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  1. vaball
    Gooch with a three run bomb tonight.
  2. vaball
    I too think this is a shame. Shortsighted? Maybe. It looks like the team will own a 50% share of KTRS, allowing them to gear it more around Cardinals content. Listening to the games on KMOX is such a wonderful tradition but now the station is owned by Infinity Broadcasting and run out of New York. Pretty sad, but probably inevitable. I was hoping they didn't do this, but a mid-market franchise like the Cardinals has to do everything it can to raise revenue if it wants to keep the team on the field competitive. As for increasing the value of the franchise for the purposes of selling it, I don't read too much into that. It only makes sense that a business would want to increase it's profits, assets, and therefore value.
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    Is this assuming that everyone is healthy come postseason? If so, then I think it really is the Cardinals. Carp has been Cy Young worthy. Mulder is trending upward quickly. Morris has been terrific, minus his last two starts. And the offense is as good as there is. Atlanta and Boston would probably be my other picks.
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    The Sports List just declared Ozzie the #1 shortstop of all time, so I think this matter is settled.
  5. vaball
    shhh! Don't jinx him.
  6. vaball
    I have broadband but that sig is still annoying, even though it gives me goose bumps every time I see that home run.
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    i dont know how you can say that with any certainty i dont think dawson should be in the hall, and i couldve sworn he was a cub Well you can apply most of their arguments against Ozzie's worthiness to Sandberg and see that they fit him pretty well too. Yet they don't seem to have a problem with him in the Hall. Yeah, but Sandberg was 10 times the hitter Ozzie was, but Ozzie was not 10 times the fielder Sandberg was. As an all around player, Ozzie was a quite a few rungs down from Sandberg. Ryno was the best offensive and defensive 2B for nearly a decade. Ozzie was the best defensive SS for similar period, but he was a offensive non-entity, really. Even so, Ryno is a marginal HOF'er, barely good enough to get in, IMO. I don't think it's fair to call him an "offensive non-entity." Maybe by today's standards he is, but not when he played in the 80's.
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    i dont know how you can say that with any certainty i dont think dawson should be in the hall, and i couldve sworn he was a cub Well you can apply most of their arguments against Ozzie's worthiness to Sandberg and see that they fit him pretty well too. Yet they don't seem to have a problem with him in the Hall. Except Ozzie never put up offensive numbers like Ryno did. No, but people are saying that Ozzie shouldn't be in the Hall because his offense wasn't good enough. Sandberg's was better than Ozzie's, but you can say that it too wasn't good enough. I say that if a player is voted in to the Hall of Fame then he deserves to be there.
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    i dont know how you can say that with any certainty i dont think dawson should be in the hall, and i couldve sworn he was a cub Well you can apply most of their arguments against Ozzie's worthiness to Sandberg and see that they fit him pretty well too. Yet they don't seem to have a problem with him in the Hall.
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    If Ozzie had been a Cub there is no way anyone on this board would say he doesn't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. Are Sandberg's numbers really Hall worthy? I think if he was voted in then he deserves to be there. But if people are criticizing Ozzie for not having enough offense they should be saying the same thing about Sandberg.
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    Yes.
  12. vaball
    So do people here really think Ozzie does not belong in the Hall? He is the best defensive shortstop ever. That counts for a lot. He made spectacular plays every day. Even though his offense is not Hall worthy overall, it did improve significantly as his career went on. Plus, he didn't play most of his career in the offensive era we have today. He also played his career before the emergence of power hitting shortstops. Shortstop was traditionally a defensive-minded position, with a few exceptions in the past. Only recently has it become an offensive position. I don't think the way baseball has changed over the years should make Ozzies spot in the hall less deserving.
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    Ozzie is in because he is the best defensive shortstop ever.
  14. vaball
    Looks like McGwire's much maligned "legal advice" might not have been so dumb after all.
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    There were a ton of Cardinal fans at those Dodger games this weekend, especially yesterday. The Cards fanbase is very large, not just a "few parts" around the mid-west and St. Louis. Include southern Illinois, parts of Indiana, southern Iowa, most of Arkansas, Oklahoma, parts of Tennesse, and the many people who get KMOX hundreds of miles away from St. Louis but had no local baseball team to root for when they grew up. And I don't think Cubs fans want to start throwing stones over bandwagon fans. Where were all those loyal cub fans in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and most of the 90's? Definitely not at Wrigley. Prior to 1999 the Cubs averaged over 30,000 fans per game only twice, ever. They've only drawn over 3 million fans once, ever, in 2004. I know there are plenty of absolute die hard Cubs fans out there, but for the past few years the Cubs bandwagon has been monstrous.
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    He loves the KC Masterpiece.
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    Frankly I don't think we will be having that conversation 15 years from now about Pujols and Lee. Agreed. Pujols' debilitating elbow injury a couple years from now is going to ruin his HOF chances. :wink: Nah, he's gonna get shot by a crazy woman in a hotel room in Chicago. Those crazy White Sox fans, eh? It's a reference to what happens to Robert Redford in The Natural. My name for Pujols is The Natural.
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    Frankly I don't think we will be having that conversation 15 years from now about Pujols and Lee. Agreed. Pujols' debilitating elbow injury a couple years from now is going to ruin his HOF chances. :wink: Nah, he's gonna get shot by a crazy woman in a hotel room in Chicago.
  19. vaball
    Tony's been less OCD this season with the matchups. Without looking up numbers on this, I think it likely that King has faced so many righties because LaRussa has brought him in against a leftie with two outs, who he then fails to retire, and Tony just leaves him in against the rightie who comes up. Kings WHIP is a lackluster 1.41.
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    Bowa's aviator sunglasses are hilarious. He wore them when he was batting! Classic. I saw that game on ESPN classic this summer in a hotel room in Chicago. There were a lot of Cardinal fans at that game.
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    Frankly I don't think we will be having that conversation 15 years from now about Pujols and Lee.
  22. vaball
    Ray King is no stud this year. His ERA is only 2.22 but he hasn't been as good as that number.
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    I wasn't looking for sympathy, just stating the fact that half our starting position players are on the DL. It doesn't bother me really. We will still more than likely win the division, even with our bench guys playing full time for a month or more. And Rolen, Sanders, Molina, and Walker, if he plays, will be fresh for the playoffs. I would not call Rolen an injury risk. He often plays banged up with pain in his back or shin but he still plays well. The instances in which he has missed serious time on the DL have been mainly due to collisions, and in one case a slide into home. I don't think he can be called an injury risk. Sanders' injury is the result of a collision with Edmonds. Molina from getting hit by a pitch. The only guy who is predicatably injured is Walker. Missing Molina does hurt us. His defense is terrific. His arm is amazing. And after an awful April he had a terrfic May and June offensively and then only had 20 ABs in July before going on the DL. We are missing him offensively, not just defensively.
  24. vaball
    No, no.. Ankiel... Hey, he's hitting .270 with a .363 OBP a .522 SLG and 11 HRs in 178 at bats. Not bad for a pitcher.
  25. vaball
    yeah, derrek lee's breakout is real similar to abraham nunez's. they're practically the same player...always have been. and who would have guessed that walker would be injury-riddled when the cards traded for him? he's a young, spry guy who's always been a picture of health. mind-boggling. People really see what they want to don't they? I said neither one of those things. I know very well that Nunez is a bench player who is playing over his head at the moment. I never said he wasn't. All I said was that I'm glad he is because we need him right now. The same goes for all our bench guys. I don't even know where that Larry Walker reference comes from. Derrek Lee is a good player, a solid hitter with great defense, who is putting up out of this world numbers this year. This isn't even a career year. It is beyond that. I don't know what to call it.
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