The pros and cons of following the Cardinals from a four year-old cell phone

for three of those years—so my upgrade sits unused. This is the year, though, I was waiting for a new form factor and here it is.

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2010/7/5/1553379/jason-motte-attack-of-crazies

Lohse will be part of the equation, not that that means we still shouldn’t be praying for rain on some days.

Then carp saturday and then either garcia or lohse sunday all will be on normal rest but knowing larussa he wll wanna give soup another start

We know Franklin doesn’t handle second innings very well, he is supposedly our “closer” and thus shouldn’t need more than the ninth to get the job done, so why are you playing for the 10th when you have the lead in the 9th?

Why decrease the outfield’s defense in a close game? Unless the manager really believes that the combination of Jay and Craig really provides an upgrade over Jay and Rasmus.

It’s part of the game, and we’re lucky enough to a) have two players better than Colby that won’t come out, and b) have some decent OF options that in some cases, aren’t a big step down from Raz.

I included Holliday in “a” above, but even he has come out in a double switch before.

A 3.73 FIP isn’t a bad thing. It’s not like we are looking at Brad Lidge here, Ryan Franklin was fairly lucky last year, in that he didn’t allow HR’s at a normal rate and his BABIP was a bit lower than average, and this year it happens to be evening out, and he is still a competent reliever.

You only remember the 3 blown saves more than the other 20 saves or so.

but hasn’t Franklin been better this year than he was in 2009? From what I recall last year was based on an unsustainable HR/FB rate, and a pretty-much-the-same-as-he’s-always-been K/BB ratio, albeit with that new cutter thrown in which I felt improved his stuff a bit. This year he’s walked fewer, hasn’t he, and been a bit better at getting groundballs?

Tony LaRussa himself, speaking to my class at SLU Law in 2002, told us specifically not to confuse the intelligence of a decision with its outcome. It was in the vein of “putting yourself in a position to succeed,” or the like.

Given some of the decisions we’ve seen, however, I think Tony may have forgotten his own advice.

had only one game when he went O’fer in the last week (6-20 in 5 starts). I think the thought of Miles on the team causes VEB to erase any evidence of his hits.

Ask Albert how many years he wants.

Reds will sign him.

I know you said “improving”. Boog has looked pretty damn good of late. At the plate and in the field. He would be the first to tell you he has sucked this year. And Rasmus hasn’t looked nearly as bad on flyballs in the second half as his did at the start, but when you look as bad as he did, anything is an improvement.

if you think we’re frustrated, those players are ten times worse. I don’t think we can blame the team for going through ten, twenty games at a time when they had series in-hand and didn’t close the deal. they’re not having any fun because they’re not winning consistently.

the other thing is, this whole thing where we speculate about how the team thinks is just that: speculation.

i personally find it embarrassing as a cards fan, but nada will change until tlr moves on

18-4 drumming we took by Houston

the cardinals should win the division by 10 games this year and push 95 wins?

the skill of coming back late in games and we don’t?

Let’s see, a complete game gives you 37 to add to the base 50, 17 more is 104. So he allowed 1 hit and walked 2?

When the hell is ATT going to put some more damn towers in? One reasonably close would be nice. I’ve had one for about 6 years and if I want to use it, I have to drive two miles down the road.

I’m an RSC in a st louis area COR store, i’m actually on my lunch now. And i as well cannot get U-verse, there DirecTv is still ok because I get my Packers on Sunday Ticket and the DSL is sweet but god i wish i had that 1.5 upload that the higher u-verse speeds get for my Xbox Live, that would be wesome

… nothing to see here folks.

he’s been a lot worse this year but that was coming down from an EXCELLENT 2009. I still think there’s a fair chance he’s worth that next year, and, frankly, we have ZERO inernal options with Norrick and MacLane basically sucking this year.

Carp, Garcia and Wainwright is about as tough as it gets.

But we can’t look at it like they’re must win… It would help us greatly if we win 2/3, but we’ll be in okay shape if we don’t

but if the cardinals had wanted to trade some C- relief prospect to the brewers for some veteran leadership in right field… I wouldn’t have complained.

what was it even like?

the last time they were on ESPN, they showed ESPN News instead of the game! they didn’t even show some other game, they just didn’t show the baseball game… and I think it was a Saturday night! as if there aren’t a lot of Cards fans in Chicago

Go Pujlliday!

He can NOT have AP!

what’s next for edmonds? the pirates or the ’stros?

for Votto, Phillips, Arthur Rhodes, Cueto, and Ramon Hernandez

i hate you, walt jocketty!

The Cubs were bad enough…..at least the Brewers weren’t in contention…..but the fucking Reds?!?!?!?!

from my limited knowledge of dickerson he is supposed to be a decent young player

 and play for the Pirates and ’Stros, so he can hit every team in the division?