That was a BOMB

We weren't dogging it against inferior teams until after the AS break. Again - LaRussa squads are great underdogs and they generally start out hot. When they start to get labeled a favorite and you reach the 5th and 6th month of that constant glower from the dugout, suddenly the team starts to falter a little bit.

I've been far more concerned with how this team will finish than how it will start.

It's a very long season, lets not go sucking each others dicks just yet.

Generally when the Cardinals get a division lead, they keep it. That lead may not stay as large as it was, but they don't blow 1st place.

Except for 2 of the last 3 seasons, when they had the division lead and blew them both in August and September. The 2009 squad brought in some new life with the Holliday acquisition, so there was none of the 'doldrums' that submarined the 2008 and 2010 squads.

The 2007 team was dogshit so it never had a divison lead to worry about. The 2006 team tried desperately to blow it; only a double digit lead with 3 weeks left in the season prevented it. It would've been one of the 3 worst collapses in MLB history and they just barely avoided it.

And 2005 is just too long ago to care about at that point.

The recent history of LaRussa squads is that they come apart as the season progresses. They'd better make hey while the sun is shining because with Alberts contract negotiations coming up, I don't imagine they'll be making a mid-season 'Holliday' splash. Nor do I see them building up the 11 game lead they had over the Astros in 2006.

They'd better avoid the pitfalls of '08 and '10.

The longest one I saw was off Pujols bat, from my seat 8 rows behind home plate, Bush stadium, Cubs vs. Cardinals, bases loaded, Pujols at bat and they pitch to him. It hit the top of one of those barriers that rope off the handicap section about 5 yards from the street outside of Bush.

Here's where the ball landed on the fly. Pujols said after the game, "I got all of that one, thats probably as far as I can hit a baseball", People were milling around after the game taking pictures like I did and going geeezzz look how far home plate is....

I was at that game too. It was a magestic blast.

Nice three game sweep out of first place. ****ing dildos. :shake:

I was tempted to drive up for the game today. Glad I didn't waste my time.

No biggie. We got swept by the reds and went on a tear. Milwaukee has mortgaged their future this year to make a run. I like where we are at now and in the future compared to the brewers.

I'm so ****ing sick of trotting out this acient relievers and expecting them to roll back time. Let them score 4 damn runs and load the bases before bringing in someone whos under 35 years old. That ump blew a 3rd strike to get out of the inning that Motte threw with bases loaded.

Still not as big a problem as Theriot.

2 more errors and another that should have been. He's absolutely putrid.

This is who the Cardinals are: a team with a terrible bullpen, horrible defense, and the worst hitting infield, sans Pujols, in all of baseball.

Theriot can hit. Craig needs to go back to 2B when he's back.

0-9 bitter bump.
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Ryan Franklin is so bad that I was actually excited when that bloop fell in before the Morse HR.

I have him on my FBB team and was salivating about the possibility of Morse getting his hacks.

I was not disappointed.

welllll at least they can't play any worse than they have the last 13 innings.;)