OK, that post has been up for 12 hours now. It’s time for somebody in the web operation to take it down. Maybe they’re too busy with the redesign, which I don’t like, BTW.

Sometimes offensive can at least be clever, but that was just stupid and incomprehensible, really. What does Hitler have to do with Mark Mulder? Or baseball? It wasn’t a medal sport at the 1936 Olympics. That post is just pathetic and sad.

The new web design is not attractive. To the folks at the P-D. This is a mistake folks.

The big problem with the Mulder-Haren deal was that Mulder was damaged goods. The Cardinals should have known it. Mulder had an existing hip injury that was throwing off his pitching motion, even when he was still getting outs and winning games in 2005. There was a segment on Baseball Tonight in ‘05 that talked about it, long before Mulder fell apart in May 2006 ahead of the team admitting a shoulder injury. When you consider how long it took Mulder to destroy his motion with the bad hip and eventually burn out the shoulder, it’s no surprise that he’s gonna need a long, long rehab to get back on track — assuming that more damage isn’t uncovered with this latest setback. From a human perspective, Mulder’s got to be dreading this doctor visit, given everything he’s been through for the last 24 months. Then again, he brought it on himself by continuing to pitch on a bad hip in hopes of lasting long enough to get a Mike Hamptonian free-agent deal. Say, what’s the status of the bad hip that started his decline?

You might say that it was reason enough to fire Walt Jocketty. Re-signing the injured Mulder for $13 million over two years has netted us three terrible starts in ‘07 and probably nothing for the first half of ‘08. Another reason to fire Jocketty. The Edmonds re-signing was possibly worse. With Jimmy Baseball hitting .160 for San Diego, Mozeliak probably deserves a contract extension already, just for getting the Padres to take him off our hands for a lousy $2 million, and getting them to throw in a third-base prospect. With Ankiel playing center and hitting, who misses Edmonds? Sorry, Jimmy.

Tech,

Yep. There’s a filter. Me. Took me a big to navigate the new design to find a way to push-button edit. Still looking … but I was able to take down the colorful language. Remember, folks, even with the new background here at StlToday.com, we can’t work blue …

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I can’t criticize the Cardinals for the Mulder trade since they were in the mode of “win now” when the deal was made. They obtained an established lefty with a good winning track record. As Yogi would say “it ain’t over til it’s over”. If he can come back “sometime-anytime” and be his normal self it is worth waiting for. If not…we wish him well and just move on.