Y'know what? You're right.

With Mozeliak (hereinafter "Moe" - nyuk nyuk nyuk) as the basis of comparison, anyone looks great.

Carl, Dayton, Herm....even G-Rob - they all look positively competent to me right now.

Starting to come together boys, starting to come together.

Garcia through 6.1:

59 pitches.

he's got some mean stuff today. my son and his wife are down there. i've got 4 grandkids here. 3 of them are napping w/grandma and one's been sitting behind me for the last hour grinding her teeth.

quite a game, though.
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89 pitches through 9 innings. 3 hit shutout. helluva game for garcia.
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Complete game shutout, 89 pitches. Guess that rest did him a world of good.

Just leaving the game. That was a blast. Garcia was nails.

If we make the playoffs thats the kind of performance combined with Carp and Waino that will make us hard to beat. 1 batter above the minimum, nobody got past first base, :clap:

But....this series showed again that against good/playoff teams we are nails. Playing down to other teams level is our issue and look whats coming up...a schedule of also rans....

The Cardinals had better figure out how to beat those bad teams consistently or we are not making the playoffs.

so far so good. Pujols with a 3 run bomb. Lohse looks like the Lohse of a couple of years ago.

Ah, Pittsburgh. The one shitty team we can actually beat. :D

We got 6 games left against them too, right?

Giants sweep the Reds and we got a race again.

I think we're screwed. I don't think we've got the guns to survive the one-two punch of losing Freese and Ludwick. And now Rasmus has a nagging injury? As we've seen all year, good pitching doesn't count for shit if you can't score any runs.

They've got the talent to do it easily.

But they don't have the stones.

They'll have another 3-5 game stretch where they nap through 4 losses against shitty teams and that'll be all she wrote. They'll kick a couple of good teams around, probably beat the Reds some more, but piss the season away by forgetting to show up against sub .500 teams.

It's a really easy team to hate.

If we make the playoffs our pithing stacks up against any teams pitching. And in the playoffs, almost every WS winner does it with pitching.

If we go 8-10 or so on this road trip...we may have learned how to beat bad teams.

Felipe Lopez is a worthless piece of shit.

It's been a while since I really hated a player wearing the birds on bat uniform but that damn lazy POS Lopez needs to be released tonight.:cuss:

This is a pennent raceand we are looking at the Reds ass. If you can't show some passion and effort right now....GTFO!

Terrible defense, terrible ABs, he's a ****ing blight anywhere you put him on the field or in the lineup.

Why the **** isn't Tyler Greene up?

Wainwright and Carpenter against the Pirates and Nats, and we are probably going to lose both games.

At least Tony pulled his ass off the field.

This is like saying, "At least the dry cleaners got the blood out of JFK's shirt".

Starting Lopez, Winn in place of Rasmus and Freese has killed us. Too many dead spots.

There's also the trading of Ludwick when you could have gotten Westbrook for nothing, and our refusal to give Craig and Greene ABs in favor of Lopez, Winn, Ryan and Schumaker.

It's a ****ing disgrace. This team has been mismanaged at every ****ing level.

The crack of the bat on that hanging curve from McLellan is the sound of the death knell for the 2010 Cardinals.

**** you, K-Mac, you worthless piece of shit.

**** you, Felipe Lopez

**** you Brendan Ryan

**** you Skip Schumaker

**** you Randy Winn

**** you Tony LaRussa

and octuple **** you John Mozeliak. I can't ****ing believe you're a MLB GM.

That was a ****ing piss rocket.

Holliday could not be more worthless in a high leverage situation. :facepalm:

:(

We are only 1 game out of the wild card. They still have 30+ games to get hot. playing like this......nada chance but still a lot of baseball to be played.

****.

Ryan Ludwick would have been nice in that AB.

Thank ****ing god.

Clutch hits from BRyan and Winn? WTF?

Hopefully Holliday is okay tho.

**** Franklin. Jesus we need a closer.

Un****ingbelievable.

Thank God we gave up Perez and Todd for the invaluable Mark DeRosa.

JESUS PISS! ****ING FRANKLIN CANT ****ING PITCH TWO ****ING INNINGS YOU DUMB ****ING MOTHER ****ER!

If anybody feels like murdering Mozeliak, I'll happily start up a collection for your legal defense fund.

Miles and Feliez too. Craig almost homes in extra too. They need to get this game in the W column. We can sweep this weekend if we win this and wear out their bullpen.

When has he ever? Thats on Tony

Out of the game.:shake:

That's who I was calling dumb...

GODDAMMIT!! He was all ****ing over that.

And that ****ing ball was roasted too. Christ.

Oh ****.

Oh my God.

Looks like he's going to stay in.

I don't know what kind of shape he'll be in an hour from now, though.

Seriously? Holliday takes one on the wrist, Franklin blows a lead after a 4 run 9th, and Pujols rolls his ankle in extras.

Fly ball or at the plate?

Ok, ok. Bullshit aside, this is ridiculously poor luck. :(

Did trading Ludwig completely kill the birds?

It appears to be a death sentence. After that trade, we've got one great hitter, one good hitter (both of whom may be injured), two streaky-at-best hitters, and everybody else is either injured or sucks.

Damn Pujols take it frikking easy jeezzz. We lose you we are defintely done this year.

That looked like a nasty sprain.

John Mozeliak has done a pretty good job the last two years.

Luke Gregerson for Khalil Greene

Giving up Mortenson (serviceable #5) and Peterson because he waited too long to trade for Holliday

Giving up Perez and Todd for DeRosa, who was worthless.

Ludwick for a player we could have gotten for no prospects whatsoever.

40 million to Kyle Lohse.

Extending Ryan Franklin for two years


He's so ****ing bad it defies explanation.

The good news? He's making us forget all about Haren for Mulder.

Your GM isn't that bad, compared to Jim Hendry, who has arguably fielded two terrible Cubs team in franchise history, with a 110+ million payroll (probably higher, but don't have the numbers).
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Yadi just swung at a ball 2 feet above the zone.

JD Drew for Waino...........just to clear the palette

When he inherited a team with two of the five best pitchers in the league, if not all of baseball, and the single best player in the game by a wide margin, not to mention the best defensive catcher, and the best pitching coach, it's pretty hard to do much worse than this.

We have three replacement level players in our everyday lineup. You can't do much worse than that as a GM.

No, but what does the Cubs have, outside of probably Aramis and possibly-to-be-a-star in Castro? Those are the only players I can think of as Zambrano isn't worth a shit, Soto, no idea what to expect out of him and most other players are either scrubs or unknowns. The only player that I like is Marmol who has a filthy unheard of K-9 ratio, other than your normal wildness. Impressive that their season was finished well before the ASB, considering they have all that money.
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Are you implying Aramis is good?

The Cubs have nothing, there's no doubt about that.

But Mozeliak inherited all of that, minus Holliday. He's done nothing but make the team worse since his arrival.

The mere state of not sucking as much as the Cubs doesn't exactly make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

When he isn't injured, yes.
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Alright, KnowMo.

What a ****ing catch.

About once a week, Ryan does something really spectacular.

Unfortunately, there's the other six days. :spock:

He has potential to be a gold glover but probably because he has ADD he can't seem to remain focused for every game but who cares......no friggin way do you play Lopez in front of him again this season.

Looking at Mozeliak's trades:

Edmonds for Freese: Win

Rolen for Glaus: If Rolen could have buried the hatchet with TLR, we'd probably already have 75 wins this year. Who could have predicted that bounceback, though? Still, a wash at best

Wallace, Mortensen, and Peterson for Holliday: A win overall, but a FAIL given that we could have just given up Wallace had we been sooner to the offer

Perez and Todd for DeRosa: I think this is somewhere in the EPIC FAIL thread

Gregerson for Greene: Also in the EPIC FAIL thread

Ludwick for Westbrook: Incomprehensibly stupid

Reyes for Perdomo: Both sides lost this trade.

He has drafted well, but near everything at the pro level has been a debacle.

LaRussa is so stupid.

You have a position player languishing on the ****ing bench in an RBI situation and two ****ing times in a row you are going to bat a ****ing pitcher in this spot.

Runner at second with no outs and we don't even try to play small ball, knowing that we have the really weak hitting Ryan and the 0-5 Jay up B2B. On top of that, we PH Waino instead of bringing in Brian Anderson.

Clean ****ing house and hire Oquendo. Pujols will stay if we hire him.

Just end it.

:facepalm:

I'm pretty sure this game has been a 4.5 hour microcosm of terminal cancer.

Sort of like the entire season. FML

Mercifully, it's over.

Usually I ignore responses like this, but you got my attention Buster Rabbi. July 5th, he was OPS'ing .539. In August, he was OPS'ing .753. It's obvious that his injury was the cause of a shitty performance when he came back from the DL.

So, be a good lad, and run along, and let us men have our discussions.
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That's one of the worst regular season games I've ever witnessed.

This was worse than the July 2008 collapse against the Pirates.

Fukudome is the sux version of a Ichrio-wannabe.

Piniella should had retired years ago.
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It's been interesting, not great baseball or fun...maybe like looking at a train wreck......:)

Not such a bad loss. I think if they would have rolled over and let Carp take the loss would have been much worse.

Hope Pujols ankle doesn't tighten up too much and Holliday's hand is okay.

Ramirez is an average third baseman, at best.

Mark Prior was also very good when healthy, but what does that get you?

Burn in Hell, John Mozeliak, Felipe Lopez, and Tony LaRussa.

What?

Holliday may be done for the year, Pujols is now severely banged up, we are 4 games back. We also trashed our bullpen and Garcia has struggled to go deep lately minus one start.

We blew a save after a great comeback and our offense shit down their legs whilst our manager completely quit trying to win.

okay, so I'm grasping at straws, shoot me. :rolleyes: