Baseball Season 2011

[dps]

Rooting for Muammar Gaddafi would be less depressing than rooting for the Royals.

On behalf of Beeb and I: 

I always thought George Brett was cool. 

  Second best 3rd baseman of all time.

I'd put him in the top five, but any higher than 3rd.

Mike Schmidt is #1, who would you put as #2?

Eddie Matthews.  Actually, I might rank him #1 ahead of Schmidt.  Their stats are pretty close.  I think that Schmidt ranks ahead because Matthews best seasons were in 50's, which was a much better era for hitters than Schmidt's era, and Schmidt's defense was probably better, too.  But OTOH, Matthews latter years were in the 60's, which were even worse for hitters than Schmidt's time, and I'm not really sure about the defense.

[Valmy]

But...but...Brooks Robinson 

[Valmy]

Well I guess the thing about run production going up in warmer weather is proving true in this series so far.

[Barrister]

Is, was...it doesn't matter.

Well I'm pretty sure it matters to George.

[Razgovory]

Cards doing pretty well so far.

[jimmy olsen]

Cards doing pretty well so far.

Pujols is a beast

[MadBurgerMaker]

Oh fuuuuuuuuck.  I just saw the score.  There had to be some cheating involved or something. 

[Sophie Scholl]

Oh fuuuuuuuuck.  I just saw the score.  There had to be some cheating involved or something.

There was.

[Syt]

Pujols, who was 0 for 6 in the first two games, became the third player to hit three homers in a series game. He joined Babe Ruth, who did it in 1926 and again in 1928, and Reggie Jackson's performance in 1977.

His six RBIs tied the record in a game, matching Bobby Richardson in 1960 and Hideki Matsui in 2009.

Oh, Pujols also matched the series mark for hits in a game set by Paul Molitor in 1982. Just think, too -- Pujols' monster game came after he grounded out in the first inning.

[...]

Texas fans booed after first-base umpire Ron Kulpa's blown call helped the Cardinals score four times in the fourth for a 5-0 lead. The crowd at Rangers Ballpark went silent when Pujols started swinging for the fences, and beyond. His three-run shot in the sixth rattled the windows of the club level in left field.

Game 4 is tonight, with Derek Holland starting for the Rangers against Edwin Jackson. It will be the back half of a St. Louis-Texas style doubleheader -- earlier in the day, the Rams play the Dallas Cowboys right across the parking lot.

Ok, without the supposed four runs due to the blown call, the game still would have ended 12-7.

[Sophie Scholl]

You should know 4 early runs can change the entire makeup of the game.  It isn't simply a matter of subtracting 4 runs from the final score.

[Syt]

You should know 4 early runs can change the entire makeup of the game.  It isn't simply a matter of subtracting 4 runs from the final score.

Yes, but you can't call it total collapse if the Rangers still managed to score 7 runs, with 3 runs coming in the same inning. Would it have gone differently, without the blown call? Probably. Still, I think the Cards had the hotter bats that night overall.

[Razgovory]

Well, Cowboys will beat the shit out of the Rams today, if that's any consolation.

[Razgovory]

Looks like the Cards took inspirations from the Rams.

[sbr]

Holland was dealing tonight.  I still feel pretty comfortable, the Rangers still have to win 2 games and I don't see any of their starters pitching that well again.

[alfred russel]

The Cards came off a bit like a Keystone Cops operation last night.