More Fun With Tony La Russa

Published: July 25, 2007, 11:18 am

Tags: mlb

Did you ever have one of those terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad days? Or weeks? The St. Louis Cardinals have no sympathy because they are having one of those years. It started when Tony La Russa got arrested for DUI during spring training, got worse when the team stumbled out of the gate in an ill-fated defense of their World Series title and hit bottom when Josh Hancock was killed in a car accident. It never rebounded. Chris Carpenter got hurt, off-season acquisitions Adam Kennedy and Kip Wells tanked and they couldn't even get through the All-Star Game without their manager pissing off Albert Pujols. Last week Carpenter had Tommy John surgery. That's bad enough since it will negatively impact their hopes of next year being better but it also caused another, more immediate, flare-up for a team in turmoil. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Bernie Miklasz wrote a column this weekend that was highly critical of the Cardinals medical staff. In the past three seasons three Cardinals -

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