The Cardinals

[Bull]

Monday night I went with a group of 5 friends (who are ALL Cardinal fans). We bought tickets in advance and ended up in Section 193, Left Centerfield bleachers. It was at this point that I realized that I hate myself because I know my way around Busch stadium better than I do Wrigley. I've had bad experiences at Busch before (peanuts and ice thrown at me). I'm pretty mild and mind my own business, but my Cards fan friends were razzing me. The Cards fans behind us had large amounts of Vodka in extra large Dasani bottles. Several liters. Cubs fans behind them were lit up too. The bleachers were alive. Lots of talk about 1908. When Heyward came up, booze fueled boos filled the stadium. Several N-words. Overtime the Cubs fans would get excited, the Cards fans would get more angry. About the 3rd inning one of the guys with me pointed out the tattoo 5 rows in front of me. I worked for just the right angle, trading seat with one of my friends and posted to my Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/billwoodruffiii.

 

I was on my phone and terrible with typing on it (especially trying to paste between codes, upload to imager, etc), and was hanging out with friends, so I uploaded to my personal Facebook and waited to upload the picture here.

 

Tuesday night I went alone and bought a $130 ticket from a "street salesman" for $15 because it was the last one from a set of 4.

 

Great seat near the press box in an exclusive area, outside a restaurant area only for people with tickets for that area. It was in this area that I saw Jed. I walked behind him for 10 seconds and then called his first name. He turned around confirming to me that it was him. I said "you guys are doing a great job with the team". A quick handshake and a thank you and he went into the press box.

 

Great game, but less energy. There were very few Cubs fans in this section, so much less energy. I was alone, so I decided to upload the pictures to the game thread. They didn't get much attention there so I posted here where the thread is moving slower. The rest you know!

 

tl;dr The pictures are from Monday. I was busy Monday and only posted them to my Facebook. Posted them here Tuesday.

 

That may be my longest post ever here, and I've been here since 2003, lol.

Edited April 20, 2016 by Bull

[kujay]

We're not worthy.

[David]

http://www.csnchicago.com/chicago-cubs/try-not-suck-joe-maddon-getting-cardinals-heads

 

“I would love to know where the original concept or thought came from, because it’s not a unilateral decision made by an usher,” Maddon said. “It’s got to be an edict among the powers that be here. Was it the mayor of St. Louis? Is it the president?

 

“It’s interesting. It speaks to the politics of the area a little bit also. I think you have to be careful with that.

 

“I’d love a full explanation as to why they find it offensive. And I said if you do find it offensive, you really have to dig down deeply and understand why you find that dirty in some way. I’d love to know why it’s dirty. Because that’s what it comes down to – somebody finds it dirty. And I don’t find it that way at all.”

 

So Maddon won’t be turning his T-shirt inside out in St. Louis. If anything, he’s thinking bigger and better, because sales benefit charities affiliated with the Cubs and the Hazleton Integration Project in his hometown. This free publicity won’t suck.

 

“If you look it up in the dictionary,” Maddon said, “I think it’s very appropriate to utilize that word in a lot of different moments in our daily adventures. We’re also trying to tone it down a bit for kids. I’m trying to come up with the kids’ version of ‘Try Not To Suck.’

[Sammy Sofa]

Well, Wainwright's season going up in a puff of farts so far is pretty damn great.

[Cubswin11]

Well, Wainwright's season going up in a puff of farts so far is pretty damn great.

It never made sense to me before the year when people were pretty much matter of factly saying that Wainwright was going to be his 4-6 WAR self coming back without a doubt.

[Gilby]

lol, Wainwright is striking out only 3.6 batters per 9 innings. 9 total strikeouts to 10 walks.

 

Though I was expecting to look and see his velocity has dropped off a cliff, but that's not the case.

[Thusly Boned]

From GRB:

 

I am tired of the Cubs

 

Yeah, you're in for a looonngg haul, buddy.

[NOLA]

From GRB:

 

I am tired of the Cubs

 

Yeah, you're in for a looonngg haul, buddy.

It's one of their stages of denial. Anger has passed, moving into acceptance.

[illiniguy]

They now are complaining about us, saying we are beating up the Reds. That's what we are supposed to do, and isn't that a bit funny since the Cardinals have pummeled the Reds lately themselves?

[Thusly Boned]

They now are complaining about us, saying we are beating up the Reds. That's what we are supposed to do, and isn't that a bit funny since the Cardinals have pummeled the Reds lately themselves?

 

Yeah, we haven't had a difficult schedule. But aside from the Cubs and Pirates, they've played a very soft schedule this far. Plus they've played the Braves, who are probably the worst team in baseball.

 

They have nothing to be complaining about.

[NOLA]

Let them wallow in the language of losers. "Not home grown. Beating weak teams. They'll fade down the stretch." They sound like miserable sacks. let's enjoy this.

[Banedon]

Yeah, we haven't had a difficult schedule.

 

Actually, the Cubs have had the toughest schedule so far.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/rpi/_/sort/sos

[David]

Yeah, we haven't had a difficult schedule.

 

Actually, the Cubs have had the toughest schedule so far.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/rpi/_/sort/sos

 

worth mentioning that this early, the fact that those teams have played us plays a big role in putting them there because, correct me if i'm wrong, but part of the RPI calculation for SOS involves the quality of the opponents of your opponents

[Banedon]

Yeah, we haven't had a difficult schedule.

 

Actually, the Cubs have had the toughest schedule so far.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/rpi/_/sort/sos

 

worth mentioning that this early, the fact that those teams have played us plays a big role in putting them there because, correct me if i'm wrong, but part of the RPI calculation for SOS involves the quality of the opponents of your opponents

 

Well the RPI itself weighs that. But simply the SOS column should be the combined winning percentage of all opponents.

 

EDIT: Well, maybe you're right.

[TruffleShuffle]

almedys diaz, whose name i'm probably misspelling, has an ops over 1.300.

[TruffleShuffle]

Let them wallow in the language of losers. "Not home grown. Beating weak teams. They'll fade down the stretch." They sound like miserable sacks. let's enjoy this.

 

they seem to be cycling through the first three stages of the five stages of grief.

[d_money]

Not sure if it's been posted but apparently all of the Cubs/cards games in StL this year are during the week (i.e. No weekend games). Pretty stupid move on mlb's part.

[imb]

schedule makers didnt want our players to suffer the indignity of having to spend a weekend in st louis

[David]

Not sure if it's been posted but apparently all of the Cubs/cards games in StL this year are during the week (i.e. No weekend games). Pretty stupid move on mlb's part.

 

seems ideal from a business perspective as those games will sell out regardless of what night they're on and then they get the weekend boost for other opponents

[Banedon]

almedys diaz, whose name i'm probably misspelling, has an ops over 1.300.

 

He's not been good in the field though.

[rocket]

lol

[tweet]

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[David]

what am i looking at

[rocket]

what am i looking at

 

yadier points out a guy with binoculars in the centerfield camera well who is probably stealing signs, and the guy promptly moves out of view.

[Banedon]

That was during the ninth inning and I was watching and even the Cardinals announcers were confused. Jim Edmonds was doing color and he specifically said it's amazing how they can be in the booth and see the whole field and still not know why there's a stoppage of play on the field.

[Banedon]

A gentleman in a white Padres shirt carrying binoculars and a walkie talkie while standing in the batters eye in the ninth inning attracted both the attention of Cardinals C Yadier Molina’s – who pointed him out during 3B Brett Wallace’s at-bat – as well as a minor outpouring of questions on social media as to just what he was doing. As of Sunday night, the Padres had yet to provide comment or confirm his employment.