The Cardinals

[UMFan83]

The math would suggest that the Cardinals, 43-28 on the road, need to win at least two of the four in San Francisco before heading to Colorado and Chicago, and infielder Matt Carpenter said, “You don’t want to lose that series by any means. Winning it or splitting it would be ideal.”

 

3 months ago: We are still in the division race, we just played the hard part of our schedule, they haven't had a down stretch yet. if we can get to 4-5 games by the break we like our chances

 

3 weeks ago: We are not thinking wild card, we are still thinking division.

 

yesterday: We just need to split this series to stay alive in the wild card race

[NewUserName]

 

Well, that's the issue. Hrabosky is a lunatic homer. Most Cards fans I know can't stand the guy. It always baffles me that a quality franchise like the Cardinals has such a decidedly mediocre broadcast team. Dan McLaughlin is a fawning cheerleader, Hrobosky is an absolute joke, McCarver is a windbag and Shannon is just okay.

 

I can't stand any of them other than Edmonds, but Shannon is the worst by a wide margin. He's not only terrible calling the game, his mush mouthed mispronunciations are absolutely awful as well.

 

Shannon is the one I've heard the least, so I'll take your word for it.

Shannon is a more drunk Ron Santo...who is allowed to do play by play for some bizarre reason. Even with John Ronney(sp) sitting there.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Wonder if Carpenter and Molina still think the Cardinals can make a move in the division.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Wonder if Carpenter and Molina still think the Cardinals can make a move in the division.

no, but Yadi will someday tell the story about how they were once down 17 with 16 to play and came back to win it

[mul21]

The general resignation to their fate down here is glorious. Almost always followed by "Hey, if this is our down year, we're still doing pretty well". No acknowledgement that the Cubs are now their overlords.

[Banedon]

[davell]

The general resignation to their fate down here is glorious. Almost always followed by "Hey, if this is our down year, we're still doing pretty well". No acknowledgement that the Cubs are now their overlords.

 

When all our hitting gets even better next year and other teams truly start to understand what we've got.....The misery porn is going to be awesome. It may be the biggest thread we've got going next season.

[UMFan83]

The general resignation to their fate down here is glorious. Almost always followed by "Hey, if this is our down year, we're still doing pretty well". No acknowledgement that the Cubs are now their overlords.

 

I keep seeing them compare 2006 and 2011 to this year.

[mul21]

The general resignation to their fate down here is glorious. Almost always followed by "Hey, if this is our down year, we're still doing pretty well". No acknowledgement that the Cubs are now their overlords.

 

I keep seeing them compare 2006 and 2011 to this year.

 

The reasonable people I talk to down here know that those were both a perfect storm of getting healthy and hot at the right time and have zero expectation of that happening again. The mouth breathers definitely are using that.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

They should probably worry about just finishing over .500 at this point.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

They couldn't even muster one hit against the Giants bullpen in four innings.

[17 Seconds]

haha, 6 unearned runs after a yadi throwing error

[BigSlick]

The more I think about it, the more I'm completely satisfied with the Cardinals missing the playoffs to the Mets and Giants. It really puts an exclamation point on who's division this is for the forseeable future (ours), and they have no chance to redeem themselves after last year.

 

Cubs may lose to the Mets again and that could potentially suck, but their rotation is a shadow of what it was last year. And the Giants, well, I have less emotional ties to that team, other than their connection to the Devil and Even Year Black Magic

[soccer10k]

The more I think about it, the more I'm completely satisfied with the Cardinals missing the playoffs to the Mets and Giants. It really puts an exclamation point on who's division this is for the forseeable future (ours), and they have no chance to redeem themselves after last year.

 

Cubs may lose to the Mets again and that could potentially suck, but their rotation is a shadow of what it was last year. And the Giants, well, I have less emotional ties to that team, other than their connection to the Devil and Even Year Black Magic

 

Ideal scenario: Cubs sweep the Giants and I'm in attendance for Game 3.

[Regular Show]

So there's a 3-way tie for the two WC slots right now. It seems obvious to me who I would be pulling for to come out of this scrum and win the WC game (Mets) and then face the Cubs. Is this how everyone else feels? I guess I could make a poll but I don't really care that much lol?

 

I don't really want to face the Cardinals, but I don't fear them. The Cubs are the better team, but in these stupid short series anything can happen unfortunately as previously mentioned in this thread...

[Banedon]

So there's a 3-way tie for the two WC slots right now. It seems obvious to me who I would be pulling for to come out of this scrum and win the WC game (Mets) and then face the Cubs. Is this how everyone else feels? I guess I could make a poll but I don't really care that much lol?

 

I don't really want to face the Cardinals, but I don't fear them. The Cubs are the better team, but in these stupid short series anything can happen unfortunately as previously mentioned in this thread...

 

I honestly don't care. I'm confident we can beat all three teams. I'm just going with the Theo plan...three way tie...lots of WC playoff innings.

[Hunter]

I would prefer the Mets lose to Cardinals in the first playoff game, then beat the Giants in the second, to then beat the Cardinals in the Wild Card game.

[mikeyt34]

I remember back in 2010 the Bears had a chance to eliminate from post-season their hated rival Packers in the final game of the season. The Bears were playing for literally nothing, already had locked up home field and the bye. The Packers were in a must win situation win-in, lose-out. Bears played them tough in a meaningless game, losing 10-3. 3 weeks later the Packers got hot and wound up beating the Bears in the NFC Championship enroute to winning the Superbowl....

 

Now, I'm not comparing the 2016 Cardinals to the 2010 Packers, but it would be nice for the Cubs to remember a lesson the Bears failed to learn. When you have a chance to step on the throat of your most hated rival, DO IT! A sweep at Wrigley this weekend will go a long way to accomplishing that.

[Cubswin11]

I remember back in 2010 the Bears had a chance to eliminate from post-season their hated rival Packers in the final game of the season. The Bears were playing for literally nothing, already had locked up home field and the bye. The Packers were in a must win situation win-in, lose-out. Bears played them tough in a meaningless game, losing 10-3. 3 weeks later the Packers got hot and wound up beating the Bears in the NFC Championship enroute to winning the Superbowl....

 

Now, I'm not comparing the 2016 Cardinals to the 2010 Packers, but it would be nice for the Cubs to remember a lesson the Bears failed to learn. When you have a chance to step on the throat of your most hated rival, DO IT! A sweep at Wrigley this weekend will go a long way to accomplishing that.

[Gilby]

Mikey T Wilbon

[Lenny]

Well, I see that GRB has returned to it's previously scheduled implosion quite rapidly.

 

NOTE TO "Free dabum/Free Meph POSTERS: GRB's new team did that, and it's worse than when Michael left. Trolls get bounced for a reason.

 

Give Tim a break.

[Sammy Sofa]

Free Meph POSTERS

 

I don't think these people exist.

 

But, yes, free da Bum.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

da bum wasn't a troll. he was a legit friggin idiot

[Sammy Sofa]

He was a treasure.