**** my ****ing life.

:facepalm:

Rzep got his DP ball, but fumbled it. Napoli time.

This team is so ****ing done.

There has never been anything more predictable in the history of sports than this outcome.

**** this shit.

I don't know if the Cards can win 2 games back to back in Stl.

Mike Napoli's career OPS vs. LHP: .955

Not surprising in the least.

I really, really really hate sports sometimes.

The Cardiac Cards strike again

We aren't winning another ****ing game. This team is absolutely ****ing done.

1-12 with RISP in a close game will get you beat every time.

So will pinch bunting and intentionally taking the bat out of the hands of the best right handed hitter in the history of the game.

Well the Rangers did what the Cardinals couldn't do all night.

1-12 with runners in scoring position.

I said it an hour ago, but it bears repeating again:

Level III: The Guillotine
Definition: This one combines the devastation of the Broken Axle game with sweeping bitterness and hostility ... your team's hanging tough (hell, they might even be winning), but you can feel the inevitable breakdown coming, and you keep waiting for the guillotine to drop, and you just know it's coming -- you know it -- and when it finally comes, you're angry that it happened and you're angry at yourself for contributing to the debilitating karma ... these are the games when people end up whipping their remote controls against a wall or breaking their hands while pounding a coffee table ... too many of these and you'll end up in prison.

TLR should have let Dotel face Cruz, then brought Rzep in for Murphy. Odds would have been better that way + no Napoli.

Maybe Wash batting Napoli 8th fooled him.

Just a horribly, horribly managed and executed game.

Oh this makes a ton of ****ing sense. Now you're putting Kinsler's BA against Andrus' OBP. Dumbass.

wtf?

Bring in a pitcher for an intentional walk?

What the ****? WHAT THE ****ING ****??

TLR is a sneaky bastard. Have never seen something like that.

Did you really just put in a pitcher for an intentional walk? I is confused.

Well Craig has to get on base next inning to give Albert a chance

Seriously, if you're gonna do that, just move Rzep to 2nd and have Punto IBB the guy. What in the god****ing **** was that horseshit?

La Russa didn't just lose his mind, he punted the ****ing thing into the Hubble Deep Field.

WTF was that with Lynn? Why not have Scrabble intentionallly walk the batter?

Probably won't matter, but theoretically if this game somehow got to extras that move would look historically stupid.

ROFL LaRussa ROFL

How dumb is that going to look if the Cards come back and someone like Schumaker has to pitch.

That's quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

It was obviously a ploy to buy time to get Mott warmed up. The walk from the bullpen, warmup time, and then walk the hitter. Never seen that before...

Bummer how this game has turned out...

It looked like even Dotel was saying WTF on the bench.

TMD is going to have an excuse for Tony.

You can waste time so many other ways rather than wasting a pitcher to intentionally throw 4 balls.

Just play catch with the 3rd baseman for 6 pitches...

Then have Punto go to pitcher and move Rzep to 2nd. You still get warmup pitches and he can throw them as well as anyone else. Don't burn a pitcher to throw 4. And if you're gonna do that, why the **** wouldn't you bring in Boggs or Westbrook to do it? Boggs can't be used today anyway.

LookoutLanding Jeff Sullivan
Lance Lynn is the fifth pitcher in postseason history to intentionally walk the one guy he faced

In the other times, I'm sure that the opposing team pinch hit after the IBB and the pitcher was pulled. Not this time, though.

You're like a psychic.

Come on Craig

The first 6 batters in the top of the 9th can hit a home run. Why take out your only pitcher than can throw two innings to just intentionally walk a batter?

I know the way we have been swinging the bats its a long shot but what was gained by burning him?

How can you possibly justify that decision? I just want to ****ing puke right now. What an absolute ****ing waste to give this game away like this.

Does Washington have the ****ing balls to walk Pujols here.

Here's my baseball advice. No matter what happens here, do not run.

No, I just watched Mike Napoli hit in 2011 far better than everybody else in the Rangers lineup. Dude's on fire...has been all year. Why you'd want to increase the chance that he hits with runners on, I'm not sure.

Haven't seen any of the game. Is the strikezone the reason the Cards are down?

Napoli and TLR.

Pujols can cement his legacy right ****ing here. He can also cement his $200 million dollar contract too.

Why would you send the runner there on 3-2? If he K's you probably have a strike em out-throw em out and the run on first doesn't tie the game.

TLR

Worst managed game in the history of organized sports on any level.

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ROFL

Heh

Someone just ****ing kill me right now.

Damn why didn't Albert just take the walk there

Lol pujols... Swung at two ball 4s

Yeah, this is the worst managed game I've ever seen.

TLR Rules

hahahaha, die Cardinals!

lolz at sending the runner in a 2 run game

At this point I don't care. I just want Tony gone, no matter what happens.

TLR,

I don't understand that play at all.

TLR,

I don't understand that play at all.

Albert should have just taken the walk

Completely meaningless run. Most teams just give that runner 2nd base.

Unbelievable what just happened.

Feliz is so terrible. Holy shit

Incoming 2 run homer that would have been 3.

Yep, and at worst it should be 1 out man on first and second here.

What a dumb ****ing play.

Berkman has homerun power though.

LaRussa pushes all the right buttons/The Meat Dragon

You dont give up a runner in teh WS. And TLR is dumb for sending him down 2

K coming here

Why not? If you don't hold the runner on, your defense is in a better position for Pujols.

Time to steal with Holliday.

If Albert took that walk it would have been bases loaded no outs

Well, that was pathetic...

I can see letting the runner grab second in a 3 or 4 run game in the regular season, but not with a 2 run lead in the best hitter's park in baseball in the 9th inning in the World Series. Protect all runs from scoring.

Berkman might have made it there if he started running initially.

The Meat Dragon, where are you?

It's the 9th, it's the run at the plate that matters. The one on the bases shouldn't play a factor in your team's decision making at all. Anything to decrease the odds of their team scoring a 2nd run is necessary.

Tards are done. Pujols swings at ball 6 inches out of zone. Lol. My prediction will come to fruition. Rangers in 6.

That run makes absolutely no difference in the outcome of the game. Putting the runner in jeopardy of being thrown out is so far beyond stupid that words cannot do it justice.

Because its an out

Albert is 0 for 12 in 4 of the 5 games in the WS. Take the money and go if you want, I'm done. He tries to do to much in a big spot instead of just taking the walk. All he has done is ask for us to bring in guys to win, we have done that. If he wants to leave, **** him, see ya later.

Hamas, where you at?? Is there an echo in here. Eat my ass!!

I can see your argument, just in this specific case I disagree with it.

Yeah I know. Apparently KC_Connection and TLR are on the same brainwave there. There is no way you risk letting that runner die.