^I'm originally from Springfield, so I have been to several Springfield Cardinals games. It's cool to see the players starting out, and then see them join the Cards and play in the big leagues. Hammons Field is a nice venue too.
I think it was inevitable for Carp to go on the DL. Like LaRussa said, 15 days is the earliest he'd be able to start again (when you count being able to play catch two or three days from now and then progressing to throwing from a mound again) so they might as well have put him on the DL. Plus, I think they're bringing up Brian Barton again if they haven't already. This frees up a roster spot for him too. (Why they didn't apply this logic to Ankiel, I wish I knew. He should've gone on the 15 day DL with that abdominal strain).
As for Perez, he looks great now that he developed his slider more while he was in Memphis. He's our closer now, in my opinion.
We looked terrible today. How many times now have we gotten to 14 games over .500? Why can't we ever get over that hump to 15 games over?
I watched most of the Dodgers/Brewers game today on TBS. Man, that was exciting stuff! Heartbreaking for the Brewers, of course. To tie it up by scoring four runs in the ninth, only to lose it in the bottom of the ninth on a walkoff homerun! I'm not shedding any tears for them, though. We didn't lose any ground in the wildcard race!