Bedard gives the Cardinals problems, I think.

Around the league, Houston's record is a half game better than Boston's. Think about that. 

"Houston's record is a half game better than Boston's."

The bandwagon is emptying out pretty quickly. Even the Pink Hats are more interested in the Patriots' OTAs than the Red Sox. 
The sports dynamic here has changed. The diehahhhhds are dying more easily these days. I never thought I'd live long enough to see Boston people rooting for a New York team, but there was majority sentiment for the New York Rangers to beat Montreal in the Eastern Conference finals. 

 

From Derrick Goold's chat:

Q4b: I'm not sure how to describe Molina's play recently. He looks tired, unhappy, injured, depressed. I hesitate to say lazy, but several balls are getting by (through) him that he would have blocked in the past. He's stabbing at balls to his right. Is all the work and his age catching up to him?by Jim Brown

DG: The way Matheny described it on the record and others around the club described it as well to support the manager's comments, Matheny has played frustrated, the gravity of the record pulling him down. He has looked frustrated at the plate. Matheny gave an anecdote: Molina hit a couple lasers at infielders that were caught for outs, and he was furious in the dugout and on the way to the dugout and even after he had fumed. He just seethed about it. And yet when he hit a 69-foot, 112-hop single, he celebrated at first like it was his birthday. Matheny said that's backward. He should be looking for and reveling in the hard hits, but the funk had gotten so deep into Molina's approach that he was celebrating the single not the right approach at the plate. Matheny worried that was a sign that Molina was busy reworking his swing with the wrong purpose. He needed a day to Ctl-Alt-Det and reset the operating system.

Q3: Any details on what LL might have passed along to SM and JG after his Friday start?by capeporpoise

DG: Yes, some of them were relayed in the game story. After going into the Friday start with the intention to get the Jays swinging at his pitches, and see if they would fish for those off-speed pitches out of the zone, Lynn recognized that the Jays were not the grip-and-rip Jays everybody was expecting, me included. They took those pitches. They pressed into Lynn's pitch count, and they brought him back over the plate. He was able to keep them within reach despite falling behind in the counts and the bloated pitch totals. But he also recognized that the Cardinals couldn't have the same approach the next two days. He talked with Miller and Garcia about being more aggressive with their fastballs low in the zone and if the grounders got through on the turf they got through, stay at it. Keep the bases clear of walks and elevate judiciously for Miller and not at all for Garcia. Lynn helped them rethink the plan and gave them some ideas on where to pitch the Jays within the strike zone because they weren't going to fish outside of it. Matheny made the point that usually it's Lynn, as a young pitcher, "receiving this information." This was the first time he could recall Lynn making a point to stick around the clubhouse late Friday night to give it.

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A guy I didn't know existed until this morning is mowing down the Cardinals through three innings like he's Walter Johnson.

The Cardinals have been very fortunate in this game thus far.

Shocking that there would be attractive women in Florida.

For reasons I don't understand, my son wants to see a game at the Trop. I told him if the Cardinals ever play the Rays in the World Series, I'll take him. I think I'm safe this season.

Could be a good night for the Cardinals. The Brewers lost, the Pirates are trailing by four in the ninth and the Dodgers are leading TTTIB, though it's only the third inning in Cncinnati because that game started late due to weather.

tkihshbt wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

Shocking that there would be attractive women in Florida.

Isn'it? I've never been to the Gulf Coast, but I have a buddy who played baseball at the University of Tampa, and he says the dynamic is ... intense.
 

 
Tampa is the strip club capital of the world. I think more so than Vegas even.

Apparently, there are the legitimate strip clubs, and there is also an array of "unofficial" clubs where a variety of services are offered. While there's nothing particularly unusual about a house of ill repute in a major metropolitan area, from what I've been led to understand, they're quite pervasive and maintain the ability to remain mobile to stay ahead of law enforcement. Rolling nookie wagons, if you will ...
 

You've mentioned your affinity for the area before.
The one and only time I've been to Miami, we got caught up in a turf war between Miami and Tampa strippers. In order to meet the demand of a Dolphins/Patriots football game weekend, the club in Miami that we went to imported some strippers from Tampa, and the animosity between the two groups was strikingly evident.
I will say in my particular experience I found the Miamians far more accommodating than the visitors from Tampa.

tkihshbt wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

Shocking that there would be attractive women in Florida.

Isn'it? I've never been to the Gulf Coast, but I have a buddy who played baseball at the University of Tampa, and he says the dynamic is ... intense.
 

 
Tampa is the strip club capital of the world. I think more so than Vegas even.

Pound for pound i bet the midwest has them beat. 
 

APIAD wrote:

Pound for pound i bet the midwest has them beat.

About 18 months ago I had to attend a wedding in Belleville. I saw so many roadside strip clubs on the way that it seemed like overkill. There are attractive women in rural areas, but they don't usually take off their clothes for a living. Seems like it would be cheaper and easier just to get high-speed Internet and use Google.