Cards in a rut, Rams falter, new Fedora Core

Well, the Cardinals have statistically won the NL Central Division, but they remain in a recent rut. The lack of Scott Rolen doesn't help, but for some reason they couldn't even sweep the Diamondbacks yesterday. Their starting pitching has been in a bit of a slump the last couple weeks, and the bats a little cooler than usual. Let's hope things pick up with the Brewers series starting today. They did win 2 of 3 from the Diamondbacks this weekend, but us spoiled Cards fans are now used to them sweeping teams like that.

Whereas the Cardinals still have 14 more games this season to redeem themselves, the Rams are looking not too impressive. After a shaky win over the hapless Arizona Cardinals, they lost with gusto to the Falcons yesterday. Despite a nice 3rd quarter comeback they faltered at the end, when the fairly solid looking Falcon defense knew they were going to throw, throw, throw. With Bulger always going for the jugular with Bruce or Holt, they knew who to cover, and how to stop them. They should have run Faulk or Jackson more, although Jackson was pretty pathetic with his costly penalty on the kickoff return. Throwing a football at an opponents face after a play is a pretty juvenile thing to do.

On more exciting, geeky news, Red Hat's Fedora crew has released a beta of Fedora Core 3. I always love to see a new version of the big distros come out. Of course, MEPIS also officially released 2004.02, which means I am now behind the times again on their latest on my desktop. At least with their easy update path, it is pretty painless.

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