artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

Nice to hear a first hand account that isnt sugar coated. Were you there today to see martinez steal home? Going to try and find video of that.

Like I wrote, there are worse things to do than watch a live baseball game in early March in Florida. It just wasn't my vibe. The four guys in front of us were talking about the golf game they played that morning. They basically paid a $65 cover charge and $10 a beer to have the same conversation they could have had at any bar in Orlando. The couple to the left of us got up and climbed over us every inning for concessions and/or to go to the rest room. The only two players of the ones who made the trip to Orlando the woman sitting to Zach's right had heard of were Fowler and Molina. And she was wearing a Cardinals' hat and t-shirt. I know it's a spring training game, but geez.

Incidentally, the first game I ever saw in person between two major league teams was an exhibition game in Little Rock between the Cards and the White Sox.  Since I was a month short of 12, it was tremendously exciting for me.  Of course it helped that I had gotten my picture taken with Stan Musial (by butting in on a press photography session uninvited) just before the game.  It was actually a pretty good game since it was only a couple of days before the regular season opened and the teams were pretty much playing their regulars like it was a regular season game.  The Cards had a new centerfielder named Wally Moon, who had made it possible for the Cards to trade Enos Slaughter to the Yanks a month or two earlier.  Even though Moon was from Bay City/Trumann, Arkansas, you didn't hear as much about him as would normally be the case.  Perhaps it was because he was replacing such a huge Cardinal favorite and they were letting him come in without a spotlight. 

On opening day a couple of days later, Moon homered in his first at bat.

The following year, I got to see the same to teams play under the same condition in Little Rock.  Although Moon had been ROY, the Cards had a new centerfielder named Bill Virdon, who had been obtained in the Slaughter trade.  Moon had moved to left and Musial to right.  The Cards first baseman was a 6'5" rookie named Tom Alston, who was their first Black player.  The also had a highly publicized rookie shortstop named Alex Grammas.

I learned just a couple of days ago that Moon died a few months ago.  I have not seen any notice taken of it in the Cardinal media that I occasionally read.  And the picture of him with the article a friend sent me showed him in a Dodger uniform.

Tuesday Morning:  I checked the baseball register last night and discovered that Alston and Grammas were rookies the same year as Moon and not the same year as Virdon.
 

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Mags wrote:

p.s.  I had to post something.  I haven't been getting any notices of postings to this thread, even though I was told by the system that I was already subscribed to it.

Well done sir

Idk y the site was sending all yhe notifications.  Glich i suppose.

Good to see there's one team out there which has its priorities in order ...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/royals-hold-event-to-educate-players-and-coaches-on-the-effects-of-pornography/ar-BBK05Hp?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=DELLDHP

Mikolas had a better showing

Wacha had a rough time today.  Seem to be a theme.  Lack of hitting a spotty pitching.

Who's going to go?  Munoz is really making a case to be on the 25 man roster.  I can't see them trading J. Marinez.  One option would be send Bader down and use Munoz as a back-up outfielder.  Or they could trade one of the following:  G. Garcia, Carpenter, Wong, or Gyorko.  But Garcia, Wong, and Carpenter are their only left-handed hitters.

Or they could drop the plan to carry 13 pitchers.

 

Mags wrote:

It should be noted that Carpenter managed to go from 1st to 3d on a double.

With or without further injury?

Looks like Carpenter has still got his launch angle.

artie_fufkin wrote:

Mags wrote:

Looks like Carpenter has still got his launch angle.

Look on the positive side. If he keeps hitting the ball out of the ballpark, he's in little danger of getting passed on the bathpaths.
Wainwright gave up one unearned run today in what Hummel termed five "dazzling" innings against people wearing the uniforms of the defending World Series champions. Not good news in this instance. Matheny will send him out for at least 15 starts during the regular season, even if his ERA remains hovering around 12.00.

In fairness, the first 5 hitters were regulars: Springer, Bregman, Altuve, Correa and Gonzalez.  You have to consider that a good result. Hopefully he threw harder than 82.

My thoughts on reading that fluff piece on Carpenter were:  "Poor slob.  It's really rough being the last one to know."

Gonna brag a little and leave this here.

https://twitter.com/FSMidwest/status/974484359938957312

forsberg_us wrote:

Gonna brag a little and leave this here.

https://twitter.com/FSMidwest/status/974484359938957312

 That is awesome  !
Congratulations  !