The amazing thing was that last night when Soriano went down, it was repeated over and over. Yet, still no mention of AP. Oh well, let the opposing teams still think that #5 is lingering.

I’ve seen Albert’s injury discussed on ESPN several times, including BsseballTonight at 7E ST yesterday, and on PTI. Not as much as say, Manny’s high-fiving a fan got, but still a few of mentions. More than ESPN usually mentions the 2nd best-record team in the NL.

Pujols’ injury was the top story on SportsCenter the night it happened. It hasn’t gotten as much attention as, say, an injury to A-Rod (or the progress of Joba Chamberlain–seriously, ESPN, who outside of NY cares?) but it hasn’t gone unnoticed either. One rather unforgivable mistake, however: in one of their graphics before showing clips of Pujols’ injury, SC had his name over a PHILLIES logo. What, we’ve traded him already? He must be really badly hurt :O

I’ve long thought ESPN has a bias against the Cardinals. When you’re from a region of the country that doesn’t get much Redbird info (especially since I can’t get the Cards on KMOX any more)you notice when night after night it seems to take longer and longer for them to get to St. Louis highlights. They sometimes seem to cover Boston and New York at least 2 or 3 times before they get to the Cards once. Oh well, it good to see the Redbirds doing so much better than pre-season expectations! Go Cards! Get well Albert!
Perry Hinds
Auburn,AL 6-12-08 3:55 p.m.

It’s not just an “east coast bias”– I live on the West Coast and our local fish wrap will have extensive coverage of the hapless Mariners– or the Giants– but very little about the resilent Cardinals (or other relevant baseball stories: Tampa Bay, for example).

Our paper includes all the box scores and usually a short recap. Our 10-0 game didn’t warrant a recap while the Cubs did. Go figure.

The comments are all true (I’ve been on both the East Coast and West Coast during the these past two weeks)- the TV and papers don’t acknowledge the Cards at all. HOWEVER, I stopped in at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown the other day, and dear Cardinals Friends, we OWN the place (there is more Cardinal RED than any other color by far!!). El Hombre already has his jersey there and they’re gonna have to build a new wing for TLR and AP.

I caught the ESPN report on AP, but I found myself thinking that, if it had been A-Rod, or Manny, or Jeter, et al, there would have been interviews with the team docs discussing prognoses. For many years, we Cards fans have had to wait throug excruciatingly over-long highlights of Red Sox, Yankees, and even Twins (Who knew?) games, in order to catch a glimpse of a Ludwick walk-off homer, or a Pujols tape measure blast, or, most recently, a Looper complete game! I promise one night I sat through multiple, separate highlights of the Red Sox game before finally being “treated” to a 20-second Cardinals “highlight” in the SECOND HOUR! To paraphrase the sorely missed Jack Buck: “That’s NOT a winner!”