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Meatballs? Especially as he's taking Starlin to the woodshed right now. At least it was deserved in this case.

I wondered the same thing so I looked and it appears his BABIP has been 50+ pts higher than the rest of his career since he got to LA.

It would be great if the Marlins could get somebody on base in front of Stanton's dongs.

Meh, there's literally 3 "high" pitch counts in there. It's not like he's some rookie out there who hasn't thrown a bunch of innings before. If he was piling up 120+ start after start I might be worried, but that's really not that bad outside of the 119 and 125 back to back.

Same here.

i am enjoying the current run as much as anyone, but we are setting ourselves up for disappointment if we expect anything resembling good play/results against the cardinals. 136 09-01-2003 vs St. Louis Cardinals 7-0 W 70-66 137 09-02-2003 vs St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 W 71-66 138 09-02-2003 vs St. Louis Cardinals 0-2 L 71-67 139 09-03-2003 vs St. Louis Cardinals 8-7 W 72-67 140 09-04-2003 vs St. Louis Cardinals 7-6 W 73-67

That's what she said?

I'm not sure that a Memphis team would do that well. There would have to be a significant investment in Memphis by the ownership to make the park a draw. The trend in baseball is for less suburban ballparks, and more ingrained in a cities downtown. I highly doubt you're going to get people from all over to travel to Memphis, proper, to go to a game. The city has done little successfully to cut back on it's crime problems. And if those people from a few hours away won't go, they likely won't change their allegiance from the current team. Traffic is bad enough in Midtown, without a sports draw. There's nowhere near enough additional revenue available from increasing taxes to make that happen. I'd advocate the only way you'd draw from all over is to put the team in one of the North Mississippi suburbs, but then you lose the biggest advantage Memphis has- no state income tax. I have to agree with most of this having spent a decent amount of time in Memphis and having gone to the Redbirds park several times. The downtown area is minutes from some pretty awful neighborhoods and there would have to be a major revamping of downtown access to handle the traffic that would result from an MLB game crowd. On top of that, I think you'd be hard pressed to get fans who have been Cardinals fans for several generations to switch allegiances, which I honestly think would be the biggest hurdle. The reason the Redbirds draw as well as they do has a whole lot to do with the fanbase wanting to see guys they're going to see playing for their favorite MLB team soon.

Man, longest winning streak in baseball right now and can't get closer than 6.5 out. I can't wait until the Cards comeback down to earth after the pitching luck regresses to the mean and their terrible offense continues to rear it's ugly head.

good teams don't need gimmicks I don't consider nachos a gimmick. http://www.simplecomfortfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/pizza-nachos-high.jpg

It was far more interesting to watch than an elegantly manicured course where the winner goes -20 There's a huge difference between the winner shooting 5 under at this course where the best players in the world were struggling to make 5 foot putts and past courses where the winner shot 5 under and had to navigate narrow fairways, long par 5s, and thick rough. Guys making 10, 15, 20 foot putts to save par is way more fun than watching a guy get screwed out of a playoff because the greens are such pieces of [expletive]. I'm a decent golfer and on the courses I play, I'll knock in that 5 footer he had maybe 60-70% of the time and the pros are closer to 90%+. When Johnny Miller is calling 5 footers a 50/50 proposition, there's a problem with the course.

Looks like Kerry's slider during the 20K game.

I sometimes wonder what's turned you so edgy lately. I don't think it's a desire to fit in with the cool kids. Maybe it's a life event, but sometimes I suspect that you get the most aggressive when the gap widens between what you want to believe and what you deep-down suspect is true. No, he's right. You're just being a miserable glass half empty weirdo about this. And the cardinals aren't that good right now. They're not winning 107 games.

Seriously, where's the [expletive] like button???????

No, it'd be much worse to make them terrible for like 10 years straight.

Oh, this would be glorious. Please tell me they all go to jail and lose all of their ability to sign players for like 5 years.

Yours is today too? Happy Birthday!

That pitch wasn't supposed to be anywhere near the zone. They were trying to get him to chase and completely missed location.

i actually don't think any of the 3 challenges were reversible by those standards I don't think anybody has any idea what the standards are.

That was as bad as the others were good calls. Just awful. Not only was it not clear that it didn't hit him, like Buster said, you could absolutely see the ripple of the uniform when it hit.

Gotta love the 6-7-8 automatic out crew. Geez. I get the matchup thing, but Denorfia has been decent (and is an actual ML player) and Baxter is just awful.

You are damaged. These aren't breaks, they're the right calls.

i'd take Morgan over Kruk without hesitation Kruk is a meatball and he knows it. Morgan was a meatball and acted like god's gift. Kruk 100 times out of 100. The whole broadcast is kind of cheesy, but I really don't mind these guys much. Maybe Schulman makes it more tolerable.

That's one he gets because he hits the ball so damn far. And i had the same thought on the ump, great positioning.