Hawkins already up!!!!

Nice play by burnt toast.

Pujols was safe.

HE WAS SAFE, YOU MOTHER****ER!!

That was a great play by Marcum. Dammit :grr:

Terrible call.

FFs Holliday.



He was safe.

Ugh, the old ball beat him call.

**** YEAH FREESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GONE!!! Marcum has nothing left.

Is this going to be another blowout like yesterday? Brewers better pull Marcum before it becomes one.

Should be 5-0.

Ball beat him call, followed by a killer HR.

Anybody hear the announcers moan in the backround? Guess TBS wants a GM 7.

Why Molina ever hit in front of Freese is beyond me.

Cards are going to parlay an average/mediocre season into a WS appearance. The next time any of you ****ers bemoan your fate as baseball fans, I'd strongly encourage you to find something sharp.

Beast mode this bitch.

What the hell you swinging at that for, Yadi?

And to think Milwaukee gave up Lawrie for this ****stick.

LMAO

MR. FREEEEEEEESE!!!!!

LMAO I need to come up with a Photoshop of that.

Shawn Marcum has been horrible for a month. I'm surprised they chose to start him in an elimination game.

Big bottom of the 1st. Putting up a 0 after scoring is almost as big a momentum push as scoring is in baseball.

Indeed... F....

Good start even with the call going against Pujols, hopefully Jackson can take of business.

And I hope they stay zoomed in on Zach.. It's about that time for him to go all clammy, start convulsing, and need more mommy therapy......again...

THIS. We need a quick 1,2,3,

Imagine that sumbitch raking in the five hole for the Brewers. That is terrifying.

Marcum was great for them early in the season (and great for the Jays in his short career there). But I think the Jays had a feeling that he would wear down easily and dealt him at peak value while they could.

Lawrie, on the other hand, looks like a future star.

Or in the four hole, because Prince will be on a different team in a month.

Ruh-roh

That's exactly what we didn't need to have happen. Get your shit together and quick, Jackson.

Great ****ing start.

C'mon Jackson.

Don't take your foot off their throats.

4-1.

Should be 5-1

*sigh* We continue to make Corey Hart look like a superstar.

LMAO.

Yeah!! ****ing umpires!!! Where's pete?

The Cardinals were far worse in 2006, I'd say.

no shit.


We need a quick inning come on Jackson.

Adios, T-2-for-11.

Not as much as Bettencourt and Hairston.

You mean Mantle and Mays?

That was a very good team decimated by injuries.

Perhaps. More pitching, though.

Just keep pounding the fastball low in the zone, E.

HR if we're playing in a silo.

Alrighty. Get more runs.

Yeah and they shut donw about a month to soon. They played pretty well all the way down until the last month.


think it was you who said it, but gotta love power arms in October. I like Jackson more than I would like Lohse Jaime in this spot. Just go after guys cause we are puting up a ton of runs tonight hopefully.

With Hart its been all damn season though. And of course the making "first pitch Yuni" look good has been bothering me too.

Yeah. Has he done much in the postseason. I can't remember and don't really remember hearing his name much? Not being sarcastic just can't remember.

Jeff Weaver, Jeff Suppan, Anthony Reyes give you a boner?

We definitely had better pitching performances, but the pitchers themselves were not better.

The bullpen, in both cases, was largely a pile of shit that turned in to all of King Midas' silver.

No shit.

Exactly

It's why Smoltz was the best of the Braves' three pitchers in the post-season.

Oh no, a soft-tossing lefty :facepalm:

Marcum out of the game.

Shit, I liked their other pitcher better.

Yeah not good. Still don't know why he didn't start.

Yep. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit concerned.

The Ghost of the Larry Walker trade back to **** us?

Suppan was outstanding that entire postseason--and he's an example of an extremely underrated player throughout the majority of his career--, and Weaver actually performed to his talent level.

And Wainwright made that '06 pen look pretty ****ing decent.

Dave Duncan should have a gold statue erected outside that stadium for winning a championship with Jeff Weaver.

I like Larry Walker, but i'd sure like Narveson in the rotation right about now.

Good at bat.

Until that.

Meh. Made him throw a lot of pitches.

Dude. Tyler Johnson, Randy Flores, Josh Kinney (who was signed from St. Louis area independent baseball), Brad "Puppy Kicker" Thompson.

2006 Waino was great for the fact that he wasn't Izzy, but he was nowhere near the machine that Motte has been the last two weeks.

**** YEAH FURCAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**** yeah. thats a good ab. We will take taht run back thank you.

6-1

Scratch off methhead's leadoff homer in the first.

****ing A!

That trade for Rafael Furcal has been understated. He's been great for the Cardinals. Shows what the guy can still do when he's healthy (which isn't very often).

He's the team MVP as far as I'm concerned. There is no way we make the playoffs without him.

I'm hoping we bring him back and he stays healthy for a whole year.

Eh, the Cardinals bullpen to begin the season wasn't that bad.

Basically having Franklin and no l00gy that could get lefties out were the things that really stood in the beginning of the season.

Not to be a dick, but I really am not a fan of saying "what if". If the Cards get that home plate call you never know what happens. The following batters and the pitchers, not to mention coaches, mindsets change. Different pitch sequences with different scenarios.

If there was a way to go back and run that inning at 2-0 Cards, Freese doesn't hit that HR. Maybe he hits it somewhere else on a different pitch or count ect. but thoughts change and that affects everything.

Furcal shouldn't be back if he's asking for anything over 6 mil.

I'm certainly not going to argue too passionately about something as tepid as Cardinal baseball, but many of my immediate memories of '06 revolve around Wainwright being ****ing money is high-pressure situations.

Perhaps time has exaggerated some of these memories, but at this point in the postseason, Motte cannot touch '06 Wainwright's level.

Give it another week or so, and this might not be the case.

no but he should take less than that.