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I love Broxton.

But Skip was going to swing at whatever he threw up there until he got out. Schumaker at 0-2 is as sure an out as the game has.

Dude's a bull on the mound, but there are times when discretion is the better part of valor. Throwing Schumaker anything in the zone on 0-2 is a bad idea.

Expanding their strike zone again. :facepalm:

Given that only half the team shows up on any given day, I'm renaming Tony's mantra for this team Hard 4.5

Shit, we lost to the Royals.

Oh wait, I mean Dodgers.

Easy mistake. Blue hats, haven't won anything since the 80s.....

Play ball!!! Bottom of one. Kershaw K's 2 and walks one.... No score going to the bottom of 1.

Manny Being Manny 2-0

Manny goes yard! 2 to zip Dodgers in the first!

4-0. Blake Dewitt with 2 rbi's on that single.

Game was over when Winn misplayed a routine fly ball into a 2 out double, only to see Manny park the next one.

The Cardinals aren't scoring 3 runs (let alone 5) against Clayton Kershaw when he's pitching like this.

I'm just killing time until Futurama comes on at this point...

damn, 4-3 Ludwick or whatever his name is, rocked that hanging curveball

It's a game on now. Dodgers are lucky they have been able to keep Albert quiet this series. Talk about a ticking time bomb. Good baseball. To those who think I was a little cocky posting about the Dodgers, I apologize. I am actually just waiting for BigRedChief to surface. He made a few cocky statements and then questioned my baseball knowledge before the series started.

I guess his computer must have broke.

Carry on...enjoy the game

Hey!

Visual confirmation that John Goodman isn't dead!

So there's a bit of good news.

****!!

We should have given Ludwick Holliday's money and just stuffed Wallace's fat ass in left.

Damn, what a catch by Loney. Bastard. :cuss:

****ing Mulderday. God I hate that guy.

****.

Goddamn ground rule double.

Anyway, we got punked. Congratulations to all you rotten bastard Dodger fans. nlm

I love LA!!!!

Actually...that ground rule double sucked for the Cards. Albert was already scoring, but that's the way it goes.

Hope BRC gets his computer fixed.

Lucky mother****ers.

Tx frazod. The ground rule double did suck. Hell, that was probably a triple and a run scored. I knew they could not keep Albert down for the entire series.

Dude, I have a life. An especially busy one right now. I've no free time to get in some BS internet my dick is bigger than your dick conversation.

And ftr I never "questioned your baseball knowledge". I have no idea who you are and as far as I remember I've never has any interactions with you. So, I have no opinion on your baseball knowledge. But I defintely have formed some non-baseball opinions on you from your more recent posts in here.

Really...you might want to go back and read what was stated. I never said jack to you. You started flapping your gums about how I did not know shit about the way LaRussa manages....etc... That is the great thing about a forum like this. It is all in black and white and no I am not going to go back and pull it all up for your lazy ass.

Is your memory starting to come back now?????? Did you get drunk and pop off?

Hey bud...you opened the can. ****in' deal with it.

HOW SWEEP IT IS!

Thanks for coming back you super busy mother ****er.

Well, they tried really, really hard to lose tonight, but the Cardinals managed to not quite choke the game away and beat Arizona 5-2. The losing streak ends at 4.

In

In

Matt Holliday:

Still ****ing terrible.

That is all.

Did anyone else see Jeff Suppan in Cardinal red and think to themselves "Yeah, that seems about right..."

Soupy's a Redbird and by God, that's how it's supposed to be.

Welcome back, Soup.

(But please realize that I'm absolutely going to call you a mother****er the first time you come out there with an 88 mph fastball and no command in the zone. That's just how it works with you...)

I respect a man who can appreciate our sloppy seconds. :)

You drop 'em, we turn them into MVPs of the NLCS.

How's Rick Ankiel working out for y'all?

Damn, you're sure disrespecting the NL.

Luckily, Rick hurt his ankiel (literally), so the more productive, younger player has been playing. What can I tell you...we lack a prime minister of common sense because some of us were saying before the season that Maier should be the starter.

Yeah, the Ankiel signing was stupid from the jump.

As for Soup - he also outpitched Clemens (he wasn't so bad in the AL, IIRC) in game 7 of the 2004 NLCS to go with his 2006 hardware.

Maybe if you'd have ever put him in a game that mattered, you'd have seen the stones this guy has. Suppan has the guts of a burgler out there.

Nah, Suppan was always a solid starter. Not flashy, but a dude who would consistently grind out 200+. Those guys have real value, and he was underrated here.

Matt Holliday is a worthless, thieving one who sucks the penis.

I was at this game last night. Pretty boring game for most of the night. The nacho bar was better than the game.

It's the first time I've heard a Cardinal player booed at Bush since that reliver who's name we need not mention ever again.

I'm against booing a Cardinal player at Bush. We are suppose to be different than other teams. Players want to come here because if you are wearing the birds on bat you were one of us.

We Cardinal fans(mostly) booed for effort, not performance. You think Holliday is going to perform better because he was booed at home?

What I've seen from Holliday is he is showing maximum effort. He's running out routine grounders. by all reports he's taking extra batting practice and working hard on getting his swing back. He's chasing down foul balls that are obviously going to be foul. He gets a fly hit to him, he gets it and tosses it into the infield and hustles back to his position. He's talking to the other players in the dugout, encouraging his teammates. He's doing everything right except for executing in clutch situations. And that is what he is paid to do.

As I've said on here many times, I'll probably hold a grudge for a long time over the playoff game, not because he missed an easy fly ball but for his seeminfly lackadasial attitude afterwards. Eating sunflower seeds etc, They cut to Ryan in the dugout sitting there with his head in his hands, inconsulable. Thats the passion I like to see that makes me a fan of a player. But......

Holliday is wearing the birds on the bat, nothing can be done about the contract. We need him to produce, he's not. Fans rightfully so, get pissed. Trashing him on here is one thing But, booing your own player at Bush......Just not my style.

I don't give a good God **** about what Cardinal fans think they should do.

The guy cost us our best minor league prospect, a serviceable long man, and another farm hand, plus 7 years and 120 million dollars in money.

He's never hit for shit unless he was at Coors, and even then, when stricter testing came around, his numbers declined precipitously when he should have been entering his primes seasons.

The choking **** got our ass knocked out of the 2009 playoffs by misplaying a ball a bantam leaguer would catch 95% of the time.

I don't care how hard he tries.

He ****ing sucks, end of story. I want to nail him to the ****ing cross.

ahem......

For the second straight night, Holliday amassed three RBIs and six total bases, including a home run.

That's great. He's also still putting up the third best numbers of our outfielders.

He should be putting up splits of .320/400/540 with 30ish homers.

Coincidence?

I think not.

And IMO, fans have the right to boo underperforming players.

Now, if you're getting booed in STL, as a Cardinal, then you must be woefully underperforming - and Holliday was.

Looks like this incident woke him up a bit.

With the bases empty, that's about what he's doing.

The problem has been that he's pressing with runners on. I would expect him to eventually relax a bit and get past that.

Ultimately I think you'll see a .310/.375/.500 w/ 25 HRs season out of him. In other words, a pace about where you have listed above for the rest of the season, adjusted downward for his slow start.

If here's there for us in August, September and October, I'll let him slide on the first couple of months.

But he'd damn sure better not get racked by another routine fly.

I think it's all my fault. Lately, if I watch the game, they lose. If I don't, they win. :sulk:

You are claiming Holliday being booed has made him play better?

JFC that is dumb dumb dumb.

COLBY!!

4 homers in three days.

This is the kind of performance we paid for.

Keep it up you Lego Man looking mother****er.

Damn, Holliday is scorching.

Looking at the stats from last year it took him a while to get going as well.

1st 85 games .276 8 HR 43 RBI

Last 71 .357 16 HR 66 RBI

Most of that was after he moved out of the canyons of Oakland.

Not just last year. His career stats line up with what he has done this year. Slow start then heats up as the season goes along. The only difference is his BA with RISP is really bad compared to career numbers.

No way they were related. It's just so rare to see a current Cardinal player booed based on performance, that it got noticed and talked about in the media.

I agree, people have a right to boo. I'm just saying that we should stay the classiest fans in baseball and take the high road because it doesn't work anyway. Booing players doesn't make them play better.

Okay, I missed today's game, this loss was not my fault.

Players(including Albert) expanding their strike zones was the culpuirt today.

Looks like Duncan is working his magic mojo and getting something out of that dead turnip named Suppan.

Yeah 4.2 innings of complete shit.

Rare appearence in Toronto for the Cards annnd Molina just went deep.

Matt Holliday update:

Matt really hates baseballs right now and is letting them know it.

Would you prefer PJ Walters?

Suppan looked like one expects a 5th starter to look. He ran out of gas in the 5th because he hasn't been a starter for 6 weeks.

He'll keep us in more games than he doesn't. I'll take him over PJ Walters every time. For no cost, he'll do.

Damn. Holliday hits another HR. Must have gotten booed by OTWP again.

Eat a dick, Ryan. 4321

Okay, I'm feeling better now.

Seems like it's been weeks since I've seen them have an inning like this.

ROFL

Colby strikes again. 2 run shot, now 8-4. :rockon:

Hey DJ.

Petco Park has the 17th highest Park Factor when it comes to runs (out of 30), the Padres have the #4 overall home ERA, and the #1 road ERA.

Just thought I'd let you know.

I hope he is back now as even I was slowly starting on him the previous two weeks or so.

Pretty good pitchers duel going on tonight.

And like i said earlier, 1 year does not undo 7. But congrats, for the first year in Petco's history, it's finally playing neutral.

Petco is still a mediocre, unfinished ballpark with horrendous sightlines and concession lines.

Just thought you'd like to know.

How the heck does Jose Bautista jack 20 homers in less then half a season?

In 1994, Ken Griffey Jr. hit 30 by June 17.

In 2006, Albert Pujols hit 25 by the end of May.

For as nice as Holliday's hot streak has been, that's the hit I've been waiting for.

To rope a clutch single with a full count on a very difficult pitch to hit - very impressive.

Though had Gregg thrown that ball 5 feet short of the plate, I think he'd have still swung and missed at it. Sometimes he decided before the ball is released that he's going to swing at it.

I was there for last nights game. Probably go again tomorrow. Look for me, I'll be one of the 10 people there. Such an embarrassment.

OTWP boo him long distance? Hamas send him a threatning letter to cut off his gonads?ROFL

Well yeah, but Jose f'n Bautista isn't in the same galaxy as those guys.

Man its painful to see Waino have a horrible night. But, I guess Bob Gibson didn't win every game either.

We can't sweep a team for shit. Crazy, perfect chance and this is what happens.

The Cards are reportedly making serious inquiries on Cliff Lee. I imagine any trade talks will start with Shelby Miller.

LMAO LMAO LMAO

Well it wasn't pretty but it is a win.

The D-Backs are terrible.

You'll never see a team tank a game any worse than they just did.

So how do Cardinal fans feel about Albert Pujols turning 38 this year in American years?

We literally have nothing else in the farm system other than him. I can't imagine we'd get him.

And why would we trade him? He's going to replace Carpenter in the starting rotation in 2 years. He's our future. You thought the Haren trade bites us in the azz all the time. Trade Shelby and we won't even have an azz to bite after the first couple of years.

I watched them in person yesterday play the Rays in Tampa and they looked like chit and still won.