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Posted on 10/27/2006 4:09:26 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
Let's GO! Baseball fans!!!!! Verlander v. Weaver and "The Gambler" in G6!
"I just realized the Cards have little red goatees painted on. How silly and cute."
Spezio started that. He had his goatee dyed red all year.
Drink more beer and you'll see it too!!
LOL!!
I've had about 3 and I gotta work in the morn, so I think I'll just have to take your word for it. But have another for me!!
The Cards have won a World Series in their new ballpark!
Of course, the Cubs new ballpark opened 92 years ago!
I like the (possible) significance of the team that wears so much RED winning the World Series just before the mid-term election.
(wink)
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Thanks again! You helped us break the curse. :)
Looks like your boys came through with a solid win. Where did this Weaver come from? Congratulations on getting the title once again.
"Una Paloma Blanca." When Polanco was on the Cards a few years back, I actually wrote a parody about him based on that song: "Oooh, Placido Polanco. . . ." I don't remember the rest of the words off the top of my head.
See my post 4 in this thread, in which I make the case that the Cards are not only a very GOOD team but even the BEST team in baseball over the past three years!
Once they got relatively healthy and replaced a couple of missing parts, it actually was NOT unexpected that the Cards would perform at a very high level.
You should be proud of your Tigers. They made a remarkable turnaround, they won the pennant in a very competitive league, and they are loaded with young talent, especially pitching, which bodes well for years to come.
But looking at the big picture, the Cards have the HIGHEST win total--311--of any team in baseball over the past three years, seasons and post-seasons combined. That, plus two pennants and one world championship! The best team, overall, of the mid-'00s, maybe of the whole decade so far.
As a Chicago native who lived there for over 30 years and who now has lived in St. Louis for most of the past 20, these last couple years have been great! Last year, the White Sox. This year, the Cards. Now--dare I say it--my #1 team, my northside Cubs are next in line!
[::nods::] Yuppers. You've got it exactly right, and the sour few lowest-win-total chuckleheads hereabouts are vamping what is (at best) a minimal grasp of how pro baseball works.
If regular season W/L records were the sole (or even the most important) arbiter in these matters: we (obviously) wouldn't even need to have post-season play at all. We'd just pick the single AL or NL team with the greatest number of regular season wins; duly annoint them as "champs"; and close up shop right there, until the following spring.
Neither the Tigers or the Mets were "better" than the Cardinals this year. The demonstrability of either one to beat what the embarrassingly poor losers, online, insist was a "poor" team in the first place -- when it really MATTERED -- is crushingly convincing evidence of that. :)
His 87 year old grandma still drives!.
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I'm guessing Jim Leyland (though he may never admit it) wishes he had sent Kenny Rogers out there to start Game Five after all---for his defence as well as his pitching.
Maybe Detroit's young flamethrowers should have thrown their fastballs to the bases. Their fastballs usually found their targets with a lot more accuracy than the slop tosses they did throw to third.
(Well, in fairness: Joel Zumaya did throw one that would have been an out if Brandon Inge had been prepared for the prospect.)
(In further fairness: Going for the lead runner at third is smart and classic baseball. Right out of the Casey Stengel play book. The problem is how dumb you look when you don't execute.)
P.S. Told you the Cardinals' resident pest was probably going to be the Series MVP if they won Game Five.
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