Embarrassing

That's the best way to describe that last series. You have to give the Royals credit....they did just come off of beating the Phillies two out of three. But as a fellow Cards fan just said "With how terrible our pitching is, it's amazing that we're as close as we are."
Last nights game exploited, more then any other game this year, how terrible our starting pitching is. We have four guys that should be in the bullpen (I'm including Wells in there) leaving only one guy in our starting five that should be there and right now he's only a #3 or #4 starter at best. And the fact that our starters can't make it past the 5th inning is KILLING our bullpen. We USED to have one of the better pens in the NL. But as last night showed, those arms are tired. Walt and Co. know this too....so what to they do, go and sign Percival instead of finding another SP (to my knowledge Ohka is still out there....he's GOTTA be better then what we have right now).
Last night was horrible in so many ways. You can't walk 7 batters, allow 6 of them to score, and expect to win. It's just not going to happen. One of my biggest fears about games like last night. Is that it's already taken it's toll on the pen. But if the offense continues to do well, yet has nothing to show for it, the same things could easily happen to the bats. Any other night, if you tell me that the Cardinals scored 8 runs on 11 hits, I'm going to say that they won or at least it was a close game. But 17-8?!?!?! To one of the worst teams in baseball.
The sad part about all this though....I don't see much changing. At least not until Carp gets back. Wells probably needs to be moved to the pen and Jimenez needs to be sent back down and bring Reyes back who has pitched pretty well down in AAA, but I'm not sure how soon that's going to happen. As viva el birdos points out, Wells was Tony and Duncan's choice. Not Walt's or the front office, their hand picked choice to be their #2 guy.
Anywho, next up is some guy that we traded away a few years back. Man wouldn't he look good sporting those birds on the bat right now!!!!