***Offical 2010 STL Cardinals Baseball Thread ***

[BigRedChief]

Holliday signs. The Deal is Done. $120 Million over 7 years.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...=.jsp&c_id=stl

Signed or controlled for the next 2 years

Shumaker 2B
Rasmus CF
Pujols 1B
Holliday LF
Ludwick RF
Molina C
Freese 3B
Ryan SS
And 2 CY Young caliber starting pitchers
Carp and Wainwright P

We get Lohse or Garcia to step up and be a reliable 3rd starter in the playoffs we can win a World Series with this line up.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

In fairness - there can't be a whole lot of teams that can say they've managed that.

That's incredible consistency and focus.

And the credit has to go to Tony.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

He'sa pretty intense guy. He doesn't show a lot out on the field but every once in a while you see that flash of competiveness.

One of my favorite Cardinal moments ever:

Zambrano plugs a couple of Cardinals batters, tempers are starting to flare. Sosa flies out to RF and on the way back to the dugout, Carpenter stops him at the 3rd base line and tells him, in no uncertain terms, that Zambrano will get his shit together or somebody (probably Sammy) is going to get lit up.

Sosa nods his head, goes back to the dugout, and Zambrano didn't come back inside for the rest of the night.

Of everyone on the pitching staff, Penny is the guy I could see as most likely to break my arm in a drunken brawl.

Carpenter, OTOH, is the guy I could see waiting until the next night and then killing me in my sleep.

That is one seriously intense MFer.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

And the credit has to go to Tony.

Much of the Cardinals regular season success can be attributed to Tony's driven attitude...

...As can many of their playoff failures.

There's a line between focused and brooding that LaRussa hasn't ever found. When the playoffs role around, that intensity because almost a gripping fear and you can see his players start to grip the bats too tightly and try to throw every pitch just a little harder.

There's a reason he won his only WS in St. Louis as a massive underdog.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

One of my favorite Cardinal moments ever:

Zambrano plugs a couple of Cardinals batters, tempers are starting to flare. Sosa flies out to RF and on the way back to the dugout, Carpenter stops him at the 3rd base line and tells him, in no uncertain terms, that Zambrano will get his shit together or somebody (probably Sammy) is going to get lit up.

Sosa nods his head, goes back to the dugout, and Zambrano didn't come back inside for the rest of the night.

Of everyone on the pitching staff, Penny is the guy I could see as most likely to break my arm in a drunken brawl.

Carpenter, OTOH, is the guy I could see waiting until the next night and then killing me in my sleep.

That is one seriously intense MFer.

Thats a pretty good analogy.

[Frazod]

I think there are two LaRussas. Seriously. One is the greatest manager baseball has ever seen. The other is a complete ****ing reerun. You just never see them both at the same time.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

One of my favorite Cardinal moments ever:

Zambrano plugs a couple of Cardinals batters, tempers are starting to flare. Sosa flies out to RF and on the way back to the dugout, Carpenter stops him at the 3rd base line and tells him, in no uncertain terms, that Zambrano will get his shit together or somebody (probably Sammy) is going to get lit up.

Sosa nods his head, goes back to the dugout, and Zambrano didn't come back inside for the rest of the night.

Of everyone on the pitching staff, Penny is the guy I could see as most likely to break my arm in a drunken brawl.

Carpenter, OTOH, is the guy I could see waiting until the next night and then killing me in my sleep.

That is one seriously intense MFer.

I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die? Why do they come to me to die?"

[DJ's left nut]

Edwin Jackson: "Dude, it was an accident..."




Chris Carpenter: "I don't give a ****!!!"

[Frazod]

Too bad we won't get a shot at Failmeyer during the SF series. He pitched, if you can call it that, tonight.

That guy's agent must be a magician.

[Chief Henry]

Originally Posted by frazod

Holy crap - if we win tonight, it will be the first time in team history they'll have won the first 5 series of the season.

You have to tip you cap to Mo and TLR for putting this team togeather and for the fans to show up and pay the ticket prices to pay for it all.

To do something no other Cardinal team has ever done is an accomplishment.
Lets see if we can continue this consistency through the rest of the 162 game schedule. I don't see why we can't when we send out
Carpenter - Wainwright - Penny and Garcia looking like a 15-20 game winner too.

I like our chances if we avoid injuries.

[Chief Henry]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

One of my favorite Cardinal moments ever:

Zambrano plugs a couple of Cardinals batters, tempers are starting to flare. Sosa flies out to RF and on the way back to the dugout, Carpenter stops him at the 3rd base line and tells him, in no uncertain terms, that Zambrano will get his shit together or somebody (probably Sammy) is going to get lit up.

Sosa nods his head, goes back to the dugout, and Zambrano didn't come back inside for the rest of the night.

Of everyone on the pitching staff, Penny is the guy I could see as most likely to break my arm in a drunken brawl.

Carpenter, OTOH, is the guy I could see waiting until the next night and then killing me in my sleep.

That is one seriously intense MFer.

I'd love to see a video of that convesation between Soso and Carpenter.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Chief Henry

I like our chances if we avoid injuries.

but thats true with every team, even the Yankees.

[McWickedson]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Ah hell, I don't even believe that. I hate Mark Mulder more than Herm Edwards and Carl Peterson combined. I hate that apathetic ****er so bad that I'd consider tearing my own leg off just to beat him with it. That sorry sonofabitch is the reason we didn't win 3 consecutive pennants (thanks for that game 6 performance in 2005, you gutless shithead).

The offense had a say in that as well. They didn't hit for crap against a pedestrian Astros team in '05.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by McMillan

The offense had a say in that as well. They didn't hit for crap against a pedestrian Astros team in '05.

They did enough to get it back to Busch Stadium for game 6 against Roy Oswalt. That was the game - Oswalt v. Mulder with everything on the line - that we traded Haren for.

And Mulder went out there throwing 88 mph cockshots with no movement. He gave up that jack to Jason Lane and you could see him just decide he was done pitching. From there he was just throwing slop up there and hoping the Astros would be kind enough to get themselves out.

When we needed him to come through and get us to a game 7, he spit the bit. And that's not even getting into game 2 where he yacked up our homefield advantage.

Mulder is a pussy.

[Hays]

If we could get Lohse on board with the rest of the starters the cards would be a very difficult team to hit against

The amazing thing is that some of the hitters are not doing well, if they start clicking then maybe all the runs won't come from the long ball.

[Chief Henry]

bump

Jamie Garcia for Rookie of the year.