Game 55 Open Thread: June 5, 2007, 7:10 CDT

He did well in the minors as a starter, and struggled in the big leagues as only being a reliever. Maybe it's all about mindset with him . . . I have faith in you, buddy.

First Duncan's play, and no you could barely see where Jimmy's ball went.

Nice force out at third, eck. Lets get two more.

That's terrifying.

and the kelley stinnett ear officially begins.

hope wild turkey's going to be OK. it's scary getting hit in the head.

How in the world did he do so well in the AL?

3-0 Brewers.

let's go Albert! we need some runs!

Meanwhile, Hrabosky was talking about how Duncan understands the strike zone better than Dunn. Really? Dunn walks all the time, he just strikes out because he's got a massive swing.

Grrrr.

in no order

Willie Mcgee
Adam Harang
Tom Petty

ok so theres 3 for ya...

Ridiculous, even if he gets out of it.

ok TJ, get this lefty out and let the O go back to work.

nice K kid. lets go O. get that lead back!

Cincinnati's not a team you want to go down to the wire against. I know they're having some 8th inning trouble this season, but they're notorious for comeback wins.

AK's hitting .220 on june 5th, and so far has shown very few signs of being the hitting his AL numbers say he was. granted he did pretty well batting leadoff. but ever since then, he's completly fallen off the wagon again.

B.not catching that ball, and then not throwing out a guy who's running back to 3rd?

I blame him for both. just when he gets on my good side, he jumps right back into my dog house.

he's done 3 bad things this game, to 1 good thing.

by far Juan is the most fustrating guy in our line up.

"But I'm sure he gets really excited, you know, watching the young kids play... I bet he put vaseline on

paaaaauuuuuse

on his elbows, y'know, after that slide."

It seems like this happens to us all the time.

too bad wells, and kennedy overshadow that

Kind of improves the whole GD experience imho

you guys read this? He added more fuel to it today saying"they can send them back across the island"

I still fail to see how this is baseballs problem? African americans have a choice and they are either chosing other sports or none at all. Sure you look and think are we doing something wrong, but I don't see what they could possibly be doing to turn them away.

Not everyone cares for the sport..white, black,asian,whatever.

Reyes drives up overnight, gets 22 groundball outs in a complete game shutout... Duncan, TLR, and Reyes hold hands and sing cumbaya and everyone lives happily ever after. This is great!

is it just me, or does this game feel like is 5 hours long? man they are sure dragging this thing out.  

Nice hit, Gooch.  Keep earning your keep off the bench, I won't mind when you pinch hit.

What a stud.

However, its nights like this that guys like So Taguchi, A-Ron Miles, SnoCones, et al earn the free pass for a week or so, because they do the improbable or frankily, what we believe them incapable of doing.

More than likely, if this was the third inning and Gooch has that runner at 3rd, he never scores.  However, when it's in the 'clutch', it just becomes another notch in Cardinals lore.

This scrappy little team is actually sort of fun to watch! (When we're winning...)