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***Offical 2010 STL Cardinals Baseball Thread ***
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. |
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Bernie Bytes: Pujols-TLR, Freese, Double Steal, Jarmo By Bernie Miklasz Reading Time, 5 Minutes: Please excuse me for not entering an opinion in the national debate over the final episode of “Lost,” but we may have a a view on the final “24″ which airs tonight. Jack Bauer may have killed everyone on “Lost,” for all I know… Anyway… * There’s nothing wrong with a little tension between Tony La Russa and Albert Pujols. Actually, I think the manager probably scored a few points inside the clubhouse by standing up to Pujols. * But let’s not get carried away. The TLR-Pujols relationship is a positive one, and that bond will remain strong. Pujols has often described La Russa as father-like figure, and we’ve all had arguments with our Papies. * Pujols is stressed out because he’s having a bad month by his standards. And La Russa’s decision to have Ryan Ludwick make an unsuccessful steal attempt with Pujols up in the 8th inning Friday — didn’t make much sense. The Cardinals already were up by four runs. And had Ludwick been safe, chances are the Angels would have walked Pujols, anyway. * Sunday’s double steal in Sunday’s win over the Angels was one of the finest moments of the Cardinals’ season. Great call by La Russa, and Pujols (the lead runner) got enough of a jump to make it into third. Barely. But he got there, with Colby Rasmus trailing and moving into second to set things up for the game-tying two-run single by David Freese. * So why would La Russa take a risk in that situation? Answer: Angels reliever Fernando Rodney. Since the start of the 2008 season, when Rodney is pitching, teams have been 8 for 8 on steals against him. If you stretch it back to the start of the 2006 season, teams are 19 of 24 in steals against Rodney. Remember, Rodney pitched for Detroit for several seasons before coming to LA this season. La Russa is especially familiar with the Tigers because of his friendship with Tigers manager Jim Leyland. Good scouting and stats info were a big part of the Pujols-Raz double steal. * This month Pujols has a slugging percentage of .385. I looked up the monthly slugging percentages since Pujols came to the majors in 2001. His lowest monthly slugging percentage to this point was .460 in July 2001. (Pujols had a low slug in June 2006 but that doesn’t count because he was on the DL for half the month.) Pujols’ .256 batting average is his lowest monthly BA since that same July of 2001, when he hit .241.
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I didn't realize that we had beaten the Padres 11 out of the last 12 games.
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Waino is nails.
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I think I'm going to the game tomorrow.
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Damn it's gonna be Heath Bell vs Pujols in the 9th.
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I was exceptionally underwhelmed by Petco when I went there last month.
I heard all these things about how great the park was. Instead I was greeted with long lines for everything (because they don't have beer vendors in the crowd), an exceptionally 'raw' park with bad seats all over the place and an industrial/half-finished (read: half-assed) look. The only real charm was the facade of the building in LF and the flames coming from the top of the scoreboard. Oh yeah, and any game you watch that takes place there is likely going to be 1-0 or 2-1. Not because of great pitching, but because the damn ballpark kills anything hit with any authority because of weather, wind patterns and dimensions. It makes the games pretty boring when you don't even have to see great pitching and defense to get a low scoring ballgame. Mostly you just throw pitches high and down the middle so they'll hit the ball into CF where they'll never be able to get one out. The atmosphere on a Friday night for a first place club was stale and the most energy I saw was when the cheerleaders and mascot started shooting t-shirts and hot dogs into the RF seats (though the cannons were quite impressive). Honestly, I couldn't have been more disappointed.
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DJ, that's plain stupid.
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