Cardinals "Official" 2011 St. Louis Cardinals Thread - Page 50

**BigRedChief** · 02:10 PM

This is so unreal. We were dead. No hope. A season over. Somehow, someway we find some team chemistry and squeak into the playoffs on the last day of the season.

Only to find us facing one of the best pitching staffs assembled in years with home field advantage. We somehow, someway find a way to beat the best pitcher in baseball on the road in an elimination game.

We have to go on the road and beat the team with the best home record in baseball. A team who mortgaged their future to make this run .We somehow, someway find a way to beat them on the road and make our 18th World series trip.

We take game 1, we give away game 2 and home field advantage. Albert goes off for probably the best performance in World Series history and we take game 3 easily. Games 4 & 5 our bats fall asleep, Phone gate happens and its not looking too good.

Game 6, one of the best baseball games of all time and it takes place in a season ending go home game. Cardinals are down 2 runs in their final chance on the season, twice. They are down to their final strike of the season, twice. They give up a 2 run homer in extra innings. In the bottom of the inning their final 3 batters are a combined 3-26 in the Playoffs and a pitcher because the bench is empty. Somehow, someway they get some runners on and the comeback player of the year drives in the tying run. Mr. Freese hits the walk off home run. We will see you tommorrow night.

Game 7, With our bulldog on the mound pitching on 3 days rest he is able to give us 6 good innings and get us to within 9 outs of our 11 World series title. Texas meltsdown, probably left over from last nights game and its over.

The underdog, come back team who had no business even being in the playoffs wins a World championship. They make movies about events like this in life. Events that you remember even if your not a fan of the sport or team for the rest of your life.

When it is your team.......Priceless

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Al Bundy · 04-10-2011, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

yeah right....you would swap clubs with ours right now and you know it. We have different expectation than the Royals. We expect to make the playoffs every year. Your club hopes once every ten years you may be in a place that if all the cards fall into place you might be able to compete for a playoff spot.

Not even close.... your team is on the downward trend. You have the Pujols thing coming up, if you sign him there goes all of the money. If you don't who do you have in your minors?

Rams Fan · 04-10-2011, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Prowl

Not even close.... your team is on the downward trend. You have the Pujols thing coming up, if you sign him there goes all of the money. If you don't who do you have in your minors?

The Cards have close to $58 mil. coming off the books after 2011 and 2012.

They'll still have $30-35 mil. to toy with.

Al Bundy · 04-10-2011, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Shatty Lite

The Cards have close $58 mil. coming off the books in the after 2011 and 2012.

They'll still have $30-35 mil. to toy with.

Ok... so 20 million for Pujols for 10 years. What do you have after that?

Rams Fan · 04-10-2011, 08:55 AM

I take that back, they have close to $60 mil. coming off the books after this season but that's not counting any arbitration eligible players.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...qg&output=html

Rams Fan · 04-10-2011, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Prowl

Ok... so 20 million for Pujols for 10 years. What do you have after that?

Chances are they can re-work Wainwright's option(it would have automatically been picked up if he didn't have Tommy John surgery this year) and there's a slight chance that they could decline Carp's option and re-work a new contract.
When Berkman leaves, they can platoon Craig/Jay/Chambers in RF. If Carp did leave, they could call up Miller. Franklin's a FA after this season, so we'll see if they choose to sign a FA or go with in house options like Sanchez, Motte or Boggs.

**BigRedChief** · 04-10-2011, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Prowl

Not even close.... your team is on the downward trend. You have the Pujols thing coming up, if you sign him there goes all of the money. If you don't who do you have in your minors?

Dude, no one in here considers the Royals a rival. We don't keep up with your club. But all you have is potential not production. you have a bunch of potentials like Alex Gordan that might or might not be successfully in the long term.

Are you really trying to say that you would rather take your total situation, money to spend, cureent players, farm system and future revenue etc over the Cardinals?

Frazod · 04-10-2011, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

yeah right....you would swap clubs with ours right now and you know it. We have different expectation than the Royals. We expect to make the playoffs every year. Your club hopes once every ten years you may be in a place that if all the cards fall into place you might be able to compete for a playoff spot.

I'd expect to find Amelia Earhart hanging out in a skybox with Jimmy Hoffa before I'd expect this bunch to make the playoffs.

Right now if there's a worse manager or front office than ours, I couldn't tell you who it is. The combination of LaRussa/Mozeliak is like Herm/Carl on steroids. We're about to piss away the best player of our lifetime, and beyond him there are maybe three or four people on the roster worth a shit, and one of them is out for the year. The farm system is in shambles. And for the ownership group to allow things to get this bad and stay this bad, you've got to wonder if they have what it takes to right the ship, or if they even care.

This a bad, bad team. A last place team. An inexcusable embarrassment. I'd be shocked if we finish with a better record than the Pirates, let alone the Royals.

**BigRedChief** · 04-10-2011, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by frazod

I'd expect to find Amelia Earhart hanging out in a skybox with Jimmy Hoffa before I'd expect this bunch to make the playoffs.

Right now if there's a worse manager or front office than ours, I couldn't tell you who it is. The combination of LaRussa/Mozeliak is like Herm/Carl on steroids. We're about to piss away the best player of our lifetime, and beyond him there are maybe three or four people on the roster worth a shit, and one of them is out for the year. The farm system is in shambles. And for the ownership group to allow things to get this bad and stay this bad, you've got to wonder if they have what it takes to right the ship, or if they even care.

This a bad, bad team. A last place team. An inexcusable embarrassment. I'd be shocked if we finish with a better record than the Pirates, let alone the Royals.

so, you going to become a Royals fan now?

But there are analogys between Marty and King Carl era at the end. This does feel like they tryed to patch and band aid it up for one last run of this era.

Frazod · 04-10-2011, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

so, you going to become a Royals fan now?

I've always liked the Royals. My favorite baseball player was, is and will always be George Brett. I just got tired of my Royals experience being sinking in a seat at Comiskey Park watching them get pummeled by mediocre White Sox teams year after year after year. They've been doing that for decades - the Cardinals have been doing for a couple of years.

But until the ship gets righted, and first and foremost that means running that useless drunken **** LaRussa out of town along with all his cronies, I'm on strike.

Frazod · 04-10-2011, 09:25 AM

And you can't patch a gushing arterial wound with a band-aid.

**BigRedChief** · 04-10-2011, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Prowl

Ok... so 20 million for Pujols for 10 years. What do you have after that?

We had a riun of 10 years with 7 playoff berths, 2 World Series appearances and 1 World Series win. The Royals will never, ever have a run like that.

Rams Fan · 04-10-2011, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

We had a riun of 10 years with 7 playoff berths, 2 World Series appearances and 1 World Series win. The Royals will never, ever have a run like that.

Um, the Royals had a similar 10 years to the Cardinals(6 playoff appearances in 10 years, 2 pennants and 1 World Series title).

Al Bundy · 04-10-2011, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

We had a riun of 10 years with 7 playoff berths, 2 World Series appearances and 1 World Series win. The Royals will never, ever have a run like that.

We had that run and the way our farm system is setting up we are geared for another run like that....

**OnTheWarpath15** · 04-10-2011, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Shatty Lite

Um, the Royals had a similar 10 years to the Cardinals(6 playoff appearances in 10 years, 2 pennants and 1 World Series title).

Yep.

Non-Royals fans forget about the success they had in the late 70's and early 80's.

Those almost-annual playoff matchups with the Yankees were epic.

Rams Fan · 04-10-2011, 10:43 AM

OTW58, do you have U-Verse?

They're blacking out the game today(I think) and 19 more.

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