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This article is basically:

 

- The Cardinals threw at the Cubs and Joe got mad

- Two baseball teams of different talent levels played baseball games for two years

- The more talented baseball team won a significant amount more baseball games

- The writer asserts that the more talented team is not actually better at playing baseball, but rather better at playing MIND baseball against one particular team

 

yup, it's a bunch of nonsense.

 

 

It's baseball, stop overthinking it.

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snoodmonger Iowa Cubs

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Does anyone ever venture over to Cards talk? Every series against the Cubs, someone starts a thread about Bob Gibson taking Rizzo out for standing too close to the plate. It seems they get an almost sexual satisfaction imagining it. It's weird.

 

It's so dumb. I mean, Rizzo got hit by a Chapman fastball this year. If that didn't scare him off the plate, I doubt a Gibby one would.

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This article is basically:

 

- The Cardinals threw at the Cubs and Joe got mad

- Two baseball teams of different talent levels played baseball games for two years

- The more talented baseball team won a significant amount more baseball games

- The writer asserts that the more talented team is not actually better at playing baseball, but rather better at playing MIND baseball against one particular team

 

I mostly got a validation that Matheny is dumb and Joe played him like a fiddle.

biittner77 South Bend Cubs

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Dexter Fowler hit a "Bold 3 run homer". As opposed to a meek 3 run homer?

 

I find the idea that Cubs are the only thing keeping the Cards from being good and winning the division delicious.

Bull ACL Cubs

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This article is basically:

 

- The Cardinals threw at the Cubs and Joe got mad

- Two baseball teams of different talent levels played baseball games for two years

- The more talented baseball team won a significant amount more baseball games

- The writer asserts that the more talented team is not actually better at playing baseball, but rather better at playing MIND baseball against one particular team

 

I mostly got a validation that Matheny is dumb and Joe played him like a fiddle.

 

 

It is possible to be a math/stats dummy and meatball and a very engaging writer at the same time.

 

I enjoyed the article and like Miklasz in general.

 

It is also possible for Matheny to be dumb, the Cardinals bad, Joe to a genius and the Cubs to be good all as separate facts.

 

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

David GOAT

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probably to troll cubs fans, as they seem to have successfully done

 

still jokes on them since it indirectly brings attention to what they were doing before those 4 games.

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that's what i'm saying. why would you try to troll with such obviously insufficient material?

 

Isn't that what every troll in history has done?

soccer10k Cooperstown

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Went to GRB today to enjoy a little Cardinal misery about the games the last two days (mainly Saturday's) and before I can click on a game thread, I notice another thread titled "Carpenter's got to go".

 

In case you're not sure which Matt Carpenter some of them want to get rid of, it's the one who:

 

-has put up at least a .828 OPS in 5 of the last 6 seasons (2012 was a partial season)

-has put up at least a .365 OBP in each of the last 6 seasons and is 14th in MLB in OBP this year and was 17th last year.

-has put up at least 2.9 bWAR in each of the last 5 seasons

-has put up at least 2.8 fWAR in each of the last 5 seasons

-got paid 6.25M in 2016, 9.75M in 2017 and is due 13.5M and 14.5M the next two years

 

The original post contained this:

 

I don't give a damn if his OBP is .400 the man is a mental case and everyone on the team knows it. He's completely unfit to lead off,

 

I didn't read the whole thread (it's 208 posts) but it was started in early July (Carp had a horrible .372 OBP and .816 OPS at the time) and is the second topic in their baseball talk forum.

mul21 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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While there's a lot of hyperbole in that post, it's not an idea completely without merit. He's essentially limited to first base anymore because his arm isn't very good and his range has always been iffy. Combine that with the fact that they don't really have a good middle of the order bat that could probably most easily be found from some other guy who plays first and it's not a crazy thought to have.
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yeahhh that's the good stuff

 

https://www.101sports.com/2017/09/25/cubs-come-busch-giddy-anticipation-celebrating-cardinals-house/

 

First place in the NL Central isn’t available, and any shot at overtaking the Cubs ended when the Cardinals walked into Wrigley Field on Sept. 15 and got slapped down in three consecutive losses.

 

No, first place is long gone.

 

The Cubs are planning to make it official by clinching in St. Louis, celebrating in St. Louis, and erasing the Cardinals from postseason contention.

 

The Cubs aren’t trying be polite or respectful about this. They have suspended all political correctness and phony diplomacy. The Cubs want to come to Busch Stadium, and turn off the lights on the Cardinals’ season. They want to douse the Cards’ home with victory champagne and beer.

 

“We intend to clinch there,” the Cubs’ Ben Zobrist told reporters after his team made easy work of the Brewers, winning 5-0 Sunday at Miller Park. “And I think for a lot of the guys that have been around here for a long time, it’s going to be very satisfying.”

 

And what will the Cardinals do about this?

 

You tell me.

 

Including the 2015 NLDS the Cubs have won 30 of the last 48 games they’ve played against the Cardinals. The Cards have won only two of the last 15 series between the rivals, with three series splits. At home the Cardinals had lost five consecutive series to the Cubs until taking two of three earlier this year on Mother’s Day weekend. But that was but a brief respite from the beatdowns; the Cardinals are 4-11 vs. Chicago this season.

 

After a flat 43-45 record in the season’s first half — their post World Series recovery — the Cubs sharpened their focus for the stretch drive. The Cubs have rolled to the NL’s top record (44-23) since the All-Star break. And after getting swept at Wrigley by the Brewers on the weekend of Sept. 8-10, the Cubs responded with a 10-2 surge that carried them into St. Louis on Sunday night.

 

On the last two weekends, the Cubs had a three-game home series against the Cardinals, then went to Miller Park for a four-game set with the Brewers. The Cubs went 6-1.

 

The triumphs over St. Louis have become so routine, I’m a little surprised that the Cubs still get so frothed up over the opportunity to kick the Cardinals around again.

 

“The Cubs are going to destroy Busch Stadium’s visiting clubhouse,” Patrick Mooney wrote at CSN Chicago. “The rivalry has fundamentally shifted to the point where the St. Louis Cardinals are hanging around the National League’s wild-card race in a transition year and it would have been a massive failure if the defending World Series champs didn’t win this division. But there will be some symbolism to popping champagne bottles and spraying beer all over that room.”

 

Mooney added, “concentration won’t be an issue at Busch Stadium. And this hangover will be real.”

 

Here’s Zobrist again: “It will be nice to do it there, I’ll just say that.”

The_Achiever Draft Eligible

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Man, Zobrist really not mincing words, figured he'd be a little more aw shucks given his nature and growing up a cardinals fan.

 

Anyway I love this team's swagger. They expect to win and never quit.

David GOAT

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Popping bottles? Does he means like breaking a beer bottle over the bar in a fight? Is this a saying?

 

i can't tell if this is a cardinals are drunks joke or if you really don't know what popping bottles means

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