"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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[VAChief]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The Phillies are a class organization, and I have a great deal of respect for how their players conduct themselves. They are worlds better than an arrogant group of scumbags like the Brewers.

However, I cannot describe how loathsome the Philly fans are with enough emphasis. Cheering Master Allen almost getting brained with a fastball? What type of insipid pile of rat shit does something like that?

I went to 2006 Opening Day Cards/Phillies game and I was curious to see in person whether there was any truth to the perceptions. Right field was full of A-holes who made not only baseball "stupid" comments, but just ragging to rag. In my section alone I saw two fans ejected. One guy's girlfriend unrelated to the ejections became upset, and he said "This is what we do here."

That said, the majority of the fans were families like everywhere else. The difference is the level of aholishness that permeates throughout the stands in about a 1/3 of each section. I walked around the stadium the last 3 innings and it wasn't much different anywhere...although certainly stronger in right field. Of course Rolen was ripping them a new one that game which had to sting their tender manginas.

[seclark]

philly fans suck.
~santa

[Swanman]

Sprinkle power!!!!!!!!

[lanzador]

St. Louis Cardinals
Arizona Fall League update

Peoria Javelinas 13, Salt River Saguaros 7

1B Matt Adams 1-for-5, 1 RBI, 1 R
SS Ryan Jackson 2-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
LHP Justin Wright 1 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 R, 1 K, 14 pitches - 11 strikes

[Chiefburger]

Originally Posted by NJChiefsFan

See my biggest problem with them, and sadly South Jersey is basically Philly as well, is that the media claims they are "smart" fans. Booing every bad play is not being smart.

No but cheering every play does? You, the media and others here misrepresent the Philly sports fan because it's more convenient to think of them/us as the loud, crude bunch with a NY inferiority complex than as the passionate type who boo and cheer judiciously, and yes loudly. Helluva lot better than cheering blindly.

But then Phillie fans are at fault for generalizing Cards fans as the self-righteous, passionless type, so it's all good. Great series. Good luck. **** TLR.

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by Chiefburger

No but cheering every play does? You, the media and others here misrepresent the Philly sports fan because it's more convenient to think of them/us as the loud, crude bunch with a NY inferiority complex than as the passionate type who boo and cheer judiciously, and yes loudly. Helluva lot better than cheering blindly.

But then Phillie fans are at fault for generalizing Cards fans as the self-righteous, passionless type, so it's all good. Great series. Good luck. **** TLR.

You've got to be kidding, right? Cheering when Craig almost got his face taken off is just the action of a passionate fanbase? To quote the GQ article: "Over the years, Philadelphia fans have booed Santa Claus, their own star players and, most absurdly, the recipient of America's very first hand transplant, whose crime was dribbling in a ceremonial first pitch—thrown with his freshly transplanted hand. Boooo! Admittedly, there are some things fans have cheered. Like Michael Irvin's career-ending neck injury and a fan being tased on the outfield grass. Things reached their nadir last season, when Citizens Bank Park played host to arguably the most heinous incident in the history of sports: A drunken fan intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl."

And let us not forget battery night at the ballpark. Seriously, there is a reason the entire country thinks the Philly "fanbase" is a first rate collection of douchebags.

[Chiefburger]

Originally Posted by Third Eye

You've got to be kidding, right? Cheering when Craig almost got his face taken off is just the action of a passionate fanbase? To quote the GQ article: "Over the years, Philadelphia fans have booed Santa Claus, their own star players and, most absurdly, the recipient of America's very first hand transplant, whose crime was dribbling in a ceremonial first pitch—thrown with his freshly transplanted hand. Boooo! Admittedly, there are some things fans have cheered. Like Michael Irvin's career-ending neck injury and a fan being tased on the outfield grass. Things reached their nadir last season, when Citizens Bank Park played host to arguably the most heinous incident in the history of sports: A drunken fan intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl."

And let us not forget battery night at the ballpark. Seriously, there is a reason the entire country thinks the Philly "fanbase" is a first rate collection of douchebags.

When you're listening for boos, you'll hear them anywhere. The difference is they write about it in Philadelphia. And after more than 50 years, if you don't know the reason why they booed Santa, then eff you for your ignorance and laziness. And seriously, you can't complain about the Craig pitch without sounding like a pussy; it's baseball, pure and simple. The pitcher was moving him off the plate and fans EVERYWHERE respond to that with a cheer. So you and the rest of the Cards fans need to get off your soapbox and kiss the Phillies feet for just allowing you to have a postseason to remember.

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by Chiefburger

When you're listening for boos, you'll hear them anywhere. The difference is they write about it in Philadelphia. And after more than 50 years, if you don't know the reason why they booed Santa, then eff you for your ignorance and laziness. And seriously, you can't complain about the Craig pitch without sounding like a pussy; it's baseball, pure and simple. The pitcher was moving him off the plate and fans EVERYWHERE respond to that with a cheer. So you and the rest of the Cards fans need to get off your soapbox and kiss the Phillies feet for just allowing you to have a postseason to remember.

Haha, and Cardinal fans are self-righteous right?

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Chiefburger

When you're listening for boos, you'll hear them anywhere. The difference is they write about it in Philadelphia. And after more than 50 years, if you don't know the reason why they booed Santa, then eff you for your ignorance and laziness. And seriously, you can't complain about the Craig pitch without sounding like a pussy; it's baseball, pure and simple. The pitcher was moving him off the plate and fans EVERYWHERE respond to that with a cheer. So you and the rest of the Cards fans need to get off your soapbox and kiss the Phillies feet for just allowing you to have a postseason to remember.

This has nothing to do with the Phillies as an organization, which is flush with class, professional players and management, and everything to do with a huge chunk of their fans, who are the largest group of miscreants in American sports.

I don't know why, but Philly sports seems to be an accretion disc for the most detestable scumbags to sully the inside of a sports venue.

If you need to have a jail and a courtroom in the bowels of your stadium, you've got a ****ing problem, and it's not the opposing fans pointing it out.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Torty needs to be photoshopped to replace the head.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

After his 1st doughNUT @BuschSquirrel kept coming back over & over for more & more. We discovered he was squirreling them away under a seat.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Fun game to go to yesterday. That place was bonkers.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by Chiefburger

When you're listening for boos, you'll hear them anywhere. The difference is they write about it in Philadelphia. And after more than 50 years, if you don't know the reason why they booed Santa, then eff you for your ignorance and laziness. And seriously, you can't complain about the Craig pitch without sounding like a pussy; it's baseball, pure and simple. The pitcher was moving him off the plate and fans EVERYWHERE respond to that with a cheer. So you and the rest of the Cards fans need to get off your soapbox and kiss the Phillies feet for just allowing you to have a postseason to remember.

From what I've heard of the history the Eagles had their own version of suck for luck going in and won a late game which cost them a chance at the # 1 which I believe was OJ. They just weren't feeling very Christmassy.

They booed Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton on a regular basis and had a special story the the NFL films group about their criminal justice court on site. The film also described a section in the old vet where even the cops wouldn't go. The bullpens were just switched so the Phillie fans can have greater fun shouting obscenities at the other team and tossing the occassional beer in there.