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Tired of all the election noise? Bored by the lack of any baseball news? Looking for something to challenge your mind? Well, I started this thread on March 5, 2020, a bit over 8 months ago, and today I was scanning over TCN looking for something I might have missed and decided to read through this thread again. You know there are a lot of meaningful posts over these 48 pages and more than 1100 posts. Some are truly insightful and others are downright silly but you can see in most all of them a bit of fear that this virus is nothing to overlook. Even young folk who are supposed to be the least likely to die from it still have a fear shown in some of their posts. Let’s keep that attitude and beat this bug right back into the ground. God Bless America. In this case some might say God Bless the World.
After reading more details on Yadi and his social media whining I think it is time for the Cards to bid him adieu and let him show his talents to other teams. He is truly another Tommy Pham in that he thinks he is playing for the Molina Cardinals. They have bowed and scraped to him too long and he is becoming pretty much the spoiled brat who thinks he can have his way with the brass just by complaining. I think it is time to get a new catcher in the fold and get them trained up. Yadi as a gem without a doubt but the gem is turning into a rhinestone in his waning days. I would not have given him a gold glove this year and, as for being Puerto Rican, he is barking down the wrong alley there.
There were lots of things to dislike about this past season but as time wore on I found my greatest dislike to be something unusual………………those darn cardboard fans always staring out at you and even including horses, dogs, cats and other forms of wildlife. I was hoping we could have a huge barn fire out behind second base and have people donate to throw photos into the fire.
I am still finding it hard to believe that the Cards basically cut the heart out of a superb infield lineup for 11.5 million dollars. Now that cut has increased where it is a double Gold Glove winner. His offense was good enough to keep him and his defense was not to be topped. He was drafted in 2011 and after 9 years has made it to the top of his profession twice. Say it ain’t so Mo.
BW wrote: These are good examples of how we don’t always have all the info needed to be exact.
Those deferrals were actually on one or pay charts a couple of years ago. I distinctly remember Matt Holliday’s name I am 90 percent sure that Albert was also on the deferral list too. I always wondered why nobody was quoting those numbers when totaling up the spend.
I’ve never seen it with Wong, at all.
Well yes, some of us are blind I guess.
Oops, looks like I have to extend this comment to STL25 and his ‘oversight’ of Edman.
Why wouldn’t they exercise the option and trade him? At least get something for him.
I think they are getting 11.5 million for him by declining the option and paying the 1 mil buyout.
Onyxgem, I have a feeling that a lot of other teams are in the same position financially. If not, it will show and Mo will be sent on his way.
I know zip about Cards finances. I trust that they do. But I am sure sorry to see a key player go to free agency after 7 years of development to where he is at the top of his game now.
Edman is not an everyday 2B.
Tommy is playing practically everyday now. He hasn’t pitched or caught or played 1b but I think he had a game or two at all the others. He is not Gold Glove but he is close enough to call an everyday player and if it happens to be at one position I only hope it doesn’t reduce the flexibility of the team to rotate players. Sosa looked pretty good as infielder during spring training. I am glad we have him to fill Kolten’s position.
I am pretty bumfuzzled to see the list of 147 Free Agents – must be slim pickings in MLB after a season of empty seats.
Thanks stlcard25. That is the name my lame brain was pursuing. I don’t recall seeing too much of Aroz during his major league time except as pinch hitter or pinch runner and sometimes centerfielder. But I am sure Libertore makes up for the miss on Randy even if he does only work once every 5 days. What a series when the big dogs in the National can’t quite scrunch the squeakers from the American who have the worst facilty and completely lack a fan base. Should the Rays win they will probably have to hire fans to line the streets for the parade.
Somebody please refresh my memory but was it not Arozarena who fell between 3B and HP in a big Cardinal game and did NOT score? My stamina and memory levels have been a zero since that week in the hospital. Only now barely starting to return.
My one thought on the playoffs. MLB must have put in an order to the baseball plant for a quantity of extra hard balls. Gotta have a lot dingers in the playoffs. Please don’t recite counts fellers – I am not a stats man until I need one……lol
Maybe today the games here at home will not be interrupted. But there is always the monkey of the drugs they pop in you at 3am and 4am. After 7 days in and being released on Monday I am having trouble walking upright without neck, spine and upper leg pain. I guess I will be on 45 day IL.
They must have dismissed Budaska for a reason rather than an overage of supply. He had a good reputation as far as I know. But,like in Hollywood,he LOOKED like a coach…..lol.
Jim Edmonds is my favorite color announcer but he has a bit too much going on outside the game to make me think he would be a success. However whatever his doing now seems to help by working with individuals.
Well after returning from a 7 day hospital stay with two shiny 6 inch stents in my right heart artery I feel the need to acquire (reacquire) one that Mo let ‘getaway.’ I been away folks so if anybody doesn’t think that Randy Arrozarena’s trade turned into a mistake then we should discuss BUT those things happen every season in baseball. Now my most aggravating events during the past week were not the stents or the position from which they had to be inserted (near the junk pile). It was all the hospital traffic doing those minor checks on this and that and standing in front of the darn TV during the game. One of Randy’s home runs came with some Nurse Fiddlesticks plunging a needle into my arm with some body healing potion. And she told me to hold still as that dinger was airborne. Tonight’s games will be on home TV thankfully.
Saw a nice little special the other night on the Cape Code League and it must have been a few years old as there were no masks and people brought lawn chairs to sit in down the lines. The story kind of centered on a player hostess, a elderly lady who kept a room downstairs for a couple of players on the local minor league team. Reminded me of the league I played in so many moons ago. It was fun back then.
Did you hear the Cardinals made the playoffs yesterday?
Yep, my mommy heard me. But what I never heard during the whole game that the Brewers also had a chance with the losses of the Phillies and Giants. Happy to make the playoffs. Now all they have to remember it wasn’t for a cup of coffee. Wouldn’t it be awful to remember your last play in MLB was to hit into a triple play? Guess you would not soon forget that.
Pugs wrote: If we don’t win tomorrow then we flat out don’t deserve October baseball.
I have agree with that but then I think they still to trot to Detroit and put on a show don’t they. Somebody mentioned the need of a big bat and I am of the opinion that we have one coming, Dylan Carlson, but it takes time to grow big bats.
Well done, Minuteman….well done sir!
Thank you Sir Pugsley. Your posts are also well respected particularly those that go into detail on meals. My meals usually consist of one or two words: Brat, hot dog, chicken leg, road kill. Have a good night at the old ball game and put some good luck on the Cards.
The one name I want to see in our outfield lineup here on out including the playoffs this year is Carlson. He has truly come around after having his feet put to the MLB fire and, in my eyes, this guy is a possible replacement for Albert – possible not probable yet.
Pst – I was one of those who said the Cards won’t make the playoffs. Now I want it. Please Mommy, give me the playoffs.
Wait a minute. Isn’t Waino the guy playing for chump change? Go Adam Go and sign another of those contingency contracts as will Yadi. You guys may make a good managing team in the future.
CF wrote: I tell you, this Horton goy is running neck-and-neck with Thompson
What can I do but agree CF. There are definitely times when these two guys who are otherwise very nice turn into werewolves with microphones in order to fill their word quota. But they are former pitchers so I give them a bit of a pass and blame it on FS-Midwest. But I draw the line when they bring in Timmy the bigmouth ex-catcher. It has been so fun this season when they are hundreds of miles from the stadium and have to wait like us other TV fans to determine if a a hit ball has enough oomph to get out. In one of the early games Danny Mac was giving it the old going going gone bit and it was caught a good 40 feet inside the fence.
After his 9/23 gift to the Royals I doubt that Carlos’s name is very high on any acquisition lists. I don’t know what injury he sustained last night but when he grabbed at his side I thought it was just a broken heart. Good luck Carlos. My only hope is that they don’t put you in the pen in’21. I am currently having my heart tested and don’t need any more stress on it.
