Tough weekend for run-differential fans as the Cardinals topped the Cubs 34-31 but dropped the series. Boxing enthusiasts sure had to love that accidental rope-a-dope by Jon Lester, though. By letting the Cardinals’ bats pummel his pitches and score more than half their series runs (18) in his start, he left them exhausted for most of the other games.
So is Lester a mad genius or just another dazed hit-and-run victim? Either way, let’s salve the pitching staff’s bruises by devoting an entire Fungos to yet another palliative jib-jabbing of St. Louis, the “Gateway to the West,” a city so awesome it actually markets itself as the best city in America to leave.