Posted by bigwood25 on April 2, 2008

The return of a Cardinal legend

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Ok, a legendary terrible pitcher.  We’re only one game in and I’m already grumbling about the Cards.  As if having our four-run opening inning washed away on Monday wasn’t bad enough, I tune back in for Opening Day: Part Deux last night to see Houston native Kip “7-17″ Wells come back to town to shut down our bats, Troy Glaus and his iron glove remind us he ain’t no Scotty Rolen in the field (seriously, I hated Rolen, but Pretty Boy Troy BETTER hit 30HR or he gets anthrax in the mail), Ryan Franklin make me to continue to wonder if ‘07 was a fluke, and one of our “key” lefties in the bullpen walk in the winning run for Colorado (making your boy Taylor Buchholz the winner).  The middle of the line-up goes 1-11.  Fucking outstanding.  I guess the only silver lining to the re-start of the season is that Kyle Lohse continued to build on his two terrifc Spring Training starts–I’m desperately hoping the guy can win 12-14 games and keep that ERA down in the low 4s.  Oh, and we’re still 1/2 game up on your beloved Astros, who seem to have left their bats at Osceola County Stadium.

Posted under 2008 Season, Astros, Cardinals, Like getting fucked by a clydesdale, NL Central

6 Responses to “The return of a Cardinal legend”

  1. I played little league against Kip Wells. I also played against him in high school. That Elkins HS team was scary good.

    I can’t believe the Astros didn’t sign him last year. Or this year. He’s certainly better than Woody Williams.

  2. Though at this point he probably couldn’t even make the Elkins HS rotation, that’s pretty f’n awesome. You play against any other future major leaguers back in your glory days? Ah, what it must be like to be from a real city.

  3. btw-how did you upload that picture that appears off to the right of your comments? I didn’t see that option when editing my profile. I may be blind or just ate up with the dumbs.

  4. I have an avatar through gravatar.com - it uploads avatars to all sites using their templates I believe (first used on TheBigLead.com)

    and my baseball career ended with a torn rotator cuff when I was 16. How sad is that? Especially since my fastball never topped 58.

  5. Oh yeah, I instituted the whole avatar thing just so I could rub my nipples every time Striker posted.

    I’ll work on getting mine posted. It kicks ass!

  6. Gravatar?!? No wonder I couldn’t change my pic in Wordpress.

    I hope y’all enjoyed my damn Glamour Shot, ’cause it’s being replaced as soon as I can manage.

    I do love me some seersucker in the Houston summer, though. Once you get over the fact that you’re dressed like Matlock, you realize you’re not sweating your ass off.