Hello fellow fans,

I have 2 seats for Sunday's game that I suddenly cannot use.  Section 451, row 3.  I am posting them here in the hopes a true Redskins fan can use them.  Face value is $79 each.  The catch is that I am leaving for St. Louis Saturday morning, so I would need to deliver these to you on Friday (I work in downtown DC and could leave them at your office) or could do a FedEx delivery before I leave.  If you are interested, please let me know.  First come, first served. 

I did not see this in another diary (or fan post) so apologies if it's already out there.  Phil Rogers from the Chicago Tribune obviously thinks the Cards made a mistake when they canned Walter.  I think he is leaving out some key info (like Walter's drafting record), but I'd be interested in others thoughts.

A key passage:

The rise and fall of the Cardinals and Astros has little to do with the inevitable cycles you hear about in sports. It has a lot to do with Walt Jocketty and Gerry Hunsicker, the shrewd talent evaluators and administrators who brought success to franchises that had been floundering when they arrived—Jocketty replacing Dal Maxvill late in 1994 and Hunsicker stepping in after Bob Watson resigned after the 1995 season.

Hunsicker decided it was time to move along after that season, in part because he was finding it harder to hide his discomfort with McLane. Jocketty, praised by the Cubs' Jim Hendry and others as the best general manager in baseball, stewed last season when his scouting director, Jeff Luhnow, somehow obtained the authority to report directly to DeWitt, not to Jocketty.

It created an uncomfortable situation that ended predictably when Jocketty was muscled aside at the end of 2007. He's been replaced by John Mozeliak, who faces as difficult of a challenge in his new job as Tim Purpura did in his.