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  1. mul21
    Did everybody see the consistent power from Wilkerson from 02-04? I think you could easily expect 20-25 HR's from him if he's not playing in Washington. He looks to me like the poor man's version of Adam Dunn with a better glove. That said, if you get Furcal and another guy like Wilkerson (with less K's) for CF or RF, I think the offense will be fine no matter who plays 2B.
  2. mul21
    Sorry, I liked it and didn't have time to find my own. I don't think Waiwright will be ready to start next year, but the Reyes kid they have is in their plans for the rotation. Wainwright has had some injury problems that slowed him down.
  3. mul21
    Just heard a guy (Joe Strauss of the Post-Dispatch) on sports radio in STL talking about Cardinals off season moves. It sounds like nobody in the know is real confident of the shot they have at Giles. There was also talk of moving Jason Marquis as part of a package for either Kearns or Huff to fill their outfield hole(s). Mentioned a 2 yr deal for Grudz might be close to happenning and that they were taking a wait and see attitude on Morris.
  4. mul21
    From what I've heard, the standard in place is to close the roof above 80 degrees and open it if it's below that. Whether or not this was applied during the Cards series who knows, but in my humble opinion Bud should get the hell out of the way and quit screwing things up more than he already has.
  5. mul21
    What a bunch of morans! Geez, he said they were in Detroit, not St. Louis. :lol:
  6. mul21
    The wild card has to stay just out of fairness. I mean how ridiculous is it that in past years, a team wins 103 games and doesn't make the playoffs because some team in their division won 105? That (or thereabout) has happened and there is no reason for it when a team in the other division had maybe 95 wins. When the Marlins won 116 or whatever it was a few years ago, how bad would MLB have looked if the A's or Angels had won 107 and the other division winners won 97 games or so. Not that this scenario happens all the time but the precaution has to be taken if it does.
  7. mul21
    I had shoulder surgery a couple of years ago and my doc and physical therapist both happened to work for the Cardinals. I got to meet Mike Matheny and I also got to play catch with Lance Painter. Both were rehabbing at the same place I was. Not the most famous of guys but it was still pretty cool to play catch with a major league pitcher.
  8. mul21
    This is also the reason I don't think Mulder will sign with St. Louis after next year. What can you do in other baseball cities that you can't do in St. Louis? And who says that Cardinal players have to live in St. Louis anyway? Edmonds doesn't. McGwire didn't. Walker doesn't. Yet they all love the organization and the fans, and probably wouldn't want to play anywhere else. Go out in the city and have a good time any night of the week. The St. Louis downtown area sucks for the most part. Also, there are very few cultural things to go out and do on a regular basis.
  9. mul21
    As a Cubs fan living in St. Louis and not blinded with red glasses as most Cards fans down here are, here is how it works. There is so little of anything going on in this city compared to other baseball towns during the summer that there is nothing else to do. Secondly, the fans are so brainwashed, in large part by the media, into thinking that the Cardinals can do no wrong that they blindly support the team regardless of what any individual may do. The good things done by Cardinal players, especially on the field, are so over hyped by the St. Louis media, you would think that every one of them is the greatest to ever play their position. I was at the last Cubs/Cards game down here and Edmonds took one of his typical stupid circular routes to a flyball, caught it either diving or crashing into the wall and got a standing O, because the Cardinals fans are too dumb to figure out that he's a showboating prima donna who, while a very good outfielder, is not nearly the player he makes himself look like. I criticized his catch and got peanuts thrown at me. Classy move from the best fans in baseball, huh?
  10. mul21
    His teams win because (at least while in St. Louis) because they have good players. Had that idiot Hernandez not swung at balls 1, 2 and 3 against a struggling Izzy, Nunez's play wouldn't have come into question. LaRussa makes some great calls and makes some lousy ones. I don't know if you get to see him on a regular basis or not, but he makes many head-scratching decisions. For one, starting Morris over Suppan in game 3. Right now, Suppan is their best pitcher and he may not throw one pitch in the NLDS. On another note, why were people surprised that Sanders got a 3-0 green light? Don't you normally give your 3-5 hitters the 3-0 green light? I could see the surprise if you gave your lead-off or 8th place hitter the green light, but not the 5th hitter. I live in St. Louis and get to see him on a regular basis, and whether it's because the St. Louis media are a bunch butt kissing morons or because he reaally does a very good job, there seems to be little controversy over his decisions. As for the Morris over Suppan decision, that is a head scratcher based on both of their performances over the last month and most of the sports media down here is questioning him on that. He has had good players, but he has also managed to overcome pretty major injury problems unlike someone we're all fond of.
  11. mul21
    As much as I despise LaRussa as a person for his constant whining and his "overacting" incident when asked the question about McGwire last weekend, he again showed yesterday why his teams win. I'm not a baseball expert by any means, but would Baker have even had a notion to go for the runner at 2nd and keep his 3B in position to field that ground ball that ended up being a double play in the 2nd or 3rd inning? Not a move that gets exposure in everyday coverage, but a little nuance that probably saved the Cardinals a run or two and changed around the game.
  12. mul21
    Patterson's value couldn't be lower unless he had one of his legs fall off. I don't see him as an attractive trading chip. And for $12m per, I'd rather sign Kevin Millwood via FA and hang onto whatever prospects we'd have to give up. I have to agree with this. Millwods numbers were better in the hitter friendly AL than Vazquez's were in the NL, he will probably come cheaper than $12M, and you don't give up any prospects. Granted there won't be a prospect coming back to you, but the additional cash available allows improvement in other areas.
  13. mul21
    Can somebody give me a good site to look up contract info (salary, length, arby eligible)? Thanks in advance.
  14. mul21
    When your fastball goes from 91-92 down to 85-86 in thespace of one offseason, you're probably going to lose effectiveness unless your name is Greg Maddux. Also, following that good fastball up with a hard breaking slider at 86-88 keeps hitters off balance. When you can't beat a hitter with a slow bat with your fastball, they can adjust to the slider and there you get Joes struggles. I loved seeing his success, but his struggles were due to nothing more than injury (or if your a cynic, the roids wearing off).
  15. mul21
    it seems like there are more infield hits to neifi than any other infielder in the history of the game. just weird.
  16. mul21
    I'd like to see the A's in the play-offs period. As for disproving Joe Morgan, anything they do he'll be able to explain away somehow.... :roll: Are he and Dusty long lost brothers??????
  17. mul21
    Instead of hamstrining themselves with big contracts at positions that can be filled internally, there should be emphasis on filling needs (yes, this has been said a million times). Let Cedeno play SS, put Murton in LF, sign Randy Winn for 2 years until Pie is ready for sure. You then have a leadoff guy and 2 relatively cheap position players. Fill in the RF hole with Giles and you've got a solid lineup. Plenty of pop with Lee, ARam, and Gile in the middle, OBP with Winn and Cedeno at the top and a lot of contact and avg. power at the bottom with Walker, Murton, and Barrett. Plus it leaves money to fill the pitching needs and give raises to guys over the next couple of years.
  18. mul21
    I think this may be more realistic: CF Randy Winn SS Ronny Cedeno 1B Derrek Lee 3B Aramis Ramirez RF Brian Giles 2B Todd Walker LF Matt Murton C Michael Barrett Rotation Z Prior Wood Maddux Millwood Pen Dempster Novoa Wuertz Ohman Van Buren Ryan/Wagner LOOGY Bench Neifi Branyan Hairston OF 1B
  19. mul21
    That would involve taking a pitch or two. I'm impressed with the approach of both Cedeno and Murton. It's nice to see somebody at the plate see more than 2 pitches every time they go up there. And they're both certainly making their cases with baserunning tonight. Man, it would have been nice to see this a month and a half ago. Damn Dusty.
  20. mul21
    It's not a debate of who should have been played because they were better in the case of Holla vs Dubois/Murton or Perez vs Cedeno. It's a case of the veteran being a proven commodity vs the rookies not having proven anything yet. Point being, you don't know if Cedeno and Murton are good options because they didn't get a chance. They may have torn up the league, they may have completely bombed. But not playing them because you have a veteran who has proven himself to be mediocre is dumb. I think the Cubs would be around .500 right now just based on numbers. But as someone referenced earlier, Smoltz said the young guys gave the vets a boost in Atlanta. Who's to say the same thing wouldn't have happened with the Cubs. People forget that momentum is a very powerful ally as well as a great enemy.
  21. mul21
    1. Send an edict to Baker that he will be repeatedly kicked in the groin if the young guys don't play the rest of the year. I don't think it's a good precedent to just let go of all the vets. Even though I despise Dusty, he does have a point that young guys can learn something from the vets. 2. Play Nomar to see if he's worth keeping. We should already know by now if Cedeno can play, but we don't. It has to be determined if he is worth keeping around at all, let alone at the price he'll be asking. 3. Baker is gone at season's end. Period, end of story, no questions asked. 4. Neifi is back as a bench guy. The other bench holes are filled with veteran FA's. Burnitz's option is not picked up, Walker's is. 5. If Nomar is back, Cedeno is at Iowa waiting for Nomar to get hurt. Lee at 1st, Walker at 2nd, Ramirez is back at 3rd after a mandated lower body conditioning program in the offseason, Murton is the everyday LF, CP or Randy Winn in CF, and a FA or trade for RF (Giles, Huff, or someone else beyond my thought process right now). 6. Prior, Z, Wood, Maddux, and Millwood in the rotation. Dempster, Novoa, Wuertz, Ohman, Bartosh or another LOOGY, and BJ Ryan in the pen. Williams is the longman/swingman.
  22. mul21
    I almost peed when I read this little nugget: Scott Ziegler (Madison,WI): Joe was that the worst collision you've ever seen, Beltran and Cameron. That could have been alot worse. Joe Morgan: Yeah, that's one of the worst I have seen. I saw one with Jesus Alou and a SS whose name I can't remember. The SS swallowed his tongue. That was pretty scary. KT: I'm sure no-name SS who swallowed his tongue is honored by your memory of this event. It kind of sounds like a weird fairy tale Joe made up. "Jesus made a guy swallow his tongue once."
  23. mul21
    I just got this absurd mental picture of Dusty a la Elmer Fudd: "Shh, we're hunting for a Wild Cawd birf... dude." Whoever made the Titanic and Dumb and Dumber poster spoofs should do one with Dusty as Elmer Fudd. The mental picture of that is just priceless.
  24. mul21
    Any word on Nomar's status?
  25. mul21
    Please god let Welly throw strikes.
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