The cost of denial is seen in empty seats

[OregonRedbird]

Last night we should have seen/endured Mile's last start as a Cardinal.in the 2024 season, Mile Mikolas, statistically, was the worst starting pitcher in baseball. It appears 2025 is even worse. What to do? Stop denying reality.

Let the young kids pitch. McGreevy and Mathews to the rotation. McGreevy is ready and Mathews smart enough to learn quickly.

Miles to the pen/DFA, no more starts. Libby to the pen, he thrives there and we need him there.

The ill-advised MM extension was Mo's grandest unforced error. But it is what it is, a sunk cost. Own it and move on. Running him out there every fifth day will only drive more empty seats.

[blackinkbiz]

Last night we should have seen/endured Mile's last start as a Cardinal.in the 2024 season, Mile Mikolas, statistically, was the worst starting pitcher in baseball. It appears 2025 is even worse. What to do? Stop denying reality.

Let the young kids pitch. McGreevy and Mathews to the rotation. McGreevy is ready and Mathews smart enough to learn quickly.

Miles to the pen/DFA, no more starts. Libby to the pen, he thrives there and we need him there.

The ill-advised MM extension was Mo's grandest unforced error. But it is what it is, a sunk cost. Own it and move on. Running him out there every fifth day will only drive more empty seats.

Yep! It's not losing that keeps people away from the stadium, it's how you lose. When you continuously run dead vets (veterans no other team in MLB would field, much less sign) out there and give them a huge starting role yet there's more than enough young kids who may be part of the future, ready to take that role, it's demoralizing, and the Cards have done this ad naseum since 2023.

Taylor Motter, Brandon Crawford, Matt Carpenter, Miles Mikolas, Gallegos, I'd say Matz but the Cards finally learned he's an assett out of the pen. These are all guys that most MLB teams wouldn't even give a minor league contract, and the Cards had them playing significant roles on their MLB squad. I mean, they literally signed Taylor Motter TWICE in 2023. TWICE!!!! A guy no one would even give a tryout in all likelihood.

Combine that with trading away premiere talents like Aroz, Gallen, Alcantra, and guessing wrong on soooo many others, they've created a sh*tstorm that there's only two ways out of.

1) wait for 26 when Mo is gone
2) start winning a lot of games in 2025

Until either of those happen, that stadium's gonna see record lows this year.

[11WSChamps]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

[BrockFloodMaris]

Last night we should have seen/endured Mile's last start as a Cardinal.in the 2024 season, Mile Mikolas, statistically, was the worst starting pitcher in baseball. It appears 2025 is even worse. What to do? Stop denying reality.

Let the young kids pitch. McGreevy and Mathews to the rotation. McGreevy is ready and Mathews smart enough to learn quickly.

Miles to the pen/DFA, no more starts. Libby to the pen, he thrives there and we need him there.

The ill-advised MM extension was Mo's grandest unforced error. But it is what it is, a sunk cost. Own it and move on. Running him out there every fifth day will only drive more empty seats.

Yep! It's not losing that keeps people away from the stadium, it's how you lose. When you continuously run dead vets (veterans no other team in MLB would field, much less sign) out there and give them a huge starting role yet there's more than enough young kids who may be part of the future, ready to take that role, it's demoralizing, and the Cards have done this ad naseum since 2023.

Taylor Motter, Brandon Crawford, Matt Carpenter, Miles Mikolas, Gallegos, I'd say Matz but the Cards finally learned he's an assett out of the pen. These are all guys that most MLB teams wouldn't even give a minor league contract, and the Cards had them playing significant roles on their MLB squad. I mean, they literally signed Taylor Motter TWICE in 2023. TWICE!!!! A guy no one would even give a tryout in all likelihood.

Combine that with trading away premiere talents like Aroz, Gallen, Alcantra, and guessing wrong on soooo many others, they've created a sh*tstorm that there's only two ways out of.

1) wait for 26 when Mo is gone
2) start winning a lot of games in 2025

Until either of those happen, that stadium's gonna see record lows this year.

This is where BDW gets in his own way. He has always had the rule that "the contract plays". In a year like this, where we are trying to assess our young talent, Mikolas and his albatross contract get in the way of team progress. We could be a lot farther along in our talent assessment at the end of 2025, if BDW would let the dead wood go and run the kids out there.

[thetank2]

Last night we should have seen/endured Mile's last start as a Cardinal.in the 2024 season, Mile Mikolas, statistically, was the worst starting pitcher in baseball. It appears 2025 is even worse. What to do? Stop denying reality.

Let the young kids pitch. McGreevy and Mathews to the rotation. McGreevy is ready and Mathews smart enough to learn quickly.

Miles to the pen/DFA, no more starts. Libby to the pen, he thrives there and we need him there.

The ill-advised MM extension was Mo's grandest unforced error. But it is what it is, a sunk cost. Own it and move on. Running him out there every fifth day will only drive more empty seats.

Yep! It's not losing that keeps people away from the stadium, it's how you lose. When you continuously run dead vets (veterans no other team in MLB would field, much less sign) out there and give them a huge starting role yet there's more than enough young kids who may be part of the future, ready to take that role, it's demoralizing, and the Cards have done this ad naseum since 2023.

Taylor Motter, Brandon Crawford, Matt Carpenter, Miles Mikolas, Gallegos, I'd say Matz but the Cards finally learned he's an assett out of the pen. These are all guys that most MLB teams wouldn't even give a minor league contract, and the Cards had them playing significant roles on their MLB squad. I mean, they literally signed Taylor Motter TWICE in 2023. TWICE!!!! A guy no one would even give a tryout in all likelihood.

Combine that with trading away premiere talents like Aroz, Gallen, Alcantra, and guessing wrong on soooo many others, they've created a sh*tstorm that there's only two ways out of.

1) wait for 26 when Mo is gone
2) start winning a lot of games in 2025

Until either of those happen, that stadium's gonna see record lows this year.

This is where BDW gets in his own way. He has always had the rule that "the contract plays". In a year like this, where we are trying to assess our young talent, Mikolas and his albatross contract get in the way of team progress. We could be a lot farther along in our talent assessment at the end of 2025, if BDW would let the dead wood go and run the kids out there.

The Cardinals will win half his starts.

[Absolut]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

[MIDMOBIRDTWO]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

Pretty grim outlook IMO.

[WLTFE]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

Front Office (donkey) kissers will tell that you are wrong and not a true Cardinals fan!

[thetank2]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

Pretty grim outlook IMO.

Find another team.

[WLTFE]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

Pretty grim outlook IMO.

Find another team.

Yawn.. you have no influence here sock!

[MIDMOBIRDTWO]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

Front Office (donkey) kissers will tell that you are wrong and not a true Cardinals fan!

Tanker is only negative to people with negative opinions about his front office lover boys.

[MIDMOBIRDTWO]

Tanker needs to get bent in the street. I've been following this team since 1959 and only have interest in the ownership and front office not running the franchise into the ground.

[11WSChamps]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

I'm not saying its going to be much less than what its been..I'm just saying its only been a week.

[WLTFE]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

Front Office (donkey) kissers will tell that you are wrong and not a true Cardinals fan!

Tanker is only negative to people with negative opinions about his front office lover boys.

He's not the only one.

[MIDMOBIRDTWO]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

Historic bad attendance, fan indifference, smug management group. It’s a disaster

Front Office (donkey) kissers will tell that you are wrong and not a true Cardinals fan!

Tanker is only negative to people with negative opinions about his front office lover boys.

He's not the only one.

Indeed he is not, he is just the most sensitive and illogical.

[imetsatchelpaige]

Only one homestand in the cold, kids in school, people aren't vacationing yet. Twins and Angels aren't exactly marquee teams.

See how things shake out the next 4-6 weeks before forming too much of an opinion.

It is not too early to know this: our offense is fine, and our starting pitching sucks. Bigly.