Adam Wainwright has "significant" elbow injury...

[Don_Aase_Fan]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2011/news/story?id=6150113

Ouch. Big blow to the Cards on top of the tumultuous situation with Pujols.

[Sports Guy]

Wow, that's horrible.

Kevin Millwood, come on down.

[lovetoaster]

Yeah, that does not sound good at all. That could be a really bad start to the season for the Cardinals.

[Coker]

Oh, that's rough for the Cardinals. Huge blow to their rotation.

Whose left besides Millwood?

[isestrex]

Carpenter, Westbrook and sophmore Jamie Garcia

That isn't a horrible rotation. But they just went from one of the best rotations in baseball to a standard one. It isn't going to be easy going against the Phillies or Giants in the playoffs with that rotation.

[Don_Aase_Fan]

It's official: Wainwright will undergo TJS and will miss 2011. Bummer.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2011/news/story?id=6154112

Fangraphs' take on the financial impact of Waino's loss..

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-financial-cost-of-losing-adamwainwright/

[Aglets]

How about a little schadenfreude (sp?) on top of injury?

There are TWO things that kinda shocked me about this report on ESPN, see if you can spot them.

A Dayton Daily News report said Gomes walked into the Reds clubhouse and "joyously" sang "Wainwright's gone" several times in response to news of the St. Louis starter's injury.

Gomes, who initially learned of Wainwright's injury in a satellite radio interview with Rob Dibble, said he was told that Wainwright had returned to St. Louis to have his elbow examined, but was unaware of the extent of the injury.

According to Gomes and several onlookers, the outfielder was singing the lyrics to the song "You're the Best Around" from the movie "Karate Kid" during a light-hearted exchange with the team's video coordinator early Wednesday morning.

[Icterus galbula]

A coworker/good friend down here is a Cardinals fan. Pretty crushing blow. All he could say- "Well at least Pujols didn't blow his knee out. Thats about the only thing that could have been worse."