Game 158 overflow

Man, this sucks.

Thanks, Jason!

never a good sign....

At least we'll be able to laugh about this when we finally squeak into the postseason...

..before we get swept in the fisrt round...

I trust Suppan on Sat... he seems to do well when its crunch time.  And, even thought he hasnt done well his last two starts, I still trust Carp on Sunday.

If Weaver can go out and give us a quality win, we WILL win.

I'll drink a couple for ya Weav........ please help us out.... :-D

From this moment on I will not say his name again.

I would rather have Donovan Osborne pitching a Game 7 then HTIDTM (He That Is Dead To Me).

Who will be the next Cardinals pitcher that everyone except TLR knows is DONE.

I suspect that if Tony's wife was caught redhanded with another guy, he'd probably say, "Well she used to be a good, loyal wife - I'll give her another chance. I'll have Dunc set her straight."

And even after she had slept with like a whole football team, he'd stick with her.

We have 1 run on 2 hits and SEVEN walks.

Day in, day out, this offense sucks.  

Edmonds died ... in June
Rolen ran away and we got his fat, slap-hitting, skillet-handed brother
Yadi died ... sometime last winter
Belly is worse here than he was before, if that"s possible
Miles is an offensive superstar?
PW looks like a guy so bad he can't stay on the Ass-tros
Duncan is playing WAY over his head

Every year's the same, the weather cools off and so does our "offense"

Pitching, at least in the rubber ball era, means 5 runs a game.  You can't expect them to shut out people every night.

Think how Marquis MIGHT have done (it pains me to say this, if we'd put 4 or 5 up in the 1st (like we did all of 2004, most of 2005 and some of April/May

I'm a glutton for punishment.

From the first walk of the game...in the first inning, the entire stadium knew he was going to give up a lot of runs. Apparently he knew it too. He pitches like he doesn't want to be there. Meatball after meatball. It took the life out of our bats, our defense, and every player.

I will celebrate the day Jason Marquis is no longer a Cardinal.....sorry if that if harsh....but I mean it.

My personal take on Rolen is that he has had his golden opportunities here to be the player we know he can be when it really counts, and he has absolutely failed to capitalize on those opportunities.  

He didn't get a hit in the world series.

In my opinion, in this life you take advantage of your opportunities if and only if you have the intangible mettle to be a winner.

He didn't do it; so...a rolling stone gathers no moss.  He'll be better off with a fresh opportunity somewhere else.  As much as I hate to say it, same with TLR. Staying with a losing mentality and hoping they pull out of it takes much longer than bringing in fresh blood primed for fresh opportunity.

That money he is getting paid could put a pretty sweet arm in the rotation.  We could replace his inconsistant production more cheaply, and I feel like his trade value is pretty reasonably high... and maybe change the "winning dynamic" mindset while you're at it.  IMO.

Go back and watch the replay last year of his shoulder "injury.". I swear it looks like he veered into Choi (?) And lowered his shoulder like he was going to "teach him a lesson.". Instead, it cost him (us) a season.  Dumb

His defense has been a tad less other-worldly this year, and doen-right shoddy in the last month.  Not on throws, he's the best ever to 1st.  But he gets to a lot of balls that go right on by.  And he NEVER used to let a ball get bwn him and the bag, but we've seen it 10 times in a week.  And that wild throw yesterday would have cost us the game (and 9 L's in a row) if God hadn't decided to wear #5 last night.

I really like the sub last year, played with fire, heart, didn't get to everything that SR used to, but SR doesn't get to everything SR used to either. And at least he didn"t have Scotty's foul-out-itis, which is infecting the whole team.

I'$ just saying, it isn't only the sucky pitching.  The offensive has let us down, and we've been used to EATING the 4/5's instead of letting them eat us.  You let a meat like tonight 2-hit us in THE most important game of the year, and it doesn't really matter who pitches or how they do.

This team (going back to mid-season last year, and maybe the series) just has not heart.  No resonance.  A HOUR like Pujols' last night used to carry us for a week, now it can't carryover to the next AB.

Maybe we underestimate how much that effing embarassment with the RedSox in 04 really sucked the life outta TLR, Scotty and the Gang.  Puj has a BIG heart, but it ain't 25 guyss big.

Valatan, Zubin's right.  We need your mojo.  Give us a little missive on Friday.  Pour us a little sap.