Jim Edmonds is struggling with his recovery from offseason surgery on his right shoulder and left foot, and there's a chance the Cardinals CF won't make it back before Opening Day. Of course, Edmonds was devastated. Or not:
"It would be great to be able to play Opening Day, but I'm not going to lose my cool if something doesn't go perfectly as planned," Edmonds said Sunday. "If I make it I make it, and if I don't, I don't."Things have got to be pretty dead-on."
That, my friends, is a resounding "meh."
On the other hand, Edmonds' teammate David Eckstein is also injured, but is planning to come back much sooner. Naturally, this has nothing to do with Eckstein's injury being less severe than Edmonds' and everything to do with Eckstein's legendary Grit, a point I'm sure the Fire Joe Morgan guys would surely cede.
Anyway, it certainly doesn't look like Edmonds is in any hurry to get on the field for the Cards, which is excusable, considering St. Louis won the World Series last year. Then again, if Edmonds catches that Mark Buerhle post-World Series apathy disease, maybe Cards fans will have a right to complain.
