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« on: October 16, 2005, 10:27:01 pm »
foulpoleuptheass to congratulate us on the Astro win.  Has he been ejected a la russa or is he still dropping f-bombs to umpires like the classy organization he so admires?

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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2005, 10:27:52 pm »
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foulpoleuptheass to congratulate us on the Astro win.  Has he been ejected a la russa or is he still dropping f-bombs to umpires like the classy organization he so admires?




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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2005, 10:28:19 pm »
Who CARES?  I don't understand the fascination with the opposing team's fans.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2005, 10:34:05 pm »
Yeah.  Why would another team's fan ever go onto the site of an opposing team and post a bunch of friendly e-mails?  Makes no sense to me.

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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2005, 10:37:29 pm »
I don't feel the least bit bad about it.  The umpiring was a fucking joke.

I'm glad we won, I don't have to be excited about the umpiring.

Appreciate you keeping a close eye on me.

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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2005, 10:40:25 pm »
I've been reading them for days, all of 'em, and from time to time have thought about posting.  My point was we probably shouldn't be surprised when Cardinals fans show up here trying to be decent (or not), not that there's anything odd about fans wanting to post elsewhere.

Just think, Alkie, I just said there was nothing odd about your behavior.
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2005, 10:41:31 pm »
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I don't feel the least bit bad about it.  The umpiring was a fucking joke.

I'm glad we won, I don't have to be excited about the umpiring.

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Birdsonthebat is a good site.  Kind of like the Card version of us.  Those idiots from the Post-Dispatch and the Sports Lounge, however...
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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2005, 10:43:29 pm »
Look, I have ZERO problem with opposing fans in here (like Morpheus).  People who aren't just here to troll and be dicks, I usually find entertaining.  Might learn something.

I just felt like if *I* were on the other side of Cuzzi's Spotlight Game tonight, I'd have been NUCLEAR.  I don't think he cost the Cards the game, far from it.  I think he lowered the integrity of this particular game.   Will I take the win?  Fuck yeah.

But I don't have to look back and say blindly (because we won) everything was fine.

It wasn't.  I've always hated Cuzzi.

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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2005, 10:44:18 pm »
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I don't feel the least bit bad about it.  The umpiring was a fucking joke.

I'm glad we won, I don't have to be excited about the umpiring.

Appreciate you keeping a close eye on me.





Very interesting Alkie.  Hard to determine if you were being just an upstanding good fan for the Astros or setting them up for the shot to the kneecaps.
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« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2005, 10:46:48 pm »
See, that's the thing.  You'll notice a totally different Alkie over there than over here.

Somehow, I don't see my "NORMAL" personality going over too well.

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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2005, 10:47:56 pm »
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Birdsonthebat is a good site.  Kind of like the Card version of us.  Those idiots from the Post-Dispatch and the Sports Lounge, however...




Yeah, I agree.  Had never been there before tonight.  It was just like us but without the swearing-like-wounded-pirates.  And they talk about some other baseball club.

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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2005, 10:49:31 pm »
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Yeah, I agree.  Had never been there before tonight.  It was just like us but without the swearing-like-wounded-pirates.  And they talk about some other baseball club.





And we're nothing without the swearing.
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« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2005, 10:50:04 pm »
I've found Birds on the Bat almost unreadable, mostly because of AstrosBuddy.  Why they put up with that guy I can't imagine.  Didn't there use to be an AB here?  A minor major annoyance?

I haven't minded the Post Dispatch site.  There are some stupid posters, but also some good posters, and there's a ton of traffic.  Sooner or later every notion floats through.  Plus some of them wail more than at the AB site.  Slightly.
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« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2005, 10:52:37 pm »
Hadn't seen AB yet.  Who is he?  Total ass?

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Hadn't seen AB yet.  Who is he?  Total ass?




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« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2005, 10:55:48 pm »
One of ours?  I mean, from here?

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I'm sorry I have to do this to you:

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One of ours?  I mean, from here?




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« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2005, 11:09:08 pm »
i. for one, do not think the umpiring was a joke or that it lowered the integrity of anything.
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« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2005, 11:09:28 pm »
Me, or Alkie?  I sent you one earlier . . . Don't have anything from you.
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« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2005, 11:13:03 pm »
I agree.  The strike zone varies from game to game, umpire to umpire and always has.  As an MLB player you have to adapt to it.  The strike zone was high and wide all day for both sides.  What you saw was LaRussa's frustration with the lack of offense by the best offense in the majors and Edmonds frustration at his rapidly rising scapegoat status for the fortunes of said offense.

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« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2005, 01:21:00 am »
the umpire gave LaGenius at least 3 chances to keep his seat. first, he made a zipping motion on his lips. then, he twice said "you're going to go." when he did not shut up, he went. i think he had it planned...the Tank Commander falls in battle to rally his troops.
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« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2005, 01:27:01 am »
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...the Tank Commander falls in battle to rally his troops.




My old man was convinced of this as well.

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« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2005, 01:45:53 am »
I'm still here...doing what I came here to do.  Which is see what the Astros fans have to say about the games.

The Astros played another great game and the Birds played another less than great game.  The home plate ump sucked the entire game for both sides and decided that simply being a bad ump wasn't getting him enough Tv time.  (I say that only half joking)  

Backe pitched a great game and was able to take advantage of the idiot behind the plate, as did Soup.  MMP's diminsions gave the Astros a home run and took one away from the Cards.  Marquis probable signed his ticket out of STL by running his mouth earlier this week and then when he gets into the game he fails to make two basic plays, fielding a bunt and laying down a bunt.  Pujols is the only guy in the Cards lineup thats showed up the last 3 games and even thought the play turned out bad, I like the agressiveness of him going on the play in the 9th.

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« Reply #24 on: October 17, 2005, 01:51:45 am »
do you whine about every park your heroes play in, troll? was LaGenius pissed when his pitchers benefitted from the wide strike zone? does your team ever just plain get beat? you had runners at first and third with NO outs, and you did not score. take your whiny ass excuses and fuck off.  go lick your wounds somewhere else.
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« Reply #25 on: October 17, 2005, 01:54:21 am »
Let me ask you something.  I mean this quite seriously.

Do you guys do this in every park, or just ours?  After every road series, do you measure the difference between Busch and the road stadium and say things like "well, if we had just been playing at home, that would have been" or "that wouldn't have been"?

Do you think the Cardinals were not aware of the dimensions in MMP and this is why they failed, again, to "take advantage of them"?  

Perhaps you could call them and warn them.  I'd hate for this to continue going unnoticed until after the games in which the Astros hit a jobby into the Crawfords and the Cards don't.

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« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2005, 02:00:00 am »
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do you whine about every park your heroes play in, troll? was LaGenius pissed when his pitchers benefitted from the wide strike zone? does your team ever just plain get beat? you had runners at first and third with NO outs, and you did not score. take your whiny ass excuses and fuck off.  go lick your wounds somewhere else.




"As did Soup" means that Suppan took advantage too.  I"m not whinning about your park.  Not blaming.  I said the Astros played a great game.  The Cards didn't get any breaks and the Astros played a great game.  in a 2-1 game one team didn't simply dominate so a break here or a break there EFFECT the game.  I"m not whinying, bitching or anything else.  Just stating what I thought of the game.  In the last 3 games the Astros outplayed the Cards.  Because I mention things that effect the game doesn't mean I'm diminishing how great the Astros played.

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« Reply #27 on: October 17, 2005, 02:01:42 am »
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Let me ask you something.  I mean this quite seriously.

Do you guys do this in every park, or just ours?  After every road series, do you measure the difference between Busch and the road stadium and say things like "well, if we had just been playing at home, that would have been" or "that wouldn't have been"?

Do you think the Cardinals were not aware of the dimensions in MMP and this is why they failed, again, to "take advantage of them"?  

Perhaps you could call them and warn them.  I'd hate for this to continue going unnoticed until after the games in which the Astros hit a jobby into the Crawfords and the Cards don't.





I'm not blaming the park or botching about the park.  Just stating that in another park the game plays out differently and the Astros did a great job today taking advantage of the situations and the Birds did not.

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« Reply #28 on: October 17, 2005, 02:04:09 am »
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I'm not blaming the park or botching about the park.

Just stating that in another park the game plays out differently





whoo boy.  seriously.  said with a straight face.
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« Reply #29 on: October 17, 2005, 02:04:34 am »
Ok.

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I'm not blaming the park or botching about the park.

Just stating that in another park the game plays out differently





whoo boy.  seriously.  said with a straight face.





Ok put another way it was a 2-1 game so it looked like the Astros were playing against a little league team.  Is that better?

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Ok.




That was easy.





Can't argue with it.  He's not complaining about it, just saying that if X was Y, the Mudbunnies would probably be in the Series.  

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Ok.




That was easy.




Can't argue with it.  He's not complaining about it, just saying that if X was Y, the Mudbunnies would probably be in the Series.  

Where's my email?




The complaining is implicit.

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« Reply #34 on: October 17, 2005, 02:12:04 am »
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I'm not blaming the park or botching about the park.

Just stating that in another park the game plays out differently





whoo boy.  seriously.  said with a straight face.




Ok put another way it was a 2-1 game so it looked like the Astros were playing against a little league team.  Is that better?




Huh???  Were not Co-ard fans here, but nobody accuses them of being little league.  The point you seem to be missing is that the field of play (MMPUS) is the same for both teams.  The dimensions don't change between the top and the bottom of the innings.  If the Crawford boxes are cheap and easy, then your team is entitled to take advantage of them also.
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« Reply #35 on: October 17, 2005, 02:13:10 am »
More to the point, he is here to tell us that our home ballpark does not conform to the 325/375/400/375/325 markings of, say a 1960s Concrete Cookie park, say in St Louis.  

If he hadn't, Harold knows what us moron Astro fans would think.  We might get the impression EVERY team has a section of seats and a foul pole in fair play.  We might never know that 315 down the line is not USUALLY a homerun in other ballparks.  Good lord, we may think a fly out to dead center might be outs in other cities as well.  Imagine the horror.

Do it.  Imagine.

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« Reply #36 on: October 17, 2005, 02:14:59 am »
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Ok put another way it was a 2-1 game so it looked like the Astros were playing against a little league team.  Is that better?




Nope.  Just pointing out that those two statemest are incongruous.
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« Reply #37 on: October 17, 2005, 02:15:55 am »
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Do it.  Imagine.




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« Reply #38 on: October 17, 2005, 02:17:35 am »
Wasn't how I meant it at all.

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I'm not blaming the park or botching about the park.

Just stating that in another park the game plays out differently





whoo boy.  seriously.  said with a straight face.




Ok put another way it was a 2-1 game so it looked like the Astros were playing against a little league team.  Is that better?




Huh???  Were not Co-ard fans here, but nobody accuses them of being little league.  The point you seem to be missing is that the field of play (MMPUS) is the same for both teams.  The dimensions don't change between the top and the bottom of the innings.  If the Crawford boxes are cheap and easy, then your team is entitled to take advantage of them also.




I said that in jest because every post I make is interpreted as implicit complaining or implicitly knocking the Astros.  So Other than saying the Astros are the greatest and the Cards suck, I don't know if I can say anything without being a whining complaining homer.

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« Reply #40 on: October 17, 2005, 02:22:14 am »
No, no, I finally get it.

You are here to educate; to teach.

Also, to pat us on the head when we are good.

We have a name for people like you.

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« Reply #41 on: October 17, 2005, 02:22:32 am »
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do you whine about every park your heroes play in, troll? was LaGenius pissed when his pitchers benefitted from the wide strike zone? does your team ever just plain get beat? you had runners at first and third with NO outs, and you did not score. take your whiny ass excuses and fuck off.  go lick your wounds somewhere else.




"As did Soup" means that Suppan took advantage too.  I"m not whinning about your park.  Not blaming.  I said the Astros played a great game.  The Cards didn't get any breaks and the Astros played a great game.  in a 2-1 game one team didn't simply dominate so a break here or a break there EFFECT the game.  I"m not whinying, bitching or anything else.  Just stating what I thought of the game.  In the last 3 games the Astros outplayed the Cards.  Because I mention things that effect the game doesn't mean I'm diminishing how great the Astros played.





Here's the breaks, neither Sanders nor Mabry could get a ball into the outfield with a runner on 3rd and less than two outs.  Twist all you want about the architecture.  The Cardinals lost to the Astros because the Astros executed and the Cardinals did not.  Period.

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« Reply #42 on: October 17, 2005, 02:23:34 am »
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More to the point, he is here to tell us that our home ballpark does not conform to the 325/375/400/375/325 markings of, say a 1960s Concrete Cookie park, say in St Louis.  

If he hadn't, Harold knows what us moron Astro fans would think.  We might get the impression EVERY team has a section of seats and a foul pole in fair play.  We might never know that 315 down the line is not USUALLY a homerun in other ballparks.  Good lord, we may think a fly out to dead center might be outs in other cities as well.  Imagine the horror.

Do it.  Imagine.





I'm sorry I was pointing something that effected the game, I guess I shouldn't do that.  The Astros have taken advantage of the short porch in left and the Cards haven't I've already said that.  I"m not saying it's not fair, I'm not saying the CArds should have won.  I'm saying the diminsions of the park effected the game, just like they would have if the game was in Busch.  No more, no less.

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« Reply #43 on: October 17, 2005, 02:25:36 am »
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MMP's diminsions gave the Astros a home run and took one away from the Cards.




You know, if they had played NLCS Game 4 at McLean Little League field #4, St. Louis would have won 131-127.  I wish MLB would realize that the short centerfield porch there is a really unfair advantage for the Cardinals.
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do you whine about every park your heroes play in, troll? was LaGenius pissed when his pitchers benefitted from the wide strike zone? does your team ever just plain get beat? you had runners at first and third with NO outs, and you did not score. take your whiny ass excuses and fuck off.  go lick your wounds somewhere else.




"As did Soup" means that Suppan took advantage too.  I"m not whinning about your park.  Not blaming.  I said the Astros played a great game.  The Cards didn't get any breaks and the Astros played a great game.  in a 2-1 game one team didn't simply dominate so a break here or a break there EFFECT the game.  I"m not whinying, bitching or anything else.  Just stating what I thought of the game.  In the last 3 games the Astros outplayed the Cards.  Because I mention things that effect the game doesn't mean I'm diminishing how great the Astros played.




Here's the breaks, neither Sanders nor Mabry could get a ball into the outfield with a runner on 3rd and less than two outs.  Twist all you want about the architecture.  The Cardinals lost to the Astros because the Astros executed and the Cardinals did not.  Period.




And Marquis not fielding the bunt and not laying down a bunt.  I've said the Astros played a great game today and the Cards didn't.  I've never said the breaks won the game for the Astros or lost it for the Cards.  The Cards got out-played again today, and yet they could have still won the game if they had gotten one or two more breaks.

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« Reply #45 on: October 17, 2005, 02:29:57 am »
Actually, what you SAID was...we better come to play this weekend because the breaks won't keep going our way.

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« Reply #46 on: October 17, 2005, 02:34:01 am »
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Actually, what you SAID was...we better come to play this weekend because the breaks won't keep going our way.

Wrong again.





Yes take that as a literal premonition my part.  It was a little razzing after 'tipping my cap' to the fans of a team that just beat the Cards.

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« Reply #47 on: October 17, 2005, 02:34:51 am »
As you can see, you're VERY good at this.

(The razzing I mean.)

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« Reply #48 on: October 17, 2005, 02:36:02 am »
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 The Cards got out-played again today, and yet they could have still won the game if they had gotten one or two more breaks.




Or a hit when they needed it, instead of a call.  Been there buddy.
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« Reply #49 on: October 17, 2005, 02:37:49 am »
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As you can see, you're VERY good at this.

(The razzing I mean.)





I thought you meant talking to people who twist my words and try to find hidden motive that aren't there because I get a lot of practice talking to my wife.

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« Reply #50 on: October 17, 2005, 02:38:59 am »
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do you whine about every park your heroes play in, troll? was LaGenius pissed when his pitchers benefitted from the wide strike zone? does your team ever just plain get beat? you had runners at first and third with NO outs, and you did not score. take your whiny ass excuses and fuck off.  go lick your wounds somewhere else.




"As did Soup" means that Suppan took advantage too.  I"m not whinning about your park.  Not blaming.  I said the Astros played a great game.  The Cards didn't get any breaks and the Astros played a great game.  in a 2-1 game one team didn't simply dominate so a break here or a break there EFFECT the game.  I"m not whinying, bitching or anything else.  Just stating what I thought of the game.  In the last 3 games the Astros outplayed the Cards.  Because I mention things that effect the game doesn't mean I'm diminishing how great the Astros played.




Here's the breaks, neither Sanders nor Mabry could get a ball into the outfield with a runner on 3rd and less than two outs.  Twist all you want about the architecture.  The Cardinals lost to the Astros because the Astros executed and the Cardinals did not.  Period.




And Marquis not fielding the bunt and not laying down a bunt.  I've said the Astros played a great game today and the Cards didn't.  I've never said the breaks won the game for the Astros or lost it for the Cards.  The Cards got out-played again today, and yet they could have still won the game if they had gotten one or two more breaks.




You can't even hold it together for a paragraph

"...never said the breaks won...yet they could have still won the game if they had gotten one or two more breaks..."

And still you're ignoring the fact that you typed,

?The Cards didn't get any breaks? ... ?a break here or a break there EFFECT the game?...  ?MMP's diminsions gave the Astros a home run and took one away from the Cards?

We see this alot.  After some idiot makes a bunch of bullshit statements, gets his ass handed to him, they usually start retracting and modifying what they really meant.  We call it crayfishing or crabbing.  And no, you can't win.  It's likely you have some experience with this.

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« Reply #51 on: October 17, 2005, 02:39:10 am »
Are you calling me fat?

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« Reply #52 on: October 17, 2005, 02:40:39 am »
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Actually, what you SAID was...we better come to play this weekend because the breaks won't keep going our way.

Wrong again.





Yes take that as a literal premonition my part.  It was a little razzing after 'tipping my cap' to the fans of a team that just beat the Cards.





As the great Bluebonnet Jeff Kent once said, "you can shove your cap up your ass".

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« Reply #53 on: October 17, 2005, 02:41:24 am »
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 The Cards got out-played again today, and yet they could have still won the game if they had gotten one or two more breaks.




Or a hit when they needed it, instead of a call.  Been there buddy.




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 Pujols is the only guy in the Cards lineup thats showed up the last 3 games



Edmonds, Walker, Reggie (except game one), Nunez and Gruz have looked like they have no idea what they're doing with a bat in their hands.  Yes, some of it has been good pitching, but some of it is their fault too.

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« Reply #54 on: October 17, 2005, 02:47:03 am »
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Edmonds, Walker, Reggie (except game one), Nunez and Gruz have looked like they have no idea what they're doing with a bat in their hands.  Yes, some of it has been good pitching, but some of it is their fault too.





Bullshit. Edmonds is one of the best hitters in his era. He showed that form by lining a double to left. He has made use of the Crawford Boxes in the recent past. Former MVP Walker had a good hard line drive for a hit. Nunez and Gruz just plain suck.

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« Reply #55 on: October 17, 2005, 02:48:54 am »
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You can't even hold it together for a paragraph

"...never said the breaks won...yet they could have still won the game if they had gotten one or two more breaks..."

And still you're ignoring the fact that you typed,

?The Cards didn't get any breaks? ... ?a break here or a break there EFFECT the game?...  ?MMP's diminsions gave the Astros a home run and took one away from the Cards?

We see this alot.  After some idiot makes a bunch of bullshit statements, gets his ass handed to him, they usually start retracting and modifying what they really meant.  We call it crayfishing or crabbing.  And no, you can't win.  It's likely you have some experience with this.





When someone says "they got all the breaks" or "we didn't get any breaks" they don't literally mean they didn't get a single break in the game.

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« Reply #56 on: October 17, 2005, 02:52:27 am »
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Edmonds, Walker, Reggie (except game one), Nunez and Gruz have looked like they have no idea what they're doing with a bat in their hands.  Yes, some of it has been good pitching, but some of it is their fault too.





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« Reply #57 on: October 17, 2005, 03:03:23 am »
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Edmonds, Walker, Reggie (except game one), Nunez and Gruz have looked like they have no idea what they're doing with a bat in their hands.  Yes, some of it has been good pitching, but some of it is their fault too.





Bullshit. Edmonds is one of the best hitters in his era. He showed that form by lining a double to left. He has made use of the Crawford Boxes in the recent past. Former MVP Walker had a good hard line drive for a hit. Nunez and Gruz just plain suck.

Quit whining.





Edmonds and Walker have a combined 3 hits in 4 games in the LCS.

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« Reply #58 on: October 17, 2005, 03:06:04 am »
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Edmonds and Walker have a combined 3 hits in 4 games in the LCS.





Good pitching. Get used to it.
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« Reply #59 on: October 17, 2005, 03:09:07 am »
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Edmonds and Walker have a combined 3 hits in 4 games in the LCS.





Good pitching. Get used to it.





I wish I would have mentioned that the Astros pitchers had a role in that...oh wait I did.

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« Reply #60 on: October 17, 2005, 04:15:41 am »
man, the Astros are 3-for-21 with RISP....and the Birds  still can't catch a break!

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« Reply #61 on: October 17, 2005, 08:31:20 am »
Wait!  You mean 325 to left in Bush Stadium?  Does that mean that a 341 tape measure home run to left would have been out there, too?  How is that taking advantage of the parks dimension.  How about, the Astros scored two runs and the Cards scored one in the first nine innings of this game.  No breaks just baseball, dumbass.

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« Reply #62 on: October 17, 2005, 09:10:04 am »
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MMP's diminsions gave the Astros a home run and took one away from the Cards.




You know, if they had played NLCS Game 4 at McLean Little League field #4, St. Louis would have won 131-127.  I wish MLB would realize that the short centerfield porch there is a really unfair advantage for the Cardinals.





The Astros use the Crawford boxes to bait opposing players into trying to pull the ball and hitting into game ending 4-6-3 double plays.

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« Reply #63 on: October 17, 2005, 09:34:14 am »
my favorite part of all of this whining is that the BFiB think their team does not have to actually play in the park they are in. they sit there smugly, think "that one was out in Busch," count the run and bitch about "the dimensions" of the park where the game is being played. what a great system to avoid accepting losses.
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« Reply #64 on: October 17, 2005, 09:40:36 am »
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Are you calling me fat?




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