The Ghost of Gene Mauch

Are the Cardinals done? Finished? Kaput? Will this team go down in history as one of the biggest choke jobs ever? It seems that the ghost of Gene Mauch resides in the St. Louis clubhouse. Gene Mauch was by all accounts a great guy and a super manager but in the 1964 season he managed to lose the pennant with the Phillies after being up by 12 games with about a month to go. The team that won? The Cardinals. I say that the team should have hung unto Reggie Sanders and Mark Grudzelanek. The Cardinals were seven games up with two weeks to play and now the lead is 1 1/2 games. The curse of greed, the new stadium, the new station and skin flint owners has now caught up with them. I certainly don't feel as passionate about the team as I used to. The new owners seem to be wrecking the history of the team by bulldozing the stadium, KMOX and being about the $$ instead of being about baseball. Just my take but I think this team is done. The Cardinals have now lost seven games in a row at the worst possible time.