  But you know what? The Cardinals are really, really
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  freaking smart. They're really smart.
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  Well. Run baseball organization.
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  They know what they're doing. But I feel like I.
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  I no longer offer them the benefit of the doubt.
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  Over the last couple years they've.
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  Made so many head scratching decisions and bad.
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  PR moves and I'm. Not trying to bring up
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  everything from last year, but even the Olli extension I
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  understand why they did. It but it.
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  Was very tone deaf. He he certainly didn't deserve
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  it. I don't know.
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  What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments.
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  Comment like subscribe it's it's pretty.
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  Ugly It's. Pretty ugly out there.
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  I also I also. Feel like you know we're.
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  At a point where the cardinal. Fans, I think.
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  Really get it. And I and I was kind of joking,
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  but also. I feel like the Cardinal fans.
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  I did. I feel like they really
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  overreacted the first game of the.
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  Season against the Dodgers when I mean an inning in people.
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  Are already bitching. But the more I think about it I.
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  Feel like you guys are right, because we joke.
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  About the B, fib and all that. But the the Saint Louis Cardinal
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  fans are. The smartest fans in baseball
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  they. Care about baseball?
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  More than any other fan base. And you know what?
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  They kind of knew this was the team.
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  I'm not saying like four games under 500.
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  Maybe they get back to 500. You know, Maybe they win 80
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  games, 82. I I I have no clue.
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  Maybe they win 75 games. I have no freaking idea.
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  But I think cardinal. Fans knew that this team was
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  nothing special. And that's very fair to.
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  Say this team was nothing special.
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  They weren't special last year, and the Cardinal organization
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  basically has lowered. The expectations for.
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  This. This storied Storied.
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  Baseball team to the point that now.
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  I guess we're supposed to be. Excited about being in the hunt?
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  For. One of the 47,000.
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  Wild card spots, right? People aren't going to the
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  games, you know Bernie had a. Really good tweet earlier about
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  how the Cardinals Basically I think he used the word rotting.
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  You know the organization has started to rot.
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  And the fact that they basically sell you on nostalgia, that's.
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  And then the old guys, that's. True as well it is.
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  Look, the Cardinals have a great history.
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  And that's. That's one of the reasons.
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  We love the Cardinals. But at some point, you got to
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  stop talking about Wayno Yadi Albert.
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  You know bobbleheads. With.
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  Adam and his dog, which, you know, it's easy to make fun of
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  that, especially pooches in the park weekend.
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  And I made the joke on Twitter. It's kind of a dog shit weekend,
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  not just because Pooches in the park.
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  What do you think of that? Is that a stupid joke?
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  It was stupid. You know what?
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  You have to. Laugh.
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  You have to laugh when things. Are so bleak.
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  Right now, I don't know Ali in the post games.
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  You guys watched that. He just seemed pretty.
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  I don't want to say. Defeated, but it was more.
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  Like, dude, what do you want me to do?
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  What do you want me to do? My guys aren't hitting.
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  And again, I don't think Ali deserved the extension at all.
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  I've said that. Since it happened to me, this
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  had to be a prove it year for. Ali Marmol, but still.
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  It's way more on the front office and John Mosalak than it
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  is Ollie. Big Picture.
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  That being said, I I cannot even explain why the Cardinals
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  offense This is bad. Is this bad?
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  I have no idea. I cannot explain how all these
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  guys suck. I just, I can't.
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  I can't explain that. But I I do think and I've said.
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  This before but just the. Trend line is.
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  Is very poor, clearly. John Mosalak.
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  Has said that. After 2025, that's going to be.
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  His last year Bill DeWitt junior is never going to.
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  Fire John Mosalak. Because he looks.
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  At him as another son and I get. That but and.
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  And and I don't know if they speed up the.
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  Process. You know, this winter I would
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  think they would. They would name the successor.
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  Either way, but I will say this for the. 3rd or 4th time I've
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  said this. The Cardinals need to go in a
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  different direction. They.
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  Have to go. Outside of the.
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  Organization and I'm including Heim Bloom as somebody who's
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  outside the. Organization.
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  Even though he's. In the organization right now,
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  because the Cardinals model is currently broken, the Cardinal
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  Way is broken the way. They do business on the field,
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  off the field isn't working and so you need to bring in a new
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  set of eyes, somebody. From a different organization to
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  shake. Things up.
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  And again, I'm including Heim Bloom because.
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  He's only been here a year. And he's not one of these guys
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  that's been in the organization for a long time.
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  So he. Brings a fresh perspective.
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  All right. That's all I got.
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  Comment, like subscribe. Let me know what you guys are
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  thinking. Is it fair to say is it is?
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  It rock bottom. It feels like rock bottom even
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  though last. Year was rock.
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  Bottom. What's their record?
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  They 15 and 19, I mean there's clearly time to to run it back
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  and and get back in the mix. But I don't feel like they will.
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  I just don't think this this team is that good.
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  And I was going to conclude, but I did look up, you know, the
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  offense is like. 28th or. 29th in baseball and OPS and runs, so
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  basically the 2nd. Or third worst offense, whatever
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  it is. Now even.
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  Though the ERA. For the team is middle of the.
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  Pack the starter ERA. It is like a full run, better
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  than last. Year.
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  Baseball. Pitching as a whole.
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  Across the league is better, but I mean, the starters are a full.
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  Run better almost. I think it's like 4.1.
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  Two this year it was like 5.06. Whatever it is, it's closer to
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  A. Full run.
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  Close to a full run. Better starters wise.
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  The bullpen was amazing early and the still the top end of the
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  bullpen is really good. But now you're starting to see a
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  bunch of cracks. Look, Gio is is just bad.
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  I promise you he's going to go on the IL tomorrow and now
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  Lipitor, you're going to take him out of the pen.
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  We'll see what happens there. So I don't know.
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  I feel like. I've talked enough.
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  We're pushing 15 minutes here. I feel like that's all I got to
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  say. So let me know what you think.
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  Vent vent on this Sunday. Comment like, subscribe.
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  Cardinals are in. Bad shape.
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  As the kids say, the Cardinals. Are down bad do.
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  You guys like? The Tony Larussa transition
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  lenses. Do they start to get darker as
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  this video progressed? And now do.
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  You yearn for. The Tony Larussa days, the Dave
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  Duncan days, it's pretty bad right now.
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  See ya.