but definitely picked the right weekend to miss a couple of ballgames. Jeebus, can they put Welley on the DL already for something? And for the love of GOB, can we get a bat up here that has some freakin potential? 7 MIFs is bad enough, but Stav too?

Rick Ankiel wasn’t a very good hitter when he left and his coming back isn’t going to help all that much vs the Cubs and Royals this coming week.

Carpenter returning and Wainwright’s new mechanics might keep us in 4 games but outside of that, the teams uncanny knack to score late and get back into games seems to be gone. Frustrating to watch bad baseball.

So, he won’t be pitching in a couple of years. I think that’s what you’re saying.

SO glad he’s not in the NL Central.

but John Miller just called Pablo Sandoval “Kung Fu Panda”. I have tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard.

Wow.

may be hitting better in May, but they are walking dramatically less. The two combined for 18 walks in April, they have 2 in May.

Putting Robinson in Ryan in the #1 and #2 spots in the lineup, when ZIPS rest of the season projections them to have a .292 OBP and .304 OBP respectively, is just insanity. I know that we are beat up, but that doesn’t mean that Tony is forced to play all of these scrubs. He just chooses to instead of bringing up Allen Craig or Jon Jay.

…and I think that at some point Carlos Beltran kicked Steve Phillips’ dog. I mean, this is kind of piling on the pile that was already piled up. I guess having a 6+ WAR player is a bad thing if they get struck out on the nastiest curveball of Waino’s life or if they sailed a cutoff man that one time.

and, left out of the above list, is the big guy. I don’t know his April/May splits (and I’m too lazy/ignorant to look them up), but they can’t be good.

Half the starting line-up being hurt at one time certainly doesn’t help, but the club’s had quite a bit of other breaks go against them too. Skip came within inches of tying up the game yesterday and Yadi missed by only a few feet in the ninth. We’ve given up tons of bleeders and bouncers while everything we hit up the middle seems to be caught.

I’m so tired of seeing Thurston swing on the first pitch every time (OK, OK, he actually worked two walks yesterday, so maybe he’s starting to get back on track..). The walk rate, as well as BABIP, has to come up some, and soon, or it’s going to be a looong summer.

To show up to see Wellemeyer pitching against a lefty with our B squad lineup.

The worst player of the day was Khalil Greene. His swings were horrible. They were not even fluid. Like he stopped half way but than said fuck it.

Outside of the Cards recent slump (which is bad enough), I’ve probably had the worst week of my life. It’s somewhat trivial, but devastating nonetheless.

I read your “post game” post and I laughed for the first time in a while.

Thanks.

Your friend.

Tackle Bos.

Wellemeyer has Flinstone’s Vitamins in his locker.

Tony is the Illuminati. This ploy of using relievers as starters and playing really, really shitty players is all a ploy to get himself elected GM of the team so that he can take the organization back to when players have lifetime contracts and pitchers throw complete games. He’d also like all the walls moved back 70 feet and ‘No Pepper’ signs hung about the backstop.

Albert, if you see Tony walking towards you with a firepoker….run!!!!

getting a huge Lexus ad as the site’s new background, or is that just me?

Shows what they know, I’m a CTS man myself.

That’s right, Prague. I have nothing else to add other than that it’s slightly odd for day games to be starting at like 10 PM and for me to come back from an entire Sunday of beer (which cost something like 5 dollars, gotta love that they aren’t on the Euro though dividing by 20 is surprisingly difficult) to a baseball starting at 2 AM. MLB.tv kicks ass.