Cardinals Vs. Phillies: Compare, Contrast, Conclude Game 5 of the NLDS
Alex Fritz runs through each and every patented SB Nation St. Louis prediction algorithm.
"Saint Louis: Jon Hamm, Scott Bakula, Mark Linn-Baker, Redd Foxx, Shelley Winters, Kevin Nealon, Vincent Price, Linda Blair, Kevin Kline, John Goodman, Bob Guillaume.
Philadelphia: Kevin Bacon, The Barrymores, Bill Cosby, Grace Kelly, Sly Stallone, Henry Gibson.
Conclusion: Saint Louis is the home of both Benson and Cousin Larry. Not to mention Dr Sam Beckett. I have never been prouder of this city.
Final Score: Cardinals 5, Phillies 3."
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Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
/whistles to myself
“Sure is quiet in here…”
/tumbleweed goes by.
"He probably misses his old glasses."
fucking squirrel has fucking papers
Kumar: I don't know man, I lose my touch, man.
Dignan: Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?
Shut the fuck up! JJray
~ Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too ~
Scapegoat identified.
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
Elation. Sadness. Mayhem. Champagne. Sleepless fury. Never been a night like it. It seems to me that Wednesday night isn’t what makes baseball great. It’s all the years you spend waiting for Wednesday night that makes baseball great. - Joe Posnanski
Better Three-Word Anagrams
Philadelphia versus Saint Louis:
Best from the Philly list: Plaid Heap Hill
Best from the Saint Louis list: A Lions Suit (perhaps a close second – Anus Soil It)
In terms of total 3 word possible anagrams, that’s a win for us:
Final Score: Cardinals 271, Phillies 150
Kumar: I don't know man, I lose my touch, man.
Dignan: Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?
by lightbulb on Oct 7, 2011 11:46 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Rooney thought it was bad that the Phils had some quote from Billy Bob in FNL the movie played on the Jumbotron
to start off the first game of the LDS. It does seem bad that they wouldn’t realize Billy Bob is a Cards fan.
that is pretty humorous
Johnny Gomes could not be reached for comment
"There is not a better feeling in the whole world than knowing that you are the best team in both leagues."- Bob Forsch on winning the 1982 World Series.
by MaytheForschbewithyou on Oct 7, 2011 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
kinda quiet in here......
Johnny Gomes could not be reached for comment
"There is not a better feeling in the whole world than knowing that you are the best team in both leagues."- Bob Forsch on winning the 1982 World Series.
by MaytheForschbewithyou on Oct 7, 2011 12:07 PM EDT reply actions
we're in the other thread.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
confused VEB is confused
I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to swing making it to game five next friday (if it happens).
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
or is it Detroit?
see, I’m really confused.
"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum
Simulation of game
… my simulation of today’s game has the two most likely final scores 3-2 and 2-1 Phillies winning. That is normal for in a game like this. Vegas has the Phillies chances of winning at 63.3% while the simulator has them only at 58.5%. A lot of east coast bettors and newbies betting with their heart or for the favorite. The Yankees game last night was a great template for how the Cardinals could win this game tonight. Get to Halladay early and hold em off. I have a few cents on the Cards tonight.
I just want to tell you good luck. We’re all counting on you. /Airplane
by Xeifrank on Oct 7, 2011 12:20 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Thanks X
We got to Halladay early in Game 1 and to the Phillies bullpen but still gave up 11 runs and lost that game. Our bullpen is better than their right now. In my mind it all comes down to whether or not Carp can keep it close and stay in the game as long as Halladay.
I think that's the only formula for winning this one
This isn’t the team from a few years back that lost most games they didn’t score first, but falling behind Halladay early is a recipe for disaster. Also, simply matching zeroes won’t help because Halladay could go 10+ innings if need be.
by olddomination on Oct 7, 2011 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks, but my most prescient post
Was in August when I declared the Brewers uncatchable, but the farther-ahead Braves the real target…
Wildcard, baby, wildcard.
Carpenter was transcendent. The Schumaker injury was ordained by the baseball gods.
by olddomination on Oct 8, 2011 1:47 AM EDT up reply actions
I give up.
"He probably misses his old glasses."
by Alxfritz on Oct 7, 2011 12:32 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Seriously?
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
Elation. Sadness. Mayhem. Champagne. Sleepless fury. Never been a night like it. It seems to me that Wednesday night isn’t what makes baseball great. It’s all the years you spend waiting for Wednesday night that makes baseball great. - Joe Posnanski
F'in Photoshop
The negative waves. Always with the negative waves...
Elation. Sadness. Mayhem. Champagne. Sleepless fury. Never been a night like it. It seems to me that Wednesday night isn’t what makes baseball great. It’s all the years you spend waiting for Wednesday night that makes baseball great. - Joe Posnanski
damn, they jumped all over that.
Johnny Gomes could not be reached for comment
"There is not a better feeling in the whole world than knowing that you are the best team in both leagues."- Bob Forsch on winning the 1982 World Series.
by MaytheForschbewithyou on Oct 7, 2011 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions
It is pretty slow in here? I’m to excited to work.
Piss off Tony, get shipped to Canada.
by beer me on Oct 7, 2011 12:35 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I appreciated the inclusion of Jay Farrar too
Kumar: I don't know man, I lose my touch, man.
Dignan: Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?
by lightbulb on Oct 7, 2011 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Jay Farrar > Jeff Tweedy...
…when Jay doesn’t have his head up his own ass (which, sadly, has been most of his post-Tupelo career). It’s okay to be liked, Jay. It’s okay to be popular for what you do.
With that said…walked by the open door of a bar the other afternoon, “Tear-Stained Eye” was playing from within. It took all my power not to turn a right angle into the establishment rather than heading back to my office.
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
Whoops. Didn't click the link
St. Louis is also the setting for some of the main scenes in a video game: Resistance 2 and 3.
by Houdinimachine on Oct 7, 2011 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions
How about John Melius, writer / director
He’s a St. Louis dude too. And he served as inspiration for the Walter Sobchak character in Big Libowski played by John Goodman (the St. Louis web is endless). And you gotta give Cardinal superfan Billy Bob Thorton a shout out too. He was raised in the Cardinal diaspora of Arkansas.
Not an actor, but...
Bob Gale, scriptwriter of Back to the Future (i.e. best 80s movie ever!) and its sequels, is, or at least was, a University City resident.
In fact, the entrance to Lyon Estates in BttF is modeled after the historic Lions of University City at Delmar Blvd. and Trinity Ave.
(Also, the Telltale Games "Back to the Future video game — written, in part, by Bob Gale, is coming out for Wii on the 25th. It looks pretty damn good.)
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
Didn't know that Duke
thanks for the STL trivia
No problem...
Apparently, he also wrote a film — again, with Robert Zemeckis — that takes place almost entirely in East St. Louis. It’s called "Trespass. Now THERE’S a sure-fire bar bet trivia question.
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
The last time I was a regular on VEB
was 2006. Perhaps I’m a good luck charm.
Twitter for even more of my crap.
by Big Blue Barrister on Oct 7, 2011 1:52 PM EDT reply actions
Kind of disappointed
that it’s so hard to find my old stuff.
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by Big Blue Barrister on Oct 7, 2011 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Brilliant
Except for not even deploying Chuck Berry in the music boxing match. Chuck Berry on his own >>>>> The Roots + Frankie Avalon + Jim Croce. IMO St. Louis clearly wins the music matchup. But then again if you had included Will Smith as an actor Philly beats us pretty handily there, so I guess it’s a wash.
Two more things Chris Carpenter and Roy Halladay have going for them
is that even with Brent Abernathy and a 21 YO pre contract Vernon Well they still aren’t aren’t worth Pedro Astacio and Jose Jimenez
Think how different Colorado might be if ownership hadn’t killed a deadline deal in 2000 with Toronto, in which the Rockies would have traded Pedro Astacio and Jose Jimenez for Brent Abernathy, Vernon Wells, Roy Halladay and Chris Carpenter.
~ Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too ~
wow, what a trade that would've been
by infallibleopiniongenerator on Oct 7, 2011 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Namely it would have meant not signing Mike Hampton or Denny Neagle
~ Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too ~
Holliday, Wells and Hawpe would have been a pretty nice OF in 05-09
~ Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too ~
yup, one of the more fascinating non-trades I've heard of
by infallibleopiniongenerator on Oct 7, 2011 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
If they had really gone into rebuild mode following that trade they could have
recieved some very nice pieces they could have moved Larry Walker, Jeff Cirillo, Jeff Hammonds was in the final year of his contract and was in the middle of a .335/.395/.529 campaign that year.
Of course if anything changes from the way things went the franchise never builds the latin program that brings them Jimenez, Chacin, Nicasio and Rosario, and if they are a decent team in 04 they never get a shot at Tulowitzki.
~ Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too ~
Cardinals, I'm proud of you.
I encourage you to continue to take quality at bats and play strong defense.
Carpenter. Yes. Good.
by infallibleopiniongenerator on Oct 7, 2011 3:44 PM EDT reply actions
this is not a drill
St. Louis Cardinals
StL Lineup at PHI (10/7) Game 5: Furcal, 6; Schumaker, 8; Pujols, 3; Berkman, 9; Holliday, 7; Molina, 2; Freese, 5; Punto, 4; Carpenter, 1.
yes. skip in center.
HAPPY FLIGHT!!!
Running list of Molina pick-offs | twit
hmmmm
I actually kind of like this.
by infallibleopiniongenerator on Oct 7, 2011 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
This is a joke, right?
Punto at 2nd, Skip in CF and no Theriot? Ryan has been killing the ball in this series.
Twitter for even more of my crap.
by Big Blue Barrister on Oct 7, 2011 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions
if by killing you mean getting on base via well placed weak grounders
then i totally agree
by all4tookie on Oct 7, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Why Skip instead of Jay?
What the hell?
Secretary of WAR and defense (Tyler Greene Fanclub). PUT TYLER ON THE GREENE.
Quick question for 2012......
Dotel and Ejax both Type B? Correct?
We would have to decline Dotel's option AND offer him arbitration however
I’m not sure we’ll do either of those things, and I’d really bet against the second should the first happen.
Pujols or not Pujols. That is the question.
Forgot about that......obviously his presence in the pen
has made a decent case to pick up that 3.5 million dollar option. They may want to put something together also for Motte given that he’s in ARB 1 after this season…..
If they do the first they would need have him agree to decline before offering him the
second, Like Miguel Olivo did with Toronto or Brad Hawpe did with TB
~ Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too ~
More 2012 (don't worry still focused on tonight)....
Seems to make some sense for MO to shop Westbrook in the off-season. The guy was extremely inconsistent, but if he thought Dickson/Lynn/Ottavino/somebody else could fill the 5….or wanted to go another route like EJAX, BUEHRLE (I know, doubtful)…he could shave 5 million. Somebody would pay Westbrook 3-5 mil on a 1 year deal without having to give up anything.
Lineups Thread
"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."
--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS
you gotta be kidding me
skipperdoodle in center?
i guess we’re lucky it s not ac
I may be in a rut, but at least I know where I'm going
...to DFA TLR
Not to get too far ahead of ourselves
But has anyone else thought about a Detroit-St. Louis rematch this year?
So says, Titus Pullo (formerly The Dude)
previously on VEB
http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2011/10/6/2472594/cardinals-vs-phillies-playoffs-score
http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2011/10/6/2474395/the-play-in-4-photos
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
and this I think
http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2011/10/6/2474508/we-are-beyond-1000-comments-overflow
would've.
"But listen, and understand: more Molinas are out there..." - THT
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