What's with all the broken bats???

Whew.  Thank God we got THAT run back!

OK folks.  Now it's a 5 game series and the Cardinals have home field.  Let's go Carp.

I see one to left , left center, and center, others to right . Tonights not included



http://pitchfx.texasleaguers.com/batter/501896/?pitchers=A&count=AA&pitches=AA&from=3%2F29%2F11&to=10%2F9%2F2011

Notes: I watch games at a sports bar so I don't talk during games too much.

1) I agree with the strike zone,  the only consistency in the strike zone last night was dead red. If you put it there, it was a strike. Anything else was "at your own risk".
2) I don't understand why there's so much negativity around E-Jax in here. Is it that we're still pissed about the Rasmus trade? Let it go already. Get behind the guy, he's throwing well enough to win. If we don't have him next season, that shouldn't spoil the fact that he was a staple of a WIN in MILWAUKEE. Without Jackson, Philly bounces us in 4 games.
3) It'd been too long since we had another rehash of the Three Muskateers. This one is told from the viewpoint of Porthos' swordtip. Bring a vomit bag, it's going to be rough.
4) Thank God Pujols figured out how to clear a fence, that was concerning.
5) Back to St. Louis, where the Brewers are far less fearsome. Wednesday calling for rain, wary of that. We'll deal with Thursday on Thursday.
6) I'm so goddamned tired of that beast and belt dance I could punch someone. I understand if you jack a home run, but do we really need it after every goddamned single? Meh whatever, we just need to shut them up.
7) We have nothing to fear in Milwaukee. They have the record, we have homefield, and we have been the better team over the last 8 weeks. Let's get home and beat the shit out of those no-talent assclowns again.

Max wrote:

What's with all the broken bats???

They're made of wood, so they occasionally break.

"It'd been too long since we had another rehash of the Three Muskateers. This one is told from the viewpoint of Porthos' swordtip. Bring a vomit bag, it's going to be rough."

Well, that's enlightening. And I didn't think there was any gold left in that mine. I can just imagine Dumas wherever he is stomping his feet, grabbing handfuls of hair and saying "THAT PASTY LIMEY MICHAEL YORK WAS ALMOST TOLERABLE, BUT THEN YOU MADE A VERSION WITH AN AMERICAN?!? AND THEN GABRIEL BYRNE WAS LOUIS XIV'S FATHER?!?!? D'ARTAGNAN ISN'T DARTH VADER!!! STOP CORRUPTING MY BOOK!!!!!"

My daughter's name is Lyric Nora (I went for originality with Lyric, Nora is after my mother). Had she been a boy, my (now ex-)wife wanted to name him Tanner Phillip. This is somewhat normal, but the Tanner was short for D'artagnan. I told her I didn't think it was a good idea to do that to the boy, I didn't want to name my kid something with an apostrophe in it, he'd be 13 before he could spell it, and take no end of torment. She replied with "We don't have to spell it that way, we could use 'Dartanyan'."

My reply, which could have been the beginning of the end of that marriage was "Great so not only are we jackasses for doing that to our kid, now we're illiterate jackasses."

Thank the gods she was a baby girl....

Last edited by alz (10/11/2011 8:46 am)

alz wrote:

2) I don't understand why there's so much negativity around E-Jax in here. Is it that we're still pissed about the Rasmus trade? Let it go already. Get behind the guy, he's throwing well enough to win. If we don't have him next season, that shouldn't spoil the fact that he was a staple of a WIN in MILWAUKEE. Without Jackson, Philly bounces us in 4 games.

If I give off the impression that I don't like Jackson, that's my fault for not being clear. I actually like Jackson quite a bit. He was getting screwed by Timmons.

"He was getting screwed by Timmons."

He threw three straight strikes to Hart in the fifth that were called balls. There was a perfect 2-2 pitch on the corner (to Hairston?) earlier in the game that should have ended an inning.
I don't think Jackson was the only one pitching to a floating strike zone. He missed a few on Marcum. That might have been the worst non-Cuzzi zone I've ever seen in the playoffs.
I don't know how umpiring assignments are handed out. I thought at one point they were done on merit. But then I saw Angel Hernandez got a gig in the NLDS and I figured there has to be another method.
Fortunately, the Cardinals and the Phillies got out of there without Hernandez  trying to make it about himself. He only had one "look at me" moment when he mimicked the balk.

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

OK folks.  Now it's a 5 game series and the Cardinals have home field.  Let's go Carp.

I usually think Game 4 is the turning point of any series, but Game 3 might be the  pivotal game of this series. These are the only two starters who have been ace-like for their teams in the playoffs so far.
It's reasonable to assume this series is going back to Milwaukee. If they can take out Gallardo tomorrow night, it may not have to.

A sweep woud be alot to ask at this point.   Taking 2 of 3 put the Cardinals in position to only have to split when they got back to Milwaukee.  That is what I expect to happen.

APRTW, I can see that. I tend to downplay what we paid instead of expecting more out of what we got, as evident from the Rasmus rage we all kicked off when the trade went down.

I never expected Jax to be a star. I saw decent numbers, that had the age and the raw tools to be something Duncan could make into a solid starting pitcher. I see Scrabble in the same light, with the benefit of throwing left handed! I think we've gotten that (albeit possibly short term with Jax).

I also have felt better and better about the deal with every failed appearance Colby has made since the trade. He was a .246 hitter with us (77Ks in 94 games), he hit .173 with Toronto (39Ks in 35 games). With or without tools, production on that level isn't something you can get a really great trade out of. I think we did okay in hindsight, the move hasn't been a brutal failure.

alz wrote:

Timmons on the other hand seriously made me think he was flipping a coin.

PD writers are cribbin from us agin'.  C'mon now.  Which one of us is Bernie?


* Umpire Timmons should have just flipped a coin Monday night;

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