"Official" 2011 St. Louis Cardinals Thread

[BigRedChief]

This is so unreal. We were dead. No hope. A season over. Somehow, someway we find some team chemistry and squeak into the playoffs on the last day of the season.

Only to find us facing one of the best pitching staffs assembled in years with home field advantage. We somehow, someway find a way to beat the best pitcher in baseball on the road in an elimination game.

We have to go on the road and beat the team with the best home record in baseball. A team who mortgaged their future to make this run .We somehow, someway find a way to beat them on the road and make our 18th World series trip.

We take game 1, we give away game 2 and home field advantage. Albert goes off for probably the best performance in World Series history and we take game 3 easily. Games 4 & 5 our bats fall asleep, Phone gate happens and its not looking too good.

Game 6, one of the best baseball games of all time and it takes place in a season ending go home game. Cardinals are down 2 runs in their final chance on the season, twice. They are down to their final strike of the season, twice. They give up a 2 run homer in extra innings. In the bottom of the inning their final 3 batters are a combined 3-26 in the Playoffs and a pitcher because the bench is empty. Somehow, someway they get some runners on and the comeback player of the year drives in the tying run. Mr. Freese hits the walk off home run. We will see you tommorrow night.

Game 7, With our bulldog on the mound pitching on 3 days rest he is able to give us 6 good innings and get us to within 9 outs of our 11 World series title. Texas meltsdown, probably left over from last nights game and its over.

The underdog, come back team who had no business even being in the playoffs wins a World championship. They make movies about events like this in life. Events that you remember even if your not a fan of the sport or team for the rest of your life.

When it is your team.......Priceless


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[KC_Connection]

I can't get over how awesome this is. It's like the Yunel Escobar deal for the Jays all over again.

Thank you TLR, thank you!

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Two part question:

Who has gone on past their prime the longest:

A) Tony LaRussa
B) Evander Holyfield
C) Dick Enberg

Who had the biggest, most destructive, prolonged meltdown?

A) Tony LaRussa
B) Tony Montana
C) Caligula

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Someone please make a Downfall-parody of this ****ing abortion.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

This is such a horrible trade:

CARDINALS RECEIVE:

Edwin Jackson

Marc Rzepczinski (apprently also known as "Scrabble")

Octavio Dotel

Corey Patterson

BLUE JAYS RECEIVE:

Colby Rasmus

Trever Miller

Brian Tallet

P.J. Walters

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

This is such a horrible trade:

CARDINALS RECEIVE:

Edwin Jackson

Marc Rzepczinski (apprently also known as "Scrabble")

Octavio Dotel

Corey Patterson

BLUE JAYS RECEIVE:

Colby Rasmus

Trever Miller

Brian Tallet

P.J. Walters

Holy shit.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

This is such a horrible trade:

CARDINALS RECEIVE:

Edwin Jackson

Marc Rzepczinski (apprently also known as "Scrabble")

Octavio Dotel

Corey Patterson

BLUE JAYS RECEIVE:

Colby Rasmus

Trever Miller

Brian Tallet

P.J. Walters

Tallet is coming back? Nice.

The Cardinals should turn Rzep back into a starter. He was pretty good in a tough division in 2009 and 2010 in that role. It's the only way they'll be able to redeem some value on this one.

[Rams Fan]

This is ****ing horrible.

Patterson isn't going to replace Colby. At all.

There's no way in hell they keep Edwin and Dotel is just another bullpen arm. I want to kill Mozeliak.

[veist]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

This is ****ing horrible.

Patterson isn't going to replace Colby. At all.

There's no way in hell they keep Edwin and Dotel is just another bullpen arm. I want to kill Mozeliak.

You and me both but add TLR too.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by veist

You and me both but add TLR too.

I could give a rats ass about LaRussa.

Mozeliak didn't have to trade Colby. He traded him because he thought, '"Jon Jay is so ****ing awesome, let's put him in CF all day and get some relievers and an okay starter."

This improves the bullpen and rotation in the short term, but kills the OF in the long term.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Bull****. LaRussa is the one calling the shots. Canning Mozeliak is like killing Ahmadenijad. You're just killing a puppet while the real problem lies behind the throne.

They should both be drawn and quartered on the mound. Of course, if they were, I'd probably masturbate so hard that my wrist would break the speed of light, thus sending me into the past, forcing me to watch LaRussa and Mozeliak **** up the entire 2008-2011 term in perpetuity.

[raybec 4]

I can't believe with the deals and trades Mo and Tony have engineered recently that this abortion surprises anyone. Tony is the Casey Anthony of managers, takes a good team, smothers the shit out of it, and tosses what's left in the trash.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

You'd think after a while that people would recognize that the common denominator with all of this is Tony LaRussa.

He had a problem with Scott Rolen. Gone
He had a problem with Perez. Gone
He had a problem with Ryan. Gone
He had a problem with Rasmus. Gone

Maybe the real problem isn't with those players but the curmudgeonly prick who seems to alienate everyone on his team who isn't a replacement-level utility player.

You know what LaRussa is? He's a close-minded prick who hates everyone who isn't like him: a talentless ****wad without the tools to play and stick in the bigs. I think that's why he gravitates towards assbags like Miles and Schumaker, yet pisses off the Rolens and Rasmuses of the world. I think he resents them.

[VAChief]

And here I thought Bell would be a bad move...I wouldn't make that trade for Edwin Jackson without Colby. Dotel is 37 and 8 years ago I would have been pumped, same with with Patterson. How many teams getting rid of guys do they need as evidence that maybe we should shy away too? I like what I have read about the lefty "Scrabble", but not for this price.

The only upside is getting rid of Walters and Miller. A waste of roster space.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

You'd think after a while that people would recognize that the common denominator with all of this is Tony LaRussa.

He had a problem with Scott Rolen. Gone
He had a problem with Perez. Gone
He had a problem with Ryan. Gone
He had a problem with Rasmus. Gone

Maybe the real problem isn't with those players but the curmudgeonly prick who seems to alienate everyone on his team who isn't a replacement-level utility player.

You know what LaRussa is? He's a close-minded prick who hates everyone who isn't like him: a talentless ****wad without the tools to play and stick in the bigs. I think that's why he gravitates towards assbags like Miles and Schumaker, yet pisses off the Rolens and Rasmuses of the world. I think he resents them.

I don't remember him having a problem with Perez. Plus, the Rolen trade was pretty even.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

You'd think after a while that people would recognize that the common denominator with all of this is Tony LaRussa.

He had a problem with Scott Rolen. Gone
He had a problem with Perez. Gone
He had a problem with Ryan. Gone
He had a problem with Rasmus. Gone

Maybe the real problem isn't with those players but the curmudgeonly prick who seems to alienate everyone on his team who isn't a replacement-level utility player.

You know what LaRussa is? He's a close-minded prick who hates everyone who isn't like him: a talentless ****wad without the tools to play and stick in the bigs. I think that's why he gravitates towards assbags like Miles and Schumaker, yet pisses off the Rolens and Rasmuses of the world. I think he resents them.

This. I sure as hell hope Rasmus never ends up back in our division.