ok, Cardinals fans, let's cut through all the BS and nut up for this year. I don't care if you bandwagoned after last year's run, the more Cards fans the merrier. we're gonna get brutal in here, but we can take it because we're real football fans, right? let's wipe the 2:37 away and live Cards football through thick and thin. no one else thought we'd ever make it that far, so let's live it up. post if you're a real fan.

i'm torn, sometimes i really enjoy living in the past, especially when i have a few free hours and my '01 world series dvd's at the ready. we're at +1 on '04, so things are pretty close to even at this point, just let me know if I should grab doc and marty, fire up the delorean and get the flux capacitor, um, fluxing. what would have happened if marty mcfly would have run into teen wolf in 1985? weird.

First of all, I know it won't happen, but I'll be the first to say it. It would be one thing if Chip Hale had taken over and we wouldn't expect any more than an Al Pedrique caretaker finish to the season. Seriously, c'mon, we passed over Gibby and Brett Butler for this? And, (yes, I know I've already bitched about this to no avail), but a multi-year deal? Seriously, we're not going into 2010 with Hinch in the driver's seat, right? J. Byrnes is going to play puppet master this year and then realize what a fool he's been, correct? Seriously, we look like complete %$*?># to the rest of the league right now, I mean it's one thing to develop players, but who can take a front office guy seriously as a manager, ex-player or not. I can't get Price's comments out of my head, he was spot on. Hindsight, looks like a horrible move, not saying I predicted it, but can't have been any worse with Melvin. Agree, disagree, go for it. We all know it's the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about.

now that the dust has settled, I don't get the multi-year deal for Hinch. Doesn't he have to prove that he can manage first? I get the caretaker manager part of it after the start we've had, but why more than that? Don't we want to motivate him to perform? Now he can extend his learning curve out a few more years. Not to mention the fact that if guys like Gibby or Brett Butler feel passed over, we're chancing losing those guys down the road at some point. (Price's recent comments re Melvin's firing etc. point in this direction).