Just how dumb are the "BFIB" and the local media?

[Ike Hammett]

Okay, let's trade away our best players for prospects. Let's vow to not spend, not even try to be competitive and alienate real fans that want to show up.

Even if your prospects work out, your model is to trade them for more prospects, that only keeps you in a state of infinite rebuilding. Just how many of your lottery tickets will become hall of famers? Show me those stats.

Just how many lottery tickets do you think you will hit the grand prize on? Even if you get a few lottery ticket wins, the people like Warren Buffet and great investors will still beat you.

Good job, you are turning the Cards into the Pirates. Can you quit being dumb please?

[Talkin' Baseball]

Okay, let's trade away our best players for prospects. Let's vow to not spend, not even try to be competitive and alienate real fans that want to show up.

Even if your prospects work out, your model is to trade them for more prospects, that only keeps you in a state of infinite rebuilding. Just how many of your lottery tickets will become hall of famers? Show me those stats.

Just how many lottery tickets do you think you will hit the grand prize on? Even if you get a few lottery ticket wins, the people like Warren Buffet and great investors will still beat you.

Good job, you are turning the Cards into the Pirates. Can you quit being dumb please?

Or we could have continued on the "Spinal Tap- The End Continues" tour.

[Ike Hammett]

Okay, let's trade away our best players for prospects. Let's vow to not spend, not even try to be competitive and alienate real fans that want to show up.

Even if your prospects work out, your model is to trade them for more prospects, that only keeps you in a state of infinite rebuilding. Just how many of your lottery tickets will become hall of famers? Show me those stats.

Just how many lottery tickets do you think you will hit the grand prize on? Even if you get a few lottery ticket wins, the people like Warren Buffet and great investors will still beat you.

Good job, you are turning the Cards into the Pirates. Can you quit being dumb please?

Or we could have continued on the "Spinal Tap- The End Continues" tour.

I don't know who or what you're referring to. Just think this current model is terrible and makes no sense. We(the Cardinals) should be looking for the good undervalued deals instead of providing them.

[NotAFathersDay9871]

I love how difficult the concept of a rebuild is to understand. Can't wait for the "Can't Believe They Didn't Acquire Anybody at the Deadline" threads on August 1st when the Cardinals are in fourth place.

[Talkin' Baseball]

Okay, let's trade away our best players for prospects. Let's vow to not spend, not even try to be competitive and alienate real fans that want to show up.

Even if your prospects work out, your model is to trade them for more prospects, that only keeps you in a state of infinite rebuilding. Just how many of your lottery tickets will become hall of famers? Show me those stats.

Just how many lottery tickets do you think you will hit the grand prize on? Even if you get a few lottery ticket wins, the people like Warren Buffet and great investors will still beat you.

Good job, you are turning the Cards into the Pirates. Can you quit being dumb please?

Or we could have continued on the "Spinal Tap- The End Continues" tour.

I don't know who or what you're referring to. Just think this current model is terrible and makes no sense. We(the Cardinals) should be looking for the good undervalued deals instead of providing them.

"This is Spinal Tap" is a mock documentary about a rock band playing sold out stadiums and chronicles their gradual demise. They are not self-aware enough to realize what is happening.

[ClassicO]

Does the OP have reasonable solutions he wants to offer?
Complaining is easy. Providing answers is not.

Personally I don’t want to see another year like the last few years, and keeping the same players would have led to that. They are long past the ability to fix the plane while it’s in flight.
The only way to significantly improve the team is to take risks with younger players, and to draft/trade in order to develop a young core that Tier One free agents would want to join. No top FA wants to join the hot mess of the past few seasons — and it makes no sense to sign such a free agent until there is solid young core.

[Jatalk]

At least we can’t watch it on tv since they can’t fix that either

[Ike Hammett]

I love how difficult the concept of a rebuild is to understand. Can't wait for the "Can't Believe They Didn't Acquire Anybody at the Deadline" threads on August 1st when the Cardinals are in fourth place.

So you want to be in 4th place and trade whatever is good or promising for prospects? You think that is the winning strategy? Thanks for exactly proving my point.

[Talkin' Baseball]

At least we can’t watch it on tv since they can’t fix that either

The negative trolling on here has been exhausting lately- But that's funny!

[rockondlouie]

2023
71 - 91

2024
83 - 79

2025
78 - 84

What's the definition of insanity? (doing the same thing over & over again and expecting a different result)

And No........BDWJr wasn't going to throw $200-250M in payroll to fix the above problem.

[Ike Hammett]

Does the OP have reasonable solutions he wants to offer?
Complaining is easy. Providing answers is not.

Personally I don’t want to see another year like the last few years, and keeping the same players would have led to that. They are long past the ability to fix the plane while it’s in flight.
The only way to significantly improve the team is to take risks with younger players, and to draft/trade in order to develop a young core that Tier One free agents would want to join. No top FA wants to join the hot mess of the past few seasons — and it makes no sense to sign such a free agent until there is solid young core.

And what caused this? I can state it was the "bfib" and the local media who constantly bash the organization. YOU'RE THE F ing plane inspector and mechanic that created this mess!

Obviously the solution is crystal clear. Support your club, show up, spend, and root for your guys to win and succeed!

Now, you got it your way, will you?

[Voldemort]

Okay, let's trade away our best players for prospects. Let's vow to not spend, not even try to be competitive and alienate real fans that want to show up.

Even if your prospects work out, your model is to trade them for more prospects, that only keeps you in a state of infinite rebuilding. Just how many of your lottery tickets will become hall of famers? Show me those stats.

Just how many lottery tickets do you think you will hit the grand prize on? Even if you get a few lottery ticket wins, the people like Warren Buffet and great investors will still beat you.

Good job, you are turning the Cards into the Pirates. Can you quit being dumb please?

Please stop with the BFIB [nonsense]!

[Ike Hammett]

Okay, let's trade away our best players for prospects. Let's vow to not spend, not even try to be competitive and alienate real fans that want to show up.

Even if your prospects work out, your model is to trade them for more prospects, that only keeps you in a state of infinite rebuilding. Just how many of your lottery tickets will become hall of famers? Show me those stats.

Just how many lottery tickets do you think you will hit the grand prize on? Even if you get a few lottery ticket wins, the people like Warren Buffet and great investors will still beat you.

Good job, you are turning the Cards into the Pirates. Can you quit being dumb please?

Or we could have continued on the "Spinal Tap- The End Continues" tour.

I don't know who or what you're referring to. Just think this current model is terrible and makes no sense. We(the Cardinals) should be looking for the good undervalued deals instead of providing them.

"This is Spinal Tap" is a mock documentary about a rock band playing sold out stadiums and chronicles their gradual demise. They are not self-aware enough to realize what is happening.

Sorry, spinal tap and their history is not my thing. Did they play with Ozzie Smith, Mark McGwire or Albert Pujols because Cards baseball is one of my things. And my thing is terrible, with no real signs of improvement along with a stupid model now for success. So when is this hating rebuild going to show me some positive? I have been the only fan in some sections at the games, when are all these people going to show up that want different than me?

[Adam2]

Ike's back on the sauce. careful everyone

[An Old Friend]

I love how difficult the concept of a rebuild is to understand. Can't wait for the "Can't Believe They Didn't Acquire Anybody at the Deadline" threads on August 1st when the Cardinals are in fourth place.

It's not a rebuild. It's a reset, same as they've been saying for awhile.

They're resetting to a lower payroll... a small market model... and for some reason, many fans don't want to acknowledge that reality.

[Ike Hammett]

Okay, let's trade away our best players for prospects. Let's vow to not spend, not even try to be competitive and alienate real fans that want to show up.

Even if your prospects work out, your model is to trade them for more prospects, that only keeps you in a state of infinite rebuilding. Just how many of your lottery tickets will become hall of famers? Show me those stats.

Just how many lottery tickets do you think you will hit the grand prize on? Even if you get a few lottery ticket wins, the people like Warren Buffet and great investors will still beat you.

Good job, you are turning the Cards into the Pirates. Can you quit being dumb please?

Please stop with the BFIB [nonsense]!

Isn't that what you haters and the elites local media like to call yourselves? I'm humble and love rooting for the club but wouldn't go that far. You do though, right? For "fans" that think you are so knowledgeable and like to listen to the local media for advice, you sure seem dumb to me. We were good, you all wanted to change that, soooooo show me something now!