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It or them?

Batting practice before a Cards/Cubs game in 1994. Sosa hit a ball that one-hopped the wall of the LF bleachers in old Busch Stadium straight into my glove. That is the only ball I have caught at a game, even if it was BP.

No. Of course the same could be said for the premise of this thread. Seeing a 37 year old outfielder that is well past his prime defensively misplay a flyball does not mean that he was not a great defender for a number of years.

He is that guy with one more no-hitter than Greg Maddux.

Same to you. Have fun and drink a lot responsibly. Drink until Soriano looks like a good outfielder :wink: Drink until Albert Pujols looks like he is 26 yrs old. :lol: No way. I am going to get wasted instead.

Same to you. Have fun and drink a lot responsibly. Drink until Soriano looks like a good outfielder :wink:

The day is not over yet. :wink: (cornholio voice) Are you threatening me?

I survived a year or so here without getting banned in possibly the greatest baseball season ever.

Did you notice Carpenter being at or near the top of the leaderboard for winning %?

I think that you are a little off base on your statement. There is/was a group of Cardinal fans that never liked or respected LaRussa, and probably still don't. I don't think that it is a very large percentage of the fans, but it happens to be a vocal group. I think the type of person who feels the need to always criticize a manager, even when he has had as much success as LaRussa, is the type of person that craves attention. They enjoy hearing themselves talk on the radio waves, or seeing a lot of responses on message boards to their negativity. I think it takes a lot of arrogance to constantly questions/criticize every move that is made by a manager when an individual fan has little idea what goes on inside a clubhouse and what kind of injuries/ailments individual players might be going through. I hope the good majority of Cardinal fans can and do apperciate what LaRussa has done in STL and am ecstatic that a WS victory has punctuated it. I am also glad that the LaRussa bashers are pretty much out of things to complain about. He led a team that was an underdog in each round of the playoffs and was playing without home field advantage in any round, and won a World Series title with what many considered inferior talent compared to the competition. I guess some will still complain about his reaction to the pine tar incident.

Anthony Reyes on Sunday vs the Pirates.

Do you think that Beltran and Wright should suffer any because they play for the same team. I think voters may take this into consideration as well. Also, it seemed like Wright carried the Mets team early in the year when the Mets were in a race, and that Beltran has had his best production numbers after the Mets had a comfortable 10+ game division lead.

:lol: I actually laughed out loud when I got to this point. Why am I annoyed so much by the grammar in his first sentence of that paragraph?? oh, the irony Tell ya what, give me an editor like Simmons supposedly has and I can stop annoying you with grammar infractions. Even I could spot the issues with Simmons' sentence. Would that editor be looking for spelling mistakes, or only grammAr?

For what it is worth, that was an opinion piece written by a NY writer that didn't speak to anyone related to the team. He had no basis for his comments about lowering payroll next year. It has gotten a rise out of a lot of Cardinal fans though.

I think the fact that he wrote a book in order to profit from his admission and everything was announced on the day that the new HOF class was introduced may have had something to do with Rose not being welcomed with open arms.

I still believe that it was a humble move on his part. He had been offered a two year extension. All he had to do was sign it and he would collect the money, even knowing that he would not be playing the next season. He could have gotten paid, regardless of what storm might be on the horizon.

I think you could make a pretty good argument that the 162 game season is a better barometer of how good a team is than a seven game series. The Astros did finish 11 games back of STL, and that was with the Cardinals playing on cruise control for the last month of the season. The Astros were also 5-11 versus STL in the 2005 regular season.

Prior and Rodman? Not that there is anything wrong with that.

You might want to consider voting for Corey Patterson in the AL. 2 homers tonight and a game saving catch to rob a HR to end the game. His OPS is up to .843

Rickey still walks and can probably run relatively fast. Isn't he around the same age as Julio Franco.

Rickey Henderson might be available, and would probably have a higher OB%.

Since you are calling his bluff, why don't you go ahead and set that up and pay for in the quest for truth. Since you are the one that suggested it, you must feel strongly enough that you should be able to get this done and incur all of the associated costs.

Wouldn't it be more beneficial if he got himself kicked out of a close game?

I think the SD broadcasters were right. Roberts has run at will on the Cubs, 6 SB in the past week. I tend to agree with the thought that emotion without execution is pretty hollow. I don't think Roberts stealing 3rd with a 3-run lead yesterday was out of line at all. I've got a lotta man-love for Michael, don't get me wrong, but he simply looked like a sore loser by jawing at Roberts. like I said, the steal made no sense other than to pad your stats. there were two outs IIRC, so on any basehit he scores from either second or third. why risk getting thrown out unless you are trying to make the other team look bad. Its not even a smart baseball play in my opinion. I didn't see the play so I am not sure if Roberts was close to being thrown out, but I definitely think that stealing 3rd makes sense in that situation if you get a great jump and have good speed. You can score on a passed ball or an infield single, and you might score on the play if the catcher makes a bad throw to third.

I do take everything with a grain of salt here, and I enjoy the bantering back and forth. I do take offense to slanderous comments about a dead player who died a tragic death. I didn't realize the "caliber" of the person who made the comments, or I probably would have just ignored them.