Yeah, I hear you. They aren't playing Cardinal baseball this year.

I hate free swinging teams. Work the count, and make the pitcher throw you a strike.

Oh yea they seem to make noname guys look good. Took what 6 starts to beat Bud Norris who gets rocked by the rest of the
Leauge.

I turned the game off to play some NCAA 11 for a bit.

Why did TLR pull Waino with a shutout after 89 pitches?

Tough day to ask a guy to go much longer than that and he struggled a bit early on. I'm okay with giving him an easier day.

And Tyler Greene is absolutely my starting SS at this point.

Nice to see Joles lay off some borderline pitches.

Ha Ha. **** you, Weaver, you greedy ****.

Could really use a run here.

Ryan is such an atrocious hitter this year that LA is giving him the pitcher treatment.

How about we have a middle ground. Perhaps, rather than trying to placate the shitty Brendan Ryan, we give him "confidence" by letting him squeeze here.

That was an ugly swing that almost worked, shirt licker.

:clap:

He was in and out of trouble and it is freaking hot.

Great four pitch walk by Miller.

Bring Miller in to get the lefty and he ****ing walks him. Why was Franklinhousen not brought in?

Was that a leg cramp or a brain cramp? LMAO at swinging after 5 straight balls.

Agree on Greene.

Sure as shit, I have tickets to tomorrow's game.

Chance to sweep, and...

I have never seen anything like that. I don't see how he could pull a hammy as hot as it is so who knows.

I don't see how he check-swung at the first one and then swung at that one. It was as if he thought he was wearing a Royals jersey or something.

The Cards can't seem to do that. They have swept one team, the Braves early on. Just weird.

LMAO

That's my point.

I guess I have the four-game sweep history on my side, though.

That's 10-0 at Busch for AW.

Thanks, bullpen, for not ****ing this up.

You gotta love coming out of the break like this. Congrats, Cards fans.

So is tomorrow the day TLR sits half the ****ing lineup, or is it Monday?

I'm ****ed either way, because I have tickets to both.

Bad enough I get the shitty end of the rotation, plus God knows what Tony does with the lineup - even though they just came back from the break.

Have we even swept a team this year?

And not a Dosger fan to be found. Wonder why?;)

Hey I showed up here. Granted, I'm much MUCH more of a Royals fan, but I do like the Dodgers. So there. :D

A little help from the Rockies tonight would be nice.

4 game home sweep of the Braves early in the year.

Other than that, none that I can recall.

Volquez is looking fairly good in his first start back and his velocity is fine.

Yeah, steroids have that effect on people.

Alright, let's sweep these scumbags back to LA and keep the "doyer" fans in hiding.

What sad looking lineups for both teams JFC

Furcal - Lopez
Carrol - Jay
Ethier - Craig
Kemp - Holliday
DeWitt - Winn
Belliard - Schumaker
Paul - LaRue
Ellis - Suppan
Padilla - Ryan

Great, another one of those games where everyone gets the day off. Fortunately, Torre knows the art of the suck lineup as well.

Imagine that, shutout through 6. Holliday flies out with the bases loaded.

The problem started with Rasmus hacking wildly at 3 straight pitches and striking out from a guy that proceeded to walk 3 of the next 4 hitters.

Rasmus takes some of the most unprofessional ABs you'll ever see. It was a pathetic giveaway of an AB by a kid that thinks he's the greatest in the game.

I'm developing a pretty healthy personal disdain for Colby Rasmus.

We will trade you Jose Guillen straight up for Rasmus. :D

Well, they've cut it to 4-3 and have the leadoff man on in the 9th.

Walk off hit by Holliday. Awesome we actually swept a team, a good team. OTWP got to see a great game.

Thank you Cards!

Suck it, Dodger ****s.

Why no kciv or LA Chieffan??

Jon Jay is a major league player, there's just nothing else to it.

He very rarely has a bad AB.

Too bad he'll get sent down in favor of Winn when Ludwick and Stav are healthy.

I'll represent them. Congrats on a great series. I thought Broxton was going to have a heat stroke out there.

That was one of the worst lineups I can remember Tony actually putting on the field.:shake:

That fat ****'s implosion hurt my FBB team today, but fortunately my opponent had Bobby Jenks.

I've followed him really close over the last two years, and whenever he gets over 25 pitches, he's absolutely worthless.

:cuss: that. Even Tony can't deny he has earned a spot.

Heh, they didn't play any worse than his everyday lineup has played most of the year. The young guys are impressing.

Also anytime Suppan gives you 5 inning of 1 run ball you got be happy with it.

yeah, that Holliday guy sucks.:rolleyes:

Nice come from behind victory.

AP grounded out with the bases loaded in the 8th. Cut his ass too!

Huh? I wasn't ripping on Holliday.

Give me 6 innings of 4 runs and I'm happy with Suppan. 6 with just one run is awesome.

Can and will.

Just wait. Craig goes down when Stav is healthy (don't really have an issue with that, Stav has shown himself to be better off the bench but Craig is better with regular PT).

Jay goes down when Ludwick is healthy.

And we'll hear that he's being sent down to 'get regular playing time'...

I'd start him in CF and tell Rasmus to grow the !@#$ up.

ROFL

You have to be joking.

Permanently? Of course, Rasmus has 30/30 potential.

But for a couple of weeks to keep Rasmus in check, I'd absolutely do it.

Rasmus will sleepwalk through an entire series on occasion because he's just dead certain he's made it.

It wouldn't hurt to remind him that he's not a HOFer just yet and that production earns your playing time, not draft status.

It's a year long thing/ People are just too hard on Holliday. He is prodcuing like he has all his previous years. We are getting what we paid for. He hustles after every ball. He doesn't dog it on the base paths. He's signing autographs for kids at the ball park.

I hated the guy after the Playoffs last year. I'm still pissed off about that but he's a Cardinal with $120 million and a no trade clause, For better or worse we are stuck together for the next seven years. We should give the guy a fair chance.

Good Lord, how about we cut back on the hysteria.

This team should roll with Jay as the 4th OF, Winn as the 5th and send Stavinoha down.

Ride out Greene's hot streak at short, and use Ryan as a defensive replacement.

To be honest, I could give two shits whether or not we DFA Skip or Miles, or we could just pull a Joker and snap a pool cue in half and put it in front of them with the winner taking the last roster spot.

Oh, I was venting moreso on the lineup Tony put out there around him and not being surprised that they hadn't scored yet. I've always been a fan of the way Holliday plays the game. I figured he'd come around and he did.

Jesus. That was a weird day.

TLR trots out the AAA lineup.

Soup does a damn good job getting through 6.

Boggs brings his gas can in with him from the bullpen.

What was a pretty quickly played game starts to slows to a crawl.

Then thankfully, Joe Torre decides to try to get Broxton a 5 out save on a day where the heat index is 106. He looked like he was going to ****ing have a heart attack early in the 9th. 40+ pitches over 1.3 innings.


Great win. Hope this provides a bit of a spark for the 2nd half.

First place again.:clap:

We get Philly next. This isn't the same team we played last time. If we take these guys we may have turned a corner.

I'm hoping the Cubs-Phillies game goes 18 innings tonight - I have tickets for tomorrow as well.

:D

They should induct Joe Torre into the HOF at the same time they induct Steinbrenner.

Afterall, without Steinbrenner's wallet, Torre isn't even a .500 manager.

He really is one of the most overrated figures in all of baseball.

I can understand that he really wanted that win, but to expect Broxton to get a 5 out save when it feels like 106 outside, is unrealistic.

He looked exhausted after the first two pitches in the 9th. He probably threw 20-25 more after that. Think he finished with 44 pitches. That's ridiculous.

Torre wasn't GS's first choice either. In fact I think he wanted LaRussa. Imagine that.

kciv is busy bumping 4.5 year old threads about Kobe looking for new spank material.

thats a weasel thing to do. Come in ans talk trash when you are winning and then when you are getting swept you are no where to be found.:shake:

I liked Torre when he was playing for us. He was the scrappy player that I always liked.

You forget you're talking about Dodger fans. They probably tuned in around the 4th inning, turned it off after the 7th and went on to other things. 3/4ths of Southern California probably still thinks they won today. :shake:

Craig and Pujols with 850 feet worth of bombs.

ROFL ROFL ROFL

Damn, I missed em both....But, I see Schumaker just went deep, 7-4

That was a fun inning. :thumb:

It'd be nice to rip off a 7 game streak against two of the biggest scumbag fanbases in the NL.

ROFL...And Winn, FTW!!

Even Winn's getting in on the fun! :D

OTWP is getting to see some HR derby. Nice turn around the game started ugly.

Good comeback win with one of our shakier starters going. Well done. :thumb:

hey lets don't forget the Cubs this weekend too. :rolleyes:

The Dodgers and Philles are not the Royals and Astros etc. They are legitamate playoff contenders. We got an excellent chance at sweeping them now also.

That was a hell of a win.

They just kept coming. Chippin' away, chippin' away.

Then came the big bats.

The headlines will be the HRs, but the key plays in that game were the single runs of groundouts in the 1st and 2nd innings (huge to show the Phil's that you're going to keep fighting) and the double by Jay ahead of Pujols' HR.

That fundamental baseball was every bit as important as the HRs.