Redbirds: Where's the Love?

[kennyboyerfan]

Nine games over .500. A game and a half out of first. A bunch of hustling youngsters (relatively speaking, in terms of big league experience) and a group of pitchers that has, so far, been able to overcome the loss of the franchise's saves leader.

So where's the love? The excitement? The 50-page Game Day threads? Hell, I can count on one hand the number of times Schwa has written a love sonnet this year. There were at least 20 by this time last year.

I just get the sense that we -- and by "we," I mean "me," since it's all about me -- are waiting for the bottom to fall out. Because this seems like the sort of overachieving group that we should be out-of-control excited about, and I don't sense that yet.

Am I, as usual, wrong? If not, what's the deal?

Let the debate -- and the Friday afternoon time wasting -- begin.

[backstop]

You're missing some hot Cody McKay discussion further down.

[cardinalgirl]

I talk about how impressed I am with this team all the time. I don't say it here very often because I just figured everyone already knows what I think about my boys.

[Schwahalala]

Roses are Red
The Cardinals Aren't Dead
There exactly where I said they'd be
And Kenny's screwy in the head.

[007]

Listening to 1380 and yet another caller wants Schumaker to be shifted to second base...he's loving it

[El Establishment 1]

Vapors.

[kennyboyerfan]

Vapors.

Boredom.

[007]

John Mozeliak on 1380 this morning (he doesn't believe in ghosts, but he does believe in Chris Duncan)

[moedrabowsky]

I just don't have the same passion for it all.

Maybe I'm getting old and jaded, or maybe the game has changed. Whatever, I don't have the same sense of excitement as I did five, 10 or 20 years ago, and it fades more every year.

That includes every other sport, too.

[Ty Shula]

i hate Adam Kennedy.

other than that, everything is hunky dory

[cardinalgirl]

the fun in some of these games makes me think of this team as like 2004 Jr.

[007]

i hate Adam Kennedy.

other than that, everything is hunky dory

As much as I defended the guy earlier, he's starting to hack me off a bit...

Making comments like these won't make anyone too happy...

Having to platoon at second base with Brendan Ryan and Aaron Miles has kept Kennedy from getting into any kind of rhythm, Kennedy said, and it is beginning to show on the stat sheet.

"That's how it's going to be," Kennedy said. "He's [La Russa] not going to play me every day. I was hitting good and he didn't. It's not going to happen so I need to find a way to be productive when I do get a chance."

[WinstonSmith]

Moe, sadly I feel the same way.

I don't understand why.

[kennyboyerfan]

Moe, sadly I feel the same way.

I don't understand why.

I share this feeling, and for me, it's directly related to the commercials. I've expressed this before, but they have just taken over every single broadcast and telecast. You can't escape it when you're at the park, either. And, after awhile, you get tired of being sold to -- watching and listening to commercial after commercial gives me this feeling that I am just wasting my life. Which I am, but I don't want to be reminded of it.

[Charlie Sheen]

One question I'd like to throw at the forum:

Where are they going to be looking to upgrade this summer?

A bullpen arm? An upgrade at short? (C.Guzman is who I mainly think of, granted Izturis has been at the very least a moderate success thus far) A more proven option at one of the corner OF spots?