yeah right…

wainer is throwing tomorrow

at least this isn’t football

Anyone?

Hoping this one works…

kill me now

with 4 batters to get on before him.

i called the skip to cf, lugo to 2b move

just didn’t see tony not saving ank for a clutch pinch hit

Vomit break.

taking this series 1-1 to St. Louis? Especially when we have no clear 4th game starter and Pineiro has recently been Pinata?

There has been absolutely no execution by hitters in this game. Everyone has to contribute to win in the playoffs.

are on the mission to set up Pujols’ grand slam so Joe Torre can’t pussy out and pitch around him this time?

They are not coming until saturday.

I really hope I am going to get more than one Cards playoff game in HD this year.

I know I know, I should already had it, but I am a poor college kid.

Seriously.

I would have thrown at Furcal’s head a long long time ago

and makes him have to get 2 hits to make it count as one.

That must be it, because otherwise I would have heard of the first .600 hitter in baseball history.

is this 1999?

THOU SHALT NOT RUN ON YADI !!!

can’t hurt to post it twice since

No? seems like it.

has a pretty good move to 1st

makes games so much fun

see what happens when you don’t guess first pitch fastball?

For the kids….

when NO ONE in your pitching staff is able to get a single 1-2-3 inning… Especially, when the ace started…

Ump, you’re fired.

K ATG

jerks

6ly.

You can’t be at fault the ump’s failings. You threw two strikeouts in that at-bat.

Sincerely,
Everyone who knows anything about baseball.

you guys are such fail

Whew.

to be in this tv show.

really is an adventure isn’t he…

I’d say he’s an early favorite for most hated Cardinal 2010. Franklin is also right there.

seems awfully arrogant about his broker ripping him off.

When we were always coming back in the late innings to win?

Lets do that again.

Our are hitters even paying attention to the fucking game?

The Dodge Nitro commercial where the car exploded into the sky…saw it probably 200 times.

did Verducci only do homework on the Dodgers?

This is where you kill George Sherrill

set up the Holliday game tying HR!

g

Ryan actually takes a fastball right down the middle? It’s like they are goldfish not watching any previous pitches in an at-bat. I have never been this pessimistic in my life.

of .119 against Broxton or something along that parameter… 4 out save seems smart…

And he’s not even fat really, just really, really wide. He looks weird to me.

lidge style

Make it happen.

from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Ozzy…

Why does it always seem like national announcers are against the Cardinals?

This team deserves to lose.

that does it, game over. If Waino sucks tomorrow, might as well be series over

When discussing league differences between AL and NL. This originally was “haha, Prince Fielder outperformed Mark Teixeira” and it turned into something much more. He argued that all the players I talk about sucked in the AL and magically turned brilliant in the weaker NL.

Here goes:

DeRosa and Lugo haven’t been any better coming to the cardinals than they were with their respective AL teams. Lugo was hitting over .300 in Boston. Problem was his defense, which is awful at SS. DeRosa hasn’t hit at all in StL, other than hitting a handful of HR right when he came over. Holliday was on a hot streak in the AL when he came over (had hit over .400 the 2 weeks prior to arriving in StL), so we’ll never know what would’ve happened had he stayed in Oakland. I doubt his numbers would have been as high as they ended up in StL, but that is more of a product of what was around him after coming over. In Oakland, Adam freakin Kennedy finished with the highest OPS, then Holliday comes over to StL and hits behind the king of OPS.

Lest we forget that Teixeira himself was in the NL with the Braves a couple of years ago, and switching over to the mighty AL doesn’t seem to have had a negative impact on his numbers. Tex only hit 7 more HR in Atl in almost 200 AB’s. He also hit 70 points lower in Atl than he did in Ana.

How old was de la Rosa when the Royals gave up on him? Just another one of the great moves in a long line of a questionable GM if you ask me. Check out fangraphs.com for some advanced metrics on why he is so much more successful in colorado. He’s mixing his pitches better, throwing his slider over twice as much as he was with KC, his fastball is averaging 2 mph higher, his out of zone swing percentages are up, while his in zone swing percent is lower. You may argue this is due to facing lesser hitters. I’d say it has more to do with figuring out how to best use his stuff. Another stat you will see on fangraphs is FIP, which is like ERA adjusted to take out the difference between defenses behind every pitcher. Looks like de la rosa was a victim of shoddy defense in KC, with an FIP of 5.27, and this year he had an FIP of 3.91. His BABIP is only slightly lower, so you cant say that he has been overly lucky in Colorado. Sometimes players just need to get in the right situation to succeed.

It’s easy to look at a guy and say, “well, look at the success he’s having in the NL, must be a weaker league.” But, that is superficial. You have to look deeper into the numbers to see the whole picture. Jon Garland was a serviceable starter for the White Sox and pitched his way out of the Diamondbacks depleted rotation this year. However, if you look at the numbers, you’ll see that Garland has sucked for years, he’s just had a very good team playing behind him and covering up his suck.

Another thing that gets lost in the old “AL is better than NL” argument is the imbalance of teams. The NL has 2 more teams, which means that they have 10 more starters and 16 more starting position players. I guess it would be swing around to the NL if the 2 team difference meant the NL had Boston or New York caliber teams. Instead, they are Pittsburgh/washington caliber teams.

An area where the AL gets inflated is the presence of a stinking DH. Instead of the pitcher batting, you get some guy that’s only paid to hit that plays every day. The NL doesn’t have this luxury (thank God). Baseball was meant to be played fully. Where did they come up with this bs of 2 guys splitting the game? Instead of the strategy and having to actually manage the game, the AL manager just sticks his guys out there and you go. Baseball is much more pure whenever they have to take into account where the pitchers spot is in the lineup and weigh that into when to make a pitching change, who to double switch, and whether or not to leave the pitcher in to hit.

Point of the original post was, comparing apples to apples, I got better production out of Prince Fielder (my third round pick) than Drew did out of Teixeira (his first round pick). He accused me of being a babbling idiot for thinking Fielder was better, and the numbers support me. So, I guess I’m not such a babbling idiot now, am I?

Sorry this was so long, but it beats watching the crappy effort the Cardinals are putting together.

damn.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN200510120.shtml

that’s always scared me.

21 dodgers have reached

You’re making me miss Thompson

Seems like the icing on the cake

so stop making want to start hating you already

The game starts about 3 and a half hours earlier tomorrow night. So we don’t have to stay up until 2 AM to find out whether or not our season is over.

don’t know if you noticed but the closer in on deck.

The strike is your friend, Mitch.

while you’re over there.

8 walks
2 hit batsmen

he’s still the mvp

Pujols does squat with the bat but plays great defense…

how was THAT not a strike?

He has a great arm and I think he could be a great late inning relief guy.

show me that Broxton isn’t some scary invincible moster
put doubt in him for the rest of the series

October is when the checks are written, how big do you want you’res?

NELLY ON iTUNES

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