All Your Poo Holes Belong To My Man Ram: 2009 NLDS - Cardinals vs. Dodgers

cards in 3

cards 4

cards in 5

cards in 3.

cards in 3!!

grrrr looks like groupthink but cards in 3

st loo in 4~

i voted for LA but it was a blind vote of prayer

LAD-5

One of StL's big three is bound to lose a start, so Cards in 4.

Los Doyers en cinco.

probly St Loo in 4, but I'm rooting Dodgers.

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BIRDNALS IN 5 b/c we have #5

dodger lefties make it close.

dodgers are ripe for a collapse @ sweep imo

don't see how they overcome the cards' starting pitching w whatever they're gonna throw out there

when the dodgers were in STL in july (post-holliday) the first game was a 6-1 win by the cards with carp getting the W and wolf the L and the next game was a 10-0 win with waino taking the W and billingsley the L

Cards in 5

Pineiro's been kinda weak lately, so it wouldn't surprise me if either he or the #4 starter (Smoltz? Lohse? don't feel that great about either) pitched poorly, and I can also see the bullpen blowing a lead for a second game.

Sheehan at BP calls LaRussa "patently insane" if he carries 12 pitchers with all the off days.

sheehan and larussa are kind of two exceedingly smug people who deserve each other

It is nuts to carry 12 pitchers for a best-of-five series, but the alternatives are no better ... teams don't carry quality bench players during the reg season either, so if the team carries 10 pitchers then who will fill those extra two spots? It's either two relatively useless players, or two relatively useless bench guys.

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Cardinals in four.

Game three: Padilla apparently starting instead of Billingsley.

fuck it. i'm amped just to get to watch some doyers.

is Hudson hurt or something? i read Belliard is going to be starting.

"Manager Joe Torre went with the hot hand"

Game three: Padilla apparently starting instead of Billingsley.

― Andy K, Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:09 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Jesus H. Fucking Christ on the cross.

I dislike LaRussa, but if the Yankees win the AL it's best that the Cards play them.

So excited!

I'm still thinking LA but maybe less than 5, maybe 4... or 3?

this game is already nuts.

STL loaded bases with no outs and finish the inning scoring one.
Two pitches later, the Dodgers have a 2-1 lead.

I guess DeRosa's throw was his Penn QB mode.

that was a remarkable throw

what's with Cy Carpenter?

B4rry from the other thread:

if you don't pull your starter in the third inning of Game 1 then we've "officially" lost it with regards to bullpen management?

Looks like Torre is a Sheehanite, at least in the 4th inning!

Short series calls for more extreme strategy.

(like when Joe usta bring Rivera in in the 8th most Octobers)

all gone to bed? this may go 12 like last night...

any game could go to 12! this one doesn't seem to be headed that way tho

i'll take it!

8 runs off of 23 hits

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call "The Weaver Zone":

Jeff Weaver: 1-0, 0.00 ERA
Chris Carpenter: 0-1, 7.20 ERA

"I expect any scenario," he said. "You have to be ready for anything that goes down because you never know how a game's going to play out.

"I'm ready from the first inning on."

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091007&content_id=7384324

From BP:

"Two of the all-time greats in the dugout square off with the benefit of some of two of the most famous sluggers on the field."

Wonder which parts?

i'm trying to get out of here early today but i don’t think it's gonna fly :-(

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii426/kensai808/Memories%20Of%20Kevin%20Malone/MarkDeRosaAwesomeThrow.gif

Listening to Vin Scully talk about how some St. Louis Cardinals pitchers have names that remind him of WWII generals is one of the transcendent joys of life. <3 <3 <3

jealous!

For the playoffs, they switched back to the old style of Vin 1st-3rd, Charlie and Rick 4th-6th, and then Vin again to close out the 7th-9th, which means six innings of Vin. It completely justifies paying $10 for the MLB At Bat iPhone app, and possibly also for the cost of an iPhone.

Torre brings the WTF ... doesn't pinch-hit for Kershaw (who'd thrown 100 pitches) in the bottom of the sixth inning of a tie game, with an off-day coming up.

he fell down after missing the routine fly ball?

I can't believe this shit.

I'm still thinking LA but maybe less than 5, maybe 4... or 3?

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;_;

: )

I don't care how good he was this season, I can't take Ryan Franklin seriously as a closer. It's not so much because of his pitching, but because every time I hear the guy's name I remember the time that me and Thermo went to see Jays vs Mariners at and spent two innings heckling Franklin while he was getting rocked in relief. He gave up about five runs, threw at somebody, and was ejected. It was the most satisfying heckling experience of my life.

zach, he was charging in and he didn't know whether to catch the ball with his glove up or down and then it him him in the chest and he kinda tripped over. it was a ball that absolutely should've been caught but he wasn't just standing still

i wonder if it's suddenly like 20 degrees colder in michael barrett's house right now

ah..I see. I guess that's a little better than just waiting underneath a high fly ball and whiffing. But still.

I guess this won't be legendary on the Buckner level but for Cards fans it won't be forgotten anytime soon unless they manage to win 3 in a row. It's a little awkward because up until now it's been a nonstop Holliday lovefest.

What's Barrett connection?

Dare someone to go into the Cards clubhouse and tell them to turn those frowns upside down misters!

yeah it's weird cuz of how well holliday has played and how quickly the city embraced him. if it was ankiel or ludwick who had made the error it would be a different situation.

What's Barrett connection?

the did he/didn't he touch home plate thing in the padres/rockies tiebreaker a couple years ago

guys, if mizzou loses to nebraska tonight they're gonna have to put the whole eastern side of missouri on suicide watch

btw Barry Larkin just said Holliday's boot "changed the complexity of the game."

Gotta say, I don't really ever let sports piss me off too much in real life, or bum me out. At least not since middle school. But this is the most bummed I've been about a game in a looooooooooooooooooong time.

if it's any comfort, your team snagged the '06 WS trophy w/ one of the shakiest teams ever to do so.

yeah at least st louis isn't the yankees, who have been apparently waiting forever to win the world series from what i hear

Guys, Franklin gave up two hits, two walks, and a wild pitch (it was scored a passed ball but I disagree) after Holliday's error. All of this happened against the bottom of the order with two outs, and he gave up the game winning hit to f'ing MARK LORETTA who was 0-15 against him up until that point.

Goats usually get a lot of help screwing up and this time was no exception.

He gave up about five runs, threw at somebody, and was ejected. It was the most satisfying heckling experience of my life.

wow! i remember this - but forgot it was franklin.
i'm am glad i goaded you into hassling him!

lol it's true, cf the cubs players conveniently having a scapegoat who wasn't even a player in 2003

yeah between belliard and loretta the cards got beat tonight by the 1999 brewers

Franklin = Calvin Schiraldi

That was the most demoralizing ESPN Gamecast I have ever watched. Fuck.

otm. especially watching franklin continuously miss the strike zone. if franklins first pitch of an AB isn't a strike TLR should yank him out by his fucking goat beard.

these 2 games are exactly how they have played for the past 6 weeks.

kinda lol but mostly sad: Chris Duncan would have caught it

Good game

Sequence #2 after the faceplant was Holliday reaching back for his seeds, throwing some in his mouth and muttering "fuck."

Holliday's error reminds me of a similar gaffe in the 2003 NLDS:

Jose Cruz Jr. was signed as a free agent by the San Francisco Giants on January 28, 2003. In San Francisco, he won a Gold Glove and broke Willie Mays' franchise single-season record for outfield assists with 19. Unfortunately, a few days before the Gold Glove was awarded to Cruz, he dropped a routine fly ball in the eleventh inning of game 3 of the NLDS against the Marlins. That error started a Marlins rally, and the Marlins took a 2 games to 1 lead in the series which they never relinquished.

I'm sure you've all read by now that Holliday said he lost the ball in the lights.

Cards' estimated chance of winning after the error: 87%

hay gang, is there is PS Odds-type thing where they run sims of the PO games?

you mean this?

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/postseasonodds.php

yes

those odds show Boston having a better chance of winning the WS than the Angels. uh...

something's off obv

"Never forget to bring a towel."

Pujols hasn't homered in a month.... which according to sources (82 ABs), is his longest HR drought of his career.

nice slide into first base there

Pronkjols

I'll tell you what, I won't be missing Brendan Ryan's village people 'stache that is for sure, sorry duder.

yeah that is the definition of nagl

Shit, it's gonna be a Dodgers-Yankees WS, isn't it?

Nice to see old man Smoltz strike out five in a row though.

http://umpbump.com/press/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/padillaswisher1.jpg

st louis = tremendously bitchmade

also, short series are bullshit

http://a.espncdn.com/media/apphoto/317ac4f3-ef0c-49d5-bc1c-226a862bb126.jpg

Russell Martin announced that for the 2009 season, the name printed on his jersey will be changed to "J. Martin" in reference to one of his middle names "Jeanson", in honor of his mother.[22]

I hadn't noticed this! Huh.

it's pretty retarded imo

st louis = tremendously bitchmade

skrit otm

Poll Results
Option Votes
St. Louis Cardinals 14
The Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles 3

Shit, it's gonna be a Dodgers-Yankees WS, isn't it?

NO

Fox wd pray so, tho.

sorry to see this series end first, tho, as it had the most studlies on the field.

It's sad to watch a team get beaten this badly* ... they were beaten in every aspect of the game**.

* unless it's the Yankees, fuck those guys
** maybe not studliness ... Morbs?

"studlies"? you guys have gone too far with the obscure sabermetrics.

"Studliness" goes with "intangibles". It's just another reason why Jeter is so clutch.

cards would have lasted five games in a best of 4 series