Yeah, but apparently our offense only showed up for one of them. 23, 24 innings now, ONE ****ING RUN????? Christ.

He's way too valuable for the 4 spot.

We need to start Tyler Greene at 3b and keep Freese on the bench.

The moment we get a RISP, you pinch hit for whoever is batting, even Pujols. Let Freese take his crack at it and hope we can get a run. Then rely on a solo HR later and hope the pitching can hold up for a 2-1 win.

It's genius.

Hey, they scored two!

That's a 100% increase over what you'll give them credit for.

Granted, the 2nd was unearned and the first was because a Philly fan ran out on the field and rattled Hamels, but still...

This is some ugly baseball on our end.

I don't know. I think I've wasted enough of my day following this friggin turd.

What really pisses me off is that I'm going to have to listen to the damn East Coast heads yack about how the Phillies are clearly the class of the NL now.

Dammit, what the **** were these guys doing this week? That's 3 of the most listless, haphazard and uninspired games you will ever see consecutively. At no point after the first game of the series did I get the impression that anyone outside of David Freese, Adam Wainwright and Brady Penny gave a **** about winning a ballgame.

Men on 1st and 2nd, Holliday grounds to 2b.

So to recap

1st inning; man on 3rd -- Grounds to SS
4th inning; nobody on -- single to CF
5th inning; bases loaded -- K
7th inning; men on 1st and 2nd -- Grounds to 2b.

0/3 w/ RISP, 6 LOB, not a single one of those ABs would have produced a run w/ less than 2 outs. His lone offensive 'contribution' was a soft single to center whereupon he was immediately stranded at 1b.

Now that, kiddos, is the definition of hollow offense. The only thing to improve on it would be a solo HR in the 9th.

Though I'm kinda hoping that he can ground out with a runner on 1b to end the game. That way he will have hit for the mythical "LOB Cycle". W/ the runner at 3b for the triple, men on 1st and 2nd for the double, bases loaded for the GS. C'mon Shat, you can do it!

Matt Holiday has been a huge disapointment after his first 2 weeks in a Cardinals uniform.

Jon Jay getting in on the fun.

2 consecutive HBP -- Jay with the GIDP.

Way to make 'em pay for plunking our guys, Jay!! That oughta show 'em!

looks like the phils are gonna need to demolish a team other than the dodgers to reach the WSOP this year. i hope it is the Cards. go Cards!

They playin Hold em?

haha. whoops. i mean the other world series.

I was just hackin on ya, I'm a little butthurt about the way the Phils series played out, I tuned out of today's game when we had 2 on nobody out in the ****in first and couldn't score.

Carp, Waino and Garcia against Pitt, then a series at home against Astros....time to get back on track.

The Phillies ****ing own us, and there is no way we will ever beat them in a playoff series.

Injury to Roy...

Yeah, we don't seem to have much trouble beating shitty teams. :shake:

They showed a graphic the other night and Blanton, Moyer, and Kendrick have absolutely owned the Cards in thier careers. Getting shut down by Halladay is one thing, but those guys....

It is a little amusing how much trouble soft tossing leftys can give this team and this trend seems to have lasted through many roster overhauls and changes of hitting coaches.

welll we did own the Dodgers in the regular season and then got swept in the playoffs. If it happened to us, why can't we make it happen to them? October is a long way off.

Youare correct but it's only possible if they can get Holliday to pull his head out. I swear that ****in guy will hit .300 but he'll hit.078 with RISP. He'll end the season with 30 HR's and 28 of them will be solo shots.

Sure, we can't win a WS without Holliday hitting, not just because of his bat but teams just won't throw to Pujols either. You take Pujols and Holliday out we are done but so is every other team if you take out their #3 and #4 hitters. Holliday has a long history of hitting a baseball, he will come around. I don't think he has gotten fat and lazy with the contract. Everything I've read is that he is a hard worker in practice, takes extra practice alongside Pujols etc.

And we got swept in the playoffs because Matt Holliday couldn't make a catch that any Bantam League outfielder could.

And we didn't historically own the Dodgers save for the playoffs. That's a little different than our record against Philly the last 3+ years, where they consistently piss pound us every time we meet.

Like I said, I still hold a grudge from the playoffs. But, for better or worse he's wearing the birds on bat until he breaks down from age. We just have to hope he comes around. If nothing else, if his signing helps keep Pujols in a Cardinals uniform its money well spent, IMHO.

Very true, I would put Ricky Henderson in a Cards uni if it would help keep Albert around.

Nice slide Holliday you ****ING PIECE OF SHIT 4321

Didnt he play football in college? wellll he does have 3 hits tonight.

I haven't watched the whole game, but I'll go out on a limb here and guess none of them were associated with a run being scored.

****ing Motte :banghead:

That was awesome. Molina cleans up Motte's mess.

Yadi!

He's been the man tonight.

Wasn't pretty, but I'll take it. :thumb:

x2. Ugly W but still a W.

And I guess Holliday atoned for his PATHETIC run-eliminating pseudo-slide by getting the hit that ultimately became the winning run.

Guess I won't make any more predictions. The offense on this team worries me alot. They leave way too many men on base and rely on the long ball for much of their scoring. Guess they mirror their hitting coach. Cue DJ's left nut to come on here and berate me for McGwire's awsome .286 average with RISP or that he only struck out 20 percent of official at bats in those situations or his unmatched 6 100-RBI seasons (it was 7 btw).

We were able to get away with it last night against a poor Pirates team. It killed us against the Phillies and will do so in the playoffs if not fixed.

That was ****ing criminally stupid.

Have Holliday lead off the inning instead of with someone on, on which he has to leg it out, and then pull him once he gets OB.

Oh, Jesus ****ing Christ.

Nice sac, Ryan.

****ing kill yourself.

Our MI are a ****ing bag of dicks.

I wish we still had Todd and Perez if for nothing other than trade value. I'd love to be able to make a move for a guy like Dan Uggla, who should have a big Arb # coming up.

****, I'd love to make a move for Ty Wigginton at this point.

GOD ****!!

Now the douchetard hits Ludwick on the hand.

****.

It's clear that our issue is the hitters are expanding the strike zone. Even Pujols. You can't blame that on McGuire.

That pitch that Pujols K'd on was nasty. He generally presses in situations like this, though.

Our biggest problem isn't our hitters expanding the zone, it's the fact that we have 3 guaranteed outs every time pitchers go through the order, and it's nigh impossible to put together consistent offense like that.

Brendan Ryan is a defensive replacement masquerading as an everyday SS.

Skip Schumaker is a AAAA utility player.

Combine that with the fact that we have no threats from the bench, save for Felipe (and Stavinoha, I guess) and you have what you have.

This team cannot mount consistent offense until we get at least 1 WAR production from our middle infielders.

Ryan and Shu are not .190 hitters. They are hitting .190 because they are expanding their zones. Trying to get out of their slumps in one at bat.

No, but Ryan is a .700 OPS guy, and Skip is a .750 OPS guy, and that's just not good enough.

Ludwick
Pujols
holliday
Rasmus
Freese
Molina

Are as good as anyone else's in MLB. That right there should be good enough to get wins. Put our pitching in the mix.....We are underperforming. We can only get better. We still have the biggest lead in any division in the NL. We have the 2nd best record in the NL. We won't keep hitting like this.

Yep. Not having a catcher that is an offensive liability or a corner OF that can't hit for power makes it fine to not have much power from the middle infield. Still it will be nice to have lopez back.

Holliday sits and we put up 11 runs after not scoring at last night. Crazy.

Nice get back on track. If the entire lineup ever gets it together hitting wise it would be a slaughter.

We are going to win the Central division (barring multiple injuries) easily. Our hitters just need to be clicking in September/October. We have the starting pitching to hang with the Phillies and the Yankees in a playoff series. our defense is good enough to hang. It's the hitting that will make or break us in the playoffs.

Yea Holliday needs to earn his $ in the playoffs and then it will be worth it.If not it was a waste of $.

I'm glad we managed to salvage a little ****ing dignity today. What an awful road trip. Glad it's over.

We go back home with the best record in the NL for a 3 game series against the worst team in the NL. :thumb:

****ing Ryan. Goddamn you.

2 errors, one of which leads to 3 ****ing runs once Penny runs out of gas.

Make that four ****ing runs.

*facepalm*

It's always good when you can compliment your putrid hitting with awful, disinterested fielding.

Lopez needs to be starting for this team. Be it SS or 2b, I don't really care. But these two chuckleheads we have on the middle infield right now are not getting it done.

Somebody needs to remind Brendan Ryan that he still has an option left and if JJ Hardy can get a ticket to AAA, so can he.

Thank God after that inning Tony told Ryan to

http://www.mikey-san.net/static/bucket/ari-gtfo.gif

Dammit.

That AB was Reggie Sanders-esque.

Ludwick trying to kill the Asstros pitcher.

NTTAWWT :evil:

From the tenor of the last few posts, I'm glad I didn't tune in until just now.

You'd probably be on 55 down to St. Louis rip Ryan's heart out through his ass using a grappling hook.

Meh. I'm going to Missouri this weekend - it can wait until Friday. :fire:

Time for this overpaid choke artist **** to do something useful.

If Matt Holliday had a heart I'd take a shattered remnant of a maple bat and drive the mother****er right through it.

Thanks, Holliday. 4321

When Lopez gets back, they should send Stavinoah down.

Over the next 12 games, tell Greene, Lopez, Skip and Ryan that they'll get 6 starts each -- whoever earns a job can keep it.

You know Lopez will get one, he's easily the best IFer on the roster. Hopefully Ryan will wake the **** up, realize he's not some flake role-player anymore and start acting like it.

This 'free spirit' shit was fine when he was just a bench player, but he's the starting shortstop for a club with title aspirations. There's no more critical position in baseball and this flighty little **** needs to get that into that ADD addled brain of his.

I know Rasmus doesn't hit lefties, but he's our best defensive OF.

Hell, it's the clutch--Holliday doesn't hit anyone. Pull his bitch ass.

**** off, Motte.

God, I ****ing hate that ****.

God I hate that mother****er. :cuss:

Motte or Berkman?

Both. They both submarine our team on a regular basis.

Run into an AIDS tree, you mother****er.

Works for me. :grr:

Holliday is a ****ing reerun.

I'll forgive Motte.

He's actually looked pretty good when it matters. He's the anti-Holliday. Put him into a situation where the game's looking over, and he's probably going to pour gas on the fire.

Give him a game with a lead and he's actually be very good this year.

Sure, they were only down 1, but did anyone actually think the Cardinals were scoring in the 9th? That game was over once Brendan Ryan decided it was more important to look good than play well.

Motte, Holliday, and Ryan can all drown in a vat of syphilis pus.

WTF happened to Ryan and Shu? How can you fall that fast?

We should've just kept Duncan.

Holliday couldn't look more like Duncan in the field and at the plate if he tried.

'Big league.'

Skip got his money and knows he's his managers pet project. He can suck as much dick as he wants and he's still starting.

Ryan has been acting bulletproof all season. He survived Khalil Greene and doesn't think Flip will get a shot at his gig.

Ryan and Skip are what you get when career minor leaguers don't have someone pressing them. If they don't use every single bit of talent they have, they're just not major league caliber. Without someone pushing them, they don't give it their all and they'll play like minor leaguers.

They were never that ****ing good, anyway.