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Broken Promises

Posted on September 15, 2010 at 8:19 AM
Filed Under: Chicago Cubs | Heroes and Goats | St. Louis Cardinals | United Cardinal Bloggers
"I won't lose again."

Adam Wainwright said those words two starts ago, upset with how he had been performing and looking at a four-game losing streak.  He was able to win last time out, continuing the vow, but last night, that promise was broken.

The two-out problem bit the Cardinals again.  In the second, Wainwright had two outs and one on, then walked the seventh place hitter and gave up a bloop single to Darwin Barney (who had three hits last night, his best game ever in the bigs).  Then, apparently frustrated, he flung a pitch to his opposite number, who promptly sent it back to the outfield and drove in another.

With Albert Pujols out of the lineup due to his elbow problems, two runs was asking a lot for this offense to produce.  When Wainwright gave up three more, it was just marking time until the game was over.

On the positive side, Colby Rasmus had a home run among his two hits and scored both of the Redbird tallies.  And Wainwright provided another word in our continuing search to express exactly how we feel about this season: "confounding".  That's possibly the best way to describe how 2010 has gone.

As we start wrapping up this season, it is never too early to look at 2011.  Seriously, it's not, because you can actually look at the schedule for next year now.  I got a copy of it a couple of days ago and found a few things to be interesting.  First off, it'll be the first time in the history of the Cardinals, I expect, that they will have a Friday during the season off.  With the season starting on Thursday next year to try to make sure the playoffs don't go into November, the traditional day off after the opener is on Friday.  Is that going to be strange or what?  Seems like a terrible way to kick off a year, but I've never liked that day off anyway.

Secondly, the Cards get a lot of their Western Division games done early.  They open with San Diego at home, then have their West Coast road trip of San Francisco, Arizona and the Dodgers in the first month.  The only divisional rivals they play in April are Pittsburgh, Cincinnati (a weekend series at home after the road trip) and Houston.

Interleague is kinda eh.  No Yankees or Red Sox again, even though the Cards play the AL East.  They do go to Baltimore, which may be the first time for that, and Tampa Bay, and they get Toronto at home, plus the home and home with Kansas City returns.

If the Cards are in the hunt, September could be interesting.  There are two days off, which could help with the rotation, plus they face divisional rivals 16 times (18 if you count the entire Milwaukee series that starts August 30).  Not only that, but they have potential playoff teams in Atlanta and Philadelphia to match up with also.  Cards end the season on the road in Houston.

Chris Carpenter vs. Carlos Zambrano tonight.  You'd hope that the Cardinals could at least salvage one game out of this series against their old rivals.  Zambrano, though, has been very effective since his blow up earlier in the season.  In the second half, he has a 1.85 ERA and has not given up more than two runs in any start.  Carpenter better be on his game, because there's little more depressing than being swept by the Cubs at home.

No blog for the next couple of days, because as mentioned before, this time tomorrow I'll be on my way to St. Louis for a magical evening.  Forget everything surrounding it--I haven't been to a major league game since 2004, when I was in the old Busch for Ken Griffey Jr.'s 500th home run.  I've been to the new stadium a couple of times, but both times the Cards were out of town, so my experience with it is limited to the very nice store they have.  I'm excited to actually be in the ballpark for once!

Add on to that the experience that Mike (Stan Musial's Stance), Nick (Pitchers Hit Eighth) and I are going to have with Fox Sports Midwest and it's almost unbelievable.  We're going to see the production truck, spend some time with Pat Parris, Jim Hayes and Cal Eldred, then go up into the booth and talk with Dan McLaughlin and Al Hrabosky.  Then we'll see the pre-game show from the set before going to watch the game.  How cool is that?

All that is more than I can handle, most likely, but then we have the Cardinals' Social Media Night stuffed into the middle of it.  I'm still not completely sure what to expect from that outing, but we'll be in the same room with John Mozeliak, Bill DeWitt III, Derrick Goold and Matthew Leach.  How can it fail?

But what's even better is that it is going to be like the first ever United Cardinal Bloggers convention.  Look at who will be there (and I may be leaving some out):

Mike, Nick and myself
Chris (Bird Brained)
Andrew (PH8)
Justin Husley (i70baseball, Rising Redbirds)

Last I knew, Tom of CardinalsGM and Justin of Intangiball were thinking of attending as well.  That's a whole slew of blogging goodness right there.  If you are going to be at the game tomorrow night, come by the Social Media Night and say hi to these guys you read, and me as well!


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Erika | September 15, 2010 10:58 AM | Reply

So sad to miss the Social Media Night this time, but am hoping for an amazing & full report on your adventures. Have fun, guys!!!

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Heroes
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Jaime Garcia (2)
Adam Wainwright (2)
Lance Berkman (1)
Allen Craig (1)
Shane Robinson (1)
Fernando Salas (1)
Jake Westbrook (1)

2011 Top Hero: Lance Berkman (24)
2010 Top Heroes: Matt Holliday and Albert Pujols (24)
2009 Top Hero: Albert Pujols (28)
2008 Top Hero: Albert Pujols (25)

Goats
Matt Holliday (4)
Carlos Beltran (3)
David Freese (3)
Jaime Garcia (3)
Marc Rzepczynski (3)
Adam Wainwright (3)
Rafael Furcal (2)
Tyler Greene (2)
Jason Motte (2)
J.C. Romero (2)
Fernando Salas (2)
Mitchell Boggs (1)
Matt Carpenter (1)
Tony Cruz (1)
Daniel Descalso (1)
Jon Jay (1)
Erik Komatsu (1)
Kyle Lohse (1)
Victor Marte (1)
Eduardo Sanchez (1)
Jake Westbrook (1)

2011 Top Goat: Ryan Theriot (12)
2010 Top Goat: Brendan Ryan (14)
2009 Top Goats: Rick Ankiel and Todd Wellemeyer (13)
2008 Top Goat: Troy Glaus (13)

2012 Happy Flights
Happy Flights: 7
Happy Flight Opportunities: 12
Happy Flight %: 58%

Through 5/20

    Cardinal Nation Approval Ratings (March 2012)
    Adam Wainwright 91.9% (down 2.8%)
    Chris Carpenter 90.1% (up 3.2%)
    Lance Berkman 88.6%
    Tony La Russa 88.2% (up 17.4%)
    Yadier Molina 87.4% (up 3.7%)
    Matt Holliday 87.3% (down 3.8%)
    David Freese 85.5%
    John Mozeliak 85.4% (up 13.3%)
    Mike Shannon 85.3% (up 0.4%)
    Jose Oquendo 84.7%
    Derrick Goold 82.8% (down 5.0%)
    Mark McGwire 82.6% (up 20.1%)
    John Rooney 81.5% (down 2.8%)
    Mike Matheny 81.1%
    Bill DeWitt 79.8% (up 8.8%)
    United Cardinal Bloggers 78.9%
    Skip Schumaker 73.3% (up 9.2%)
    Jim Hayes 71.9% (down 4.2%)
    Jon Jay 71.1%
    B.J. Rains 69.5% (down 0.9%)
    Kyle Lohse 68.9% (up 13.8%)
    Dan McLaughlin 68.0%
    Joe Strauss 67.7% (up 10.2%)
    Ricky Horton 67.5% (down 1.6%)
    Al Hrabosky 66.4% (up 3.2%)
    Albert Pujols 54.9% (down 45.5%)
    Colby Rasmus 46.5% (down 35.3%)

    2011
    Dave Duncan 87.9% (up 0.9%)
    Matthew Leach 85.5%
    Pop Warner 76.7%
    Ryan Franklin 72.8% (up 3.1%)
    John Vuch 68.9%
    Jeff Luhnow 66.4%
    Dan Lozano 58.7%

    2009
    Rick Ankiel 83.9%
    Chris Duncan 69.1%


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