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Oh, I believe that the tandem of ToneDunc can be an unforgiving one that will drive you to Canada, but Bernie is such a freaking dolt sometimes. Is the organization cringing over Colby's Dad? Yeah, I'm sure. But the way Bernie is phrasing it makes it seem like Colby's days are numbered in the organization. As long as he isn't stabbing an ex-girlfriend, dealing cocaine or funneling money to Hezbollah, stop making it sound like Mozeliak is going to orchestrate a plan to unceremoniously dump the kid.

I absolutely loathe his cryptic [expletive].

baseballbuzzer wrote: I would say Colby as long as his Dad stays out of the picture and let's him progress and mature. Colby doesn't need to read on here regularly that he is not good enough to play for the Cardinals.

Sonny Jim, If you only knew. Colby doesn't know this message board exists first off. I'm afraid young Mr. Rasmus is going to ruffle some feathers before all is said and done on his own accord and dad won't try to disuade him one iota(like he has in the past). Nope, This year has transformed Colby into a different dude from what I heard on the ride home from Memphis last night. No waffling, no indecision, he knows what he is and isn't gonna do. No more political correctness. It sounded scary in a good way. I think he knows he has got to hit his way out of AAA and has finally learned that team starts in the majors. It is all about the I in the minors. I've always said you learn more from failure than success and it sounds like he has learned which is good.

I don't tell Colby the things I write on here, I just tell him how good he is when we speak.

For the record, I also like Perez in the one hole. Same as Phil.

If Perez is no longer a rookie, then I vote Wallace. Drafted this year and already tearing up AA is pretty darn skippy in my book. He may be in the OF in St. Louis next September. This is the player who may displace Skip Schumaker this next year.

I am not optimistic at this point in time that Colby will ever be cemented into a lineup in St. Louis because he just hit .250 in AAA, which is not very good by the way. I have posted my thoughts numerous times that I think the current group of outfielders are really good baseball players and that those players could be in St. Louis for many years blocking Colby from ever playing in St. Louis. They are better than he is right now and may continue to be in the years to come but for Colby to dislodge any one of them(and Skip is the only one who can be dislodged) he will have to play above his head IMO because TLR will never put him in the lineup if he is not way better than what is already there.

Look at who's in St. Louis and who's on the way. Daryl Jones, Jay, Robinson, Wallace, Freese, Craig are all going to be playing OF next year. I still believe Colby is the best trade chip that can be traded so I still think the odds are Colby is traded is TLR stays.

But your post was infering that Colby would not be signing a long term contract with St. Louis because he was mad with the organization. Well he never told me he was mad with anybody but himself. I get the impression he was indecisive on many things he did this year and unsure of himself. I think he finally understands what he needs to do and will not be swayed from what he believes he needs to do to be ready to hit in AAA. He does not believe he has a chance to make the team out of Spring training(geez, finally) and knows he will have to prove himself in AAA if he is ever to touch foot in the big leagues. This is a major upgrade in his thinking process IMO because he thought Spring training numbers would dictate his making the team this year and he never had a chance. He understands this now, which is good. This way he can focus on hitting in AAA and not worry about Spring training next year, heck, I wish they wouldn't even let him in big league camp, until he earned it.

I believe TLR to be one of the smartest baseball people who is managing in the Majors if not the smartest.

The problems with me posting is that I don't have the time to write and expain my thoughts probably as thoroughly as I need to to so I just put snippets of what I think and then that leaves those baseball minds of cardinal fans everywhere jumping across the entire spectum of what I meant by those comments.

I don't think TLR is biased against Colby at all. I believe Tony to be extremely supportive of the guys he manages and Skip, Ryan, and Rick are the outfielders who Tony will support to the nth degree, as he should. I do believe Tony didn't appreciate the way the media handed the CF job to Colby this past off season, as TLR had Rick Ankiel penciled in that position all along and I believe Tony felt like Rick was slighted by all of those stories about Colby being the second coming. :rolleyes: Tony is the ultimate professional and would never mistreat anyone because of something so silly but he will take every chance to tell you young Colby Rasmus hasn't earned anything to this point and that his current group of guys have earned something. I always go back to this and it is my belief, Colby is not better than the players patrolling the OF in St. Louis so he should not be playing in front of them but he could be playing in another organization. It will be extremely hard for Colby to play in St. Louis because all things being equal, TLR will go with that older player. Colby would have to be way better to replace one of those guys.

Now as a cardinal fan you don't care how long he stays in AAA because you consider arbitration, free agency, whose producing at the major league level in front of him, and the whole lot of money mumbo jumbo but always understand, those issues don't matter to a players family. I see players Colby has played with for years, who are not near as good as he is but who are getting September callups, or already in the major leagues with other organizations.

TLR is not holding Colby Rasmus back and don't ever think I believe that.

right, colby knows nothing about message boards.