Viva El Birdos: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Sports blogs for fans, by fans.
Around SBN: Cal RB Jahvid Best Seriously Injured, Carted Off Field

Karma for Prior

Anyone remember when Mark Prior said "I dislike the Cardinals so much that I will not even root for them" when a Cardinals win over Houston would have helped the Cubs possibility of making the playoffs? Well, since then, he blew game 6 of the 2003 NLCS, gone on the DL about seven times, has gone 18-17 over 3 years, and has averaged just over 100 IP per year. Moral of the story: Root for the Cardinals.

0 recs  |  Comment 13 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Display:

Wow
and of course, he and wood combined for two wins last year
Redbirds Fun
The Kentucky Democrat
2006 WS for JB and DK57

by cardsfan84 on Apr 26, 2007 8:28 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Prior
Even as a hardcore cub hater, i can't say i like to see someone with that kind of talent lose his career, he probably would have been on a different team sooner or later, and then i could have enjoyed watching him.
Cardinals Jayhawks all the way.

by birdland on Apr 26, 2007 8:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Actually
What he said was " I can't root for the Cards', I hope they get their heads beat in." This prompted Rolen to respond in kind.
I am very sad for Prior, I always hoped Albert could do to him what he did to Lidge. Nothing good comes of wasted talent. Here's to Prior getting back so we can tag him for 5 and send him to an early shower again someday.
A walk is a waste of three pitches-Bob Gibson

by orlando card on Apr 26, 2007 10:33 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

The real moral
of the story should be "Take the high road; it'll get you farther."

by cardsrul on Apr 26, 2007 11:31 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

After the way...
he owned us in '03 I thought there was a Cub dynasty in the making. He was great for the rivalry. He gave the Cubbies some teeth. The injury rate for young pitchers is a tragedy for the game. More problemmatic than roids imo...
Acquire any Established Major League Outfielder!

by guayzimi on Apr 27, 2007 1:17 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Eh.
I can never take joy in career-ending injuries.  I'd rather have an enemy that I love to hate.

by Valatan on Apr 27, 2007 2:16 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Wood--
I feel bad for. He's a gamer who has struck a huge vein of bad luck. I always liked him even when he was tearing us a new one. How many of you saw his 20 strikeout game? That was a true masterpiece, the closest thing to Hoot I've seen since...well, Hoot (for just that one game, mind you). Next year, I wouldn't be against seeing him in middle relief in a Bird uni, and I still think he could eventually become a devastating closer. Regardless, if anybody might recover any good use out of Wood, it would be Dave Duncan. Prior, I couldn't care less. It is sad to see someone with that much talent brought low by the injury demons, but he just talked too much anti-Bird smack for me to wish him anything but a "franchise" used car lot.

by rockin redbird on Apr 27, 2007 3:30 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

if that's the moral of the mark prior story
then what's the moral of the rick ankiel story?

by lboros on Apr 27, 2007 8:42 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Never give up?
Or, don't give your husband, a major league catcher, a hunting knife right before the playoffs.
Cheers

by Alxfritz on Apr 27, 2007 8:57 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Rick Ankiel
The moral of the Rick Ankiel story is "Be so ridiculously talented that you can switch from a pitcher to a position player at the age of 25 and STILL be very useful to an organization"

by Fitz on Apr 27, 2007 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Real Moral of the Story
Don't hire an idiot manager that allows Prior to toss 120 pitches + in some games and then leaves him in during blow-out games to take further abuse.

Dusty Baker is at least partly responsible for this injury.

Piniella is taking it easy on Zambrano so far this year -- he's next to get hurt if the abuse continues, it's amazing he hasn't had arm woes as well...

A Cubs fan just visiting

by brianp88 on Apr 27, 2007 10:17 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Seriously guys....

The moral of the story is...don't shoot up roids!!!

Prior's been falling apart his whole career! I bet he shot up in college and he'll never be the same cause he quit and now his body is degenerating!

by onebigdummy on Apr 27, 2007 5:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

If Prior used in College
Then so did Anthony Reyes, in all likelihood.

I doubt either did and haven't ever heard anyone suggest they have evidence on either.

by liam on Apr 27, 2007 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to the Internet's #1 St. Louis Cardinals blog.
Start posting about the Cardinals »

Join SB Nation and dive into communities focused on all your favorite teams.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Stl_ia_card_45_-_dark_small
Jeff Pearlman Thinks Of Hair Clumps When He Thinks Of The Thief McGwire
Black-spider-monkey_small
Losing my religion (w/ baseball)

Recent FanPosts

375830-r1-025-11_011_small
Anybody read Bob Gibson's new book yet?
Flanders_small
Yadi2first
Small
40 Man Question..
Cathybachebay1_small
The current Busine$$ of Baseball...how long can it last?
Avatar_small
VEB CheBird T-Shirt for Sale - Red or Powder Blue, CLEARANCE
Stl_ia_card_45_-_dark_small
October Lore: One In A Million
St-louis-cardinals-script_small
A Team of Free Agents
St-louis-cardinals_small
Report: LaRussa Will Return

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >


Managers

Jack_benny_small DanUpBaby

Editors

Bender1_small azruavatar

Adam1_small chuckb

Trigun_001_small the red baron