T_NY...Where's the "O?"

One of the nice things about the Cards slow start is listening to Cards fans come up with reasons why we suck. Even more entertaining are the sports talk radio guys, who all spent a day wondering what ownership could have done to improve this team.

What could ownership have done? Simple. Trade Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen and Eckstein for Kevin Youkilis, JJ Hardy, Mike Lowell, and Yuniesky Betencourt.

Check their stats….all of them are hitting well. If you want to win April and May of 2007, they’re your guys. If you want to win September only, you can go find Sam Horn.

Truth is, the Cards are losing because four of their top five hitters are batting between .080 and .100 points below their career averages. That’s it, end of story.

There is no pitcher or hitter that was available this offseason that could have changed this team. Grab Jason Schmidt? He’s on the DL. Grab any starter? Then Looper would have stayed in the pen this spring.

Grab a hitter? Who? Carlos Lee? Alfonso Soriano? Both great, but they can only bat once per rotation.

I wrote below about the Cards being tired. That’s speculation, but it’s the best I can do. I could also speculate Eckstein is hurt, but he’s still making contact. He’s struck out twice this year.

Albert is striking out more, but not like he’s Adam Dunn. Now, he’s popping out like Willie Mays Hayes, but he isn’t ‘K’-ing an amazing number of times.

So I'll stick with that they need a month off. All of them.

I think they will round into form this year at some point. It’s one of the laws of physics that Albert will hit. Stats move toward the norm…and this is not the norm. Someone is gonna pay for Albert’s start. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon….and it will be ugly.

The question I have is what happens in August. If the Brewers don’t run away with this thing, and I wouldn’t bet on that one either way, and the Cards are still in this come August, how tired will they be then?

Hey, if they drop out in September, then that’s just an extra few weeks for Albert to stew. Part of me is already looking forward to next April….an Angry Albert. Hey, someone is gonna pay.