STL Cardinal Rants

oldtimefamilybaseball:

Thrill as he benches Colby Rasmus in favor of the fetid corpse of Randy Winn! Chill as he makes his third pitching change in the inning! Spill your beer as you fall asleep following the endless pitching changes that I just described!

(Source: oldtimefamilybaseball)

I admittedly buried my head in the sand the last few weeks of the season.  Now, it’s time to dive in to play-offs.  

Teams I will root for:

-Twins

-Rays

-Giants

Teams I will actively root against:

-Yankees (always)

-Reds (see below)

Sad thing is I’d probably be rooting for the Reds if the whole Phillips/Cueto debacle hadn’t happened.  I love my Scotty Rolen, but I can’t root for a team with two super douchebags.

As for the Braves, Phillies, and the Rangers (I seriously sat here for many minutes trying to figure out who won the AL West), I am completely ambivalent.

So long 2010 regular season, and mostly good riddance.  (I hope I can say the same for TLR!)

oldtimefamilybaseball:

Well, the Pirates didn’t win their sixth straight. But that would be akin to a catastrophic volcano going off in Maine, so no one should really be surprised.

Of course, Pujols made sure that the Cardinals would avoid the sweep. Pujols’ day: 3-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI. Pujols now has 41 home runs, the sixth time in his career that he has topped the 40 home run mark. The one quibble I have with Pujols is he’s not old enough to have been playing during my 10 year old heyday, so I never had the chance to pretend to be him during Little League practice. And, technically, that’s not really his fault.

This season must have been hard for Cardinals fans. Despite Albert Pujols dominating the game as usual, he got help with with solid years from Matt Holliday and Colby Rasmus. Which neglects the excellent pitching from Jaime Garcia, Adam Wainwright and Chris Carpenter, etc. etc. etc. Seriously, how does that not add up to a record better than 78-74?

(Source: oldtimefamilybaseball)

I don’t know about you, but I probably wouldn’t walk to get to the guy I traded away at home… Regardless of the situation or match up.

Whoever was announcing the game talked about how Ludwick kept his emotions “in check.”. I beg to differ. His emotions were f$&@ you guys! Enjoy October at home.

A sweep by the Cubs is demoralizing.  As if the end of this season already didn’t suck enough.

So let’s focus on the fact that Adam Wainwright has 18 wins and a .250 ERA.  And yet the Cardinals have lost a grand majority of his starts in the past month.  Adam should easily be at 20 wins, and should be hearing his name far more often linked to Cy Young.

But he’s not and he won’t.

I don’t even have the energy to rant anymore.

Farewell Cardinals season of 2010, you broke my heart.

So TLR says he’s under more scrutiny because he’s in the last year of his contract and his team is underachieving .

UM, DUH!!!

Isn’t that when you SHOULD be under more scrutiny?

pujolsmolinafan:

Oh no, dear, you’re not the only one :)

There is not one baseball game on in my parts.  :(  I choose to watch nothing over watching football.

(via buenowaino)

I <3 me some Mark Grace (probably the only long-time Cub I’ll ever say that about), and he is currently cracking me up in extra innings.

The dude he’s doing the game with, (OK Gracey just called him Josh Lewin?)  I want to punch that guy in the nose.  He sounds like a used car salesman doing a commercial.  Or an annoying little newsboy shouting “extry!  extry!”

Sidenote: Why did the Cardinals get Felipe Lopez?  Why?

Last night I turned on the game and it was 4-2, the Cardinals were winning.  I had the thought, maybe… maybe they can actually pull this off.

And almost immediately the Braves scored 5 runs.

I feel like two things are happening with the top 3 in the pitching rotation:

1) Burnout.  It’s been a long season and they’ve been carrying the team on their back the WHOLE time.

2) Trying TOO hard to be perfect, because they probably feel like they HAVE to be perfect in order to win a game.  And even sometimes when they’re perfect they can’t win.

I can’t blame this loss all on TLR, because if John Jay doesn’t flat out miss that ball in center, they could have won.  And yet I’m perplexed by a few of TLRs moves.  Nick Stavinoha batting in the 9th?  I just… I can’t…  

GAH.