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Well well well….the weekend of reckoning is almost upon us. Trust me when I say these 3 games vs the cubs are going to tell us what our club is made of. Not just from a talent perspective, but more importantly from a mental one. A statement will be made this weekend. If we sweep these guys, watch out! They could be a much more cohesive unit than what most of us think. If our Birds take 2-3, I think 2018 is going to be a fun ride. Lose 2-3, and it’s going to be a very long season. Get swept and we are 100% sellers as the trade deadline approaches.
You bet they would, BlackHills. If Albert was within 5 hits of 3000, Cards fans would be rocking the house in hopeful anticipation. This is the quietest quest for an approaching 3000 that I’ve ever seen. Albert has to be missing Cardinal fans. In St. Louis he was a God. In LA, I bet barely 2 people out of 10 could pick Albert out of a lineup, while 7 out of 10 could most likely peg Heidi Fleiss.
– Funny stuff BicycleMike!
– We joke around about UCONN’s cakes, but for those of you who haven’t indulged, you don’t know what you’re missing. For those interested, UCONN will gladly email you her Cardinal cake catalog…. or “CCC” as she refers to it. Some are a bit pricey, but well worth the coin. Three of my favs are her 7 layer cake of Busch stadium for $149.99 and two others celebrating ex-Cardinal players. The Albert Pujols Angel Food cake and the Joe Kelly Boston Creme Pie for $39.99 a pop are great buys.Will anyone amongst us be terribly shocked if Cy Giolito tosses the game of his life this afternoon?
As long as it was equivocal, Euro. And CardsRedSox4Ever is right too. Our Birds would most likely have came up short last night with their effort, or lack thereof, against any team other than either of the modern participants of the franchises from the scandalous 1919 World Series. But honestly, heads need to roll in our advanced scouting department because our boys look absolutely clueless vs these rookie hurlers. How much do you want to bet that Kingham gets lit up in his next start vs Milwaukee? Now that’s a team (Brewers) whose advanced scouting department actually pays attention to the games they are watching instead of messing around with their cellphones for half the game.
A win is a win……even if it’s against the White Sox or Reds. You have to feel a bit soria for James Shields though. He hasn’t thrown a gem like tonight’s for the past 5 years. And isn’t likely to again in the next 5 years….unless he faces our Birds again. Why is it that rookie and gray haired starters fare so well vs the Cards hitters? Been like that for a few years now. It has to be a lame advanced scouting crew. I’m calling for their immediate and unequivocal removal.
Ok…guess we’re playing the ChiSox at home. Really makes little difference as there’s 2 teams that we can beat at home, on the road, Flagstaff…anywhere. And the White Sox are one of these teams. Getting on to the state of affairs….drastic times calls for drastic measures. Wong as the starting 2nd baseman just isn’t working. The man is a utilityman…period. Max Schrock is just the spark plug we need. Get him up here now! The man is twice the hitter that Wong could ever hope to be. Fowler needs to go. Carpenter isn’t ready to be put out to pasture yet, but let’s either put him on the DL or just regulate him to a pinch hitting/DH role until he’s physically ready to play the field properly. I’d try this:
1. Pham (CF)
2. Schrock (2B)
3. Martinez (1B)
4. DeJong (SS)
5. Ozuna (LF)
6. Yadi (C)
7. Gyroko (3B)
8. Fowler….for now. (RF)Our prayers have been answered! This upcoming series vs the downtrodden ChiSox promises to be just the remedy to get this flailing Redbird club right back on track. If we can’t have the Reds then the White Sox are the next best thing. And the Cards get the Sox just where you’d want to get them….. on THEIR home field. Believe it or not, the White Sox at 2-10, have even a more dismal home field record than the Reds. Looking forward past this series, after the other Chicago team comes into St. Louis to shut us down for 3 games, our bumbling Birds then are fortunate enough to play the next 8 games vs the lowly Twins, who just got drilled at home this past weekend 2-3 games to the Reds by a combined score of 24-14 and then the always beatable San Diego Padres. Other goodies are coming compliments of a most favorable schedule…. the ChiSox come back for more punishment in a series in St. Louis. Our Cards also get treated to the likes of lame teams such as Miami, the Royals, the Pads again….and get this….a whole bunch more games vs Cincinnati.
Winston Nicacio got lit up in Wisconsin this afternoon to the tune of 7 earned runs in just 2 1/3 innings of labor. Malcom, Dobzanski & Blanco kept the Wisconsinites pretty much in check the rest of the way, yielding just 2 runs while striking out 10 and issuing nary a free pass. Hurst and Rodriguez tallied 3 hits a piece in the losing effort…. 9-5 Bad Guys your unhappy final.
George Kissell would absolutely throw a tizzy with all of these shenanigans! Obviously, the organization didn’t have the foresight to have George groom someone to take his place. Yes, there is only one George Kissell, but George could have trained some worthy understudy to at least keep the ship afloat. We miss you George!!!
My apologies to my fellow posters for being off base on my Peoria prediction earlier this morning. It’s not often that I miss-call one of our minor league games. If any of you lost money as a result, I feel doubley bad. To recap, I predicted Prendergast to completely stifle the beefy Wisconsin offense….this occurred. I predicted Irving “Elvis” Lopez to whack a dinger….this occurred. I predicted our Chiefs to win the game by the score of 6-1……but the Chiefs actually won by the score of 6-2….ouch! Sorry gang!
Love Prendergast in this one. Wisconsin, who hung 15 on the board last night, will be lucky to post 2 runs with the likes of Prendergast dealing. I’m forecasting Elvis to go yard with the Good Guys prevailing 6-1.
A game such as this is how tailspins are formed. I fear a looming major freefall in the standings. Contenders don’t lose games in this fashion….plain and simple. You see it every September while watching playoff bound teams, where it’s announced a team is 77-0 when leading after 7 innings or 83-0 when leading after 8 innings of play. There will be no such accolades associated with our Cardinals later this year. We are only a month into this marathon and have already coughed up more leads than Danica Patrick at a Daytona 500 race. Let’s see….. we have the middle game of our series at Miller Park where we held a commanding 4-1 advantage heading to the bottom of the 8th. Milwaukee hit us with 2 runs in the 8th and then solo jacks by Braun and Yelich in the 9th put the finishing touches on a heartbreaking Cardinal loss. Then there was the Diamondbacks hitting us with 3 8th inning runs to give them the series victory in St. Louis. And how about just this past Tuesday vs NY where the Mets tagged our bullpen with single tallies in the 8th and 10th frames for the victory. I’m just going off the top of my head here…it seems that I’m missing another late collapse. Anyway you get the point, red flags abound as to our chances for October play…. and unfortunately, these flags are not cardinal red in color.
Rain…… hmmmm…I like it, Rat! I swear you must come from a long line of meteorologists….a very long line from at least the 1600’s. Well let us hope that these probable rains stay behind our 3 river convergence and we get this baby in. I’d hate to have too many of these games to make up later in the year.
The convergence of 3 powerful rivers into 1 must indeed create weather disturbances, Rat. Maybe Rat can come up with an appropriate name for this meteorological phenomena. What a dependable sort Miles has been for us. He tosses another dandy tonight and you can count me in as a Mikolas true believer.
Three players……three mortal lock can’t miss players in Peoria. I haven’t been this exited about a trio since I was but a wee lad and Charlie’s Angels hit the scene. Evan Guillory, Juan “Pez” Yepez and Elehuris “Elvis” Montero. The words “walk” and “free pass” are simply not in Guillory’s vocabulary. And Pez & Elvis? What we have here before our amazing eyes are two players who have figured things out. Two dynamic players who are blossoming into future stars of this great game. These two budding stars should never see the city lights of Palm Beach. By June 1st, they should both be jettisoned to Springfield.
You changed my way of thinking on this topic, Brian. But I still find it hard to imagine Albert not hitting .300 in St. Louis. Concerning Albert’s age, lying about it probably weighed very heavy on his mind….getting caught. I know this first hand. I met this super attractive older woman shortly after finishing college. Right off the bat I told her I was 25 when I was only 22. She was 35 at the time. I guess I figured my chances were better with her if our age differential wasn’t so wide. I never dreamed that I would end up living with her for the next 6 years. Keeping that secret was emotionally very taxing. Always hiding my ID and stuff. I look back now and wonder what in blazes I was doing. Anyway my point is that Albert most likely was always on edge, hoping that his real age would never be discovered. It had to adversely affect his play to some degree.
Sweet post, Onyxgem!! I haven’t seen Rat this worked up since ABC cancelled The Streets of San Francisco.
At first glance, I thought RatsBuddy’s post was going to be a beautiful poem about our young gem, Jordan McKinley Hicks. Thank God I was wrong.
Right now I’d trade Fowler, Ozuna…heck throw in Wong and Bowman too for good measure, to Milwaukee for Yelich.
Don’t mean to pile on a guy who’s in such a funk and quite possibly a bit injured, though he can’t be ailing too bad or he wouldn’t be trotting out there every night. But gosh darn it, my first thought upon hearing about the Ozuna acquisition was “WHY DIDN’T WE TAKE YELICH INSTEAD”???? We could have had him… we could have had him!
And two more quick thoughts…. Hicks finally giving up a run was just a mere “Hickup”….was bound to happen some day. But is the guy ever going to register a strikeout in a game? And is DeWhiffer ever going to get through a game without striking out at least once???
Would Albert’s batting average have dipped so drastically if he had stayed in St. Louis? I think not. Come on….. Albert Pujols hitting .240 in a Cardinals uniform. Not in a million years. Only if he was forced to bat left handed. Sure, a drop off was only natural, but not as drastic as Albert’s. I bet if Albert had remained a Cardinal, he would have passed that 3000 hit plateau before last year’s all-star game.
Did I go to the US Open? Some call me Pugsley “Erin Hills” Addams, Rat.
For me, this series is going to be a pretty fair indicator of what kind of a club we have. After losing 2-3 earlier in NY, if the Mets come in here and handle us again, then it will signal the start of my doubts as to if our Birds are serious contenders. We have to beat quality teams….. Cincinnati is gone…. and they aren’t coming back for a while.
Albert still looks odd to me in an Angels uni. He’ll enter the Hall in his current uniform, but to real baseball fans, he’ll always be a Cardinal first and that team out on the left coast second. It’s not a 50-50 thing like say an Andre Dawson. If someone had a gun to my head and shouted at me to give a compelling case for Andre being sent to the Hall with the Expos over the cubs or vice versa, I’d have to tell them to fire away because I honestly couldn’t do it.
