well at least we got those back

10/8/2006 8:50:34 PM

do cardinals fans find their team to be "exiciting"... ever?

10/8/2006 8:53:23 PM

gg ronnie - but we might've gotten more if he could run bases

I've never understood why baserunners go to second on throws home...they KNOW there's a cutoff guy there just waiting to cut it off and throw them out at second

[Edited on October 8, 2006 at 8:53 PM. Reason : ^yes]

10/8/2006 8:53:35 PM

Yeah hopefully the Carpenter that pitched like a HOF-er the last couple of seasons shows up and not the Carpenter that seems to show up in the regular season in September can come out the rest of the way. We need this game, because I dunno what we would do going back to San Diego. Jeff Weaver again?

10/8/2006 8:54:59 PM

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"do cardinals fans find their team to be "exiciting"... ever?"

This series is like watching baseball in a morgue. I can't feel excitement from either team or crowd.. I always hear how awesome Cards fans are but each postseason I am consistently unimpressed with the crowds..

10/8/2006 8:55:27 PM

To be fair, the last two years there hasnt been much to be excited about concerning the Cardinals when the post season came around.

I feel like we've been in a post season hitting slump ever since game 2 of the world series (whenever we lost to boston when both teams scored double figures)....except for pujols.

[Edited on October 8, 2006 at 9:00 PM. Reason : ]

10/8/2006 8:59:27 PM

When people talk about how great Cardinals fans are, they're not talking about excitement generated. You shouldn't expect ACC basketball attitudes in Busch. Instead it's usually about baseball knowledge, hospitality to opposing teams and players, and generating a family atmosphere with former players and coaches.

My dad was telling me about a game he went to as a kid when Roger Maris was playing for the Cardinals towards the end of his career. His power numbers had been way down for years, but in one of his first at-bats he got a hustle double on a ball hit right to an outfielder. The fans gave him a standing ovation that partially delayed the next at-bat. That pretty much sums up Cardinals fans.

[Edited on October 8, 2006 at 9:03 PM. Reason : ^^]

10/8/2006 9:00:25 PM

It's just that we're not "built" for the postseason. You need 2 really strong starters to compete, and 3 is awesome. We have 1, and then a bunch of "others". Last year and the year before I honestly believe we were the best 162 game team, but unfortunately our rotation wasn't built for a 7-game series. Remember the year the Diamondbacks won the World Series.... the Big Unit and Curt Schilling combined for every single one of the wins that series. Do you honestly believe that if the Yanks and the D-Rays played 20 games, with every starter starting 4 games, that the D-Rays could have won more than 3 of the 12 games that Johnson/Schilling didn't pitch? Not unless someone got real hot. But unfortunately, baseball does not mirror the regular season. In football, hockey, and basketball, the teams field roughly the same team as in the regular season, but with baseball, they leave out 2 (and sometimes 3) of the most key players in the game, pitchers.

In summary, our top 3 can't compete with the top 3 of our competition, so that is why we lost the last 2 seasons and why we will probably lose this season.

10/8/2006 9:47:47 PM

Cards need to win tonight....there is no way they win tommorrow if they lose tonight pitching Carp.

10/8/2006 9:56:47 PM

that helps

10/8/2006 10:03:04 PM

w0000000000000000t rally baby

10/8/2006 10:13:06 PM

Hell yeah 5-2.

Damn our boys look pretty good right now!

10/8/2006 10:13:07 PM

oh shit

is someone gonna try to say THAT wasn't exciting?

10/8/2006 10:13:55 PM

Alright ladies.. time to face a real team that can actually hit.

10/8/2006 11:01:21 PM

sweet



Now when can carpenter pitch again? As long as he can go twice in the mets series we have an outside chance in hell.

10/8/2006 11:02:20 PM

that's a winner

^^you mean we can't expect 2-32 w/ RISP in the NLCS??

10/8/2006 11:06:23 PM

This could be the year..it sucks carpenter cant start game 1 though

10/8/2006 11:09:41 PM

^^^Start game 3 at home, then maybe game 7 if it goes that far.

I would guess it would be Weaver for game 1 and Reyes/Marquis for game 2. Then Carp in 3 and Suppan in 4.

10/8/2006 11:51:43 PM

Weaver in game 1?

That is embarassing.

Game 1 is Wednesday, which is plenty of time for Suppan to get ready. Then Carpenter, then Weaver. That's just my guess/opinion though.

10/8/2006 11:57:36 PM

Dude Weaver has been solid on the road. Suppan wouldn't go on short rest Wednesday.

10/8/2006 11:58:24 PM

This sucks. The Cards are putting men on base and hitting the ball hard, but they are just not getting the breaks they need to score.

10/12/2006 9:40:23 PM

What do you know. Another NLCS game where the Cardinals decide not to hit.

10/12/2006 11:43:50 PM

Its ok, if they win tommorrow and come away 1-1 on the road things will be okay.

Carp hopefully to keep bringin his A game tommorrow and hopefully our lineup shows up.

Rolen fucking blows. Start Spiezio!

10/13/2006 12:12:40 AM

you watch your lip

10/13/2006 12:16:35 AM

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"This sucks. The Cards are putting men on base and hitting the ball hard, but they are just not getting the breaks they need to score"

Are you serious? they had 4 hits through 7.

10/13/2006 12:18:51 AM

No I am not kidding at all. They hit the ball hard a lot. I think they had like 4 really hard line outs in the first 5-ish innings. Along with that, the guy that replaced Floyd made a spectacular catch of a hit that probably would have driven in a run (had it fallen and gotten behind the guy). Plus Pujols and his dipshit base running (wtf was he thinking?) Plus, as the night went on, Glavine's strike zone seemed to get bigger while Weaver's shrunk. Make no mistake about it, other than one swing of the bat, the Cardinals dominated that game.

10/13/2006 12:48:10 AM

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"Plus, as the night went on, Glavine's strike zone seemed to get bigger while Weaver's shrunk. Make no mistake about it, other than one swing of the bat, the Cardinals dominated that game."

I agree with all but the dominated, Weaver actually pitched better than Glavine, but you had to expect Glavine to get all those calls. It also didn't help when Jeff bitched about a strike when he was batting.

10/13/2006 12:53:25 AM

Yeah, you're right, it was far from dominating. But aside from the Beltran swing, I would say the Cardinals were easily the much better team.

On a side note, Weaver seems to run out of gas quick.

10/13/2006 1:05:10 AM

^gay

10/13/2006 1:12:26 AM

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10/13/2006 2:47:49 AM

You're going to get your ass kicked if you wear a Card's whatever...

Oh and Pujols is going to get it tonight from the crowd. I expect a Rockeresque greeting after what he said about Glavine.

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"Plus, as the night went on, Glavine's strike zone seemed to get bigger while Weaver's shrunk "

I didnt' see that. The zone was 6 inches off the plate all night long for both pitchers. That is why Weaver's mistake to Beltran was so big. He put it right in his happy zone when the ump was giving him the outside all night long.. it ended up costing the game.

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"I would say the Cardinals were easily the much better team. "

Maybe so but you can't overlook that the Mets played a FLAWLESS defensive game. All the talk was about how the Mets need to score runs to win. What happens when they don't? They find a different way to beat you, like a good team will.

Good luck the rest of the way, though I still see this as Mets in 5..[quote]

[Edited on October 13, 2006 at 1:47 PM. Reason : x]

10/13/2006 1:44:55 PM

OK, up by 3 in the 9th, this game was huge (assuming we win).

10/13/2006 11:54:13 PM

yeah i def dresed as neutral as possible

and def waited in the stands as long as possible after the game...

but motherfuck, that was an amazing game, i was never sure we were going to win, even when we were up by 3 in the 9th...

10/14/2006 3:45:12 AM

I look like an ass for saying you guys don't belong. Way to take it to us. Damn good baseball team when you're playing well.

I just gotta pray my Mets can get their heads out of their asses. If you represent the senior circuit in the World Series do us well.. that's all.

10/14/2006 9:41:48 PM

this is why we dont belong....you dont look like an ass...we look like ass clowns out there.


god damnit

10/15/2006 10:28:12 PM

Why is La Russa always looking for excuses when his pitchers get lit up?

Reyes was not tipping his pitches. If he was then what were Thompson and Hancock doing telling them before they threw it???

10/15/2006 11:59:50 PM

Dude.... it's OK. We do belong. I'd say without a doubt we are at least the second best team in the NL. We didn't lose to the Dodgers this year and we thumped San Diego in the playoffs. I think Tony made a big mistake pulling Reyes (he was pitching really well out of the stretch) but who knows, maybe Reyes would have fallen apart too. The fact is, the Mets will have to beat either Suppan or Carpenter to beat us, and that is no easy task. PLUS I bet that the Cards will hit much better against Glavine tomorrow, so I would not be surprised at all to see Weaver beat the Mets tomorrow. I still like where we are in the series, even though our bullpen got exposed today.

Go Cards.

10/16/2006 12:00:20 AM

^I agree but would Reyes have given up 12 runs???

Seriously though they are calling for rain tommorrow and that would probably not be good for our team. We want Glavine to pitch on short rest and I really don't think that Weaver would be affected as much.

10/16/2006 12:53:35 AM

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" I think Tony made a big mistake pulling Reyes (he was pitching really well out of the stretch)"

reason #48793 why tony larussa is a fucking moron

10/16/2006 12:00:05 PM

Tony "I like to pull the double switch in the most retarded situations because I like it in the ass" Larussa


Is that the same guy as Tony "I benched Scott Rolen, one of the best 3rd basemen in the league over a little hitting slump" Larussa?

[Edited on October 16, 2006 at 12:37 PM. Reason : ]

10/16/2006 12:36:13 PM

WFAN said that the system is blowing through quicker then expected and that the new ballpark has exceptional drainage. They seem to think they'll play.. we'll see.

10/16/2006 2:59:13 PM

bump...how long can we keep this thread going?

10/18/2006 12:56:42 PM

Hopefully for another week at least!

10/18/2006 12:59:42 PM

bah....we can bttt all winter again

10/18/2006 1:07:27 PM

MOTHER

FUCKIN

"w00t"

10/20/2006 12:31:58 AM

w00t

10/20/2006 12:37:29 AM

w000000000000000000000t

10/20/2006 12:39:25 AM

10/20/2006 12:57:58 AM

ncstatetke
wolfAApack
woodfoot
Sousapickle
theduke866
maverick
FeebleMinded




anybody else i'm missing?

[Edited on October 20, 2006 at 1:01 AM. Reason : .]

10/20/2006 1:00:35 AM

packboozie, crede?

10/20/2006 1:01:57 AM