Top Seven

I’m always late to the party. Derrick Goold and the UCB (I can’t see that without thinking Upright Citizens Brigade) have already done their Top Seven blogs, and they’re all well thought out. That means there’s room, in the market, for one that’s not well thought out–and that’s where I come in. A lot has changed since I started this blog four and a half (yikes) years ago. The MV3 Cardinals that we watched, back then, by candlelight–often not even in HD–masked a farm system that was as bad as farm systems get. Its top prospect, Blake Hawksworth, pitched two games in 2004 before going down with the first of what would be a million billion arm injuries. The position player reinforcements included such luminaries as Shaun Boyd and Mike Ferris. An evil ghost hell-bent on blog mischief was the Cardinals’ first round draft pick. Things did not look good for the post-Rolen, post-Edmonds Cardinals. Obviously, things didn’t wo...