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Win or lose, some great fight from the home 9 tonight. |
Denny Reyes. LMAO.
Bullpen is clearly a strength for STL. |
Nick Stavinoah in to catch?!?!
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But more importantly - two words: Luis. Mendoza. I was at that game last night. The HR ball he threw to Varitek was the single worst pitch I've ever seen in a major league game. 84 mph, no movement, belt high and centered. It was so bad that I couldn't figure out if it was a hanging breaking ball or just a really bad fastball. |
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Anyway, enjoyable game.
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Oh well. Entertaining game, though.
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It's not my fault that my team has the worst GM in the game. What else can I say? And game over. Still a solid effort from STL. |
Jesus - good thing they had the dome closed.
Open that roof and that shot may have taken a plane down. Not a good pitch by McClellan. Not good at all. |
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He's a fine body to have, but not whom I want up in that particular situation. |
Good game. Stick a fork in Trevor Hoffman.
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I'll take a 4 out of 6 road trip against division rivals to start the season - plus a win in a game I attended. :thumb:
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Kyle: Get your ****ing shit together.
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Dude only Jesus Christ himself can explain what the heck Dayton Moore is doing.
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Mendoza is simply yet another symptom of the disease. And the beautiful thing is that we have a manager who can utilize his already paltry personnel to its zenith. And that's why Mendoza's first appearance was in a high-leverage situation. It all happens here, baby. |
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A man with 1.2 innings with an ERA over 27 actually managed to make his ERA go UP! Luis Mendoza is the embodiment how the failures of the Dayton Moore regime. He is the living, breathing personification of the Epic Fail that is DM. If McGwire and Bonds represent the steroid era, Mendoza and Farnsworth represent the Moore regime. |
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Mendoza, Farnsworth, and Jacobs should about do the trick. |
Good opening sets of series. It's frustrating that La Russa teams rarely sweep, he puts too much focus on winning the series and there's a letdown in the third game.
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Hopefully he'll snap out of it. |
Man, I'm going to have to go to opening day next year. Seems like a lot of fun.
New Hall of Famer Whitey Herzog will be honored, along with his 1985 Cardinals. The college of Cardinals will reconvene, wearing those snazzy red sports coats, and forming the most impressive and distinguished collection of living Hall of Famers of any franchise in baseball. We'll greet the magnificent Hall of Fame seven of Musial, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Schoendienst, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter and Herzog. |
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Brock, Gibby, Sutter, Red, Ozzie, Whitey and Stan The Man - all on one field.
So ****ing cool. |
Cool to see that Pat Perry took some time off from the No-Limit tables at the local casinos to join the festivities.
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Reyes had to be put in a F-350 dually for the motorcade.
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1-0 early.
Thanks, Albert. |
Motorcade: boring as hell.
Pujols: ****ing good. |
And that douche Freese hits into the double play. Nice to see he's picking up right where he left off in Milwaukee. 4321
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Good to see Ludwick wake up.
Oh, what have we here? Albert to bat with 2 men on, for the third time. |
5 pitch walk. LMAO
Damn, I gotta head to class. Stupid pitching change. |
Honestly, he should get the Bonds' treatment in most instances.
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Opening day win with Phat Albert and the gang doing it right. Words can not describe what Albert Pujols :) Wainwright was nails and Luddy goes 4 for 4. Welcome home Luddy. |
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One all time record fell today.... With 371 home runs in his career, Pujols eclipsed Eddie Mathews for the most home runs in the first 10 years of a career. Pujols, of course, is only seven games into the 10th year of his career, so he’ll have a chance to take the record to new horizons |
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Freese went 2-4 with a double, no errors and a nice play in foul territory.
Stick with him. |
San Diego 14, Atlanta 0.
No, that's not the Chargers over the Falcons, it's the Padres over the Braves. And the game's not over yet. The wife is pissed...... LMAO |
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Brad Penny on the hill next. They owe him a W after the way he got shafted last week.
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Not that the first 7 games necessarily predicts anything, but based on what we are seeing, the Cards could run and hide with the division this year. For me the key is the production they get out of the 3-5 starting rotation spots. So far so good there. I think whatever happens this year it will be an improvement over the cesspool that was the 5th starter spot last year.
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I've owned two jerseys with pro athletes name on them in my life. The two are Tony Gonzalez and Albert Pujols both are future Hall of Famers. I don't wear AP jersey too often, only for special events. I did wear AP jersey Friday night at a neighborhood party and people kept coming up to me wishing they had one :) What AP has done in his first 9 years is breath taking. What he could accomplish in his next 9 could be epic. AP is a treasure to watch and enjoy. |
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As if you needed any more reason to hate AJ Pierzynski.
8th inning of today's game and Ricky Romero is throwing a no-hitter for the Jays. He skips a ball to home plate that clearly misses Pierzynski by a good 6 inches. Pierzynski starts limping around and acting like it hit his knee. Ump gives him 1b, Alex Rios steps up and smokes one into the seats to break up the no-no. In a no-hitter situation, that's bush league soccer shit. I hope AJ gets ear-holed for it tomorrow. You owe your opponent more respect than that. |
7 living hall of famers. 04/13/2010http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/...er625apr13.jpg BY DAN O'NEILL ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The "Cardinal Way." You will hear about it a lot this summer, see it characterized in commercials and pasted on billboards. The baseball team in town has put forth the proposition there is such a thing, a discipline unlike any others, a method tried and true. Clever concept? Madison Avenue musings? Perhaps some of both. But when asked to explain 118 years of baseball, 17 pennants and 10 World Series titles, some of those who have participated suggest there is a discernible fingerprint, a Cardinal experience that is unparalleled and unmistakable.<SCRIPT language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>yld_mgr.place_ad_here("inlineframe1");</SCRIPT> "You're talking about a spirit," said Lou Brock, who found the spirit after coming from the Cubs to the Cardinals in 1964, then rode it all the way to Cooperstown. "When you hear 'Cardinal Way, ' you know full well you're talking about meeting the opponent eye to eye. "It started long before all of us. It was a scratchy type of baseball that doesn't know how to say no. It's a team that doesn't beat itself. Today, you see a scrappy player like Brendan Ryan and you say, 'Oh, that's a throwback to the old Cardinals teams. That's a dirty uniform, that's the 'Cardinal Way.' " The personality has manifested itself in different forms over the years, adapting to different eras and unique circumstances. From Gas House Gangs, to El Birdos, to Whiteyball to Tony La Russa's Hard Nine, the texture has evolved. CARDS BASICS Its creators included sage philosophers like Branch Rickey, Sam Breadon and Bing Devine. Its practitioners are colorful characters like Dizzy Dean and Pepper Martin, fierce competitors like Bob Gibson and Rogers Hornsby and wholesome heroes like Red Schoendienst. The "Cardinal Way" can be daring as Lou Brock, dazzling as Ozzie Smith and incomparable like Stan Musial. Long before he put his own signature on the franchise, New Athens native Whitey Herzog was well familiar with the "Cardinal Way." "I can remember when I signed as a high school player, in 1949 with the Yankees, I was 17 years old," Herzog said. "The three top organizations were the Dodgers, Cardinals and Yankees. They had 24 to 26 minor league teams then. "And those three organizations taught fundamentals better than everybody. ... I'll say this, and it's true. The guys who played for any of those three organizations were cockier than all the rest. It was different. If you played for the Cardinals, it meant something." Jack Clark recognized the essence shortly after he was traded from the San Francisco Giants to the Cardinals in February 1985. A feared equalizer in the middle of the lineup, the slugging Clark propelled the club to World Series appearances in 1985 and 1987. "The 'Cardinal Way' is respecting the game and the name on the front of the shirt, the history of the organization," Clark said. "Stan Musial is at the top of that and it filters down to all of the Hall of Famers and great players who have played here. It's the pride you to have to wear the uniform from the time you go to spring training, to represent it on the field and off the field, too." Clark readily acknowledged the Cardinals don't have a patent of pride; other organizations value the same. But not many have the same DNA. "It's just different here because of the fan base, the support," Clark said. "And when I got here we had a Hall of Fame announcer like Jack Buck, and we had an owner like Gussie Busch and they bring you into the family. ... You put it all together and it's like being in heaven — baseball heaven." Andy Van Slyke advanced through the organization to play four years in St. Louis before being traded to Pittsburgh in April 1987. The strong-armed outfielder knows for a fact there is a "Way." "For a very long time, the 'Cardinal Way' was the George Kissell way," Van Slyke said. "I'm not necessarily talking about winning all the time. I'm talking about always playing the right way, always running out balls, throwing to the right base, always knowing what you are doing before the ball is in play." A legendary "baseball man," Kissell passed away in October 2008. He was in the organization for 69 years, serving in various instructive roles. Those who learned from Kissell hold him in the highest regard, and those who didn't the highest respect. "In the process, you saw a lot of other teams respect the Cardinals because of how they played," Van Slyke added. "You talk to any player who has played for another organization and come over to St. Louis, or one who came up with the Cardinals and went elsewhere, and they really realize what that meant. "There was a certain pride when you put on the (Cardinals) uniform, and I think players took on the responsibility for themselves to not disgrace that uniform and play up to those standards. ... "It still exists and you know what, I think Tony La Russa has done a terrific job of continuing that tradition." Maybe the "Cardinal Way" is a slick marketing campaign, or maybe it's something more. If you were at opening day, saw the parade of legends and luminaries, saw the red-splashed stands and soaring spirits, you bet on the latter. |
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The Man doesn't look good at all. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the last time we see him in person.
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Tough SOB. |
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I sat next to Bill Dewitt at a Blues game back in October and flat out asked him why Stan didn't have a bigger, Ted Williams-like role in the festivities. |
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I can't wait to see the high lights of this on MLB tonight. Since MLB came on, I hardly watch ESPN during the summer. What is the "unwritten" code of baseball in this particular case ? I hope his peers in mlb dump all over him. |
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I love what "the ripper" speaks of in this article. Now he needs to go eat a salad ! |
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This is the first home opener I've missed at the new park, and I don't recall him ever getting out of the golf cart before. |
Damn it's fun being a Cardinals fan.
Molina throws one away for an unearned run in the first. Bottom of the inning - BB, 1b, 1b...game is tied. These guys just don't go away. They don't take bad ABs, they don't give away chances. (Though Holliday swung at a pitchers pitch on a hitters count for a DP). |
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If it was a 1-run game in August, perhaps it would've been acceptable. But this was a 4-run game in early April without divisional consequences. It was completely bush-league and completely within Pierzynski's character. That guy can kiss my ass. |
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