As suggested by you, the readers of this blog, this is the last in a series of posts in which you can vote for your top St. Louis Cardinals stories of 2010. We are using the same list of stories that I used in my countdown, but you will set your own priority here.
Your final five stories, numbers six through ten, can each be selected below. Note they are five individual votes.
For more background on any of the stories, click on the link to the blog’s top 20 countdown.
Here are your top five selected to date.
Your #1 story of 2010: The collapse – favored defending champs miss playoffs
#2: The Holliday signing – seven or eight years
#3: The Ludwick–Westbrook trade –Jay emergence, Westbrook re-signing
#4: The Penny / Lohse injuries
#5: Colby Rasmus not traded
Link to The Cardinal Nation Blog’s top 20 stories of the year countdown
What is the #6 story for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010?
- Jaime Garcia's emergence (27%, 7 Votes)
- La Russa returns for 2011, Duncan for two or three more (15%, 4 Votes)
- The fight in Cincinnati (15%, 4 Votes)
- The problems at third base (8%, 2 Votes)
- The final year of Albert Pujols’ first decade (8%, 2 Votes)
- Adam Wainwright, the new ace (8%, 2 Votes)
- Marty Mason firing (4%, 1 Votes)
- Stan the Real Man (4%, 1 Votes)
- Whitey Herzog Hall of Famer, retired number (4%, 1 Votes)
- Young bench, veteran stopgaps (4%, 1 Votes)
- Zack Cox’ major league deal (4%, 1 Votes)
- New farm director and minor league improvement (0%, 0 Votes)
- Big Mac’s return (0%, 0 Votes)
- The problems with middle infield (0%, 0 Votes)
- Lance Berkman signing (0%, 0 Votes)
- No opinion/other (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 26
Loading ...What is the #7 story for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010?
- Garcia (22%, 5 Votes)
- Wainwright (17%, 4 Votes)
- Third base (17%, 4 Votes)
- Pujols (13%, 3 Votes)
- La Russa/Duncan (9%, 2 Votes)
- McGwire (4%, 1 Votes)
- Middle infield (4%, 1 Votes)
- Herzog (4%, 1 Votes)
- Cincy fight (4%, 1 Votes)
- No opinion/other (4%, 1 Votes)
- Berkman (0%, 0 Votes)
- Bench (0%, 0 Votes)
- Cox (0%, 0 Votes)
- Musial (0%, 0 Votes)
- Farm (0%, 0 Votes)
- Mason (2%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 23
Loading ...What is the #8 story for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010?
- Garcia (21%, 4 Votes)
- Wainwright (16%, 3 Votes)
- La Russa / Duncan (11%, 2 Votes)
- Pujols (5%, 1 Votes)
- Farm (5%, 1 Votes)
- McGwire (5%, 1 Votes)
- Bench (5%, 1 Votes)
- Third base (5%, 1 Votes)
- Middle infield (5%, 1 Votes)
- Herzog (5%, 1 Votes)
- Berkman (5%, 1 Votes)
- Cincy fight (5%, 1 Votes)
- No opinion/other (5%, 1 Votes)
- Cox (0%, 0 Votes)
- Musial (0%, 0 Votes)
- Mason (2%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 19
Loading ...What is the #9 story for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010?
- Wainwright (17%, 3 Votes)
- Musial (17%, 3 Votes)
- Middle infield (11%, 2 Votes)
- Garcia (11%, 2 Votes)
- Farm (6%, 1 Votes)
- Cox (6%, 1 Votes)
- Bench (6%, 1 Votes)
- Third base (6%, 1 Votes)
- Other/no opinion (6%, 1 Votes)
- Herzog (6%, 1 Votes)
- Berkman (6%, 1 Votes)
- La Russa / Duncan (6%, 1 Votes)
- Cincy fight (0%, 0 Votes)
- McGwire (0%, 0 Votes)
- Mason (0%, 0 Votes)
- Pujols (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 18
Loading ...What is the #10 story for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010?
- Cincy fight (18%, 3 Votes)
- Middle infield (12%, 2 Votes)
- Musial (12%, 2 Votes)
- Berkman (12%, 2 Votes)
- Third base (12%, 2 Votes)
- Mason (6%, 1 Votes)
- Farm (6%, 1 Votes)
- Bench (6%, 1 Votes)
- Other/no opinion (6%, 1 Votes)
- Garcia (6%, 1 Votes)
- La Russa / Duncan (6%, 1 Votes)
- Herzog (0%, 0 Votes)
- Cox (0%, 0 Votes)
- McGwire (0%, 0 Votes)
- Wainwright (0%, 0 Votes)
- Pujols (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 17
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Here’s my list…
1. Collapse – The sum of all parts.
–Top Three Negatives–
2. Penny/Lohse
3. Ludwick/Westbrook
4. Freese/3B
–Top Three Positives–
5. Holliday signing
6. Waino The Ace
7. Jaime Garcia’s emergence
–Second Tier Negatives–
8. Bench – Memphis vs. Vets, organizational depth exposed.
9. Milddle IF Problems – Skip and Ryan both had bad years. Ryan gone. Skip hopes for rebound.
–Second Tier Positives–
10. Colby stays in StL
11. TLR/Dunc back for 2011+
–The Ongoing Organizational Struggle–
12. Changes in Luhnow’s Empire
13. Mason fired – The Empire Strikes Back!
–The Future–
14. Berkman signing
15. Cox draft/signing
–Non-Stories–
16. Albert Pujols – Another great year? Sun rises in the east. Dogs have fleas. Nothing new here… just move on! When/if AP has a bad year… that’s a story!
17. McGwire hire – The dog that didn’t bark.
18. Cincy fight – Entertaining. We swept them. They played better later than we did.
–The Past–
19. Stan is ‘The Man’ – Well deserved for a life well spent. The greatest Cardinal of them all!
20. Whitey – Also well deserved. Congratualtions and thanks for making the 80′s a fun team to watch and support.
HB, thanks for sticking your neck out by sharing your entire list. The groupings are an interesting way to do it.
I think you may take Albert a bit for granted and obviously consider the history-based stories to be less significant. On the other hand, the 3B and MIF stories may have been too low on my list and better placed on yours. No right or wrong answers; just personal preference.
Your welcome Brian, and thanks for the series (and the blog). Really don’t take AP for granted, just making a point. Also have great respect for Stan/Whitey, just didn’t see rewards for past deeds as being as important to the here & now.
Still dont understand the Colby “not traded” story as being important. Pujols, Carpenter, and Wainwright weren’t traded either.
I suppose I could have labeled the story “The Colby Controversy” or similar, but I assumed (apparently incorrectly) that it would be understood.
FWIW, I think that this community voting that story (by whatever name you prefer to call it) as the #5 story may be a good reminder that this group is… ahem… atypical of the general population of Cardinals fans.
I personally don’t think the TLR/Colby conflict was that big of a deal as those type of things probably happen a lot more than people would want to know.
Dunno, RC. Some love dirt while others prefer their heroes remain unnaturally Dove pure. Apparently we all need some more soap around here!
Well this blog is more in line with reality Brian. A good mix of kool aid drinkers and skeptics as well.
You’ve got everybody else pegged Brian, but you’d have to admit I’m as typical as it gets. Right? Kindly direct me to the nearest cliff, please.
Don’t do that bb!
Obviously some think so but i just dont see why. As best I can tell, in all the PD mudslinging there was never any indication that it affected the play of any individual or of the team.
I think Colby enjoyed the chatter from Tony as well as Albert since that was the first time Albert had ever said more than 5 words at one time to him. Made Colby feel loved.
As I feared, this multiple voting isn’t working even more spectacularly than I feared. Garcia is currently the #6 and #7 and #8 story, too. At this rate, we’ll have just a reader top eight. HB, how about a solution as this was your baby!
Well, that’s a fine kettle of fish I’ve gotten us into Ollie!
I looked at it two ways. First, I used MVP style weighting, awarding 3 points for a #6 vote, 2 points for a #7 vote and 1 point for a #8 vote. The top three were Garcia 29, TLR 18, and Cincy/Waino tied at 15. Waino got less #6 votes (2) than Cincy (4), more #7 votes (4) and #8 votes (2) than Cincy’s 1 each.
Based on that, I’d award Jaime #6, TLR #7 and Waino #8.
Next I just added total votes. Top three were Garcia 14, TLR/Waino tied at 8. Since TLR got more #6 votes (4) than Waino (2), I’d give the tiebreaker to TLR. (crdswmn will think this is a conspiracy!)
Based on the two methods yielding consistent results, I’d award Jaime #6, TLR #7 and Waino #8.
Just to show I’m not biased… notice none of those choices from the models match my own votes. I voted Jaime 7, Waino 6, and TLR 11.
Forgot to check #9 & #10… another complication. Wain won #9, but since I’ve award #8 above, I’d give #9 to the runner up… The MAN!!!
We can all agree that MLB knows what its doing, so adopt the model of All-Star voting and let everyone vote as many times as they want. That should clear things up.
A good game RC……….. some surprises………… that last call was BS…….no whistle………if somebody sticks him while he’s down………there going to flag throw ……….. live and learn………. Oregon called a sh-tty game………Auburn made better adjustments. They deserve the win.
You can stick ‘em all you want until the whistle blows.