***Official St. Louis Cardinals 2013 Postseason Thread***

['Hamas' Jenkins]

The Season thread has started crapping out. Post about the Birds here.

[Mi_chief_fan]

Originally Posted by Fruit Ninja

Good job fellas, you all came through when you had too. Good luck in the World Series, take out the AL scum! lol

Hopefully we can do it again next year!

And props to a great season by your Dodgers, thought they were dead & buried around Memorial Day.

I'd like a Dodger fans perspective: what was your thought on Mattingly letting Kershaw start the 5th inning? He'd just thrown 48 pitches, clearly looked done in the 5th.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Fruit Ninja

Good job fellas, you all came through when you had too. Good luck in the World Series, take out the AL scum! lol

Hopefully we can do it again next year!

With your $8 BILLION TV contract you should be relevant for a long time. It would be nice to meet in the playoffs every year. Get a good rivalry going.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Bill Parcells

Now Cardinals, do what is right for your country and take down the Taliban in the world series.

The Boston hate is strong in this one.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Upon arriving in KC last night I flipped over to 610. They carried a syndicated broadcast of a guy named Ben Maller (sp?), who seemed a combination of troll and coastal media douche. He went on a long rant about how hateable the Cardinals are, how Joe Kelly should have been the series MVP for dirtily hitting Hanley Ramirez, and how the happiest baseball fans in America outside of St. Louis were in Detroit and Boston, because the inferior team won and there is no way the Cardinals could beat either team.

I don't get the haters. 20 out of our 25 man playoff roster was developed or drafted by the Cardinals. We don't showboat. Play the game the right way. The team or players don't make arrogant comments after games, talk trash before the game. It has to be simple jealousy.

[2112]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

The Boston hate is strong in this one.

Mullah Omar, Taliban leader



Mike Napoli, Red Sox Taliban representative

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Bill Parcells

Mullah Omar, Taliban leader



Mike Napoli, Red Sox Taliban representative

We've already staked this one once.

[Frazod]

And I really don't get the idea of a bunch of multimillionaires parading around with bushy and/or ratty beards like they're backwoods trailer trash.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by frazod

And I really don't get the idea of a bunch of multimillionaires parading around with bushy and/or ratty beards like they're backwoods trailer trash.

me either.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

me either.

I'm growing in a sweet rat tail in the back!!

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

With your $8 BILLION TV contract you should be relevant for a long time. It would be nice to meet in the playoffs every year. Get a good rivalry going.

I don't remember the 40s but my dad does. Dodger fans were the ones who gave Stan "the Man" his nickname. We had a good race with them in 1941 when we won 97 games but they won 100 (in a 154 game season). In 1942 the Cardinals came out on top after Pete Reiser suffered a concussion in July and was off his game the rest of the season. Cardinals won 106 games that year, Brooklyn 104. In 1946 the Cardinals swept 2 games in a 3 game playoff (first ever) when they tied for the pennant. In 1947 the Dodgers finished first with the Cardinals second. In 1948 it was the Boston Braves who won despite a career year from Stan the Man (.376 BA, 39 HR, 131 RBI) when he missed the triple crown because a home run was wiped out by rain, and despite Harry Brecheen going 20-7 with a 2.24 ERA. In 1949 the Cardinals won 96 games and again finished second to the Dodgers.

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

I don't get the haters. 20 out of our 25 man playoff roster was developed or drafted by the Cardinals. We don't showboat. Play the game the right way. The team or players don't make arrogant comments after games, talk trash before the game. It has to be simple jealousy.

Haters gotta hate

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by frazod

We've already staked this one once.

We will be using the Carp gif over and over again in the next week.

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by Mi_chief_fan

And props to a great season by your Dodgers, thought they were dead & buried around Memorial Day.

I'd like a Dodger fans perspective: what was your thought on Mattingly letting Kershaw start the 5th inning? He'd just thrown 48 pitches, clearly looked done in the 5th.

IN the end that 5th inning didnt matter because they scored 0 runs. That was Kershaw's what 37th game pitched and that was his ONLY really bad outting all year. This was the most innings a pitcher has pitched for the Dodgers since 1988 and yep, that pitcher was "The Bulldog" Orel Hersheiser.

Outside of Crawford, Gonzalez and Puig, the Dodgers have 0 clutch hitting which i knew was going to be the death of this team. I been saying it the latter part of the season.

A few guys in our line up need to be replaced with hope and not nope. Dodgers were 29th in hitting for a HUGE Part of the season. Well Runs scored, we were top 5 in batting average, go figure! lol

[Miles]

Originally Posted by frazod

And I really don't get the idea of a bunch of multimillionaires parading around with bushy and/or ratty beards like they're backwoods trailer trash.

Seems to make sense in the context of baseball. It's kind of an exaggeration of what that 93' Phillies team that made it to the WS

[Miles]

Hopefully this wasn't in earlier comments. Watched the game on DVR last night because of working late.

If you look at Kershaw's game log 7 runs off him is really something. In 33 starts he gave up more than 3 runs 3 times with the most being 5 which was only once.