Cardinals Fans Never Say Die

This lineup has proved that it can carve up average pitching

I disagree with this, I’ve watched enough games go by as pitchers like Homer Bailey, Randy Wolf (TWICE!), Ryan Dempster, and, most recently Jason Hammel, mow us down to last a lifetime.

the season is esentially over. The things you consider “the blame game” are facts.

-We can blame frankln, bautista, and theriot for a lot of the problems. You can add corey patterson and trevor miller to that list as well.
- I’d say losing wainwright hurt this team exactly as much as people expected…if not less. The problem isn’t starters not “trusting their stuff”….the problem is most of our starting staff isn’t that great.
- The Cardinals have scored more runs than any other team in the national league. Once again, the problem is pitching. Allen Craig will never hit .400 in a season…google small sample size. I’m pretty shocked he’s hitting over .300 right now. John Jay is an overexposed fourth outfielder.
-The main difference between the Cards and Brewers is the difference in home/away records. The cardinals have very similar winning percentages at home and on the road. The brewers seem impossible to beat at home, but their road record is terrible. If the brewers played every game on the road for the rest of the year, we might make it. That’s not how it works though.

Then Look like the Card’s coaching staff and fan base, shouldn’t that be enough to overcome the odds?

As if the fanbase has any impact whatsoever on a game much less enough to overcome seven games (6.5 now). Not to mention the Brewers have had a much better record at home so I don’t see how this makes any sense.

Also, our coaching staff sucks ASS. Well Tony sucks ass and he’s the only one impacting the game (albeit in a negative way)

i have a calf tattoo like that with the words “back off!” and “never say die put it all on my shoulders i want it that way”. it’s a big hit down at the dollar general. so about the post let’s see…

1. The starting rotation needs to get confident and consistent, and they need to do it fast.

is there any other way to get consistent, other than fast? i don’t think so! i find a lot of baseball players have a problem in that they aren’t consistent. if you remember albert started the season having problems being consistent in that he was consistently hitting into double plays and consistently not hitting for power. but he turned that around and now is more consistent. maybe he can write a book on being consistent or something. writing a book can be a hassle, but put it on his shoulders st. louis. that’s the way he would want it.

2. The lineup needs to stay HOT. I’m sure you hear all the time how the Cardinals have the best offence in the NL. The fact is the Cardinals are good at scoring runs. The trick is they have to do it for more than two or three games in a row.

it’s so complicated but it just might work! i’m passing your carefully constructed analysis on to my contact with the organization as we speak. the next time that security guy kicks me out of the bleachers because of what falls out of my cutoff jorts, he’s going to have an extra piece of wisdom to impart on our beloved redbirds!

I get that Milwaukee looks like a juggernaut right now but they are not immortal. You know who is immortal when he plays at his best?

christopher lambert? it’s christopher lambert.

#5 Albert Pujols, the best in the game today. Go ahead city of St. Louis, put it all on his shoulders, that’s the way he would want it.

wrong dude it’s christopher lambert. when he wasn’t playing connor mcleod he was playing a bunch of crap. sorry but all the credibility you’ve earned up to this point just went out the window.

oh hey wait i just remembered it was goonies who never say die. goonies. i can see how you would not understand the situation if you confused cardinal fans with goonies (and if you read the game threads you probably couldn’t tell the difference. oh, you don’t bother to read the game threads? well you should before posting anything else.) ok, now i feel better knowing that this whole thing was just a huge misunderstanding. good day to you, young man.

I think what they could be missing is that bit of swagger that motivates a pitcher to get through the tough innings and really grind out a solid 7-8 innings.

Or alternatively some sort of time machine that will allow them to go back 3 months and glue Zack Greinke, Prince Fielder and Shaun Marcum together and throw them into a locked refrigerator. That might be more effective.

I’m saying die to the current status quo. I’m fed up with TLR’s mismanagement of the club and his meddling with the front office. I’m tired of the apathy and lethargy that plagues this team – particularly at this time of year. I would be a lot more forgiving if it at least APPEARED that most of the players were giving a shit. But this year, this team has done so much less with more than any other in recent memory. Hope next year sees a new manager and a new way of doing things.

But when you compare the brew crew to the Redbirds on paper, the Cardinals have somethings that the brewers don’t.

yea, a big deficit.