Game 37 Open Thread: May 15, 2007

one thing i do agree with is hardcore legend's idea for a VEB glossary/notepage/whatever you want to call it, i think people who havent been here very long have little clue sometimes, and it would be great if they could get the jokes too, some things like bipolar betty, that edwards guy playing center, evident the wash, if u didnt read certain posts, you just cant have a clue about some of these things

i agree about the capitalization/grammar distinction - you've got a free pass on one, but certainly not the other - and i'd throw spelling in there, too.

It's nice to see Pat Burrell wake up his bat against NL Central pitching (Cubs/Brewers).  He'd be nice to have in RF.

Why I come here? Great Moderator, loves baseball, keeps the threads positive through example, and he posts often in the thread..also like the humor thats injected time to time.

Then you add to it Posters like Hardcore and his collection of Mcfarlane cards like me(I still lack Maris)the insight to get mulder last yr and the pictures he posts from time to time if its a woman commentator or an altered pic of snow cones

thought i would miss last night's game but landed in Orlando in time to check out the drive with a verizon broadband card.  it's not really broadband and it couldn't handle the video stream of mlb.com at 400k.  but "watching" gameday with the radio feed worked fine enough.  don't really recomend driving 80 while checking the pitch by pitch but south of Orlando on the turnpike defines middle of nowhere.  you know that when you press seek and the radio just keeps going round and round.

those first three inning were worth the investment, and i was howling down the highway.  made a great drive, don't leave homw without it.

ribs are up, happy hour doubles, game starts now, couldn't be better.  go cards.

How about a mistake pop-up?

come on kid. get out of this with no more damage.

Hopefully we can score a run this next inning.  Whatever confidence this team had built up from yesterday certainly took a hit after that TERRIBLE first inning effort from Wainwright.

come on guys, get Adam some runs.

Now he's getting ground balls.  This one's looking bleak already.

Curses.

Or is Wainer just THAT bad tonight?

small sample size?

Be patient, guy.

I guess i can't say that after my post about albert a minute ago...

Don't blow this outburst by MV3, Wainer.

While that didn't help, his problem is that our proffessional hitters (where did they come from?) were laying off his sinker and any kind of slider that started near the knees.

Come on Wainwright, this is terrible.

I know his fastball is only in the 90 to 91 mph range but i'd rather you mislocate the fastball than mislocate hanging sliders and curves.

Hopefully he recovers and gets mentally tougher as a result.  Starters need to have multiple pitches.

Time to give the pen a call.

THROW STRIKES TO THE DAMN PITCHER!

Nice job, TLR.

Let's see if we can play a hard nine tonight.

had to check out for 30 min to work on dad.

can't belive Adam gave up the lead. can't belive Raffy hit that low pitch that far. i don't think Adam is a bad starter. I just think he's out of wack. Dave can fix him.

UHG

come on Jimmy! GET SOME FREAKIN RUNS!

Lowe is beatable, as long as the ump doesn't give him that ridiculously low strike and the hitters are more than happy to take a 3-1 walk than hit a groundball to the 1B-men helplessly.

Miles???? what about The Imperial or Juan??

need to get 2 or 3 runs there to give Tony any reason to use quality relievers and not Falkmeintheheynow.

churn out another 8 runs tonight, fellahs.

Even if we end up churning out 8, it's still not enough!

SO? Where's Juan? He can play center too Tony.

come on GOUCH! Do something productive!

Come on Yadi, tie this thing up!

Playing a hard 9 tonight.

pile'em on gents. come on YADDA!

Drives in a run with the Imperial a sac fly away from getting us right back in it!

Ludwick is growing on me quickly.  Lets play nine Cards!

Who'da thunk it?

Gotta find a way to get that runner on third in.  Let's go Speizio!

That was Eck's spot in the lineup, he was 2 for 3 when we pulled him.

Gotta get that run in from 3rd.

I'm tellin ya... give this guy a chance to play everyday and he will be a solid player.  

Ok, maybe not...but maybe close.

Now how about Kennedy get on, Duncan slug one into the bullpen, Pujols double, Taguchi hit him over and Scotty drive him in?

Or something that gets us 3 runs.