stop me if you think that you've heard this one before

is there any doubt in anyone’s eye that playoff baseball is by far the greatest spectacle in all of professional sports?

Section 127

Baseball is a funny game.

either direct me to a link (or if its one of the daily threads give me the date) or fill me in on why Garza’s name has been in the playoff threads so much. Obviously he said something, but I’m curious what he said.

Also, if no trouble, Rosenthal also said something to gain more Card’s fan disgust.

like taking pleasure in a sunny October day, half the joy in this tightrope baseball is knowing that it will soon be gone. and yet, enjoying the sun’s warmth one day more makes that one day, that little warmth much sweeter

I was -11 in ‘64 so I can’t partake in that whole thing.

One can’t help the way they feel, of course, but I can’t understand the robot, and the other gentleman on the post-game posts saying they weren’t feeling too attached to this team. The spirit these guys are playing with, and the wins of course, has me feeling like I was at ten years in 1985, before I sat and watched in horror in that game 7.

Seriously, the last couple of months and this past series has my loving this team. It’s not likely I’ll see the Cards go through a similar process again. For them to not win the series this year… well, instead of my own ’64, it will be reduced to, “yeah, that was wild. Remember that game Carp threw against Halladay?”

It’s one of the reasons I still can’t get full on nostalgic for Albert’s Game 5 homer against Lidge in 2005, as awesome as that was.

from the third base side that zeroed in on Carp on the last play? He was taking these hesitating little steps waiting to delve into jubilation since Punto was practically torturing him by taking his time to get the ball to first since Howard crumpled (I do feel bad about that).

As bad a man as he is, it almost looked like a Little League World Series clip for a couple of seconds there.

I was thinking about that “maxim” yesterday, and more so today. The Phillies have better pitching than the Cards, in all sorts of very real ways. I wouldn’t even try to argue that. But it occurs to me that looking at it flatly evades the inherent relativity of which team has the “best pitching.”

Yesterday I was thinking that although Halladay is probably better than Carpenter by comparing careers and this year as well, didn’t Halladay have the tougher job since the Cards have a better offense than the Phils? Doesn’t a pitching staffs potential effectiveness rely on the level of competition they face. When judging which team in a playoff series has the better pitching, it would be cool if there were some sort of metric available to account for the two different offenses and arrive at a less Euclidean summation of which team has better pitching.

I guess I’m interested in hearing opinions on the question of whether or not we can judge who has the better pitching w/o factoring in who any given pitcher has to face in order to gain a win, or a low WHIP, or whatever. This is pretty clearly more true in a playoff series, at least in my mind.

No matter what, I would say that Bobby Cox would take exception to “best pitching wins.”

Had to come in to work this morning, but IT"S ALL GOOD. My job’s at a family-owned business where pretty much everyone’s from Philly. I’m having a hard time containing my glee, especially with the Philly sports talk radio currently playing in the office.

Sure sounds like they want to run Ryan Howard out of town on a rail. A pearl of wisdom overheard: “Howard didn’t even run it out!”

Here to history repeating itself. Also my friends and my playoff mustaches are working to perfection, with the help of a rally squirrel and Torty of course

    Crasnick
        In 6

    Caple
        In 6

    Bowden
        In 7

    Schoenfield
        In 7

    Kahrl
        In 7

    Karabell
        In 5

Link here is the the whole 1:28 video, but starting from 0:59 seconds was the best part.

On the diving play he made on Ruiz: “I had to make the throw of my life.”
Right at the end of the video: “It’s gonna be a happy flight.”

Also, Furc says “I wanna ‘wing’”, which is kind of cool mang.

more than a little bit of Whitey.

I mean actually Arlington but that’s Dallas’s baseball team

The Puma looks on benevolently, calm but for this craving for cooked sausages.

the Cardinals and all their animal friends from the 100 acre wood vs. Morgans Monsters

2.5?

I had to flip on my computer just to make sure last night wasn’t a drunken imagination of mine…holy fuck that was awesome.

It’s amazing on its own, but it basically says all that needs to be said about this series.

and still managed to catch the trash talking, arrogant Brewers who thought the Cards were done a long time ago.

“taking it easy” during the final week and “helping” the Cards make the playoffs instead of the Braves. I don’t think he should take any, but the worst case scenario came true.

that is all

Howard hitting that flyball on a 3-0 count. It was a “I can’t believe he just did that.” reaction. Furc’s catch, spin and throw like he was a dancing matador. Jay’s rundown in the 9th(I literally pounded my fist into my hand over that). And Punto, HFS, PUNTO! Punto saved our asses tonite, made some ridiculous plays. Yadi’s gundown and Carp’s laugh at the end. These are some visions I’ll not lose for a long time to come. Thank you for the ride, Cardinals! I look for more to come.

The only thing that might have made it better is if a couple of the guys had gone over to help Howard. I’m not saying that they should have, it just would’ve been a very sportsmanship-ly thing to do.