Can Berkman bail this team out any more?

Don't blow it, bullpen.

Yay. Good thing we got this one, I'm thinking we may be without Yadi for 5+ games.

So...... That's what a "real" bullpen looks like.:thumb:

As someone on my Cardinal board said:

"If you don't want to get spit on - learn how to umpire"

That was possibly the worst strike zone I've seen all year. For half the game he gave the low strike and abandoned the high. Starting in the 7th, he gave the high (sometimes) and took away the low. By the end of the game, notably the Fielder AB, he was just guessing.

And his academy award performance with Yadi's 'spitting' was just pathetic. I haven't seen a worse performance out of an umpire this season and that includes Joe West.

**** that guy and all his pets. I hope someone shits in his boot.

Can't say I disagree with much of that. Imagine a catcher of all positions would be particularly pissed at a K that far inside. Skip's K while not swinging at a high pitch out of the zone was an annoying one as well.

I agree with this entire post - but I doubt MLB does.

I'll be very surprised if Yadi gets through this without punishment.

I watched the replay of the game after that and I think I know what got him so pissed off.

In the 4th inning, he took that exact pitch from Marcum on a 1-2 count and the ump called it a ball. Then he sat behind the plate and watched that pitch get called a ball for most of the night.

He essentially had a front-row seat for his own screw job. Then the umpire evidently goaded him after he stepped backwards. Yadi said the ump was telling him "don't you come back here" as soon as the pitch was called a strike so he turned and immediately went back there. I gotta be honest, if I'd have been behind the plate for the game he was calling, I'd have done the same.

Oh, and for the record, that's the same ump that blew the call at 1b yesterday.

He's just a complete POS. If Yadi gets suspended, Torre at least needs to issue a formal reprimand to Drake. His performance thus far in the series has been shameful.

LMAO

What a ****ing idiot. Put your sunglasses on Toni.

This is a really hard team to root for.

I watched parts of the game back in the boss's office; left to check it out when something happened on gamecast.

Thankfully it was a day game. This abortion of a performance would've put some people completely over the cliff.

Watching LaRussa completely freeze with 2 men on and Jackson at the dish was just pathetic. Then to watch him send Jackson out there to get beat on for another couple innings to justify his jackass decision to leave Jackson in to hit for himself was just infuriating.

Oh, and of course Yadi mailed the game in, Albert choked and Theriot screwed up everything; afterall what's a Cardinals game without at least 2 of those 3?

It was an absolute microcosm of everything this season has been. I just want it to be over. I've seen Cubs teams that were easier to root for than these guys.

*sigh*

Complaining about the ribbon board? Complaining about heckling?

Brandon Phillips is right - the Cards are a bunch of whiney bitches.


http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/68...g-went-too-far

Meh. **** the Brewers. The only good thing I have to say about them is that I don't hate them quite as much as the Cubs, Reds or Asstros.

I'd much rather lose to the Reds and Astros.

I hate the Brewers almost as much as the Cubs.

He blew the call at 1B yesterday too.

After 10 more games watching Nyjer "Jeffrey Leonard" Morgan's antics you might rethink that list.