Carp and Boggs.  This is going to be a great 2011.

APRTW wrote:

Freese has yet to play in his first game this spring.  Craig isnt getting alot of playing time at third.  Matt Carpenter is getting most of it.

Just what you want. A non-pitcher who was issued a grocery-bagger's number (#62) to be getting most of the reps.

tkihshbt wrote:

Carpenter isn't far off. I think he might be better than Freese.

Good.  Is there any reason the Cardinals have never called up Amaury Cazana.  They put Rico Washington on the team after all.

Freese is suposed to start sunday

APRTW wrote:

Freese is suposed to start sunday

Good. The sooner he plays, the sooner he's liable to have his annual season-ending injury and the Cardinals can bring back Miles.

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tkihshbt wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

Carpenter isn't far off. I think he might be better than Freese.

So far this spring, you and I are at least equal to Freese. Well, maybe you're equal. I've lost a step. Maybe two.

The bad news for Freese is that he's equal to an out-of-shape 25-year-old with nagging migraines and a 40something Raiders fan. The good news is that he'll still grace the cover of our town's insipid "Alive" magazine and help a bunch of SLU girls break the school's honor code.

has their been gossip?

artie_fufkin wrote:

APRTW wrote:

Freese is suposed to start sunday

Good. The sooner he plays, the sooner he's liable to have his annual season-ending injury and the Cardinals can bring back Miles.

OOPS! Maybe not.
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/article_813a4020-47f6-11e0-afc5-0017a4a78c22.html

"nagging migraines"

Try this: First, cut out caffeine from your diet for a month - coffee, soda, chocolate, whatever. After a month, wash down two buffered aspirin with a can of Coke at the first sign of a migraine. And, if you're in a place where you won't be embarrassed by this, take an ice pack and put it directly where your head hurts, in a dark room.
It's not a cure, but it can lessen the severity and length of your migraines.

Max wrote:

seriously, i have gone back and forth with caffeine over the course of my life, and for me to lose the caffeine withdrawal migraines only takes about a day.  The first morning sucks, and I load up on ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin, and the blue ones.  But by morning two there's pretty much no longer any need. 

I finally ditched diet coke in late january after deciding I was a total lost cause if I couldn't kick a habit as useless as THAT one.

The caffeine withdrawal was tougher for me because I used to drink about a half-gallon of Coke a day. I drink Caffeine-free Coke now, and I can't tell the difference. My wife stopped getting headaches when she went gluten-free, but she didn't have migraines.

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I can do without soda without much issue.  It is the carbonation that I like the best.  Really that is the same with beer.  I like the bite it has.  Giving up coffee would be harder.  If I dont have it in the morning I dont get a headache but I drag ass.  The bad thing is that it is always around.  I drink a cup even if I dont want to.  Like it is a socal thing.  Then I get off work and it isnt around and I crash getting the headache and all.  If I opened the cabinet right now and smelt the coffee I would want to brew a cup.  I have been trying to drink more water.  If I dont make an effort to my normal day looks something like this

7:00am walk out the door with a 16oz mug of coffee
7:30am arrive at work and drink another 2-3 cups of coffee
11:00 eat lunch and have a soda or tea
afternoon another 2 cups of coffee
go home and have tea or soda with supper
maybe a couple beers after the kids go to bed

It is no wonder I have to piss like a russan race horse about 10 times a day.  I have been trying to cut that unhealthyness down to 2 cups of coffee in the morning, one diet soda a day and the rest water.  If I need something with flavor some tea.

APRTW wrote:

I can do without soda without much issue.  It is the carbonation that I like the best.  Really that is the same with beer.  I like the bite it has.  Giving up coffee would be harder.  If I dont have it in the morning I dont get a headache but I drag ass.  The bad thing is that it is always around.  I drink a cup even if I dont want to.  Like it is a socal thing.  Then I get off work and it isnt around and I crash getting the headache and all.  If I opened the cabinet right now and smelt the coffee I would want to brew a cup.  I have been trying to drink more water.  If I dont make an effort to my normal day looks something like this

7:00am walk out the door with a 16oz mug of coffee
7:30am arrive at work and drink another 2-3 cups of coffee
11:00 eat lunch and have a soda or tea
afternoon another 2 cups of coffee
go home and have tea or soda with supper
maybe a couple beers after the kids go to bed

It is no wonder I have to piss like a russan race horse about 10 times a day.  I have been trying to cut that unhealthyness down to 2 cups of coffee in the morning, one diet soda a day and the rest water.  If I need something with flavor some tea.

It's been a big hurdle for my wife because like you her coffee drinking is reflexive. Coffee is the one vice I've never acquired. I just don't like hot beverages - coffee, tea, whatever. I eat soup occasionally, and there's nothing better than a bowl of steaming hot clam chowder, but I'm not sure soup qualifies as a beverage.

"Back in college, I used to drink four beers before I went out for the night. Now on my best night I get to about five and I'm done."

Knowing your alcohol limit is a good idea, but a limits of 4 or 5 beers, this is middle age.  It's the same reason why I don't eat an entire large pizza by myself at a single sitting anymore.  Or polish off an entire bag of tortilla chips while watching the first half of a football game.

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