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Guys JUST BEAT THE F'N Cardinals in the playoffs

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guys we just bludgeoned the Cardinals with 6 dongs from 6 separate dongsman in one freakin night

 

you know how much cooler Wedding Crashers would have been if he said Dongsmen instead of Cocksman?

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i've gone full davebot and started listening to the score on the way into work, and this morning they played the cards radio guy's call of ding dong johnson soler's (whom he pronounced "whore-gay soul-ar") dongus opus, it was amazing
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I lost my phone in Wrigleyville last night, and it was totally worth it.

 

I just watched the interview with Theo after the game, and he looked a little bit bombed himself. Could have just been the heat of the moment I guess.

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http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-sad-early-ending-for-redbirds/article_d827c392-3db5-50d8-971f-1237763be786.html

 

CHICAGO • Who do you let inside, allowing access to your emotions, your soul, your imagination, your you?

 

Your family, of course.

 

Your friends – not your buddies or bros but your friends, the ones who you’d be OK with if they married your sibling.

 

And your team.

 

The Cardinals are a part of the makeup of their fans — it’s a lifestyle — and fans allow this team to overtake them, take them places. You invest your emotions in baseball. You’re in it. Game after game after game, into the magic of the 10th month.

 

And so, when it’s over too soon, you feel like someone — someone just so close to you — let you down. It’s just all so sad. Then the context hits you — the team with the most wins in baseball since 2011 blew it.

 

And to the Cubs.

 

In the losing clubhouse Tuesday, after elimination from the postseason, the Cardinals’ Brandon Moss was asked if the team’s goals were unfulfilled.

 

“Yes, because we won 100 games, yes because – and this is going to sound cliché — it’s the St. Louis Cardinals,” said Moss, who had a pinch-hit RBI in Tuesday’s 6-4 loss. “Usually it’s not a one-series-and-done thing. But that doesn’t mean you go in and take it for granted. … We just couldn’t keep pace with the runs. Is it earlier than we thought we’d be out? Sure. But we knew this series was going to be tough, and we saw in the month of September how well they were playing.”

 

Maybe we were kidding ourselves.

 

Did that look like the best team in baseball out there?

 

In the three losses to Chicago, Matt Holliday had one hit. The Cardinals struck out 13 times Monday. And 15 times Tuesday. We got excited about the narrative that was John Lackey pitching on three days rest, as if he would Chris Carpenter the Cardinals back to Busch for Game 5. But the cowboy couldn’t control the game. And the reliable reliever Kevin Siegrist got whiplash.

 

The quick end to the 2015 Cardinals season was unacceptable. If a season is judged in a binary way — failure or success — yes, 2015 was a failure. One hundred wins. They are just so talented. And they were embarrassed.

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There was a sequence when you knew it was going to happen, that the season would end, right here.

 

The Cubs led 5-4 in the top of the seventh, but the Birds had a runner on and two outs. Jason Heyward was at the plate (was this his last at-bat wearing the birds on the bat?). Heyward struck out swinging, and this cottage on the corner of Addison and Clark had seldom heard such sound.

 

Then came the seventh inning stretch – and, of course, they showed a video of the late, great Harry Caray singing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame.” As Siegrist and the Cards warmed up in the field, the PA system then played that song “Shout,” the one that crescendos into delirium.

 

And the first batter up, Kyle Schwarber, hit a pitch to the moon’s moon. A city shrieked and the sky was a glorious canvas of purples and pinks and you thought — yep, the Cubs are going to win this thing, aren’t they?

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i'm not sure how it sounded on TV, but the crowd was absolutely electric yesterday.. there were so many instances in which you could feel the upper deck shaking. after the javy dong, starlin's song, schwarber's dongshot, after the 8th and 9th inning. simply incredible.

 

after javy donged, i've never seen so many strangers high-fiving and hugging each other.

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i'm not sure how it sounded on TV, but the crowd was absolutely electric yesterday.. there were so many instances in which you could feel the upper deck shaking. after the javy dong, starlin's song, schwarber's dongshot, after the 8th and 9th inning. simply incredible.

 

after javy donged, i've never seen so many strangers high-fiving and hugging each other.

It sounded better than the previous game, but there's also a huge difference between what you hear on TBS and what you hear on the radio feed. TBS muffles the crowd and the announcers don't really talk about how loud it is. Listening to Pat describe how he had to try and read Ron's lips to understand what he was saying made it fell that much more jubilant.

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Speaking of Pat, I think this series may have fixed him. He sounded as good as ever calling the end of the ninth. The "I wish you could all be here in this atmosphere" or whatever he said was just perfect.
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http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-sad-early-ending-for-redbirds/article_d827c392-3db5-50d8-971f-1237763be786.html

 

CHICAGO • Who do you let inside, allowing access to your emotions, your soul, your imagination, your you?

 

Your family, of course.

 

Your friends – not your buddies or bros but your friends, the ones who you’d be OK with if they married your sibling.

 

And your team.

 

The Cardinals are a part of the makeup of their fans — it’s a lifestyle — and fans allow this team to overtake them, take them places. You invest your emotions in baseball. You’re in it. Game after game after game, into the magic of the 10th month.

 

And so, when it’s over too soon, you feel like someone — someone just so close to you — let you down. It’s just all so sad. Then the context hits you — the team with the most wins in baseball since 2011 blew it.

 

And to the Cubs.

 

In the losing clubhouse Tuesday, after elimination from the postseason, the Cardinals’ Brandon Moss was asked if the team’s goals were unfulfilled.

 

“Yes, because we won 100 games, yes because – and this is going to sound cliché — it’s the St. Louis Cardinals,” said Moss, who had a pinch-hit RBI in Tuesday’s 6-4 loss. “Usually it’s not a one-series-and-done thing. But that doesn’t mean you go in and take it for granted. … We just couldn’t keep pace with the runs. Is it earlier than we thought we’d be out? Sure. But we knew this series was going to be tough, and we saw in the month of September how well they were playing.”

 

Maybe we were kidding ourselves.

 

Did that look like the best team in baseball out there?

 

In the three losses to Chicago, Matt Holliday had one hit. The Cardinals struck out 13 times Monday. And 15 times Tuesday. We got excited about the narrative that was John Lackey pitching on three days rest, as if he would Chris Carpenter the Cardinals back to Busch for Game 5. But the cowboy couldn’t control the game. And the reliable reliever Kevin Siegrist got whiplash.

 

The quick end to the 2015 Cardinals season was unacceptable. If a season is judged in a binary way — failure or success — yes, 2015 was a failure. One hundred wins. They are just so talented. And they were embarrassed.

 

my god, that paper is the most cardinals thing ever.

 

Photos: "Enjoy it while you can, Cubs fans"

 

Other Quotes:

"Heyward struck out swinging, and this cottage on the corner of Addison and Clark had seldom heard such sound."

 

"When it was over, my dear friend Nate Kreckman, a lifelong Cubs sufferer, sent me a message that surely summed up so many thoughts from the Chicago side of things: “It’s all gravy from here on out. Watching the Cubs beat the Cardinals is peak sports fan experience for me.”"

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That article mentions the 100 wins and I ventured into some facebook post about the series before the series started where the Cardinals fans were incredulous as to how the Cubs could think they would win because the Cardinals had 100 WINS!!! Do they not realize the Cubs had 97 and that is also a a lot. I mean over 162 is there that big of a difference between 97 and 100 ?

 

Were they the "better team", sure they can claim it if they want. I've rooted for "better teams" that lost to "worse teams" in the playoffs. This is more fun.

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"When it was over, my dear friend Nate Kreckman, a lifelong Cubs sufferer, sent me a message that surely summed up so many thoughts from the Chicago side of things: “It’s all gravy from here on out. Watching the Cubs beat the Cardinals is peak sports fan experience for me.”"

 

Screw that. This isn't an end. Beating the Cards in an NLDS is not enough. It's wonderful...but it's not enough. It's not all gravy from here. There's plenty of meat and potatoes left.

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