Recent content by the juiceman cometh

I actually agree with this. I also think we could have easily been as bad as teams like the Rangers and Angels who've consistently done worse than us, despite spending more. Like I said, I'm ok with canning Mo but with this ownership I wouldn't expect much better from his successor and there's a...

Cards had the #13 payroll in 2022 (6th best record, won division) and #11 in 2021 (8th best record). #10 in 2020 (13th best record, made playoffs, last time we won a playoff game). Last time we had a legit payroll was probably 2019 at #6 (10th best record but won division, made NLCS. Last time...

I mean, this season has been an unmitigated disaster, but the club has been far more successful, and consistently so, than it had any business being given the lack of investment over Mo's tenure. So it's hard to say whether Mo would do well with a legit payroll. He's done better with a payroll...

For me, these two screen shots pretty much sum it up:

I still think DeWitt's reluctance to spend aside, over the long term it's easier to win in St. Louis than Miami. Plus he's a former Cardinal and if we wanted to we could throw money at him.

Give me Skip over either of these options

Strange way to spell DeWitt...

He might, problem with him is he can't play anywhere but 1st base and is another right handed bat. Could see him getting moved as he's obviously ready for the majors and is just kinda blocked.

Nobody is seriously suggesting this. Yes, I think this is what proponents of a new mascots envision. People take this mascot thing way too seriously in my opinion. It's supposed to be fun. If everyone took mascots as seriously as this board we'd never have any of these, and the world would be...

Right. Mistakes have been made. But if it were easy to put together a better team with $160 million than your competitiors can put together with $200-300 million...well nobody would spend more than $160 million. Yes, and we've failed to keep up. That's my point. Our payroll has stayed the same...

Yes and it's been my contention from the start that to compete we should increase payroll by 30-40 million...which would put us at around that #10 spot.

They were the #10 payroll in the MLB at the time. #10 payroll now spends $192 million. Our payroll is $32 million less than that.

Yes they are. Dexter Fowler was the closest we've come to a big free agent signing in recent memory. There were a few bigger contracts given out that year, and looking back it was a pretty meh free agent class. And what people forget, FWIW, is Fowler was actually good his first season. Not so...

Then he should hire someone else for that job. "I don't trust my FO to spend money" is not an excuse when you just extended that FO. Hire someone you trust and spend money to compete. And he's not forking out big money to Mikolas or Matz. Mikolas is making $18.75MM this season and $16MM each...

Schildt was better than Marmol but he was not good. We can do better.