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The St. Louis Cardinals enter in first, are swept out to second

On August 8, 2010, the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in Cincinnati for a three-game series against the division-leading Reds. Playing the heel, Brandon Phillips polluted the blood in this matchup with an insulting characterization of the Redbirds. The series is perhaps best remembered for its opening brawl during which the cowardly Johnny Cueto used his spiked feet to kick Jason LaRue into retirement and Chris Carpenter in the back. In the wake of the brawl, the Cardinals did their talking on the field, sweeping the Reds to snare sole possession on the division's top spot. The Cardinals won each of three games with the respective scores of 8-4, 6-1, and 6-3, totaling a +13 run differential. It was a dominating performance. The series was seemingly a statement-making one by the then-defending division champs. But the Cards faded down the stretch, allowing the Reds to win the divisional crown by a comfortable five games.

Fast forward to this weekend, after an earlier series win in St. Louis for the Cardinals on Easter weekend. The first-place Cardinals rolled into Cincinnati an offensive juggernaut with a solid starting rotation if a shaky bullpen. The bullpen shook away a ninth-inning lead on Friday and eventually the game in a 6-5 loss. On Saturday, the Reds dominated 7-3. While Ardolis Chapman did everything he could to make today's game interesting, the Cardinals' attempt at a serious comeback was thwarted by Francisco Cordero, who induced a fielder's choice grounder from Matt Holliday before striking out Lance Berkman to end the game as a 9-7 Reds win. The Reds swept the Cardinals out of town and out of first place with a series run differential of +7. After the series's final out, Cordero and Cueto seemed to attempt to add insults to the injurious sweep, plunking of Pujols, and past kicks, by engaging in a WWE Raw-esque jawing as the broadcast faded to black. 

A sweep is never easy, especially against a primary competitor for the division crown, but it remains to be seen where this team now stands and how it will affect them going forward. Sweeps lend themselves exceptionally well to overreaction. We need only look to that point last August when the division seemed ours for the taking. Today, the sky is not falling, but with Cliff Lee and Roy Oswalt slated to face our Hometown Nine tomorrow and Tuesday in St. Louis, the club's offensive numbers may be set to fall while the sky remains.

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Come to think of it...

Carp really hasn’t been the same sense Cueto kicked him.

post-Reds 2010: 1-4, 5.34 ERA
2011: 1-3, 4.95 ERA

by monkeysareblue on May 15, 2011 4:52 PM EDT reply actions  

he got kicked by Cueto?

man that guy does a lot of kicking

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yea. Dan said at beginning of the year that carp

Still has a scar on his back.

"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister

Trevor Rosenthal Update (as of 4/27/11):
30 IP, 39 K, 15 BB/HBP, 13 ER, 2 HR, 2.96 FIP

by VolsnCards5 on May 15, 2011 6:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

oh yeah

I think I remember that now. he must have got some kind of sucky infection from the cueto cleat

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

So can we stake this loss on Tony being gone?

Pettini actually managed to be worse.

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 5:03 PM EDT reply actions  

It's manager by committee,

so I don’t think you can hang it on Pettini alone.

"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

by bgh on May 15, 2011 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

Also,

TLR has been setting the starting lineups, according to Rains. TLR seems to think that the staff has done fine:

“It’s been hard because you take responsibility for your position and being there, but the only thing that’s really helped is I know the quality of our staff. There wasn’t anything that happened that I could have done anything better with.”

"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

by bgh on May 15, 2011 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

I just wish they would have started Craig today

did he give them enough reason to not start him at third or second?

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think it's Berk's fault for striking out vs crappy cordero

j/k (kinda)

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

also Carp was not very good today

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

he wasn't bad

1 home run on a not bad pitch, and a bunch of wacky shit with hitting the runner. he’s been immensely unlucky all year.

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

cursed

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

VEB dead lately

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 5:39 PM EDT reply actions  

only a game and a half out of first!

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 5:46 PM EDT reply actions  

reds got lucky to sweep that

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Shelby Miller went 5 innings and struck out twice as many batters

little concerned with the walks, of which there were three.

I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.

by purple_haze on May 15, 2011 6:03 PM EDT reply actions  

maybe he was too amped up

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

i really liked al saying this about Chapman

“when you have a guy on the roster that you don’t feel like you trust, he shouldn’t be there.” or something like that since he’s always stretching to defend Franklin and Batista.

not to keep beating the dead horse, it just amused me.

by molina mo problems on May 15, 2011 6:11 PM EDT reply actions  

awesome!

where ya movin?

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

Back to Butte, only about 70 miles from where I'm at now.

I’ll be running a Harley shop.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

freakin cool man!

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

OK, that sounds cool.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

Doesn't it?

I’m actually giddy. It’ll be weird selling parts to people because they want to buy them, instead of because they have to buy them. Seems like it’s a great atmosphere to work in. I’m really excited. Luckily I’ll get to see the Cards in Denver the weekend before I start, because I anticipate a lot of work in the next three or four months.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 7:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

So where you getting the Harley tat?

Seriously, that sounds great.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'll just settle for a bike.

No tats for me.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Got any spare change?

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

i remember that truck, also Dave Ressler looks like the biggest crook

seriously i wouldn’t send my worst enemy to buy a car from him

Balls

by gdm426 on May 15, 2011 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

Dude's been around for a long time.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

he just looks like a guy who turns back odo's & switches titles

i admit i could be wrong, but i like to think i’ve been around enough dealers that i can tell the good from the bad

speaking of, have you seen the show Call Me Fitz? it’s hilarious

Balls

by gdm426 on May 16, 2011 12:08 AM EDT up reply actions  

sweet action

still gotta make time for VEB

Tried it once and they liked it, then tried to hide it
twatter

by prophetjohn on May 15, 2011 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

My day time perusing will probably take a hit,

but I’ll still be around for games and evenings.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

Congratulations! That's really exciting.

Now if you’d just change your avatar, we could all celebrate!

Check out the Roger Dean Project link

by a fink on May 15, 2011 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

what, you don't like smug journalists?

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

Smug "journalists."

"Sometimes you scare me." - azruavatar

by spants on May 16, 2011 12:13 AM EDT up reply actions  

whatever he is

I don’t usually know that much of what is talked about i.e. strauss, bj rains, etc. I know gould is pretty good usually

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions  

Excellent news.

Need help emptying the kegerator before you move?

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

All are welcome.

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Also, Dave Concepcion.

by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

sounds great

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

Congratulations

That’s terrific news

"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

by bgh on May 15, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

and I'm the only one to rec your good news

congrats!

"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum

by scoot on May 15, 2011 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

i think it's only fitting i greened this

congrats man, i drink in your honor tonight

Balls

by gdm426 on May 15, 2011 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

That's fantastic, RR!!

Congrats!!! Hope it all turns out well for you.

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by MaytheForschbewithyou on May 16, 2011 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

i never expect anything

but classlessness from a dusty baker-led ballclub. i don’t even blame phillips, cueto, etc. anymore, they’ve just taken on the personality of their “leader”. dirty, mouthy, classless, disrespectful of the game jerks. sadly, they are also talented, and we deserved to be swept by them. hopefully, the karma wheel spins back in our favor by the end of the season.

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by threadkiller on May 15, 2011 7:31 PM EDT reply actions  

wow

it’s dusty’s fault?

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

that's human crap

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

it's a threadkiller

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

i didn't realize

veb had any respect for baker. sorry to have stepped on toes. i’ll continue, however, to have no use for the man.

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by threadkiller on May 15, 2011 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

thought your comment was a little much

no worries… never really thought of him as “classless”

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

cueto and bp on the other hand....

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm a Reds fan, and I have no use for Dusty

Actually, Dusty seems like a really great guy, and seems to be good as far as managing personalities. But in-game tactics? Abysmal.

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by cesarhernandez on May 15, 2011 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

this

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

I have no love for Dusty

but the thought that he’s turned his players into jerks is a little much. Baker is an idiot, not Svengali.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

stealing scoot's schtick....I like it.

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Also, Dave Concepcion.

by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

rec rescinded

"Baseball is like Church, many attend, few understand" - Wes Westrum

by scoot on May 15, 2011 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

your sig made me think of this

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think the opposite

I would find it rather horrifying

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

I can see the commercial now.

Ahhhh!

My breath has never been so fresh and cheesy before! Thanks Doritos Scope!

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

lol!

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

you crazy

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

perhaps they will have a special order website

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

this whole narrative is growing tiresome.

What did the reds do this weekend other than win three games? The worst thing I can think of is phillips’s home run trot.

They’re a good team. They played well. There’s nothing classless about that.

"chipper jones grounds out, third baseman albert pujols to first baseman mark hamilton." 5.1.11 "carlos pena grounds into double play, second baseman allen craig to shortstop tyler greene to first baseman albert pujols." 5.12.11

by tom s. on May 15, 2011 8:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions   1 recs

last year's brawl was referenced in the above recap.

that’s the only reason i mentioned it. i said they deserved to win the series and are the better team right now. i also apologized above for my comments, though i do believe them to be correct. i won’t bring up the subject again, though it was the first time i’ve done it here. wrong or right, i think i’m entitled to my own opinion.

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by threadkiller on May 15, 2011 8:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

I never said you weren't entitled to your opinion.

I just disagreed with it.

"chipper jones grounds out, third baseman albert pujols to first baseman mark hamilton." 5.1.11 "carlos pena grounds into double play, second baseman allen craig to shortstop tyler greene to first baseman albert pujols." 5.12.11

by tom s. on May 15, 2011 9:02 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

i've discovered

i may be the only one here with this opinion. not unusual. :-)

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by threadkiller on May 15, 2011 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

dusty is a punk who's jealous of TLR's success & fame

he’s like that one loser in high school who’s always picking a fight & talking smack to the jocks. he’s just jealous he can’t do what they do. i’ve disliked him ever since i saw him play in the early 80’s. he sucked then & he still sucks now. i don’t care how many of his players like him, he’s a terrible game manager & one i wouldn’t let anywhere near one of my pitchers

Balls

by gdm426 on May 15, 2011 11:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

agreed

this is getting really old. They won some games and were happy about it.

by tdawg on May 15, 2011 9:25 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think Duncan threw fuel on the fire at the end of the game

whether it was on purpose or not, I don’t know. but he did.

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

i'm 21. which isn't that old.

but i don’t think i’ve hated a team more than i hate the reds right now. MAYBE the patriots. maybe.

by stlcardinalsfang on May 15, 2011 7:37 PM EDT reply actions  

Cubs?

Anyone? Can I get an amen?

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

that pesky team

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

loathe....

that’s a whole separate category.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

I don't hate the Cubs..

I just take pleasure in their misfortunes, meltdowns, and perennial ineptitude. Good ole schadenfreude.

by bailorg on May 15, 2011 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

+1

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

i dislike the yankees.

i don’t hate them though. it’s tough to hate someone that we play every third year that’s in the other league.

by stlcardinalsfang on May 15, 2011 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

didn't happen.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

I still remember seeing a game in '05 where the Cards kicked their ass

and then in the parking lot some boston fan lady picked a fight with a cardinals fan

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

well, I am pretty excited to see this bulls vs heat series kick off

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 8:03 PM EDT reply actions  

chicago should be able to beat the heat considering how cold it is here

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

How to play baseball in a dome during a power crisis.

Or, at least, how the Japanese are doing it.

Minimal lighting was used in the stadium concourses, concession stands and in the areas below the stands where players, coaches, managers, team staff and media members have access to the field.

Several banks of field lights were left off during both teams’ batting practice sessions, though the brightness was more than adequate for safety. Prior to each game, the NPB umpires could be seen on the grounds, consulting with Tokyo Dome personnel, pointing to the light standards hanging from the roof and checking to be sure they knew which lights would be switched on prior to the game’s first pitch.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 9:05 PM EDT reply actions  

Gotta hand it to the Japanese

they take what’s best about America (baseball, cars, technology, etc.) and do their damndest to make it their own. I hope to visit someday.

by peppermartin on May 15, 2011 9:11 PM EDT reply actions  

Jose Bautista

.368/.520/.868

omg

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by jd is legend on May 15, 2011 9:13 PM EDT reply actions  

NCANFT, but, free.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

^NCAMFT

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

scary

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

did he somehow steal Albert's powers?

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

It does look like they've traded places, doesn't it?

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 9:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

yup

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think we could pull up 4 - 6 week stretches where he put up numbers like that.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

April 2006 begs to differ

"When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do." -- Stan Musial

by mattybobo on May 15, 2011 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

.346/.509/.914

"When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do." -- Stan Musial

by mattybobo on May 15, 2011 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

but by May 15th

he was down to .333/.469/.833 (1.302)

It's 7:05 somewhere...

by SleepyCA on May 15, 2011 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

er, yeah

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

that's because he doesn't do steroids

bayum

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

I just posted to facebook I'm surprised they aren't testing him for steroids and hgh every day

could a tweak to one’s swing really make that big of a difference?

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

even better than last season

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

what would be more interesting

is if he isn’t doing anything performance enhancing, other than tweaking his swing. thepainguy would love that!

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

that's all anyone can think of, and it looks like it

i don’t know why the league hasn’t learned to stop throwing him fastballs

Balls

by gdm426 on May 15, 2011 11:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

can't be steroids

not potent enough. they need to be testing him for radioactive spider bites, or something.

It's 7:05 somewhere...

by SleepyCA on May 15, 2011 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

heh

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

or gamma radiation

HULK SMASH

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

I would be incredibly surprised

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 10:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

Why?

It's 7:05 somewhere...

by SleepyCA on May 15, 2011 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

Because there's no incentive to do so

Posnanski sums it up pretty well

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

Why wouldn't there be an incentive to do so?

If steroids make you better, why wouldn’t you do them.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

I guess "no incentive" was the wrong choice of words. "Benefits no longer outweigh the costs" is more accurate
No, there’s something more here: Massive, massive public pressure. If a player is caught taking steroids in baseball, he’s disgraced. If he’s a great player, he will get humiliated in the Hall of Fame balloting. If he’s a good player, he will get savaged in the media and by fans. If he’s a mediocre player, he will find it hard to get work — teams don’t need that sort of publicity anymore. We’ve seen this happen. We know it’s real. And this sort of real public pressure is not there in football for many logical and illogical reason.

In baseball, the public pressure is so intense that, I think, it has transcended reason and fairness and perspective. Now, if a player has a hot month-long stretch, the whispers begin. If a player hits more home runs than his history suggests, the whispers turn to murmurs. With this sort of heat surrounding the game, it seems to me you’d have to be (1) Desperate; (2) Arrogant beyond reason; (3) Detached from reality to take the chance of getting caught using steroids in baseball these days.*

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well people don't always do what's based on a game theory level

And this assumes that every baseball player cares about public perception.

I certainly wouldn’t rule it out.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, well I'd be less incredibly surprised

C’mon Rui, I need an argument, fucking bring it.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

Jose Bautista can touch MC Hammer

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

I definitely agree with the first sentence of your second paragraph

I am convinced that people just don’t care as much about steroids as the “narrative” or whatever you want to call it would have us think. If for no other reason than that people get tired of being outraged about something that really isn’t incredibly important.

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by mattybobo on May 15, 2011 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

Actually I think it's lower now than it was like 2 years ago

And it will basically be nothing in 5 years.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think the suspensions hurt much more than the HOF hate and such:

Manny, for example, obviously didn’t give a shit about the HOF.

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by hazel on May 15, 2011 11:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

Why do you think that?

Also, full disclosure: My fandom has always resided on the naive end of the spectrum. I’m an innocent until proven guilty guy

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think people just care less about steroids

The initial shock is over, and now you just got to accept it as something that happened. And once the sports writers (finally) get bored of pumping that narrative, there’s really no reason why steroids will be seen as such a bad thing in the long run.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sure

the “costs” have gone up but the possible benefits remain far greater from my perspective. That is a subjective opinion but I don’t think the costs come anywhere close to outweighing the benefits.

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by azruavatar on May 16, 2011 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions  

Nah we moved on to pretentious movies now

This is old hat

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

Reasonable argument?

Top 5 comment ever!

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

A Serious Man

Or Basterds.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

nah

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

can we identify what exactly the parameters are of what we are talking about?

best movie ever? that’s kind of not that fun to talk about

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

best movie of the past decade

That’s still kind of broad though.

Combination of best theme and most well executed, I guess.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

District 9 is the only thing I can think of off the top of the dome

perhaps one of the lotr. probably something I am not remembering right now.

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

That is an opinion I disagree strongly with.

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

sorry can't remember

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

City of God is way up there for me

I liked Children of Men a lot

I don’t know about best movie, but There Will Be Blood contains the best acting performance of the decade

I think Up is underrated since it’s a cartoon

Old Boy’s up there

Big Fish is up there

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

we can agree on children of men as best of decade then

it official (forgot about that one)

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

8 minute single shot take!!!

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

pttsh

Inglorious Basterds had like 10 minute one in the beginning.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

Does it?

I couldn’t find a link to it, do you mind trying to dig one up for me?

The single shot sequence in Goodfellas is also awesome

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

I tried youtubing it

I actually don’t think it was a single shot, but it has the really tense intimate feel. The scene where Waltz is talking to the owner of a house who is concealing jews.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

Incredible scene

Blew me away in the theaters.

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, I agree

Christoph Waltz was PERFECT for that part.

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, it was nuts

That and the bar scene – I haven’t scene a movie yet with so much tension.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:03 AM EDT up reply actions  

My heart was pounding during the opening

Everything about that scene is amazing. The dialogue, the tension, the attention to detail…just magnificent

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions  

And the three amazing gorgeous girls

Seemed to add the threat of rape into it as well.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds

was the best acting performance of the past decade, at least of movies I’ve seen

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by jd is legend on May 15, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

That's a GREAT choice

But have you seen TWBB?

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

No, I haven't

I need to see that, AND No Country for Old Men…they came out around the same time and I never got around to see either of them

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by jd is legend on May 15, 2011 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

both of those are totally worth seeing

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

I know!

But now I’ll feel like the guy Jim Gaffigan describes in this clip

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by jd is legend on May 15, 2011 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Speaking of movies that came out awhile ago

Falling Down (1993) was AWESOME

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions  

there will be blood

yeah… dude was good in gangs of new york too

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

I saw TWBB when i was a lot younger

so I probably didn’t appreciate it as much. I remember the final scene was great though.

Gangs of New York was kind of all over the place, but he was great in that too.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

I can't WAIT to see Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

that'd be awesome

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions  

...you know that it's actually happening, right?

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

did not know that

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

...

Link

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

that's fucking awesome

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions  

in what?

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

In a Spielberg directed biopic of Lincoln

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:03 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

yeah

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

I also want to mention the teenage girl in True Grit

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:03 AM EDT up reply actions  

wat

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

I mean, I'm sure she's a pretty girl

She’s not a pretty girl in that movie, though

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

Well I assume

VEP’s brother is younger

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

no, 26

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

wat

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

Ok WTF

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

lulz

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions  

Hahaha good

I thought you might be, but you went big with 26

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions  

She's pretty in the movie I thought

But it was more for her personality, you idiot.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

i really need to watch There Will Be Blood

that’s next on my movie list. As for best of the decade, off the top of my head:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/

this movie was unbelievably good.

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by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

Oh yes!

I forgot about that, that was amazing.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions  

thought it could have used more crazy effects

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

I don't know

The surreal scenes were top notch to me.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:08 AM EDT up reply actions  

that's what I'm sayin yo

needed more of that awesome stuff

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:08 AM EDT up reply actions  

Oh, well I thought it had a good balance

You need to keep it grounded in realism.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions  

Or else it turns into the Fifth Element

Also a great movie, but with very different aims

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:11 AM EDT up reply actions  

I just got my brother this t-shirt:

“Negative, I am a meat popsicle”

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:13 AM EDT up reply actions  

City of God and There Will be Blood

are both outstanding

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by a fink on May 16, 2011 9:19 AM EDT up reply actions  

I can tell you one thing

Facebook is not the best movie of the decade, and I haven’t even seen it yet

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

Your opinion is actually not legitimate in this case

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

I beg to differ

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm fine if you've seen TSN and didn't like it

You can’t say anything about the movie if you haven’t

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

fine I'll have to watch it

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

Now it's just confirmation bias

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

maybe it will be better than I think

but I still don’t think it will be best of decade

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

think of it about treating facebook as the early century writers treated the industrial revolution

That makes it less "the facebook movie. Although it’s much kinder, I’m surprised fincher wasn’t more vitriolic.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

It was pretty cool

But slow starting in.

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by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

so?

I am telling you it was fucking awesome. they did more than any movie recently with their budget. it was fantastic.

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm going to venture a guess that we don't have similar tastes in movies

But then again my reactions to things don’t tend to match popular opinion.

For example, my reactions to the LotR movies:
LotR: OK
Two Towers: This better be going somewhere
RotK: That was a total waste of time and money

Why? For whatever reason, I just didn’t like Frodo one bit. Thought he came of as some self-righteous douchebag who I just didn’t care for.

by bailorg on May 15, 2011 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

yeah I didn't like elijah wood as frodo at all

but they were well translated from the books and looked cool, about all I wanted out of it I guess

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

My wife enjoyed the parts that didn't have Frodo

much more than when he was on-screen. I can see it.

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by The Continental on May 15, 2011 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Frodo and Sam got really annoying by the end of the trilogy

I have watched all those movies several times, and I like them quite a bit. But each time I watch I have less and less tolerance for the Frodo parts. Frodo and Sam wander around. Frodo and Sam are dirty. Frodo makes a face like he has terrible gas. Sam does/says something kind of pathetic. It gets really tiresome.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions  

I fell asleep during every LotR movie.

And I love me some Viggo Mortensen.

I also loved reading The Hobbit when I was a kid.

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by spants on May 16, 2011 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions  

I have fallen asleep in the theater twice

The first time was for Blade II. I just found it uninteresting. At some point the heroes were running around some underground tunnels fighting neck-splitting vampire monsters? I dunno. YAWN.
The second was Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy. My buddies and I thought that a ridiculous, cheesy porno movie from the 70s, complete with 3-D glasses no less, would be great ironic fun. Turns out, it was just really stupid and boring. And it didn’t start until midnight. Sleep was way more enjoyable than that pile of stupid, irony or no.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:26 AM EDT up reply actions  

I fell asleep during Transformers 2

Public Enemies and Sucker Punch.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions  

I liked Public Enemies

Those shootout scenes were ridiculous

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

I'm not saying it was a great movie

But it wasn’t bad. Good performances, good technically, though the plot was a bit dry

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

I guess

It just slogged on though, not enjoyable at all.

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by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions  

Valid

…but the shootouts were awesome

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

fell asleep during Wall-E

because I had been up for 36 hours prior, though

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by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

wall-e was decent

I’d put it in the same league as that flying house animated movie

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

I loved that movie.

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by spants on May 16, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

I generally love all Pixar movies

Haven’t seen Cars, though

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions  

Cars is not their best, but I've really warmed up to it

I was kind of hostile to it at first. I thought Pixar was just trying to hook another demographic (people who like car racing) and that seemed weird and dumb to me. I still didn’t even like it all that much when I saw it the first time, but with a couple more viewings I shed my unfair preconceptions and enjoyed it a lot.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

I'm sort of in the minority on this

but I thought A.I. was great

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions  

i have absolutely nothing against Wall-E

just that I was sleep deprived and the first half was very soothing.

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by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

the only movie I've ever not been able to finish is

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
thought it was pretty bad

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions  

I fell asleep in the theaters during Troy

I don’t remember if it was because I was bored or tired, probably a combination of the two

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

I couldn't finish that movie either actually

but I turned it off so soon that I’m not sure if it’s fair to include it. seemed pretty silly

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

I was so pumped when I saw the first teaser for Troy

I was in college and the Iliad was still pretty much the coolest thing ever. And lo, a major movie about it! A shitload of boats! Carrying awesome hero dudes! Gods and spears and graphic poetic violence!
Kind of a disappointment.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

Especially since it's not even a movie of the Iliad.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

yeah it seemed rather one dimensional from what I saw

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

I'm not huge on history as is

I don’t even remember why I went to see it in the theaters, honestly…probably chasing some girl or something

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

Well, it's possibly even less historically believable than the Iliad, which is itself not history

There probably was some sort of Trojan war that the story was based on… but it’s more literature geekery than historical.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:35 AM EDT up reply actions  

luckily haven't even tried that one

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

Adaptation was pretty damn good

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions  

It didn't do it for me

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions  

well our tastes are usually widely divergent

except for knowing the Cardinals are really awesome.

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions  

I really liked that one too

I think that screen writer just really enjoys doing hilarious things with movie conventions. And he’s very good at pulling it off.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions  

exactly

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:16 AM EDT up reply actions  

The guy got eaten by a damn alligator for crying out loud

I laughed so hard at that part I almost peed my pants. I don’t know how he pulled off such a mixture of being meta but not coming off as pretentious or overdoing it.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions  

Charlie Kaufman?

Yeah, like who THINKS of the plots being Being John Malkovich or Eternal Sunshine? And then is sane enough to write a great screenplay on it?

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

Yup

"When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do." -- Stan Musial

by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

I think I identify with him as a writer pretty well

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

I didn't really like Being John Malkovich

and that disappointed me

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:19 AM EDT up reply actions  

yeah I don't think that one was nearly as good

when it came out though it was pretty neat

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:19 AM EDT up reply actions  

i'm a Being John Malkovich fan

as a straight up absurd comedy, it works fine. Look for more and you’ll draw a blank

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by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions  

Exactly

It was great fun for what it was trying to do. Hilarious.

“Therefore, I shall make ye me wife. And I shall build a floor in my building, between the 7th and 8th, which will be scaled down, so from now on there shall be at least one place on God’s green Earth that you and your accursed kind can live in peace.”

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

I wasn't looking for more

I just didn’t enjoy it

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

Honestly, it's so bizarre that I can't blame anyone for not enjoying it

If I really, really liked a combination of pizza toppings, and I acknowledge it’s a really unusual and kind of weird combination, I am not gonna blame someone else if it doesn’t do anything for them.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions  

That's an apt analogy

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:35 AM EDT up reply actions  

Adaptation is terrific

Check out the Roger Dean Project link

by a fink on May 16, 2011 9:22 AM EDT up reply actions  

late to the party

best movie of the decade: The Room.

i win.

by tomsteele on May 16, 2011 4:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

My favorite movie of the past decade

is The Twilight Samurai.
(No. This is not that overblown Tom Cruise movie. That’s The Last Samurai, which was, well, adequate).

Check out the Roger Dean Project link

by a fink on May 16, 2011 9:21 AM EDT up reply actions  

But they both have Hiroyuki Sanada!

And no, I did not know that guy’s name, but I did recognize him from the picture of imdb.com.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions  

True fact! Literally!

Check out the Roger Dean Project link

by a fink on May 16, 2011 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Last Samurai = the Ryan Theriot of movies?

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions  

heh. I'll buy that.

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by a fink on May 16, 2011 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wrong

Both were great, though

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by jd is legend on May 15, 2011 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

you so crayzay

I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.

by purple_haze on May 15, 2011 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Subjective argument?

Fuck you!

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wait what?

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

he said, fuck you.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 11:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

That was my impression of you

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh he agrees with that in the article

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well there are a lot more scrubs than stars.

Is it likely we will ever have another A-roid, Clemens, or Bonds, an already rich and well established star roiding up because he can? Honestly, still probably yes- people like A-Rod do it based strictly on the incentives, but Clemens and Bonds were both so competitive and megalomaniacal I could see their type doing it over again.

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by hazel on May 15, 2011 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Or to put it another way

Poz’s reasoning applies to those baseball players who have a lot to lose, carefully consider the consequences of their actions, and judge their worth/happiness based on public opinion. That, of course, applies to like 3% of major league baseball players out there.

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

yeah but he's playing for Canada

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Bonds

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

Was dropping off some stuff at Goodwill today

and noticed that an entire 1987 Topps card set was scattered on the muddy ground. I had a sad.

by peppermartin on May 15, 2011 9:24 PM EDT reply actions  

I don't really want to know how much I invested in baseball cards and comic books in the 90s

they certainly have not lived up to the investment expectations. as a teenager though, I was probably just looking for an excuse to spend money on stuff my parents deemed not worthy.

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm sure the monetary investment doesn't come out to much

it’s funny, though, that seeing that scattering of familiar cards brings you back to an earlier time. Opening a brand-new pack of cards, the smell of the cheap bubblegum, the excitement of getting new cards so that you could pore over the stats. Good times.

by peppermartin on May 15, 2011 9:39 PM EDT reply actions  

I seriously thought that they would be a good investment

along with them being a cool, fun thing to have. can’t have best of both worlds I guess

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'd be really interested in seeing sabermetric baseball cards though

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

There was a set a few years ago that had sabermetric stats

I don’t remember what it was, or even who made it, but I’m pretty sure there was one. If I had to guess, it was made in 2005 or earlier. As I recall, it didn’t sell very well.

by bailorg on May 15, 2011 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

they need three years of cards to even start showing the defensive metrics

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

so I guess CJ Beatty is going into independent ball

in case anyone cared. probably not.

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by purple_haze on May 15, 2011 9:43 PM EDT reply actions  

Which team?

I should probably just go pull up his Twitter, huh?

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Edinburgh RoadRunners in Texas.

Big guy has his own logo now, too!

Good luck, CJ

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow, the team had open walk-up tryouts!

Players had to pay to get into the tryouts. I don’t think the Rascals or Grizzlies even do that.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 9:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

interesting

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh, wait,

he has his own website too. He’s doing motivational speaking at schools.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

think he has a better chance of getting back to

Mlb-milb ball than pedro feliz? Feliz is now a camden rivershark. He can look nostalgically across the delaware and say “look, I used to be a starting thirdbaseman over there.”

"chipper jones grounds out, third baseman albert pujols to first baseman mark hamilton." 5.1.11 "carlos pena grounds into double play, second baseman allen craig to shortstop tyler greene to first baseman albert pujols." 5.12.11

by tom s. on May 16, 2011 12:18 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Wow. Hadn't heard that.

Johnny Mo, the guy you brought in to fill the hole at 3B last year is in independent ball now. Good grief.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 16, 2011 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions  

I'd like to know what happened with that scenario

still wondering what that was

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions  

i didn't see a win. slightly disappointed.

There was no BP before either game, thanks to rain. And the only bright spots that I saw were dingers. I left after the top of the 8th and didn’t see the Cards’ 5 run rally, but the pitching was very disappointing. The Cards played well early but struggled late in both games I saw, which seems to be the consistent pattern this season. Ramon Hernandez had our number… and Cueto’s glove play was cool to see in person, even if it was against us.

I wasn’t really close to a foul ball yesterday (sitting on the 3rd base side) but was about 15 feet left of Berk’s dinger. The headscratching moment today was definitely Carp being left in to bat for himself late in the game. I thought that was a stupid decision on the managing crew’s part, given that he had thrown around 90 pitches at that point and we had a rested ’pen.

Speaking of that, how did VEB react to it?

by zoomzoomj88 on May 15, 2011 10:14 PM EDT reply actions  

not sure how everyone else reacted

but I thought that was fine, given the situation (4-2 score at the time, 1 out, no one on, theriot on deck). Would have been cranky if that decision was made with Kmac or Jaime, though.

Obviously it didn’t work out, and the hook should have been quicker next inning (walking Cairo should always get you pulled), but that’s hindsight speaking.

It's 7:05 somewhere...

by SleepyCA on May 15, 2011 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

Herro

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 10:28 PM EDT reply actions  

The end of what

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

Seriously

So, how to tie this back to baseball? How about some cool uniform concepts for if the Bulls were an MLB team?
There’s even a wacky reverse pinstripe one.

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by mattybobo on May 15, 2011 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

Linkage

here

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

Hey. I got a job.

They pay me.

hehehehehehehehe

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Oh yeah, I just read that

I’m honestly really happy for you. Long distance sucks, and it seems like you’ll be happier at your new job anyways

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think it's gonna be great.

Did you know, if you can touch something on a HD, I honestly think I can get you a piece of chrome for it. The accessory catalog is about ten times as big as GM’s. I’m impressed.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think you owe me an all chrome chopper as a wedding present

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

that's odd....

I think that’s what I’m getting myself for a wedding present.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

I have my own "did you know" re; HD

Did you know that Harley Davidson hires PT’s to work in their factories for employee health/work hardening type things? Keep us in mind if you get an amazing position open! (Vols and I, that is)

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by scoot on May 15, 2011 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

I won't be anywhere near a factory, unfortunately.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

that's ok

I don’t really want to work in a factory. It would be cool to have one of their email addresses though.

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by scoot on May 15, 2011 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

So the BS at the end of the game?

Yeah, it was about Albert getting hit.

With St. Louis rallying in the ninth inning, Cincinnati closer Francisco Cordero hit Albert Pujols with a 0-2 fastball. Pujols, who needed extra time to recover, took his base without incident. But Cordero’s errant pitch raised the ire of the Cardinals’ dugout.

In particular, backup catcher Gerald Laird, who walked as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning and scored two batters later, began to yell at Cordero. The Reds’ closer induced a fielder’s choice from Matt Holliday, then struck out Lance Berkman to clinch the game. After that final out, Cordero started yelling back at the St. Louis dugout.

I’m glad Laird is getting all feisty for his new team, but that place and time just doesn’t make much sense.

Also,

Pujols escaped serious injury, according to a Cardinals spokesman, and left Cincinnati without undergoing an X-ray.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 10:45 PM EDT reply actions  

Why would he hit Albert on an 0-2 count?

Albert was also the tying (or maybe go ahead) run, it makes zero sense for him to plunk Albert in that situation.

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by jd is legend on May 15, 2011 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

Of course he didn't mean it...

still, it’s the best player on the team, so I guess the code is to say something. In hockey Cordero would’ve faced a goon.

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by guayzimi on May 15, 2011 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

in this case the goon was the cardinals dugout it seems

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

Maybe it's an unwritten rule of baseball

You know, you don’t hit the other team’s best player when he’s 0-2 with a chance to tie or take the lead in the ninth inning with men on and… uh, one out?

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by mattybobo on May 15, 2011 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

That's awfully preachy for something that isn't even written down.

Maybe these guys should find a clean sheet of paper and a nice, sharp pencil and get to work on this thing already.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

Seriously, if the unwritten rules were just written already, it'd clear up a lot of misunderstandings.

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by mattybobo on May 15, 2011 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

LAIRD

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

good to hear about Albert

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Peel was good but Talayanas is better

Date went really well too. Now to get through the next 4 dates in 4 days in one piece

bollocks

by SecondHalfMatt on May 15, 2011 11:18 PM EDT reply actions  

You mean Talayna's?

Mike Talayna is still making pizzas in STL? Wow…

Sign Carlos Silva!!!

by guayzimi on May 15, 2011 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

I know they shut down the taj mahal on Skinker a couple of years aster I left.

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by RiverRat on May 15, 2011 11:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Skinker and Forest Park Parkway?

I took phone orders and handed them out to the russian delivery drivers in about 1993. Talayna was living upstairs and pissing away vast sums at the casino. His place out in the burbs was tanking. I figured the end was near.

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by guayzimi on May 15, 2011 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

ah just found the article...

Wash U gobbled it up. They’ve really changed the face of that whole area.

Sign Carlos Silva!!!

by guayzimi on May 15, 2011 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yup

There’s a shiny building in its place now. I grew up in the neighborhood across Skinker from there. I do like being able to park at my parents’ house and walk to that metro station for baseball games.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions  

Kayak's coffee (which is on the corner of that building) is a pretty big Wash-U hangout I believe.

Makes sense, as it is right next to campus.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions  

Kaldi's owns them now.

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by spants on May 16, 2011 12:25 AM EDT up reply actions  

I did not know that

I’ve only even been there a couple times.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions  

I lived behind there in '96.

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by RiverRat on May 16, 2011 12:35 AM EDT up reply actions  

Yes

New place opened up down the street from me on debalievere and Pershing. I think there are 2 other locations.

bollocks

by SecondHalfMatt on May 16, 2011 6:16 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

is that a long-ass argument about steroids up there?

when did you get so lame, VEB?

I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.

by purple_haze on May 15, 2011 11:40 PM EDT reply actions  

Just about to write this...

is there anything new and interesting going on in the game of baseball?

Sign Carlos Silva!!!

by guayzimi on May 15, 2011 11:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Reds won

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 15, 2011 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah what can we do about this?

I want bullpen moves.

Sign Carlos Silva!!!

by guayzimi on May 15, 2011 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

bautista tweaked his swing

even better this year

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

awh

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Who cares

Rosenthal injured. Sky falling. Doomsday is May 21st. There is no joy in this world

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by VolsnCards5 on May 15, 2011 11:42 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

judgment day approacheth

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm just glad we have your incisive rebuttal to discuss now.

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by azruavatar on May 16, 2011 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

Trevor Rosenthal misses start with back problem

Word is, it’s worse than org is letting on.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..TREVORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister

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by VolsnCards5 on May 15, 2011 11:40 PM EDT via mobile reply actions  

watched the bulls embarass the heat

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

man

that dude Gibson’s two dunks were freakin ridiculous

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh what school did he go to

Would be pretty cool to be an alum of that university

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

google says

USC Trojans

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

/took the bait

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by jd is legend on May 15, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

I don't know about college basketball

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions  

I just knew rooey went to USC

His comment reads alot differently when you have that information ahead of time

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

oh

that makes more sense :)

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

went to the dollar store and bought a lot of snacks, some antacid, some toothpaste and mouthwash

ate leftovers from yesterday’s korean feast

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well I was on an airplane for most of it

And slept the other half

So, y’know

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by mysterui on May 15, 2011 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

I am disappointed that I was unable to score a single Gameday badge this weekend.

DIS A POINT ED

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 11:48 PM EDT reply actions  

Punto reference?

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

No, that's actual heart-rending disappointment.

For realz.

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 15, 2011 11:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

I haven't started collecting virtual badges yet

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 15, 2011 11:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

And if there is one thing I do not like...

it is to be… disappointed.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

movie thread must escape

which was better: the machinist, or memento? I can’t decide

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:22 AM EDT reply actions  

Memento

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:24 AM EDT up reply actions  

I need to watch them both back to back

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:26 AM EDT up reply actions  

I've never seen the Machinist

but I just thought Memento was a big-ass gimmick. Chris Nolan has an issue with those.

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by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

so it was not a movie

just a large gimmick?

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

exactly

I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.

by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

well

aren’t all movies gimmicks

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions  

no

I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.

by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:44 AM EDT up reply actions  

ok then I disagree about it being just a gimmick then

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:50 AM EDT up reply actions  

I think his point is that while other movies also break conventional story-telling guidelines

This movie is almost entirely based on that

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions  

I don't think so

it’s about a guy who has a poor memory and can’t quite put all the pieces together post-tragedy

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 1:20 AM EDT up reply actions  

The "gimmick" of Memento takes Leonard's situation and makes a movie structure out of it.

It makes sense. By not letting the audience know how the main character got to each new (that is, old) place in the story, it puts the audience in his shoes. He’s constantly turning around and forgetting what he was just doing, wondering how he just now got to this moment. The audience is wondering the same thing. They know what happens next, but they don’t know what just happened. I can understand if people still think of it as a gimmick, but I see it as a (somewhat gimmicky) clever structural way to tell a very particular kind of story. And I think it works.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 8:50 AM EDT up reply actions  

yeah I thought it was near perfectly executed

who cares if it is non-traditional storytelling, or not linear? memory is not linear… one would think in storytelling you would not have to be linear or else called a gimmick. it’s just a weak/lazy assessment of what the movie did.

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think it would be a gimmick if the movie did that for no reason

But Memento has a perfectly good reason to be structured that way.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

exactly

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 17, 2011 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

You should hang out with Leonard Maltin sometime

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions  

Haven't seen the Machinist, and haven't seen Memento in about ten years

I enjoyed Memento when I saw it though

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:26 AM EDT up reply actions  

Machinist is like a more intense version of Memento

more stark… kind of same story though

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

I found the Machinist more powerful and suspenseful.

But Memento is highly entertaining and I recently rewatched it and enjoyed it.

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by spants on May 16, 2011 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions  

I think this is apt

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

Rank the 2010 best picture nominations (that you've seen)

1. Social Network
2. True Grit
3. King’s Speech
4. Inception

Dang I need to see more movies

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by jd is legend on May 16, 2011 12:37 AM EDT up reply actions  

...

1) Social Network
2) The Fighter
3) True Grit
4) King’s Speech
5) Black Swan
6) Toy Story 3
7) Inception
8) The Kids are All Right

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:40 AM EDT up reply actions  

I've only seen The King's Speech

I really liked it, but I wouldn’t choose it for best picture unless it was a weak year.
Some day they ought to give back L.A. Confidential that best picture award that Titanic stole from it.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions  

Also

Toy Story 3 achieved a rare level of goodness from the third movie in a series, especially given that it wasn’t originally conceived as a trilogy. Pixar is so good.

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by mattybobo on May 16, 2011 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

That incinerator scene was incredible

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:44 AM EDT up reply actions  

that was a good scene

but after two massively ambitious knockouts in Up and Wall-E, it was underwhelming.

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by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:47 AM EDT up reply actions  

I prefer Toy Story 3 to Up

But then again, on some levels, I’m still about 12 years old inside.

Up’s problem is that the emotional climax of the movie is in the first 15 or so minutes of the movie. After that, Up becomes a pretty conventional kids movie.

by bailorg on May 16, 2011 1:12 AM EDT up reply actions  

But man, was that montage incredible

This seems weird to say about a cartoon, but it’s one of my favorite scenes I’ve ever seen

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 1:16 AM EDT up reply actions  

This is still true

Unfortunately the rest of the move, IMO, pales in comparison.

by bailorg on May 16, 2011 1:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

I only saw true grit last year

I really am not keeping up on movies much anymore. I did see a great B movie though, check out Raw Force. ridiculous.

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:51 AM EDT up reply actions  

There's only so much baseball talk to be had

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:47 AM EDT up reply actions  

And honestly I think we want to forget this series

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 12:47 AM EDT up reply actions  

yep, I have nothing to say about this series

and I have nothing to say about steroids

I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.

by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:48 AM EDT up reply actions  

new topic is

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on May 16, 2011 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions  

boobs

no. um, i’ve got nothing

Balls

by gdm426 on May 16, 2011 1:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

but Shelby Miller's performance was great

so there’s that

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by purple_haze on May 16, 2011 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions  

...

I knew that we were having problems when
You put those piranhas in my bathtub again
You’re still the light of my life
Oh darling, I’m beggin’, won’t you put down that knife?

You know I, even think it’s kinda cute the way
You poison my coffee just a little each day
I still remember the way that you laughed
When you pushed me down the elevator shaft

Oh, if you don’t mind me asking, what’s this poisonous cobra
Doing in my underwear drawer?
Sometimes I get to thinking you don’t love me anymore

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 16, 2011 1:30 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

Is this yours?

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by mysterui on May 16, 2011 2:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

no

Skip Schumaker is a scapegoat

by vivaelpujols on May 16, 2011 2:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

no

Boog might've. Who's to say, really? With the extraordinary number of variables to account for, Boog very well mightn't've.

by The Continental on May 16, 2011 2:10 AM EDT up reply actions  

if

this isn’t real, i’m going to be super pissed

Balls

by gdm426 on May 16, 2011 2:23 AM EDT reply actions  

It's actually an elaborate ruse by fritz,

where he tweets as a straight, young Brit and his wild experiences with the opposite sex.

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by RiverRat on May 16, 2011 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions  

All you can really say about that Reds series is that the Cardinals laid down and died

I have no idea how this team can come into this series and show this level of complacency. If I’d have felt like they were trying to win, it’s be one thing … but they looked so lethargic and non-competitive. While I’m not exactly advocating brawls or plunking, how many times will the Cards let the Reds treat them like this before they react??

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