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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sort of in the "XXX team needs an ace pitcher to compete" and "We just have to gain one game every 10 days for the rest of the season" vein... Gallagher just needs a 2-strike out pitch to be really great.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    The dude that hit the game winning homer off of Bobby Howry Exactly....Another example of St. Louis uniforms weighing less than everyone elses. We're the team for whom Sammy Sosa turned into one of history's greatest sluggers, for whom a minor-league catcher went from a .699 in AAA to one of the best in the game in two seasons, for whom an even worse minor-league catcher turned into the best relief pitcher in baseball. We've had our share :)
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fukudome is still adjusting. I think he'll be a good, not great, player. Some of the expectations for him were out of whack. If he keeps playing defense like he is and getting OBP of near .400, I will take that all day long. He's Mark Grace in right field. And Asian.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd PH for Gallagher here.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sweet, Colorado keeps kicking the ball all over the place.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    DeRosa never comes through in big situations...
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Rockies outfield is bad at catching baseballs.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    All players who go deep in counts and are very selective will look bad on strikeouts sometimes. As long as he has more BBs than Ks, we're in great shape here.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Finally a walk! I know three innings without one isn't really bad, but for this team it feels bad.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. It wasn't very good.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Go to baseballprospectus.com and click on "statistics," you'll see a lot of useful stuff. I don't think you have to be a member to see them. Team defensive efficiency, WRXL are some of my favorites.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd do that. Adding Veal might be a bit much, but yeah I'd definitely do that.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm a huge fan of those reports. They were the reason I maintained faith while many Cubs fans were bailing last season.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    These things you are saying never happened. Early in baseball history, the soft ball meant that pitchers didn't have to throw as hard for as many pitches. Christy Mathewson's book on pitching talked about maintaining good shape because sometimes you had to "throw as many as 100 pitches to complete a game." 130 didn't need to happen because the ball was put in play much more often, batters were less selective. Later on, as pitchers threw more pitches, many of them *did* hurt their arms. There wasn't this "not have problems" that you think happened. There were tons of problems. Few ever heard of them, though, because there were so many levels of minor leagues that by the time a pitcher made it to the bigs, he had won a war of attrition that proved his arm was one of the few that could handle exceptional workloads. Many more arms burned out in the minors.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    13-1 Pirates. Someone needs to introduce the Cardinals fans to the "someone just homered" game.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Samardzija is a non-prospect and needs to be dropped, I'd say.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Official game in St. Louis. Cubs lead expands to 2.5, tied for biggest of the season.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    11-1. Ballgame.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    After Parisi left, we have home run, single, walk. Jiminez has been the definition of a gas can.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Grand slam, 9-1 Pirates. I'd call ballgame if that score wasn't eerily familiar.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Neither Houston nor Milwaukee scare me much at this point, but it's 1-0 Houston in the fourth. I do enjoy seeing the congitive dissonance of Brewers fans as they try desperately to account for the fact that their team isn't nearly as good as they think it is.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    What'd that d-bag say? Just whining about the Cubs only playing home games. That's especially idiotic. After tonight, the Cardinals will have played one fewer home game than the Cubs.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    5-1 Pirates, 1st and 2nd, 1 out in the 3rd. The Cardinals' pen is getting worked tonight.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Never mind, that was Glaus.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    4-1. Glad Ludwick is proving that there's no such thing as a AAAA player, but hate that he's doing it for the Cardinals.
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