Andy

We need a closer, and he's due. Any room on the 40-man?

STL won 2 recent titles with pretty shitty teams, and I think they're ok with it. I'd get over it, too.

I'm hesitant to completely blame the FO for what's happened with Darvish (who was, post-TJS, pretty healthy as pitchers go until inexplicably self-immolating this year) or Russell (highly doubt they saw his personal problems nor his utter inability to hit coming). Those things were probably bad luck. The rest is fair game. The Morrow thing never really made sense for any reason other than 'he was cheaper than Wade', and the results of that have been predictable. The Quintana trade probably won us the division last year but he mostly hasn't been what we were told we were getting. And the coaching staff shakeup, that also never really made sense, looks like an unmitigated disaster. Thank God we won in 16.

The turdiest turds who ever turded continue their monstrous collapse. Or maybe something good will happen. Technically, that's possible too. Technically.

I miss when the 'wish we were the Astros' complaint was laughed off.

If they were trying to suck in the most annoying ways possible I don't think they could do it any better.

A hit-by-pitch killed him, maybe it can bring him back to life.

As my friend texted me, Reyes is for sure a computer-generated MLB The Show character

We're excellent at getting people into scoring position with 2 outs and not a second before.

This is amazing.

Good lord Contreras is a train wreck. How did this happen to almost everybody at once??

Apparently Molina hit a 3-run HR. Even when STL winning would help us they have to score in the most annoying possible ways.

This horsefeathers is starting to get real.

We will bury them

I was thinking before clicking on this thread that we should just change "is" in the title to "used to be"

It feels like we lead the majors in two-plus-hit innings without a run.

I voted for the frustrating offense, the injuries and the SP/offense never both being good. There's indisputably some being spoiled in there, in that if this same year were happening in 2015 I don't think we're having these conversations as much.

I mean, STL is technically still pursuing us too. While catching us is unlikely, them losing doesn't hurt either.

I'm... Kind of thinking we're better off just sending KB home for the fall

Hamels for hitting coach

Fact that is indisputably true but I still kind of can't believe: Stanford will be the first opponent ranked in the top 10 at the time to play at ND under Brian Kelly.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ UL Lafayette at (1) Alabama (12 pm, SEC Network) Tennessee at (2) Georgia (3:30 pm, CBS) Syracuse at (3) Clemson (12 pm, ABC) (4) Ohio State at (9) Penn State (7:30 pm, ABC) Ole Miss at (5) LSU (9:15 pm, ESPN) Baylor at (6) Oklahoma (3:30 pm, ABC) (7) Stanford at (8) Notre Dame (7:30 pm, NBC) Southern Miss at (10) Auburn (4 pm, SEC Network) (20) BYU at (11) Washington (8:30 pm, FOX) (12) West Virginia at (25) Texas Tech (12 pm, ESPN2) Pittsburgh at (13) UCF (3:30 pm, ESPNU) (14) Michigan at Northwestern (4:30 pm, FOX) North Carolina at (16) Miami (8 pm Thursday, ESPN) South Carolina at (17) Kentucky (7:30 pm, SEC Network) (18) Texas at Kansas State (3:30 pm, FS1) (19) Oregon at (24) California (10:30 pm, FS1) Central Michigan at (21) Michigan State (12 pm, FS1) Virginia Tech at (22) Duke (7 pm, ESPN2) Florida at (23) Mississippi State (6 pm, ESPN) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Memphis at Tulane (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) UCLA at Colorado (9 pm Friday, FS1) Arkansas vs Texas A&M - in Arlington, TX (12 pm, ESPN) Indiana at Rutgers (12 pm, BTN) Temple at Boston College (12 pm, ESPNU) Oklahoma State at Kansas (12 pm, FSN) Bowling Green at Georgia Tech (12 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Army at Buffalo (12 pm, CBSSN) Virginia at NC State (12:20 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) UL Monroe at Georgia State (2 pm, ESPN3) UMass at Ohio (2 pm, ESPN3) Florida State at Louisville (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Purdue at Nebraska (3:30 pm, BTN) Rice at Wake Forest (3:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Cincinnati at UConn (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Old Dominion at East Carolina (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Coastal Carolina at Troy (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Tennessee State at Vanderbilt (4 pm, SEC Network - Alternate) Nevada at Air Force (4 pm, ESPNEWS) Utah at Washington State (6 pm, Pac-12 Network) Iowa State at TCU (7 pm, ESPNU) Boise State at Wyoming (7 pm, CBSSN) Houston Baptist at SMU (7 pm, ESPN3) Charlotte at UAB (7 pm, ESPN3) Florida Atlantic at Middle Tennessee (7 pm, Facebook) Marshall at Western Kentucky (7:30 pm, Stadium) Oregon State at Arizona State (10 pm, Pac-12 Network) USC at Arizona (10:30 pm, ESPN2) Toledo at Fresno State (10:30 pm, ESPNU)

I had a wedding today and completely blanked on this. May Soccer make me regret it

Lot of weird results today. Army came within about 10 yards of being in range for a game winning FG at Oklahoma but threw a pick. OU missed a chip shot for the win but won in OT.

It must be nice to hit multiple homers in a game on any kind of consistent basis. #ChiliBall