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  1. Andy
    Riot can be incredibly good at SS sometimes.
  2. Andy
    And Riot is plenty good enough of a runner that we don't NEED to hit and run.
  3. Andy
    Good play Riot.
  4. Andy
    Z is hilariously stupid-looking when he strikes out. It's worth the contract for the laughs he gives me alone.
  5. Andy
    Why do you ask? it would seem like a pretty solid game wisconsin vs. wazzou, but I know the pac ten like i know Aramaic Oh, ok, I see what you're asking. Well, Wazzu will probably be fine, but Wisconsin's a very, very good team playing at home. I don't think the Cougs have much of a chance.
  6. Andy
    Picked off 2nd. Really dumb play by Ward.
  7. Andy
    Cool down. I don't think many people here are praising Hendry's job as GM. I know I'm not. We're just saying this is a smart move.
  8. Andy
    DWard is smoking the ball.
  9. Andy
    Oh yeah, and the maddening thing about Brock was he wasn't very good with us at all. Then he goes from us to the Cards, mid-season, and it wasn't like he waited for another year or two of development to kick in. Oh no, that would be too logical. Instead he starts tearing up for the Cards immediately, and really never looked back. Brock never hit over 100 OPS+ for us, ever. He didn't dip under 100 OPS+ for the Cards until 1977, well into his senior years as a pro. And he went from 77 to 146 midseason, magically, in his trade year. If there was ever an example of this, it's Brock. Good call. i just accepted that brock was this mega superstar in the making and we traded him away for a box of peanuts and a rubberband.. the truth when I actually looked at numbers and read more about it was that brock was a middling prospect who couldnt hit and couldnt field for us and we traded him straight up for a 20 game winner who just happened to hurt himself. Yeah, regardless of the Cardinals' true or perceived luck, the Lou Brock deal is quite possibly one of the all-time most unfairly labeled "lopsided" deals. Brock was complete crap with the Cubs and showed no sign of getting any better till he left.
  10. Andy
    Yeah I think DeRo would've had that one cleanly. Not that I'm reccommending it, but: Ward in RF and Lee at 1B has to be worse than Ward at 1B with Lee at a corner OF spot. DLee's a great first baseman, but he's so much more athletic than Ward, soft hands, a strong arm and good fielding instincts. Knowing our luck, Lee would get injured. Besides I would wager it has been close to a decade since he last played any outfield with anyone.
  11. Andy
    This is exactly what I was going to post. This is a very Jocketty-esque move of picking up a person who can be helpful when used correctly at the nadir of his trade value. I think it's a smart move and hopefully will pay off.
  12. Andy
    Good hit. Let's get it rolling, DLee.
  13. Andy
    I'm pumped about the Monroe deal. That has the potential to be another Kendall deal where we get the turnaround of a previously good player for nothing.
  14. Andy
    Ryan put the Giants in the http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e67/ndistops/Dumpster.jpg
  15. Andy
    Why do you ask?
  16. Andy
    This is ridiculous. Floyd and Jones BOTH playing against a lefty and Murton on the bench.
  17. Andy
    I'm with you, sir. College football is far and away my favorite sport. I get so pumped this time of year I can barely stand it. Do you pull for one of the teams? I can add it (and any succeeding game for whichever one you like) into the "other games" tab if you're a fan of one.
  18. Andy
    You were one of the few. I'm pretty sure most here wanted Murton to play the outfield full-time (including me). I'd say it's a fair wager Murton would have been much better early in the season had he not been playing for his job every time he actually did play, which wasn't often. I expected Floyd to be better than he's been (the fact that he has a lower IsoP than Pierre last year is cause for his immediate dismissal), but I still thought it was a redundant/pointless signing.
  19. Andy
    Eight days until Ball State begins its ascension to the MAC title :)
  20. Andy
    How the hell are we in first?
  21. Andy
    Peyton's not the 2nd best fantasy value-Steven Jackson is. As much as I like Peyton, he really can't be considered that much until at least pick 5 or below. Correct, sir. I took Jackson. Peyton went right behind him at 3 (to a Colts fan). Rudi was my 2nd rounder, then McNabb. I traded a 9th-rounder and Willis McGahee for Marques Colston and a 15th-rounder because I was desperate to upgrade my receiving corps and already had my two backs (since I later got Willie Parker, who is rated higher than McGahee, I don't feel bad at all about making that deal).
  22. Andy
    DWard's 2 homers this weekend pushed his season HR/AB total to right around his career norms (he averages 1 every 30-40 AB, and he has 80 AB on the button this year). KyHen, you posted a bunch of examples of terrible players who continued to be terrible on the Cards, which isn't really what we meant. Bad players playing bad is expected. As for Reyes, you might have to give it time. It took Rich Hill nearly 2 full seasons to figure out how to go from AAAA pitcher to decent big leaguer. Hill, if you'll recall, tore up AAA as well. Yes but something tells me that if in 2 years Reyes is pitching like Hill is this year there will be threads just like this saying how the Cards are lucky casue Reyes sucked the past few years but now is pitching well. I think that all Cards fans know that we have brought some players in that have outperformed their career norms. What most of us are trying to say is that every year there is players that do that on every team in the league. I can't think of a single example of an STL prospect coming up, struggling at first, then getting good and myself (at least) being upset about it. I do remember being upset that Pujols and Duncan (particularly Duncan since he got his first regular action at age 26) came up and immediately tore it up.
  23. Andy
    No. I didn't think so. I was listening on my friend's Gameday Audio and noticed that. Utterly ridiculous. Glad we pulled it out anyway. :)
  24. Andy
    DWard's 2 homers this weekend pushed his season HR/AB total to right around his career norms (he averages 1 every 30-40 AB, and he has 80 AB on the button this year). KyHen, you posted a bunch of examples of terrible players who continued to be terrible on the Cards, which isn't really what we meant. Bad players playing bad is expected. As for Reyes, you might have to give it time. It took Rich Hill nearly 2 full seasons to figure out how to go from AAAA pitcher to decent big leaguer. Hill, if you'll recall, tore up AAA as well.
  25. Andy
    I won't diss Cliff Floyd for exactly one day. Thanks Cliffy. Did we get a runner into scoring position before the Riot double in the 9th?
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