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  1. Thusly Boned
    Of course
  2. Thusly Boned
    Our catcher situation is dire.
  3. Thusly Boned
    He was not good (and his worst year was thing the Cubs, iirc), but even a .650 OPS seems decent compared to this lot And he was a good defender
  4. Thusly Boned
    Takes me back to Damian Miller/Paul Bako, but somehow worse.
  5. Thusly Boned
    The Cubs' catching situation is about as bad as I can remember. Simply awful in just about all phases.
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    I think so, at least to a degree. In one of his first games back he took an awkward swing and looked like he tweaked it again. I was sure in the moment he was going back on the IL, but he continued. I've wondered if he's been playing hurt/cautious ever since.
  7. Thusly Boned
    This has to be one of the more amorphous strike zones I've seen in while
  8. Thusly Boned
    0-0 feels insurmountable these days
  9. Thusly Boned
    The offense right now makes me big sad
  10. Thusly Boned
    Yeah, it's been a rough go, and I'm sick of Jones/Skenes already. In 4 years or so Pittsburgh is going to get a nice haul of prospects for those two.
  11. Thusly Boned
    For sure, but I think it's top down at this point. Mozeliak sucks. Their roster construction is bad, and I think they have become stuck in organizational complacency and have refused to make obvious changes when they should have been made out of stupid "We're the Cardinals, we don't rebuild/retool" pride. Now they're stuck with an old roster and their young guys just aren't panning out. And in a reversal of pretty much all of recent history, players who are being brought in to STL are getting worse, and players being shipped out are getting better. And then you add in the incompetence of the on field/clubhouse management, and it's a mess. The shine is off, they just aren't the model of organizational excellence they have been for most of the last 30 years, and the people that seem the least aware of that are in their front office. Team statements seem almost delusional. History tells me that I may end up having to eat these words, but the Cards are down bad.
  12. Thusly Boned
    Apparently I counted the Brewers out too early down to their last out. I think they are playing with some of that old Cardinals devil magic; they are nowhere as good as their record.
  13. Thusly Boned
    I think Suzuki is probably their best hitter imo, but that only strengthens the point. In first place having been down your two best hitters for long stretches concurrently and your best starter for almost the whole season to this point. And having the bullpen go about as badly as you could have imagined performance wise (plus the Merrywether injury). Gotta feel pretty good about that.
  14. Thusly Boned
    Busch doesn't like rain apparently
  15. Thusly Boned
    Contact plz
  16. Thusly Boned
    Welp, Shota probably shouldn't have been out there, but unfortunately our pen is a raging dumpster fire
  17. Thusly Boned
    Hate that for Willson, especially since it seems that he was closer to the plate by team mandate. Latest in a long series of bad looks for the Cards. It would have been a ridiculous thing to say only a few years back, but the Cardinals are a very poorly run and managed team right now.
  18. Thusly Boned
    Few things light my brain on fire quite like relievers coming in and walking everyone
  19. Thusly Boned
    Right or wrong, every time I hear forearm strain for a pitcher I expect TJS is forthcoming.
  20. Thusly Boned
    And against a pretty tough schedule, with a series against the Dodgers, both of last year's WS teams, and another playoff team in the Astros. Even if it's been smoke and mirrors, I'll take it.
  21. Thusly Boned
    Semi-related - Sugarland has an awesome hat/logo, it's on the list of non-Cubs baseball hats I'm considering buying.
  22. Thusly Boned
    I'm actually starting to feel a little bit of pity for them, they are just abysmal. Like maybe all-time bad. I hate them still, but I find it a bit harder to luxuriate in Sox schadenfreude with Hawk out of the public eye. If he were still in the booth, it would be like porn.
  23. Thusly Boned
    And he had a .947 OPS in his similarly limited action last year. And he has hit in the minors. He very well may not be anything in the end, but I have no problem letting things play out for a while.
  24. Thusly Boned
    My biggest takeaway from that video: not sure how someone calling professional baseball games does that badly with Spanish names (unless I am missing something).
  25. Thusly Boned
    AGon screwed the pooch for sure, but Dusty was a prodigy at riding pitchers into the ground, and that played a factor. Prior threw a ton of pitches not just in the postseason, but down the stretch. Like 125-130 pitches several times in a row leading into the playoffs. Almost every start in September was a huge pitch count (all were 110+, 6 of 7 were 124+, including 131 three times), many of those were close games, some weren't. Throwing 116 pitches in a 12-0 game was just egregious; even then as a younger/more ignorant fan I was increasingly flummoxed by each consecutive inning past the fifth when Prior kept taking the hill. Game 6 was a confluence of circumstances; AGon was one big thing, but Prior being gassed was another. Dusty's rep isn't undeserved.
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