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03-29-2024, 06:18 PM | #2 |
Has a particular set of skills
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03-31-2024, 05:48 PM | #3 |
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You guys watching the ESPN broadcast? Kike Hernandez's pitch com is coming through the mic on the interview.
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03-31-2024, 07:04 PM | #4 |
In my youth i pray to keep
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03-31-2024, 07:41 PM | #5 |
In my youth i pray to keep
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lol
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03-31-2024, 08:40 PM | #6 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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Paul Goldschmidt may make the HOF, but the dude is nothing but a compiler that routinely shits himself in big moments.
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04-01-2024, 02:21 PM | #7 |
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03-31-2024, 10:37 PM | #8 |
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Dodgers are the dynasty
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04-01-2024, 09:24 AM | #9 |
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When you spend a new BILLION $'s in the off season adding players, on top of the BILLION $'s you already spent, you probably will make your team better.
This is really bad for baseball. Football figured it out a long time ago. All teams should have the same chance to win a championship. Only a handful of baseball teams can commit to a BILLION $'s. Its an unfair advantage. Baseball is in trouble. Fans only watch their own teams games.Unless there is some sort of salary cap put in place, it'll continue its decline. That change wont take place until baseball loses a whole season or more. But, thats what its going to take to save baseball for the next generation. |
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04-01-2024, 05:02 PM | #10 | |
Now you've pissed me off!
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The Cardinals could do this if they wanted. They did it with Matt Holliday. They just don't care. Everyone in the org got fat and complacent after 2013, and bought into their own hype, and ownership no longer cared about doing anything more than the bare minimum. They didn't appreciate that Luhnow built the team that was the envy of the NL from 2011-2015. That's why the Cubs lapped them, the Dodgers, Phillies and Braves buried them, and why they won't win over 85 games for the foreseeable future. |
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04-03-2024, 06:03 AM | #11 |
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3-3 out west so far and this is without Gray having a start. Far better than I expected to be honest.
If Wynn, Walker, and Donavan continue to progress, this team will be all right. |
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04-03-2024, 10:29 AM | #12 | |
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Their previous top starting propects McGreevy and Graceffo are likely busts. Hence has yet to throw a 100 innings. The cupboard is pretty bare down on the farms. It could get real ugly in the next few years. The best we can hope for is Goldy and Arenado show they still have something at the trade deadline and somehow Mo doesn't continue to undervalue his talent in trades. All that said, Go Cards! |
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04-03-2024, 11:40 AM | #13 |
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04-03-2024, 10:39 PM | #14 | |
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The sole distinction between the franchises is the fanbase. Cardinals fans still show up so Mozeliak can spend more money (and typically does it very poorly). THAT'S the bigger problem. It's that they're stale. I read an article a month or so back about revolutions in coaching and how more teams are using outside voices like Driveline to supplement their coaching - the Cardinals weren't mentioned. I've seen articles regarding foreign academies - the Cardinals shut down their Dominican academy during COVID and never re-started it. They don't DO anything. There's nothing this organization does to set it apart from anyone else in baseball. They have no identity anymore because a suit runs the show. They don't have any creativity because Mozeliak will stomp it out. They won't even write checks like the Yankees, Dodgers and Phillies. Look at this organization and ask yourself why SHOULD they win anything? They aren't good at anything. They aren't ahead of the curve anywhere. And they don't seem to give a ****. They seem wholly content to tread water. It's just bizarre. |
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04-01-2024, 07:48 AM | #15 |
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So Oli burned 1.2 innings of Gallegos Friday night in a game they were down 5-0 then used him Saturday so he wasnt available Sunday night.
We have guy on the roster in the pen Fernandez, who hasn't thrown a pitch this season. And everyone is talking about the Cards "depleted" bullpen. Oli is a ****ing moron. |
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