Why I Hate the Cardinals

Just a partial list.  I'm sure I'm leaving some things out:

• That little rodent playing SS
• Ozzie Smith
• Willie McGee.  FUgly to this day.
• Whitey Herzog
• Tony LaRussa, his overmanaging, the suicide squeeze, and all his crap
• The pitching coach's kid who manages to hit a HR
• Spiezio's stupid red goatee/soul patch
• Tommy Herr and his curly mullet
• Darrell Porter
• The 25,000 idiot fans who sport a cardboard one at the games
• The other 15,000 idiot fans who sit on their asses until something good happens. 
• All 40,000 of them who wear red, willingly drink Budweiser, and worship the rodent SS.
• John Tudor
• Busch Stadium.  The new one seems nice.  Awful quiet though.  But the old one was just such a disaster.
• These too-dumb-to-know-any-better juveniles coming out of the bullpen
• Braden Looper
• Vince Coleman.  Damn the Mets for ever thinking that would work.
• The fat 2B with the dreadlocks.  Still faster than Shawn Green, though.

Here's a list of the things that I like.

• Pooholes.  Forget about the Glavine comments, this guy is a machine.  You can't not like him. 

Maine needs to contribute 4-5 solid innings.  3 runs or less.  Carpenter needs to be smacked around early and often.  The bullpen needs to shore up a win and help move on to Game 7.