Put Your Cardinal Passion Aside.....for a second

Okay, this offseason wasnt anything close to exciting (like we hoped) for us Cardinal fans, but you have to look long term. I understand that the people that follow their teams, as well as the front offices, look short term i.e. Milwauke trading away their top prospect (Matt LaPorta) at the July trade deadline for C.C. Sabathia. They were looking to win the whole thing last year, short term. Were they good? Yes. Was that a good idea? No. Their pitching was average/below average after Sheets as their number two and they just traded their top prospect. So this is a message to Cardinal Nation. Just because we didnt go sign Oliver Perez or A.J. Burnett or make any major trades or sign the highly overrated Fuentes doesnt mean that we will not be good. I know that relying on Carp is hard, but you have to look LONG TERM which Mo is doing. We have to save money (which is no different from our traditional penny pinching ways) in order to keep some guys around. For instance, Albert Pujols' contract is up in 2 years with an option for a third. Ankiel is a free agent, but I doubt that we will keep him for the reason that he has Scott Boras as his agent. Do you really think Pujols is going to take a hometown discount? Yea right. He is the best player in baseball and he will be able to command $25+ million a year. But I will tell you one thing, Teixeira signing with the Yankees was the best thing to happen because that takes one of the potential suitors for Pujols off of the market so he might have to take a little less money, but the Angels and Red Sux (not a typo) are still out there.

So put your passion aside for a second Cardinal fans. We will be good and our pitching will be better than expected. Our short term outlook looks good as does our long term for the reason that we didnt make any irrational decisions in an inflated market.