Roy Halladay pitches a no-hitter; Evan MacLane pitched for the Cardinals

:=8)

your post season game in 15 years….fans are excited, their stomachs are churning all day, butterflies are flying…..and after all that waiting….nothing, nil, zilch, notta….

The Reds haven’t been no hit since 1971, and the pick their first playoff game to do so…unbelieveable.

told you your balls were slick

Halladay was lights out yesterday and prophetjohn posted the spray chart link and it’s clear one ball was called a strike and four strikes were called balls. so who got screwed here?
tip your fuckin cap and deal with it idiots

here’s to two more shutouts from little Roy and Hamels

That they didn’t just maintain a quiet dignity about their historic defeat. You can think there are bad calls and be correct, there are bad/missed calls in every game. But in this situation, just take your lumps, congratulate the guy and get ready for the next game.

However, I do get the feeling that Halladay, as his career goes on, is achieving such a reputation for being a control artist that he’s getting an almost Glavine/Maddux-esque zone from some umpires. That PG he threw earlier this year was ridiculous; he should’ve walked about 3 or 4 batters with a fair zone.

or something.

My mom/sis and uncle/dad have a lot of explaining to do.

I would say the rivalry started this year. Usually the Reds are too irrelevant to be a rival. I’m pretty sure most teams in the NL Central look at the Cards as a rival, since we’ve had the most sustained success the past decade or so.

these are the same people that defend johnny cueto
i personally had no beef with RR until I heard some of the arguments in support of the ninja bullshit. makes me question the general amount of sound reasoning on your blog
as an outsider you can’t have a civil discussion on RR – very quickly someone’s always calling for a banhammer and insulting you for the mere reason you affiliate with another team

This would indicate that Cabrera is completely wrong.

that success does breed some animosity. We’re the most successful club in the NLC for the last decade, by some distance, and I’d imagine that every club in the division probably views us as their number one rivals, and perhaps most hated opponents. Us or the Cubs, at least.

or any other assholes for that matter? i really couldn’t give a flying fuck what other fans think about me. especially fans of a team who’s been dog shit for the better part of 20years.

oh boy, Goold.

I would rather leave Brendan at SS and look agressively for a 2B. Uribe or Hudson would be a nice fit there if an appropriate deal can be made. Or via the trade if it is one that doesn’t hurt our farm any further.

Jose’s got two rings. he’s got nothing to prove.

I agree about Bengie.

Then, I can rework the lyrics of the Boss’ “The Marlenas” into “Three Molinas.”

This needs to happen.

Newark.
poor Cardinaut. I suspect he ran afoul of the La Russa system.

the only news hit for Enunciate is this post.

seemed to have a reasonable approach at the plate and just enough pop that pitchers couldn’t just throw fastballs down the middle. He’s probably a pretty fungible type of player but dumping him for Boyer, and then cutting bait on Boyer so quickly was weird. Just one of the many baffling decisions the club’s made in the last couple of years – probably amounts to very little either way, but it’s an indication of a muddled mindset in the FO IMO.

But I hope the Cardinals at least listen. If somebody is willing to overpay, and we can fix problems at 2-3 other positions, WHILE getting back at least one cost controlled player, I think we have to at least listen.

Not saying I’m for or against moving him, just that he is not off limits.

1) Rasmus and Skip for Kimbrel, Prado, and another cost-controlled prospect.
2) Pick up Ankiel when Atlanta declines his $6M option and buys it out for $.5M instead
3) …..
4) Profit!

Though #1 might be a stretch… =)

a middling pitcher with only a couple of cost-controlled years likely isn’t getting it done and, in any case, the D’Backs seem to be in semi-rebuild mode so it’d have to be something from the major league team. Stephen Drew, perhaps? Still, an average SP and an average SS doesn’t seem a fantastic return for a guy with star potential, but I guess I’d consider that deal.

I think most of the signs point to him being a pretty bad GM. He’s had an amazing core to build with, plenty of money, and hasn’t made too many terrible moves, but overall I think he’s shown a tenuous grasp of player valuation, despite driving a decent bargain in trades.

H did. IIRC that was the crux of the matter.

There’s no rationale defense of the Howard deal, unless they somehow calculated that having him on the team sold enough jerseys/tickets etc to make the disparity between payroll and WAR irrelevant.

At this point, I just assume he’s playing a character like Christopher Walken’s from the SNL cowbell skit.

boras is moving in the wrong direction

except Werth is two years older. That has to mean he’ll get five years max. Plus no one likes that kind of a guy.

That doesn’t like unicorns, and shit rainbows like he does

I think he knows that this an area where he can get a little friction. The guy just breathes controversy. “let’s see what we can do to get the sheep unsettled and increase my readership.” He needs to be kicked in the nuts.

SBDLTTRT

That’s some heavy hitting reporting. It’s almost like teams want good players!

For the teams that wouldn’t be interested, I got the Rangers…..and that’s it. I thought maybe TB, but Upton has had his own spats.

Things that are really really obnoxious should be referred to as “Slaten-esque”.

For all his quirks, crankiness and incomprehensible attachment to older, lesser, potentially useless players, TLR has been one of the best managers in baseball. His performance last season was questionable, but I think he still has the potential to be a net positive if he’s able to maintain a working relationship with Colby.

From everything I’ve read, the veterans seem to still be on board with Tony’s philosophy so the FO wasn’t going to cashier him.

there are too many unknowns if tony doesn’t come back. what would happen with albert? who’s our next skipper?

i’m sick of all his antics like the rest of us, but he’s been very successful despite it. i’m starting to get a little weary of him and the clubhouse, because it sounds like things implode if they get bad – and it’s happened many times before (rolen, edmonds, colby, etc.)

Per Leach a couple days back. Hang on….here it is: link.

I suspect he won’t turn it down.

But since he is a known quantity, I think I would like to see him back. This year was awful, and criticism of him was warranted. Hell, he even turned my dad (a strong “managers don’t mean anything in baseball”-type of dude) against him. That being said, I think he took more criticism than he should have, AND who would replace him?

And it seems like the players are loyal to him. I know, I’ve said this before, and it is pretty much impossible to get a true gauge on this team’s players’ thoughts about him. If the players accept his quirks, and have faith in him…well, then that’s (just a bit) more important than what I think. Plus, Albert seems to love him, and if TLR says “This is my last run, one more season, this is it…” I can see our team going on a nice little “let’s send him out in style” run.

I dunno, Luhnow seemed high on him. he said he wasn’t sure why he didn’t get a shot.