The New New Colby Rasmus

We’re not BCB

isn’t first-tardation is the post actually has something besides just “first” in my opinion.

I say ajabegg is in the clear.

Like Bacon?!?!?!?!?

I’m hoping if I say it three times, he might appear sometime in June…

there’s always better ways than this
our it department is also very quick to pull the trigger, mostly because they have an image they slap on the formatted machine and call it done.
what wash-u department did you work in?

hijack didn’t find anything at all btw

forcing the Hawaiian to forever languish in obscurity, even moreso?
Oh wait, that’s actually be really depressing.

So I am giving him credit.

Tony is just backing up the message of his hitting coach. Last year, Hal McRae preached first pitch aggressiveness, so Tony did too. That Tony let McRae go this year suggests that he wasn’t completely satisfied with McRae’s philosophy, and I think it’s clear that McGuire follows a different school of thought. So now Tony’s preaching what McGuire preaches.

I don’t think this makes him a hypocrite. I think it just shows an evolution in the organization.

the organizational hitting philosophy, we know Tony is one to protect his guys. Maybe in the past Tony offering up his defense of the cards being aggressive at the plate was his way of not throwing McRae under the bus for McRae’s philosophy of putting together an offensive attack.

Could it be that we are seeing a change in the teams hitting philosophy parceling itself right along with a change in the man who is responsible for putting this approach together. We constantly hear about how dedicated Duncan is to his craft, and how much time he spends with his pitchers in preparing them. And everything I have heard about Big Mac is that he is doing just the same and taking a very hands on approach, dedicating himself to putting together a plan.

It seems to me (based upon anecdotal comments from Tony on Hal) that Hal had quite a different approach and hung out in the background. We know that Colby apparently did not get along with Hal, I wonder how many others didn’t.

To be fair, Tony only encourages hitters to be aggressive late in games (meaning to be ready to jump on any first pitch strike.)

I really don’t have a problem with that once you have the starter out of the game.

well, Final Countdown was on the Rocky IV soundtrack. so listen to the montage while you train to vote for my song.

If I didn’t have access to the games, for some reason, that would really sting.
Being out of market is painful, then I wisened up and got Dish and the FS package :).

While I’m talking about this … I building a new condo and it looks as if the Association may not allow dishes. Are there any non-antennae-requiring prociders that carry the Fox Sports Channels? (ie, cable companies, AT&T U-verse)

With the emphasis on “if he continues to take walks like this.”

Sorry…“cowtinues.” ;)

His skillset makes him perfect for the #5/6 spot in the lineup.

as opposed to a nationally televised Fox Saturday Baseball broadcast? When MLB Extra Innings is completely blacked out and people can only watch 1 of the 3 games available?

I think this has more to do with Carp than it does with Jaime actually, but Tony isn’t going to say that.

was that an ankiel walkoff I saw on BBTN last evening?

I think Colby should stay slotted in the 5/6 hole in the order for just that reason, I want to keep the depth of this line-up intact 3-6/7. I think when Lopez plays he should be in the two hole and if not him I’d be interested in seeing what Freese can do there, that is if he can show an ability to be consistent.

I love being able to use his speed in this part of the lineup to leverage the other hitters’ strengths. Stealing to avoid a Yadi DP and hitting-and-running with Yadi at the plate will be a ton of fun to watch this summer and will help the team, IMO.

do we really want our only two left-handed bats (Colby and Schu) hitting back to back? That doesn’t seem like a smart plan to me.

Everyone in the world is uncomfortable with BR in 2 hole, but he’s worried about too many RH’ers in a row. He gets another lefty (switch) in the lineup and puts him right behind the other lefty.

But…… it’s TLR. Par for the course.

RR probably gets a merit badge

That has to tell us something about the pecking order I would think.

I also think that the context matters…like if there are 1 or 2 out and no one is on and we’re down near the bottom of the lineup. I mean, some of these dudes have to sort of understand that they’re unlikely to do a whole lot in a certain situation, so why not try to eat into a guy’s pitch count and make him work?

It pisses me off to no end when we haven’t gotten anything going in an inning and the batter hacks at the 1st pitch to give the opposing pitcher an easy inning.

TAKE MOAR PITCHES!

You’re talking about guys who are going to be challenged with first pitch fastballs more often. If they get a meaty fastball on the first pitch because the pitcher is trying to get strike one, they should be swinging at the damn thing and hitting it hard most of the time.

They shouldn’t be extending their strike zones early in the count — they should be focussed on getting one pitch and, if they get it, knocking the shit out of it.

has edmonds participated in shirt untucking yet?

I didn’t see a whole lot from Carp to suggest that he would be the Carp we know and love on Opening Day, and Carp pitched pretty well. I think there is a different mindset in Spring Training and that makes it all the more difficult to project a regular season performance off of a handful of starts in March.

no less.
does each commenter get a count on their ratings, because that would be an easy way to run up the thumbs-ups.

Of course he sits the only player who’s been hitting, albeit jam shots but hitting nonetheless.

seems counterproductive… We’ve already moved to many relievers. I’d be more excited to move Craig/Jones/Jay plus Hamilton and something else.

If Baltimore are out of it (very likely) by mid-June then I wonder if Mike Gonzalez might not be available, too. If he’s healthy, he’s pretty decent, and I doubt they’d want as much for him as the Rangers or Padres would want for their respective closers (I think one prospect plus a throw-in might get it done, instead of two ‘spects). He’s also probably a type B again next year if he stays healthy.

One of the Bluejays guys will probably be available, too, but I’m not sure I want any part of Gregg (unless it’s for next to nothing), Scott Downs is intriguing though.

Octavio Dotel will likely be another guy who’ll be available, but I reckon we could’ve just afforded him in the first place, so trading for him sounds a bit daft (and I’m not sure he’s a huge upgrade – I’d maybe be just as happy to go with Eduardo Sanchez and pray).

I guess Bell would be my favourite, as he’s a real upgrade from anything we have and is under control for one more year, but that also means he’ll probably cost a LOT of prospect quality to bring back. Gonzalez would be my no.2. I’d be happy to give up a couple of decent prospects for Bell, though, if we’re looking like a real contender. This is a year when I’d be happy to “go for it”, at least to some extent, because the division looks weak and Holliday/Pujols/Waino/Carp are all probably not going to get any better in future.

Jaime’s dad was on the internets.

well, good job twitter slapfights. you just toyed with a family’s emotions!

now, what rumor was VEB going to spread this time?

Plus, it’s Allen Craig!

These guys want to play 162 games per year and 9 innings a game, especially a worker like Ludwick. Sitting after a 13 hour turnaround wouldn’t be seen as a sign of respect simply because of “veteran status”.

That said, if you play for TLR and you aren’t Albert Pujols, you’re getting the occasional day off, so just plan on it.

 last year and having a cow. My reading of TLR’s comment was the same as yours.

pitch tough
excited to be a Cards fan
happy to be healthy

so that’s like a 3 Ryan Night?

a plug in for 7? That’s just lazy. Have you bitched yet?

Out of market archives available immediately after the game with NexDef plug-in / in-market archives available 90 minutes after the game

90 minutes today turned into 4.5 hours. 7pm before i could watch a game that finished at 2:30. the cool thing was that i tried to start it right after the game as the archive came up. it quickly told me that video wasn’t available and switched to radio feed. problem being that it was the live radio feed at the end of the game talking about arroyo’s gem and gomes’ home run. so it was pretty fucking evident how everything was going to end up with gomes facing motte in the ninth