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The Wainwright thread talks about why the pitching coach and staff didn’t pick up on his stride that was “a foot shorter”, so plugged in the “wave your hands and call it dead arm” excuse. The coach’s staff has to see that one on video.
I came on here to write what Euro and BB just wrote (ok not as well but still). How could they not know? Why is the press not seeing this as a smoking gun for firing the whole pitching department? All the expensive technology and they can’t see a foot shorter stride on an injured player?
But where can you put Molina 1TD? You almost have to hide him in front of DeJong so he can’t hold us up on the base paths.
With the Phillies holding the tiebreaker over the Padres I wonder if they really want to move up a seed.
Three in St Louis, then potentially the Braves, or face the top of the Mets rotation and then the Dodgers after their bye?
I’d want to start in St Louis myself. Would the Padres try to tank?
This is past ‘swan song’ year. This is a roasted duck. No shame in hanging it up at age 41. A long proud career. No time left to fix his mechanics. That HR was a meat ball.
Olson delivered an RBI single in the fourth and then damaged Scherzer again with a leadoff homer in the sixth. The veteran first baseman entered play Monday hitting .102 with one homer and a .353 OPS over his past 25 games, but he has gone 8-for-16 with four homers during the five games that have followed.
Some might think this is relevant as Goldy has struggled of late, though not this badly. Never count Goldy out for our playoff run.
I tend to agree with you Rats. I’ve given up rooting for the Brewers to overcome Philly. They are anti-clutch.
I went to the 2004 WS St Louis. It was not a good thing. My memories (the ones I haven’t suppressed) are how nice it was that the Cardinal brass opened the gates to all the Sox fans w/o tickets milling around outside, so they could come in and party and see the last inning. My other memory was a Sox family wandering around in a daze on Game 5 day (which obviously wasn’t played 😡), repeating over and over how amazed they were that they won. Like us, they were stuck waiting around for their flight. Ghost town.
Hilarious.
I’m calling tonight’s game 5-3. Offense has a non-zero BA RISP, and it’s enough. Rats comes in off the ledge for good, and we all rejoice and enjoy
some meaningless games.I propose that tomorrow we have a creative writing contest to out-doom and out-gloom esteemed Ratsbuddy in prognosticating our down-to-the-wire near-miss at disaster.
Winner gets a six-pack of canned wine that would make CIF whince.
Rats, I see you’ve gone back to your playoff bunker. How long did you come out for? I hope at least you could enjoy the game by the 4th inning.
I’ve been rooting for the Brewers for about three weeks, because they are the best team for us to face, and I don’t root for teams with unlimited money like the Padres. So you can blame me that the Brewers haven’t faded yet.
I don’t mind if DeJong swings at high balls out of the zone, but I’d prefer if he could aim at them. Even better, hit one of them.
A good read while waiting for tonight’s game.
