Cards Win

A hard-fought victory, harder perhaps than it should have been. But most importantly, the Cards took care of business. Initials...

* Bad Sosa. Bad, bad Sosa. We had this team overmatched, but Sosa wasn't capable of exploiting it. He jacked from long range, drove and popped too early, had suspect turnovers. Listen, there's nothing that can be said that hasn't been said, and nothing's going to change at this point. This team can take, and perhaps needs, some bad Edgar. But it cannot take really bad Edgar. Against a mediocre opponent, Sosa's ups-and-downs were just absorbed into the greater context of the game. But against a quality opponent, we cannot afford that style of play.

* Samuels is doin' work! We still can't feed him appropriately. No player has gone from bust to boom in such a short period, but this team needs to get on board quick.