GameCast: September 19th at St. Louis

Ryan Dempster (10-8, 3.84 ERA) vs. Chris Carpenter (16-4, 2.45 ERA) Story-linesIt's the unluckiest man in baseball against the guy who should feel lucky to be healthy.  At the end of last season, Dempster's pending free agency status was the albatross in the room.  It's safe to say that any reasonable Cub fan knew he wouldn't duplicate his 17-win, 2.96 ERA 2007 season, but he wasn't about to realistically drop off again.  Besides, Jim Hendry has rightly displayed not just loyalty to his best players, but a willingness to reward their success and it probably would've sent the wrong message to allow Ryan Dempster to sign elsewhere.  Still, what works out to be essentially a 4-year deal was pretty stupid. This year, while making $9 million, Clownsevelt has dealt with bad outings, irregular run support, and a broken toe.  He's still managed to get to 10 wins, though, and to get his ERA below 4.  But I still surmise that he...