Two Birds, One Bat - your 2014 St. Louis Cardinals

where da bats

delayed start, apparently at 4:15 EST

and yeah, they seem like they left the bats back in jupiter.

oh my fucking GOD cardinals outfielders, call for it #@$(@#$

i'm blaming this on jon jay even though even though holliday isn't exactly brooks robinson either

yikes, jon jay, yikes. he redeemed himself by driving in a run with a double, and then got thrown out trying to steal 3rd, for no reason, with lance lynn batting and 1 out. it made no sense to steal there. it's almost like he's subconsciously trying to compensate for his inadequecies as compared to bourjos (he fucked up in the field, and so he tries to steal a base)

So, Matt Adams...

has that fan made it out of the hospital yet?

the NL central has some crazy good young pitchers. cingrani to cole in a 3 game span :[

matt adams otm

woooooooo

― mookieproof, Sunday, April 28, 2013 6:32 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I am going to save my counter-woooooo until the day the bucs inevitably fall below .500 in mid-august

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Sunday, April 28, 2013 7:26 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

― mookieproof, Sunday, April 28, 2013 7:30 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Jeezus what happened. When I left the house to go the obscure band Kraftwerk's show, it was 3-2!

adam wainwright vs edinson volquez seems a little . . . lopsided

you'd think so, but barnes, martin, mccutchen, tabata, and walker have all MURDERED wainwright in the past (see the "hot batter matchups section" in http://www.rotowire.com/baseball/showArticle.htm?id=20068)

oh man, the mlb.tv audio is fucked up so that the announcers are muted but you can still hear the ballpark sounds. this is AMAZING. i wish this was an audio option for every game, i fucking hate listening to al hrabosky

1) billy hamilton just stretched a routine single into a double, and it wasn't even close. !!

2) with billy hamilton on second and no outs, the reds just had brandon phillips bunt him to third. ??

3) watching billy hamilton in a hotbox situation is amazingly tense. !!

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/shelby-miller-looks-broken

"In the nine starts he’s made since August 30th of last year, he’s thrown 110 breaking balls; hitters have swung and missed at two of them. Same thing with his off-speed stuff; 60 pitches thrown, two swings and misses."

:-O

i never thought i'd be saying it, but if he keeps disappointing for another month maybe he needs trade places with Carlos Martinez for a while.

brutal game last night, eh

what are allen craig and jhonny peralta doing on base at the same time?!!??

JFC

http://i.imgur.com/tNYeXHf.jpg

Insane Cardinal Posse

“The ball is coming out good,” pitching coach Derek Lilliquist said. “Our big three relievers are a tick down in terms of velocity."

Add that to Shelby Miller and Craig not being able to hit a ball out of the infield. Plenty to fret over.

http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/imported_assets/2150253/oL6JmlJ.gif

I'm going to tonight's game as well as Friday and Saturday.

Unfortunately my phone is about to die so no liveblogging

lol nats

zs has a decision on yr future location been made?

http://i.imgur.com/nOYY58j.png

#tbt

xpost yep, NYC for me. starting late july/early august

also wow, a 2-hit complete game shutout! and nearly a 1-hitter, until 2 outs in the 9th. nice!

that's cool (the first part)

Cool I'm sitting in front of a group of obnoxiously loud cardinal fans who hate everyone who isn't a WASP!

Icing on the cake, the loudest one thinks our 3rd basemen is named Shane Robinson

The @Cardinals face Bartolo Colon on Thursday. The first time they did that the starting OFs: McGee, Lankford and Gant via @vivaelbirdos

:O

Jenifer Langosch ‏@LangoschMLB 8m
Oscar Taveras out of Memphis' game today after twisting left ankle running out of batters box Mon. Absence is precautionary; he's day-to-day

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

looks like david freese passed his glass ankles on to the next generation before he left

http://37.media.tumblr.com/6ce55064ca95fd248f56fdbaf5a761ee/tumblr_n4ihfdgEM51rrjuxno1_400.gif

everyone expected the cardinals hitting w/ RISP to fall off dramatically this year, but i was really hoping that their hitting with no runners on with regress toward the mean as well. it's frustrating to watch a team with the second best ERA in the majors hit like this. it's not a disaster, they're still splitting or winning series, and it's a long road trip, but they should be outpacing the brewers right now.

cardinals getting dominated by the immortal bartolo colon, whose "sneakyfast" pitching is "lulling them to sleep"

jfc this team is frustrating this year

why is daniel descalso in the major leagues? why is he batting 6th?

isn't it enough that pete kozma is in triple-a? jeez

it's not! because greg garcia is also in triple-a and he makes way more sense than descalso.

also, sadly, i would rather have kozma as peralta's backup than daniel descalso.

i think last season's not entirely terrible first half for descalso was a mirage that's still fooling the cards a bit.

yeah - there's also some speculation that they're not treating the $1.3 million that they gave him for arbitration in the offseason as the sunk cost that it is

btw i have found slashfic involving Matheny and all of his pitching staff if anyone wants the link

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i would link a link, for archival purposes

the karl malone cardinals hall of fame would be a very different experience

where da bats

― bnw, Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:46 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--upYBH8-i--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/bkgsz1lyzms6q0cda186.gif

high Colonic

i understand why they're using jon jay recently, but bourjos really doesn't seem like he got a fair shot. i guess whoever designed for the team thought the same:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmKACMLCQAIWpyU.jpg

not just design -- bourjos is on the official ballot and jay is not

wow, didn't realize that. i wonder how they decide that? also, i understand that the all-star game is just a popularity contest and has little to do with the skill of the players, but it's so bogus to start voting for it less than a month into the season.

*challenging opinions* i know