Mo with the Cat on pre-game

[butsir01]

Trade deadline

-Tough to answer today

-He'd like to add but wants to see where they are over next 25 days

-Need to get healthy

-Hererra further along than thought, hopefully re-hab prior to ASB

-Wouldn't commit to anything specific

Mo talk Add mans to try to sneak in as last wild card. Fans want add to mean they to win a WS. That’s the disconnect

Fabrizio, traduce per me.

[ilcubuffs]

Want to thank MO Ran for firmly proving that verbal diarrhea is a real thing.

Does it ever occur to DimWallet how much money he has paid for verbal diarrhea and incompetence?? Hell, with all that money he could have bought another mansion in Californication.

[desertrat23]

Trade deadline

-Tough to answer today

-He'd like to add but wants to see where they are over next 25 days

-Need to get healthy

-Hererra further along than thought, hopefully re-hab prior to ASB

-Wouldn't commit to anything specific

Mo talk Add mans to try to sneak in as last wild card. Fans want add to mean they to win a WS. That’s the disconnect

They weren’t favored to win the WS in 2006. They weren’t favored to win the WS in 2011. And they weren’t favored to make it into the WS in 2013.
I doubt if they’ll ever be favored in the future, unless the development system works excellently.

While all of that is true, there is no one on this team that even resembles Pujols, Yadi, Edmonds, Holiday, Cris Carp or Wainwright like those teams had.

Very few of those across MLB

Dodgers Braves Yankees Phillies and several others have 3+ future hOFers in their prime. Cardinals have 0 and those years the Cardinals had a top 5 farm and top 10 payroll.

Payroll was high due to Mo handling out stupid contracts.

No it wasn’t. Every WS the Cardinals won they had a top 5 farm and most importantly a top 10 payroll. That is currently $215. And the Cardinals are at $130m with another $40m coming off this year. Until that formula is resumed we will not have a wS caliber team. Mediocrity is the new standard

I was talking about payroll numbers after 2013. Leake, Holland, Gregerson, Fowler, Miller, Cecil, etc. Those idiotic contracts inflated the payroll with very little to show for it.

So why not spend now? Their farm rank is rising. 12-13 and have the #5 pick. Perfect time to go add that elite MOTO 30/100 guy in his prime. They have $100m to spend on that and a TOR SP

Why not spend now? They’ll blame it on attendance, or a looming strike, or those mean other teams, or the TV deal, but there’s one reason and only one reason that matters:

Bill DeWitt doesn’t want to.

[JuanAgosto]

Trade deadline

-Tough to answer today

-He'd like to add but wants to see where they are over next 25 days

-Need to get healthy

-Hererra further along than thought, hopefully re-hab prior to ASB

-Wouldn't commit to anything specific

Mo talk Add mans to try to sneak in as last wild card. Fans want add to mean they to win a WS. That’s the disconnect

They weren’t favored to win the WS in 2006. They weren’t favored to win the WS in 2011. And they weren’t favored to make it into the WS in 2013.
I doubt if they’ll ever be favored in the future, unless the development system works excellently.

While all of that is true, there is no one on this team that even resembles Pujols, Yadi, Edmonds, Holiday, Cris Carp or Wainwright like those teams had.

Very few of those across MLB

Dodgers Braves Yankees Phillies and several others have 3+ future hOFers in their prime. Cardinals have 0 and those years the Cardinals had a top 5 farm and top 10 payroll.

Payroll was high due to Mo handling out stupid contracts.

No it wasn’t. Every WS the Cardinals won they had a top 5 farm and most importantly a top 10 payroll. That is currently $215. And the Cardinals are at $130m with another $40m coming off this year. Until that formula is resumed we will not have a wS caliber team. Mediocrity is the new standard

I was talking about payroll numbers after 2013. Leake, Holland, Gregerson, Fowler, Miller, Cecil, etc. Those idiotic contracts inflated the payroll with very little to show for it.

So why not spend now? Their farm rank is rising. 12-13 and have the #5 pick. Perfect time to go add that elite MOTO 30/100 guy in his prime. They have $100m to spend on that and a TOR SP

Because DeWitt 3 is claiming poverty due to less attendance and loss of TV revenue. Its silly, but true. The major reason for the current 'reset'.

[Youboughtit]

Trade deadline

-Tough to answer today

-He'd like to add but wants to see where they are over next 25 days

-Need to get healthy

-Hererra further along than thought, hopefully re-hab prior to ASB

-Wouldn't commit to anything specific

Mo talk Add mans to try to sneak in as last wild card. Fans want add to mean they to win a WS. That’s the disconnect

They weren’t favored to win the WS in 2006. They weren’t favored to win the WS in 2011. And they weren’t favored to make it into the WS in 2013.
I doubt if they’ll ever be favored in the future, unless the development system works excellently.

While all of that is true, there is no one on this team that even resembles Pujols, Yadi, Edmonds, Holiday, Cris Carp or Wainwright like those teams had.

Very few of those across MLB

Dodgers Braves Yankees Phillies and several others have 3+ future hOFers in their prime. Cardinals have 0 and those years the Cardinals had a top 5 farm and top 10 payroll.

Payroll was high due to Mo handling out stupid contracts.

No it wasn’t. Every WS the Cardinals won they had a top 5 farm and most importantly a top 10 payroll. That is currently $215. And the Cardinals are at $130m with another $40m coming off this year. Until that formula is resumed we will not have a wS caliber team. Mediocrity is the new standard

I was talking about payroll numbers after 2013. Leake, Holland, Gregerson, Fowler, Miller, Cecil, etc. Those idiotic contracts inflated the payroll with very little to show for it.

So why not spend now? Their farm rank is rising. 12-13 and have the #5 pick. Perfect time to go add that elite MOTO 30/100 guy in his prime. They have $100m to spend on that and a TOR SP

Because DeWitt 3 is claiming poverty due to less attendance and loss of TV revenue. Its silly, but true. The major reason for the current 'reset'.

Dans spend to see superstars or WS teams. Put a product on the field people want to see and that will require spending to get fans. Fans don’t come first. He knew that when he went and signed McGwire. Fans demand stars

[JuanAgosto]

Trade deadline

-Tough to answer today

-He'd like to add but wants to see where they are over next 25 days

-Need to get healthy

-Hererra further along than thought, hopefully re-hab prior to ASB

-Wouldn't commit to anything specific

Mo talk Add mans to try to sneak in as last wild card. Fans want add to mean they to win a WS. That’s the disconnect

They weren’t favored to win the WS in 2006. They weren’t favored to win the WS in 2011. And they weren’t favored to make it into the WS in 2013.
I doubt if they’ll ever be favored in the future, unless the development system works excellently.

While all of that is true, there is no one on this team that even resembles Pujols, Yadi, Edmonds, Holiday, Cris Carp or Wainwright like those teams had.

Very few of those across MLB

Dodgers Braves Yankees Phillies and several others have 3+ future hOFers in their prime. Cardinals have 0 and those years the Cardinals had a top 5 farm and top 10 payroll.

Payroll was high due to Mo handling out stupid contracts.

No it wasn’t. Every WS the Cardinals won they had a top 5 farm and most importantly a top 10 payroll. That is currently $215. And the Cardinals are at $130m with another $40m coming off this year. Until that formula is resumed we will not have a wS caliber team. Mediocrity is the new standard

I was talking about payroll numbers after 2013. Leake, Holland, Gregerson, Fowler, Miller, Cecil, etc. Those idiotic contracts inflated the payroll with very little to show for it.

So why not spend now? Their farm rank is rising. 12-13 and have the #5 pick. Perfect time to go add that elite MOTO 30/100 guy in his prime. They have $100m to spend on that and a TOR SP

Because DeWitt 3 is claiming poverty due to less attendance and loss of TV revenue. Its silly, but true. The major reason for the current 'reset'.

Dans spend to see superstars or WS teams. Put a product on the field people want to see and that will require spending to get fans. Fans don’t come first. He knew that when he went and signed McGwire. Fans demand stars

I agree. The old adage of spending money to make money. But the DeWitts and Mo thought they could draw 3 million regardless. They took the fans for granted.

[Bomber1]

Waiting for the market to define itself.

What a putz.