Sports
Well,
the Cards
kept the deficit below double-digits
last night
behind Jason Marquis on the mound. I GUESS that's better than the all-out, embarassing drubbing they endured the
night before
.
There's no doubt that the ChiSox are a great team. However, it's not the end of the season yet and there's lots of room between then and now to heal, improve, trade, promote, and the like. Likewise, there's lots of room for other teams to hurt, worsen, dump salary, abuse, etc their team. I'm not worried yet just because we've lost two games to a phenominal team.
The thing is, while Albert Pujols wouldn't have...
As much as it pains me to admit it, and certainly, the
St. Louis Cardinals
pitching staff helped, but there's no doubt in my mind that the Chicago White Sox are an incredible team. I don't know that I've EVER seen (not one, but two) such lop-sided games as the last two. I don't know that I've ever seen a team hit so well from the top of the lineup to the bottom. Of course, I have to remind myself that we've been in the AL for the last two games and get to DH. Any way you shake it,...
Ahhhh....
What a fiasco
last night in Chicago. Yes, everyone and their sister in CardinalNation is blogging about last night's debacle, but most tend to be focusing on Mulder's implosion. Let's set some things straight...
First, yes. Mulder was TERRIBLE. Should the Cards officials dump him? I don't think so. Let's give the guy a chance to get his act together. Give him a few starts off. DO NOT put him in the pen though. As Jeff Gordon
says
, we saw last night how reassigning starters into the bullpen works out. Also, what would we get for him now? His value needs to...
It looks like folks (here, here, and here, for starters) are ready to dump my favorite whipping-boy, Jason Isringhausen, after last night's follies.
The thing is, I was there. It was a sweet, fun game. It was a hoot to think that our Boys wearing Birds were still firing away; still pluggin' and chuggin' without Albert's stick. There was showing of many of the role players (Molina, Taguchi, etc) stepping up to fill in the voids left by the injured of the platoon.
Then, Izzy shows up. Oh well. Grrrr....
Later.
OK, who loves Anthony Reyes?
Meeeeeeeee!
Dude was awesome tonight.
He could make Chris Carpenter going on the DL a little easier to swallow. (Too bad he couldn't get the win.)
Later.
Not that I have delusions that Barry Bonds would read my little ole' blog, but I've been pondering what could come of the Career Home Runs record currently held by Hank Aaron (755) - and threatened to topple, probably next year, by Bonds.
Popular (and my) opinion are that Bonds is a liar and a cheater for taking steroids while playing baseball. Any other conclusion is ridiculous. Supporting Bonds (as his home town blindly does) is, in my opinion just short of condoning what he's done.
Bonds has had opportunities to take whatever higher roads were available to him, be an upstanding citizen, a man...
OK, sure. I know some of my (few) regular readers WILL NOT be thrilled about this post, and I typically have stayed away from a lot of sports postings, but...
I'm about to go CRAZY over St. Louis Cardinals baseball these days... Let me itemize:
It seems we can pummel teams that generally suck. We have no trouble with the Phillies, Pirates and the like... But against teams that can ACTUALLY play baseball (and have the W-L records to prove it), we can't muster even a decent resistance to them.
Jason Isringhausen drives me absolutely nuts. I know, he's a premiere closer according...
It only seems appropriate, on this most patriotic of holiday seasons, to use my hard earned (by someone else, not me) freedom of speech to complain. Not just about meaningful things, mind you, but about completely valueless things as the grand cosmic order of things go.
Frankly, I'm tired of Major League Baseball messing around with baseball. Who do they thing baseball belongs to anyway? This year, they want to change the home run derby to not just be about American League vs. National League (which it never really was anyway), but they want to turn it into a political event...
Well, the Boys of St. Louis' summers pulled one out yesterday at the local home opener against the Philadelphia Phillies...but they certainly made everyone think it would end up differently.
Frankly, I'm not too surprised or upset that it took so long for the guys to win. That's the thing with this crew, both last year and seemingly this - never count them out. If you're up 5-1 (as the Phillies were yesterday), the Cardinals are more than capable of coming back to win, which they did.
What bothered me were really two things. First (in order of drama, impact, and frustration), Izzy yet...
Finally! The 2005 MLB year has begun. How I missed thee! Without hockey to spell me (in fact, it's my favorite sport to watch), I felt that Opening Day was always an eternity away. Fortunately, “eternity” in this case was only April 5th, 2005. It's on that day (today) that the St. Louis Cardinals resume their pursuit of the World Series title that eluded them last year.
So, tonight was game 1 of 162. St. Louis at Houston. It was a fun, although at times tense, game.
Chris Carpenter was brilliant. Well, he was way better than most could expect the first...
Well, that settles it. The NHL and the Players Association can't get their acts together according to published media reports. After all the dust settles from months of arguing, fighting, stand-offs, media statements, etc it comes down to agreeing on a contract in principle and concept, but were $6.5 mm dollars apart on the details.
$6.5 mm! Seriously!?! That's hardly anything for these people. The players wouldn't have even had to hold that entire amount since that amount is at a team level. Given that a team consists of around 20 players, that's $325,000/player. On the other hand, the owners (as a...
As Bryan Burwell, a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch stated today:
“Dear players, ESPN replaced the programming of your games with a bunch of fat guys in sunglasses, chomping on cigars and playing poker, and the TV ratings for that time slot improved!!!!
Call me crazy, but I don't think you have any leverage.”
Granted, the number of articles ridiculing the NHLPA for finally accepting what they had for years adamantly refused (a salary cap) makes them look like morons. Well, no. They looked like morons even before they accepted the cap, since there was no justification for the salaries they were getting:...
You know, I saw something tonight that DIDN'T make me as nauseous as I suspected it would. The Chicago Cubs won their series and are heading to the NLCS. Odd. I saw the Cubs win a playoff series for the first time in almost 100 years. Millions of people have died not seeing that. Millions of people have had complete lifetimes in that timespan.
I'm all about the underdog this year in baseball. I think I'm glad to see the Small Bears win because of who they beat (the Atlanta Braves) as much as the fact that the “Loveable Losers” finally...
Whew! Well, I went and played paintball today with some co-workers. What a blast! Granted, I'm a big, slow, less-than-agile white guy, but I did pretty well. It must be that rural upbringing that put a innate ability to shoot things, get dirty, and love it...
In reality, it also opened my eyes a bit. I realize that I lead a bit of a sheltered life if that I rarely socialize outside of my “normal circle”. I spend 95% of my days around either professionals or church-goers (if not Christians) - some of each group are part of the other to...