Hunter Pence has been balling out lately

8/31/2010 10:47:43 PM

Worst collapse ever. We suck. I still need to poast some pics from the summer.

9/1/2010 2:05:32 PM

Reds fan here. You guys blow.

Votto > Pujols (for the last couple months)

9/1/2010 2:13:31 PM

This is embarrassing.

9/1/2010 11:11:40 PM

Bump for boozie...

1/14/2011 5:31:27 PM

What happen????

1/14/2011 5:54:21 PM

Jesus what a terrible offseason.

Penny is gone, maybe good, maybe not. Traded a promising pitcher Hawksworth for Ryan fucking Theriot and then traded possibly the best fielding shortstop and fan favorite Brendan Ryan for a minor leaguer. Our two signings were Gerald Laird, a 50 year old backup catcher, and Lance Berkman, a possibly over the hill 1B where we currently have the best player in baseball.

WTF Mozeliak?

1/14/2011 9:39:24 PM

Pujols is making me nervous as shit. Will 2011 be his last year in a Redbird uniform?



[Edited on February 14, 2011 at 8:27 AM. Reason : a 10-year contract is ridiculous. That would ruin the payroll paying him that long]

2/14/2011 8:16:46 AM

God dammit. Worst offseason ever.

Can we fast-forward to 2012????

Triple post it's like nobody cares now.

2/23/2011 1:23:59 PM

As a Cub fan, I will break your post streak.

2/23/2011 1:29:16 PM

It must suck knowing your team is the 3rd highest paid team in baseball and will still not compete.

It's okay you've had so many years of suffering I am sure you are used to it.

I can't imagine pulling for the Cubs AND NC State.

2/23/2011 1:33:16 PM

Quote :

"Can we fast-forward to 2012????"

Are you that eager to see the end of Pujols' career in St. Louis?

2/23/2011 1:55:58 PM

Quote :

"I can't imagine pulling for the Cubs AND NC State."

Add the Redskins to that list for me.


[Edited on February 23, 2011 at 2:00 PM. Reason : But maybe we can at least snake Pujols from you]

2/23/2011 1:59:37 PM

Quote :

"Are you that eager to see the end of Pujols' career in St. Louis?"

If he wants $30 Million and 10 years, yes. Sad but true. $30 million is ridiculous. Texas was awful until they got rid of ARod and some of his outrageous contract. STL was a good team before Pujols and will be fine without him. $30 Million can get several good pieces, not an aging one who's an injury away from not playing.

What baseball fan would want their team with an average payroll to do that for a guy 32 next January?

2/23/2011 2:11:24 PM

I wouldn't care if the Cubs gave him $500 mil. There's no salary cap.

2/23/2011 2:16:02 PM

Quote :

"I can't imagine pulling for the Cubs AND NC State."

Its a perpetual migraine.

2/23/2011 2:24:41 PM

Honestly I dont think it will take 300 million over 10 years to sign him if he actually wants to stay in St. Louis. I'd front load the shit out of it and pay him like the best player in baseball, but give him the 10 years. He said years ago he'd take less money if it meant signing other talent and competing for championships. IIRC the cardinals only offered him 8 years this off season, which is why you could believe him saying "its not about the money".


They can't fuck this up and lose him. They haven't really made many good moves in several years since the GM went to Cincy. There really isn't much on this team besides top heavy pitching and Pujols...and it showed in crunch time last year.

[Edited on February 23, 2011 at 4:29 PM. Reason : ]

2/23/2011 4:28:42 PM

Holliday? Rasmus? How could you say that? I think Colby is a future stud if he and La Russa can get along.

I thought things were looking decent before the Waino injury. Wainwright, Carpenter, Westbrook, Garcia, and Lohse is a good rotation if Lohse could regain his 2008 form.

2/23/2011 4:53:27 PM

IMO Holliday is a little overrated. Take Pujols off the team I don't think he bats as well, and he's basically replaceable (to say the least) as a fielder. Rasmus is a good young player, but who outside of that do we have? Our pitching rotation last year was good but it just took a huge hit. Plus, if our starters couldn't go 7 or 8 innings we had a damn hard time winning the game. Franklin was decent, but we have nobody at middle relief.


Hopefully Carp regains his form this year after an off year last season. The rest of the guys need to pitch all season like they did early on. We'll see.

2/23/2011 10:04:16 PM

Last year really was depressing to watch. I can't recall a team ever just quitting midway through the season like we seemed to. It's like one day we were awesome, and the next day we were worthless.

And IMO, we need to keep Pujols, whatever the cost. This guy is arguably the greatest player to ever play baseball. I mean, that is huge. Having him alone will give fans a reason to come out to the ballpark on a regular basis, and it will give other players (Holiday) a reason to become a Cardinal.

2/24/2011 12:29:58 PM

^agreed. After the all-star break, we had that series sweep of Cincy and looked freakin awesome doing it to take the lead, but IIRC we lost like 8 of the next 10 (something absurd) and never looked back.

Gotta keep Pujols too.

2/24/2011 4:03:04 PM

Quote :

"Plus, if our starters couldn't go 7 or 8 innings we had a damn hard time winning the game. Franklin was decent, but we have nobody at middle relief."

Not at all man. The bullpen wasn't that bad. 3.73 ERA 6/16 in the NL and we had the least amount of blown saves in the Majors at 10 and we had the 2nd highest save rate at 76%. Franklin did ok, McClellan (2.27 ERA) is superb at his setup role, Motte (2.24 ERA) had a really good year as well. Boggs (3.61) made good strides aqd Reyes did his job getting out lefties.

In a nutshell, I'd say timely hitting and the bottom of the order were the weaknesses. Ryan and Schumaker had down hitting years and Rasmus/Freese battled injuries causing us to play young unproven guys like Jay and Craig, who looked good for the future.

2/24/2011 11:04:47 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2011/news/story?id=6171365

3/1/2011 6:56:42 PM

hopefully not a sign of things to come for Franklin

3/31/2011 6:56:35 PM

Not a good day for Central closers.

3/31/2011 7:08:06 PM

blowout loss in the making?

3/31/2011 7:28:56 PM

Go Padres!

3/31/2011 7:29:33 PM

What a shitty played game by the Cards. Shouldn't have been close.

Pujols hits into 3 double plays. Holliday gets picked off at 2nd. Skip makes a bad play at 2B. Franklin blows it with 2 outs in the 9th.

0-1. Sigh. Carpenter gave up 2 hits in 7 innings.

3/31/2011 9:56:35 PM

This looks surprisingly similar to last year. We can't score and we can't hold a lead. Throw in a sub .200 Pujols and we're looking like the cellar dwellers of the NL Central.

4/10/2011 12:01:03 PM

On a plus side it likes Jaime is legit. 15 innings, 1 earned run in 2 starts. Future still looks good for the rotation provided Wainwright, Lohse, and Carpenter can stay healthy. Lohse has looked good in his first 2 starts.

Priority 1 as it should have been already is to see if Motte is closer material or we need to look elsewhere.

4/10/2011 11:00:48 PM

Berkman!!! If he hits like this and Holliday/Pujols/Rasmus/Freese do their thing, could still be a playoff year.

4/13/2011 10:52:40 PM

don't look now, but I believe we have a legit 5th starter now

4/17/2011 12:43:12 AM

Haven't seen the team hit like this in ages. Most of the lineup hitting over .300. Looks like La Russa's angry talk with the media about them not hitting worked.

Who would have thought Carpenter would be our worst starter at this point?

[Edited on April 17, 2011 at 11:19 AM. Reason : McClellan can hit a little bit too, he's a fairly tough out]

4/17/2011 11:11:42 AM

it's tough to see him start 0-2, especially after the 9-1 start last season

but....in all fairness, his performance in his first 2 starts this season should have been good enough

4/17/2011 2:44:27 PM

Awwwww man I wasn't going to post and jinx this.

4/17/2011 3:22:34 PM

I think I'd have a fucking heart attack if one of our closers actually.... you know, closed.

4/17/2011 6:47:32 PM

Franklin = better be out now. Try Motte at closer. Shouldn't have traded Chris Perez for 3 months of Mark DeRosa.

The Dodgers have 2 hitters right now, Ethier and Kemp. First was open, why not walk Kemp and face .154 hitter Juan Uribe instead?

4/17/2011 8:07:51 PM

i feel even worse for Carp now

4/17/2011 8:09:48 PM

Franklin's out, Boggs or Motte in? Skip and Craig to the DL, Punto activated.

4/19/2011 8:55:40 PM

gg, Kyle!

that's the best way to avoid the bullpen

4/21/2011 6:38:47 PM

I will admit I have been the biggest Lohse hater the last two years, but it does appear that his shittiness was due to injuries.

When does Wainright return?

4/22/2011 7:35:03 AM

Ugh NM for some reason i was thinking TJ surgery wasn't a season ender.

Oh well, 11-9, first place - didn't think we'd even sniff first considering how the season started.

4/23/2011 9:28:45 AM

This is fucking humiliating and ridiculous:

March 31st: Up 3-2 in the 9th inning vs SD, lose 5-3.
April 8th: Up 4-3 in the 9th inning vs SF, lose 5-4.
April 9th: Up 2-1 in 9th inning vs SF, lose 3-2.
April 17th: Up 1-0 in 9th inning vs LA, lose 2-1.
April 23rd: Up 3-2 in 8th inning vs CIN, lose 5-3.
Tonight: Up 5-4 in 9th inning vs HOU, lose 6-5.

This is honestly more late-inning leads than I would expect a good team to give up in a whole fucking season, much less in their first 23 games. We could EASILY be a legitimate 18-5, but yet here we sit at 12-11, mired in mediocrity despite amazing hitting. It makes me not even want to watch fucking Cardinal games, because as soon as a reliever comes in and we're up by less than 4 runs, you might as well just fucking give them the L. FUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK

4/26/2011 11:42:46 PM

Was just about to come in here and post something along those same lines....shit here we go again. Hopefully this was a one-time thing for Boggs. He only got 1 out in the 9th today allowing 4 hits and throwing a wild pitch.

Fuck.

4/26/2011 11:44:30 PM

That's all we need is a 6 run lead in the eighth inning.... to narrowly scrape out a 6-5 win, only after striking out a guy with the tying run on second. Are we post season ready, or what??!!

4/27/2011 11:26:12 PM

Oswalt was done 5 years ago

Fyi

Whoops wrong thread, ill leave it anyway

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM. Reason : .]

4/28/2011 12:48:20 AM

For as much as I bitch, I also have to give props to some awesome relief work the last two games.

4/30/2011 6:51:30 PM

Lance Berkman

5/5/2011 4:26:29 PM

Kyle Lohse back to 2008 form.

5/30/2011 12:39:46 AM

Yeah I am going to eat my words for hating on him. I am in fact eating them now...... nom nom nom.

WTF Carp.... is he done? I would say yes. I mean, he may be a viable 4 or 5 guy for another year or 2, but his days of contending for the Cy Young are gone.

5/30/2011 1:27:00 AM