The Nephilim Are On The Earth in These Days: Cliff Lee and a Chat Thread

The Cardinals did not spend eight million dollars on a bench player. I’m not saying they don’t have enough depth to give him time off, I’m just not confident in our manager’s ability to not put a guy he loves so very, very much in the lineup each and every day.

Finishes maybe 85-90 of them there. Becomes the primary weapon of the bench on the days he doesn’t start. Something like 450-500 PAs.

But that just a sense I get.

I hope Craig knocks Berkman out of the starting job with his hitting. Nothing against Lance, but I think Craig can do it. Berkman as DH against the AL and PH on a nightly basis would not be a bad deal.

Albert & his contract are not the problem. TLR’s assbackwards ways & Dewitt letting him do almost whatever he wants are the problem.

I don’t think we can have a $100 million payroll, sign Albert, and not significantly endanger the long-term prospects of this team

Bump payroll to 110-120, though, and maybe we can. So it really all depends on where payroll goes.

Btw, I think you have to lock Albert up. Regardless of how you feel now, you WILL be regretting it when he goes into the Hall of Fame as maybe one of best 5 players ever, and not in a Birds uniform. Maybe we will suck for a few years at the tail end of the contract. Small price to pay imo to be able to tell people that you watched that great of a player 162 times a year.

more of the latter after the boog trade. I must say though, that a lineup with Pujols, Holliday, and Berkman is potentially extremely ridiculous.

but there are tons of question marks about the team yet again. I could see the bullpen going either way (although I think it will actually be a strength as long as Franklin remains effective). The starting pitching is formidable, but this is the era of the pitcher to some extent; and you have a lot of teams with formidable pitching staffs these days. as for the hitting, if it’s not better next year we will be screwed, since we downgraded so much on defense. this could be alleviated by giving schumaker a short leash. perhaps t. greene would be a better option.

you have to buy a bunch of shit for people you don’t care about
and you get a lot of socks

But I find this comment extremely distasteful.

Sully the name of the little engine that could!

All that fiddling didn’t help him much, so get in there and hit already. If the gloves com lose and you haven’t even moved the bat then get another brand.

by not continuing to watch the cardinals?

Good?

The song I listed is easily their best, I think. The rest of their output has been very uneven, and a little disappointing, to be honest. Still, worth a listen, y’know?

I’ll crawl through the river of shit. Goold can join me whenever the P-D finally lets him out.

they used to have him on the Sports Reporters afternoon radio show every couple of weeks. He was gawdawful in that capacity too. I would literally cringe and/or change the station when he would start one of his rants.

I never had to knock on wood
But I know someone who has
Which makes me wonder if I could
It makes me wonder if I…

that’s my dead horse you’re beating

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t scare the hell out of me as well, but the thought of what a rebounding Berkman could offer to this lineup is enough to make this old baron giddy.

 but I think that works best if the team has tremendous minor league players developing . . . I don’t see that with the Cards. . . They seem content to rotate once-upon-a-time lions inside spinning wheels more or less configured to accommodate their gerbil size. . .

If you’re going to cripple your franchise, at least cripple it for the shortest amount of time possible. Just my opinion, though.

You can release him after eight years if he’s no damn good and gain the benefit of having deferred $40M

Please don’t say things like that. I just ate a sandwich.

The Utley/Holliday one is the only matchup in favour of the Phightin’s, and looking strictly from an offensive standpoint it’s pretty much a wash. (Taking out the positional aspect.) However, the Phillies’ margin players are significantly stronger. We don’t have a Victorino to add to that list, nor a Domonic Brown. (Who I’m very high on.)

Halladay, Hamels and Oswalt

By “suffered the same malaise” I meant their had a stretch where their offense just shut down for a stretch of about 15 games – Hallady lost a few in a row something like 1-0. I’m well aware they scored the second most runs in the NL last season.

That’s not so good, huh?

Obviously that adds up, but in individual games we’re not to far off.

They’d probably win 55-57 games out of 100 or something like that. Which means in a 7 game series, basically anything could happen

How about an exemption for legitimate mothers? We’ll just ban the ones whose email address on the account is IPFreely@dong.com.

hope so anyway

but westbrook will be nice to have around next year, unless carp is extended. i don’t see the option being picked up

i don’t know what this guy’s statement is based off of

Remember, we saw Descalso playing over there last season, even though he isn’t well suited for it, and the manager was impressed. Greene can play third, and Craig will obviously get first crack. If there’s a veteran pickup it’ll be more of the MI/utility role, and any significant time at third will probably go to one of the young guys. Hopefully, anyway. I think that would be a really good use of available resources.

I actually used the word pensioner a couple months back. No idea where the hell it came from . It’s like I’m channeling effete dead people.

it’s going on three years and i’ve had absolutely zero issues.

Wow, that sucks. From the look of it those would seem to be just fine. I would certainly defer to someone with hands-on experience, though.

I ask only because people use terms in very, very different ways. Anything other than multiple-brower-window net surfing and word processing will probably be EXTREMELY rare activities for this particular computer.