Carpenter was a carpenter

Is “It” not making the routine plays? Is “It” complaining about teammates errors? Is “It” smoking cigs in the clubhouse? Is “It” Strauss’ writing style? Whatever “It” is we have three more weeks of It and a double dip today.

I f Schumaker isn’t going to work out, we have way to many major league outfielders. Who would be good trade partners and who should we look to trade?

Of the top of my head, I could see San Fran, Atlanta, Minnesota, New York, Seattle….

I think we wait until the last possible second to see if this is going to work out and then try to trade a outfielder. That takes away some of your leverage but I think that is the only play here.

Carpenter is still and injury risk, but I’d be more worried about Wellenmeyer holding up after his huge increase in innings pitched last year. The Cardinals have a great record this spring so far, but there are very real questions left to be answered. On a related note, The Redbird Blog had his turn at the UCB (United Cardinal Bloggers) roundtable this week and asked for the group’s bold predictions for 2009.

My bold prediction was on Carpenter making 30 starts. Hopefull it’s not just wishfull thinking…

Skippy and Thurston single, Albert doubles, Freese SF. Nice start.

My daily Cardinals calender greeted me this morning with the following factoid:

The 1904 Cardinals hold the record for most complete games in the modern era (146 (!) our of 155), led by Jack Taylor’s 39 and Kid Nichols’ 35.

Of course, that was back before they put fluoride in the water.

Seriously, what the hell is with these guys? Are we a bunch of pussies?

appears to be doing ok thus far. not watching, but gameday says he had a play that deflected off the pitcher and he took part in a 5-4-3

The day I am off work and this game isn’t on MLB audio.

is having a fine spring. Imagine how good this team can be if he keeps this up.

was a fine addition!

Colby must’ve thrown someone out, while Wieters was up. The two best position player prospects on the field, I like this game already.

and have Skip spend a day just working on turning double plays and throwing the ball to Albert. That seems to be his biggest weakness now.

No Schumaker errors. Skip is waiting for everyone’s apology, now. ;-)

Could they knock off Barden and Rasmus?

Yes to knocking off Barden, No to knocking off Rasmus. I think Rasmus’s chances of staying with the club on opening day are purely contingent on Skip holding down second base.

in at shortstop. anybody know anything about him?
looks like he just made it to aa late last year

He just came in as DH

At least the spring training gameday updates in a way that makes Izzy-style saves less nerve-wracking.

look like Kenny Powers?

But still a win. And maybe giving up the runs was useful. It did put Chris in more of a “pressure save” situation…

I thought I might sign on here. I’m a stalwart over at the Broncos’ blog, Mile High Report, but I have grown attached to the Cards and El Hombre as a displaced Bronco fan in Missouri. I’m really more of a baseball fan than anything, and I love the atmosphere above all else; going to games is a thrill socially and even therapeutically for me, but watching on TV is sometimes a chore for me. For this reason, I’ve been to games in just about every city I’ve been to, and I sometimes consider myself equal parts Cardinal, Royal, Dodger, and Rocky fan.

Also, I love to play baseball video games from the 8-bit era. There is no substitute for RBI Baseball. It had Ozzie Smith in it.

I’ve been pretty down on baseball lately with all the steroid scandals, but I have a feeling that we’re watching something transcended in Albert Pujols. He might be the best baseball player ever, and he very well could be its savior. After reading the excellent SI article about him this week, I was kind of inspired to give baseball another shot. So, naturally, being the nerd that I am, the first thing that I did was check the SBN blog for my favorite team.

I’m really impressed. You guys certainly know a hundred times more than me about what’s going on down there. I couldn’t even tell you what the starting pitching rotation will be, so that might not be saying very much, but I definitely think that this is a place I could get used to. Maybe this year I’ll focus on baseball a little more than I usually do.

Nice.

I know it’s just spring training, small sample sizes, etc. But who would have guessed he and Carp would be neck-and-neck for most impressive starter so far (with Wainwright having the roughest go of it).

If he’s pitching pissed off over the perceived WBC snub, I hope Oquendo keeps rubbing it in his face all season long.

but the three swinging strikes to end the game certainly shows style.

Mr. Motte, this could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

by the breathlessly pro-dunc propaganda in the rotoworld feed, usually reading something like “duncan had 3 home runs and 52 RBI’s in today’s game, showing again that he is made of titanium and eats iron filings for breakfast, while colby rasmus, who is sluggging .242, is a rotten pantywaist who needs to renew his lease in memphis or maybe take advantage of the housing crash and buy real estate there.”

there’s been three of these in the last week. he had a good week, but come on.

If so, I’ll gladly swap a VHS copy (or DVD) of the game for the games on Sunday and Monday. They air on MLB Network and I know many of you don’t get that channel.