Anyone watch the NLCS and think, that should have been the Astros?

THey had a chance and choked...Plain and simple...There were a lot of "If's" this season...I just don't want the Cards to win b/c that would hurt even more...

 

So that means they sucked?

Actually, if Lidge would've been shut down as closer earlier on, and Lane or Wilson (take your pick) would've been benched/cut sooner and Scott been called up earlier, it might be a different story.

I bet we would've won 90 games if it weren't for Lidge's struggles. Wait, I know we would've based on the 10 or 12 games he blew single-handedly.

 

it doesn't matter what they should have or shouldn't have done or whether they underachieved. the fact is they were under .500 the majority of a season and that usually means a team sucked. we didn't deserve to make the playoffs anymore than the Cards.

if Isringhausen didn't blow games for the CArds, if Rolen was playing up to his contract, if Edmonds didn't get hurt, the Cardinals would have run away with the division. if my aunt had gonads, she'd be my uncle. get my point?

 

I agree, that in most cases, you can say the team as a whole sucked if they were under .500 ... usually there are a bunch of reasons why. But in this case, you can point at 3 players (Lidge, Lane, Wilson) and the manager and say they are the reason we sucked. Lane and Wilson were supposed to be middle-lineup power guys, and both sucked. Lidge blew tons of games. Garner didn't make changes soon enough.

I truly believe we would've won at least 90 games had those changes come sooner. I don't know why we're talking about the Cards in this either ... but their woes were injury related, ours were just poor decision making. We could've done something about our problems, they couldn't. Hell, give the Cards Edmonds, Rolen, and Izzy at full strength. Maybe they win the division ... but we're right there in the wild card at 90 wins.

You can't just sum up this season by saying "they sucked." Not this year anyway.

 

FYP. when you look at it this way, they didn't underachieve at all. they were flat out bad. the only real surprise was Ensberg.

 

i thought that

 

the astros should throw up just thinking about themselves and how much they "underachieved."

 

The Cards winning it all this season makes me sick. That really could have been us.

 

Absolutely.
IFs are always just that but can safely say IF it were the Astros there's a good chance they'da swept the Tigers

 

Uh Ya, the Texans SHOULD win the superbowl this year too. And last year.

 

Yeah, I SHOULD have won the lottery, but damnit, some other guy picked all the right numbers!

 

Who is talking about the Texans??

 

That analogy falls apart at too many places. Non sequitur. Nice smiley, though.

 

The Astros have no one to blame but themselves. Letting the Cubs role into town and sweep them late in the year was one of the big killers for their season.

 

Hopefully this WS outcome makes Uncle Drayton sick as freaking dog and they go out this offseason and try to become the Yankees of the NL next year. Damn, not only did the Cardinals win but Preston Wilson gets a WS ring!!

 

Let's not forget about those Cardinals games right before the all-star break. We had a chance to put them down after they lost 13 out of 16 games and what happens? We crap our pants in front of national televsion...

 

In my heart I always think the Astros should be in the World Series but my head says something different.

Just because the Cards beat the Padres, Mets and Tigers doesn't mean the Stros could've. You just can substitute the two teams and if the Stros had been it in it things might've turned out very differently.

I don't like the Cards but lets face it this was their year and things just lined up right for them.

 

i'll tell you deserved to win the World Series...the St. Louis Cardinals.