It's been impressive for them sure, but every team has injuries. Hell the cubs have six starters on the DL. I won't be to impressed by the Cards until mid September and they are still doing well. The fallout they had last year was a thing the Cubs would do.
Same amount of injuries and are 7 up on the Cubs. So yeah, every team has injuries - some just handle it better.
And yeah, the Cards choked at the end of last year. But to use that as the example for every year thereafter is, well, wrong. The team is totally different than it was last year.
They're playing well, no doubt about it.
A lot of the reaction in this thread comes back to the OP. OP has a knack for irritating people and then claiming they're out to get him.
The Cards are playing well right now and we can thank Garcia, McLellan, and Lohse for that. The Cubs wont be a player til they can dump Soriano, Ramirez, and Zambrano. While talented, this mix of underachieving, overpaid, aging, and bad attitudes(mainly Zambrano) is a lethal mix. I wouldn't wish combination on anybody. It makes Hollidays massive contract look brilliant.
Same amount of injuries and are 7 up on the Cubs. So yeah, every team has injuries - some just handle it better.
Agreed. The fact that the Cardinals 3-5 starting pitchers are performing very well is the main reason while they are sitting atop the division.
Meanwhile, the Cubs are in last place in nearly every category for starting pitching...that's impossible to overcome.
I've never seen a losing franchise with such insufferable fans as the Cubs. I loathe cocky Yankee, Lakers, Steelers fans but at least they've won championships
Erik gets the point.I, for one, have always enjoyed the posters that complain about Cubs fans posting Cubs threads on a Cyclone message board who then go on to create prolific numbers of threads about the Cardinals.
And we're 5th in the division in several offensive categories. We don't stop the other team, and we don't score a ton. It's a lethal combination.
But it would be sweet to see all that suddenly turn around, the way the Astros used to do it every year following the All-Star Break. I don't really see how, but it would be fun.
Agreed. The fact that the Cardinals 3-5 starting pitchers are performing very well is the main reason while they are sitting atop the division.
Meanwhile, the Cubs are in last place in nearly every category for starting pitching...that's impossible to overcome.
Well it is pretty hard for the Cubs tail end of the rotation to be successful without Cashner and Wells. Everytime Russell, Davis, or Coleman pitch I'm fearful.
Hate to tell you, but Red Sox fans were right there until they finally broke through. You've seen at least one losing franchise like that.
The Cards were 6 over .500 last year at this time. Mozeliak's teams' typically end the regular season pretty poor.
2 year run is a pretty small sample if you ask me. Also, no Berkman last year
Well it is pretty hard for the Cubs tail end of the rotation to be successful without Cashner and Wells. Everytime Russell, Davis, or Coleman pitch I'm fearful.
The Red Sox were not even in the Cubs realm of "losing franchises" before 2004. They won the AL pennant in '86, 75, '67, and '46. Cubs last NL pennant? 1945. Even with the BoSox's 86 year WS drought they still managed to win 4 WS titles since the last Cubs WS win (not counting 2004 and 2007).
Sorry, but when it comes to losing, the Cubs are in a class of their own.