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  1. Sammys Boombox
    A few interesting schedule issues this postseason. Game 5 at 10 AM for Giants fan on a weekday. Game 5 at 9:30 PM for Tigers fans on a weeknight. If it's A's/O's Game 7 of the ALCS would be Oct. 21. The Raiders are home that day. They would never do this, but even if Bud went crazy and tried to move the game to AT&T there is a potential Giants/Cardinals Game 6 on the same day. Again, would never happen, but if they somehow both won the pennant on the same day at AT&T that would be crazy. Just because I like odd things in baseball I want this to happen.
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    Four elimination games tomorrow. Cool. Could you imagine staying up to 1 AM and then seeing your team blow a save and then have to get up for work?
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    YESSSS! I enjoyed that much more than the earlier walk off!
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    I'm still holding out for A's/O's. That would be amazing.
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    Wow! Really glad I stayed up to watch!
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    The Raul Ibanez Game.
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    http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/10/09/ranking-the-dirtiest-ballparks-in-america/#7712-24 Parks ranked cleanest (30) to dirtiest (1). Busch is the cleanest. Wrigley is the dirtiest. I have been to 17 parks (18 if you count the Old Busch) and these two and Kauffman are the ones I've been to the most. I don't understand how Busch makes the top of this list considering I'm pretty sure they store all their beer cups in large dumpsters outside the stadium and have one collection at the end of the year. The place wreaks of old beer and has ever since I was a kid. Of course, this was done based on a scoring system and it seems like the main score is "How many people washed their hands in the given bathroom that we were in on the given day we were there?". Also, there is no way 8/9 male baseball fans wash their hands in any stadium, unless you're in the club-level bathrooms. EDIT: Another link with the same results in a different format and a minimal explanation that basically says they took the bathroom habits way too seriously. http://www.ufe.com/ufe-in-sports
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    With some guys yes. But a lot of the guys that come up and produce have very average minor league numbers/careers. Kozma has a career .652 minor league OPS and has just slightly gotten over .700 a few times. It's not like he was a guy they drafted and then he did well in the minors and then produced in the majors. He's been an absolutely [expletive] minor league player and now he's OPSing .900+ in the majors since his call up. relax, it's been 72 AB and change; didn't Ryan Sweeney have a 1000 OPS April? I don't think anyone actually thinks Kozma is going to become a star. I think the heart burn around here is that he is playing like a star down the stretch and in the playoffs. I mean, the Kozma OPSing over .900 next year was sarcasm, right?
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    Attendance went up 200k, plus they are getting another year of playoff revenue, and it looks to me like they left at least $10 million or so on the table this year for whatever reason. I'm sure they could handle $125 in payroll if they wanted to. That wasn't really the point of my post. The point is everybody was freaking out about replacing Pujols who had been making $14MM or $15MM in recent years, and their PLAN B for replacing him arguably outperformed him. He also is contributing more than Pujols ever did in the postseason outside his 3 HR game.
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    Between Kozma, Jay, Freese, Craig, Carpenter, Lynn, and Garcia, there's 1 appearance in a Top 100 prospects list, which belongs to Garcia when he came in at number 70 in 2007. They currently have 4 guys in the top 50. (Tavares, Miller, Martinez, Wong,) so I really hope Theo and Co.keep racking up top shelfers in the next few years. I'm not real good at projecting arbitration figures, but it looks to me like the Cardinals will have only $1-4MM to spend if they aren't going to raise their payroll. That includes Berkman's $12MM and Lohse's $12MM and Fuentes $5MM coming off the books. The difference is due in large part to Molina, Carpenter and Wainwright combining for a $14MM raise. Each offseason I look at the Cardinals contracts situation and get excited because it appears that they will have to spend significantly more each offseason to tread water. Then, they get an .876 OPS out of Craig for $495,000 while Pujols walks for $24,000,000 and has an OPS of .859. If you project Craig's HR totals out to the 607 AB that Pujols had he is at 28.5 HR and 45.3 2B. Pujols hit 30 HR and 50 2B. Pixie. Dust.
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    Do they purposefully not combine division opponents on the same AFL teams? Only the Rockies/DBacks and Marlins/Braves play with division foes (since Astros are going to AL West next year I'm not counting them and the Cubs as division foes)?
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    Also Brandon Phillips made a really bone-headed baserunning mistake.
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    I think Hunter Pence has one joint for every two joints that a normal person has.
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    That was a crazy play at the plate. On a side note: Angel Hernandez AND Joe West are on crews this postseason? That's just asking for trouble.
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    Agreed. Garcia didn't have it. Plus, with the off day tomorrow, no reason for the Cardinals to not treat this as all hands on deck. The Cardinals do not want to go to Washington down 0-2. Yeah. Even if the pitcher's spot didn't come up that inning I think you need to make that move. It's almost a no-brainer with the rally.
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    TBS Pitch Tracker is terrible. Not even close. Real nice of the Nationals not taking advantage of Garcia being terrible. And now Zimmermann is throwing up meatballs.
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    Question: If a magic genie said you could: 1. Choose that the Reds win the World Series (meaning the Cardinals don't) OR 2. Take your chances that neither of them will win the World Series and just let it play out What would you do? I take number 1 without even thinking about it.
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    And an inning where one the best pitchers in the league couldn't find the general vicinity of the homeplate area.
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    He ripped that one!
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    That bunt makes no sense. I think somebody screwed up. I doubt Johnson intended for that to be the call.
  21. Sammys Boombox
    The 3 really bad calls you are talking about weren't that bad. The packer defender did trap the ball on the interception. The roughing call on Luck's fumble may have been a bad call, but it is really hard to blame the ref on that one. In fast time, and even the first few replays looked really bad--like he is going to get fined bad. Yeah, eventually we saw that his helmet never directly hit lucks helmet, but it was close. There have been many, many worse roughing calls made in the past. I don't remember the pass interference call ( I probably missed that one as I was switching between games a bit). But once again, there are bad pass interference calls every single game... including as I mentioned earlier the one not called against Woodson in the endzone on wayne. That would have been an easy touchdown, or a first down at the 1 if they called it. Instead, Indy settled for a field goal. It's a culmination of the three weeks. Fuse is pretty short at this point. Add the Cardinals in the postseason and scoring 8 runs on 7 hits overall. I don't think I even have a fuse at the moment.
  22. Sammys Boombox
    Good story bro. Yeah, dang NFL is out to get Green Bay. Wah wah. The tears are delicious though. :good: Didn't say they were out to get them. Just that they've been on the short end. In general, football is a sport that can be greatly affected by the officials. i.e. Questionable PI on third down, or one that gives a team a huge gain. Roughing the passer on interceptions, unnecessary roughness on fumbles. I do not believe the NFL is out to get the Packers. In the heat of the moment I called it a sham. I do believe that the officials are much bigger than people are willing to admit and it has cost the Packers two games and nearly cost them last week's game as well. Just grab some tissues and rewatch the game. There were bad calls to both sides like every other game. The Packers couldn't stop a nosebleed and decided to play like garbage in the second half. That is why they lost. No crying here. If you think I'm not pissed at the Packer then you're wrong. They're nowhere near as good this season. They should still be 4-1. You'd be saying the same thing for your team.
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    Every team is going to get bad calls go their way. The last few weeks the Packers have had many points worth of calls go against them. When it happens on a point or possession changing call it's a big deal. I don't know if I can count on two hands how many times it has happened against the Packers in the last three games. When it's three weeks in a row, it gets really old. CubColtPacer agreed that two of the calls I had problems with were legitimate beefs. I wouldn't expect Bears fans to agree with me anyway.
  24. Sammys Boombox
    Good story bro. Yeah, dang NFL is out to get Green Bay. Wah wah. The tears are delicious though. :good: Didn't say they were out to get them. Just that they've been on the short end. In general, football is a sport that can be greatly affected by the officials. i.e. Questionable PI on third down, or one that gives a team a huge gain. Roughing the passer on interceptions, unnecessary roughness on fumbles. I do not believe the NFL is out to get the Packers. In the heat of the moment I called it a sham. I do believe that the officials are much bigger than people are willing to admit and it has cost the Packers two games and nearly cost them last week's game as well.
  25. Sammys Boombox
    Packers lost this game for two reason. One, they played a horrible second half. Two, the officials made at least two and I say three bad and game-changing calls. They still outplayed the Colts. Just like they outplayed the Seahawks.
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