hahahaha, so you're saying cardinals are absolute dogcrap except for when they won the last world series im pretty sure it's completely legitimate to complain about the cardinals being lucky last year and this, especially when you see that until recently they were being outscored by nearly 100 runs on the season and remained in contention. let's just look at your previous post. pitcher killed himself, his fault larussa driving drunk, his fault spezio's drug addiction, his fault pujols' numbers down slightly, not that big of a deal, and for the love of god look at derrek lee before you try to get sympathy there carpenter has been on borrowed time forever, you were lucky to get what you did from him mulder hasn't returned from a torn rotator cuff as quickly as you would like? you really expected to get a lot of him this year? sorry about your setup man, ill give you that your 37 year old, injury prone center fielder isn't aging particularly well? shocking. and rolen looked crap at the end of last year too. he's not the same guy anymore, but that's why 8-year contracts are a bad idea. the cardinals haven't really been all that unlucky this year at all, and when you look at guys like duncan who just magically start hitting with the major league team but not elsewhere, it's just silly to think that you're going to come in here and act like you've been dealt a tough hand.