Well, I might as well address the elephant in the room. Both Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado are missing both of the next two games in the series at Toronto due to not being vaccinated. This sucks. There’s no way around it. The Cardinals will be without their two best players against a difficult Blue Jays team while they are behind in the division and absolutely need every win they can get. Which has been made more difficult by their absence.
I could try to beat around the bush and talk my way around my true feelings so as to not alienate part of the audience reading this, but that would feel dishonest.