I posted this on Hornfans, but it’s hosted here.

Man, these guys are weird.

Not good at all. The Cards about to win and if they do, then they will be able to close it out Sunday with no need for the makeup game on Monday. All along the Astros have had very little margin for error and now that margin has gotten much smaller. The Cards’ magic number is down to two now. Damn.

Let’s root against the Cardinals tomorrow afternoon and then hope for a big Astros win tomorrow night to at least make Sunday’s game mean something.

I’ve been posting all day long and in the midst of getting my ass kicked playing Omaha, I came across something very funny. I know we don’t normally post political stuff, but this is less political than it is just plain funny as shit.

Top Ten Chapter Titles In Jim McGreevey’s Book Presented By “Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey”

10. “The Day I Got Caught Governing Myself”

9. “How To Pretend To Like Girls For 47 Years”

8. “From Schwarzenegger To Pataki: Governors I’d Like To Oil Up”

7. “Another Confession — I Can’t Resist Entenmann’s Pound Cake”

6. “At First I Just Thought I Was Bipartisan”

5. “The New Jersey Budget Crisis — What Would Judy Garland Do?”

4. “A Look At The Governor’s Balls”

3. “Politicians Who Left A Bad Taste In My Mouth”

2. “How To Push Through A Bill — Or A Steve Or A Larry…”

1. “Why I Don’t Like Bush”

UPDATE: I forgot to credit my source in the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska.

ESPN, sharing the Astros love:

Seventh, [the Cardinals are] just not a great team. We’ve granted them the NL Central crown since May because we’re awestruck by Albert, and because the Astros got out of the blocks the way Jabba the Hut gets up out of a papasan chair. But take another look. This team is not going to win the World Series. This team is going to rely on Jason Marquis and So Taguchi. Aaron Miles is going to get serious time for this team. And unless they wise up and ask Adam Wainwright to close, this team will struggle mightily to hold even the most comfortable of late-inning leads.

Contrast that to Houston, where Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt start twice in every seven-game series. And where young Luke Scott is looking like old Roy Hobbs. And where Lance Berkman continues to do a very, very credible Albert Pujols impression again this year. As a nonpartisan fan, which club looks more compelling? Which club looks more like one you’d actually want to see play in a postseason series? Careful, the questions get harder after this. Next, I ask you your name and the color of the sky.

“Michigan State Meltdown”

Listen to this radio show segment. It gets completely awesome about 4 or so minutes into it, and just keeps getting better. This is about the very best meltdown that you could ever possibly hope to hear. Outstanding.

Wow. They are giving up in St Louis.

There is no reason to believe the Astros will lose again this season, given their hot hitting, pitching depth and momentum.

So that puts the Cards on the spot. Either they pull out of this swoon -– nine losses in 11 games -– or they will suffer one of the worst late-season collapses in the history of major league baseball.

Either they will return to postseason play . . . or their 2006 implosion will live in infamy. It will become the failure that all future failures are measured against.

Of course, they felt the same urgency Thursday night and allowed the Brewers blow them off the field. After this fiasco, are there any believers left in Cardinal Nation?

I kept promising myself that I would not get excited about this until they got to within 1/2 game. Now they have. The Cardinals are in such a funk right now that I would not be surprised if that infamous makeup game doesn’t have to be played, because the Astros will end up clinching on Sunday. I may be mixing in some baseball with my football on Sunday afternoon.