The Holtonian

Cardinals Mets Tonight

OK, so whats up with all the teams that I grew up watching in baseball lose every year going to the World Series and winning it the past few years? In the 90s the Red Sox were pretty awful, so were the White Sox with a few fluke year in there, and now Detroit who used to be the LA Clippers of baseball (wait the clippers are good now, so maybe the Knicks of baseball). Detroit looks to be on a mission and frankly out of all four teams they seem to have the best package. We'll see what the birds do tonight.

I think they could seriously surprise the mets. As the cardinals know its not how good of a hitter you are in the regular season, its the post season that matters. And frankly its pitching that seems to come on better in the post season. Pitchers seem to be able to rise to the occasion more than hitters. And the cardinals oddly enough have better pitching than the Mets. The Mets have Glavine, cards have Carpenter, Mets have Trachsal, we have Marquis/Weaver, Mets have Maine, we have Wainwright. The cardinals just seem to have more depth in their pitching, granted its not good depth.

And I read some where that the Mets are today's Murder's Row, man that analogy has been over used and is now trite. The cardinals had Murder's Row when they went to the WS--Edmonds, Pujols, and Rolen... and those bats fell silent. So in a lot of ways I can see things going the cardinals way if the pitching steps up for them. Now if the Mets win 15 to 0 tonight I won't be too surprised, but we'll see if the birds got some magic in them.