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Tuesday October 15, 19
04:15 AM
They're down 3-0 against the, Nationals? Who the hell are they? And when did the Astros jump over to the American league?
The Cardinals need our thoughts and prayers!
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If all the world's economists were laid end to end, we wouldn't reach a
conclusion.
-- William Baumol
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @04:32AM
prey for birbs
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:31AM
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See that? It is a chain across the channel, much like the one that used to protect West Point, until that
Traitor Benedict Donald Arnold Trump gave it over to the Brits, slightly before we took their Air stations, which the Kurds never helped us with.
No one should, from here on in, respond to a fustakraterinsh journal. Let it be like Snow, just a general loss of interest, and the gradual inability to comprehend the crazy. Sorry, Fuster, you were good while you lasted, which wasn't long. Longer than Snow, apparently, from what L has been saying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:28PM (2 children)
The Cardinals *needed* (past tense) to hit. They have not done so. Sweeping a three game series is hard enough. And winning all four games in a row, especially two on the road/two at home is extremely unlikely. Sorry Fusty.
Now it's almost certainly too late. The Cardinals are definitely a good team, but they have not played well. Worst of all, they have failed, especially with men on base, to *put the ball in play* and take advantage of the many scoring opportunities they've had.
Note that I am *not* a fan of the Nationals (as a Mets fan, I despise those ratbags!), but they have outplayed the Cardinals (hell, they upset the Dodgers, which was a *huge* surprise) by a wide margin.
The Cardinals are not the team they were in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. Somehow they've lost (interest/focus/ability to execute) The Cardinal Way [stltoday.com], which made them so successful for so long.
As such, they have no one to blame but themselves.
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think the Nats can beat the Yankees (not a fan. at all) or the Astros.
The Nationals have really pulled it together this year. I have a theory as to why: They finally got rid of that disruptive, obnoxious asshole, Bryce Harper. Who started fights with his own teammates, didn't hustle, got ejected early in games, even when another outfielder had already been injured, so the team was short on the bench already.
Talent is important, but playing *as a team* and creating the cohesion and camaraderie among a group of folks is incredibly important too. I suspect that the Phillies will eventually rue the day they signed Harper.
That's one of the things I find really annoying about the obsessive focus on analytics. Analytics are enormously important and can absolutely help a team win, but without the cohesion and veteran presence (mentoring, setting examples for younger players, etc.) no team can have sustained success. And analytics can't measure that. Ignore it at your own peril.
Anyway, playing 162 plus the post-season is gruelling. You should be proud of your Cardinals for getting this far. Just wait 'til next year!
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:32PM (1 child)
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think the Nats can beat the Yankees (not a fan. at all) or the Astros.
That's too bad. I still hope the National League will win it. The Cards have already been there many times, so it's all good, but I would like to see them pull off another one when they get this close. Looks like they'll need a small miracle.
Anyway, playing 162 plus the post-season is gruelling.
They have drugs for that.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @08:15PM
AC you replied to here.
Me too. Even if it's the hated Nationals.
A lot of that is because I despise the designated hitter (DH) [wikipedia.org]. Having a DH destroys a lot of the drama and complexity of the game. If the pitcher (generally not very good hitters, Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth notwithstanding) has to get into the batters' box (if a player is on the field on defense, they should bat as well, IMHO), managers need to use their bench more extensively and make more decisions about pulling a pitcher.
The DH (implemented by the American League in 1973, likely as a result of the pitching dominance of the 1960s that led to the lowering of the mound [mlb.com] as well).
Also, there are lots of folks out there who just want to see home runs, rather than manufacturing them through hustle and quality play. Which is what the Cardinals (I mentioned "The Cardinal Way" in my previous post) were so successful at doing for so long.
These days, it's not unusual for a star player to strike out 200 times in ~500 at-bats in one season. By contrast, Ty Cobb [baseball-reference.com] (racist asshole that he was, but a *great* baseball player) struck out a *total* of 680 times in more than 11,000 at-bats over 24 years.
They are cliches, but they are so because they're true: "Put the bat on the ball," "Hit it where they ain't," etc.
The widespread use of defensive shifts these days (yes, I know they shifted against guys like Ted Williams [wikipedia.org] as far back as the 1950s), just shows how hitters are primarily focused on home runs rather than getting on base and "keeping the line moving." [en.mimi.hu] More's the pity.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:29PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Nationals [wikipedia.org]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:14PM
What's more, this is the farthest the Nats/Expos have gotten (NLCS) since 1981.