Roy Oswalt and the most infamous off-mound fist-pump in Cardinals postseason history may be RSVPing to the 04-05 Astros reunion in St. Louis. I mean Beltran didn’t develop much of a history as an Astro, but is it fair to say he developed much history against the Cardinals? And Berkman was the only Astro who really mattered among their famous B’s; Biggio was too nice and Bagwell was too dirty. Berkman was too busy mashing to care about integrity.

All these signings, to me, are the ultimate repudiation of that 2005 LCS loss, which I admittedly write too much about. The Astros may not even be the Astros for much longer but they were, for like 14 months, the most frustrating Cardinals rival since the 86-88 Mets. And now Mozeliak has taken them apart, finally and for good. 

Oswalt isn’t even officially signed but the internet seems to think it’s looking likely. 2005 reparations don’t get any mudflappier, or better. 

  1. justamanandhisblog said: I saw this a few hours ago at work and didn’t have time to comment. My comment: Agree.
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