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06-09-2017, 03:25 PM | #856 | |
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Now I'm not sure that makes him a good 3b coach, but I'm not convinced he was a bad one either. It's just a completely thankless job in that nobody remembers when you send a runner home and he gets there just ahead of the tag. And nobody cares if you give someone the go sign and they weren't hustling hard to the bag so they try to speed back up and **** it up. Maloney wasn't anywhere near the top 5 in terms of damaging impact on this club. Even if he wasn't good at his job (and maybe he wasn't), it's mattered very little in the grand scheme of things. Certainly not enough to call a press conference to fire him while John Mabry and Mike Matheny get to keep their jobs. It's bush league. And that doesn't surprise me coming from an organization that called a player up only to tell him while he was driving to the ballpark that he should turn around and drive back to Memphis because they changed their mind. This team and its leadership is a festering pile of shit from the top to the bottom. They need to fire every mother****ing one of these complacent assholes. |
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06-09-2017, 03:26 PM | #857 |
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They fired the assistant to the traveling secretary. Meanwhile nobody that mattered got as much as a public scolding.
**** baby steps. Refusal to take aggressive action of any sort over the last 3 years is what got us here. I'm unimpressed. |
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06-09-2017, 03:31 PM | #858 | |
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And look I want Mabry gone (the most obvious and doable in my opinion), Matheny gone, the popcorn vender gone and the beer vender gone. But like I said you cant do it all at once in the middle of the season. Hard to complain they aren't doing anything then complain when they do something. And we all know Matheny isn't getting canned unless they go on to lose 100 games and that may not be enough. |
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06-09-2017, 03:38 PM | #859 | |
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Gabe Kapler's still reading scouting reports somewhere and if they have some hitting guru in A ball that can evidently fix Grichuk, they can damn sure double his pay and convince him to put on a Cardinals uni for a few months. Yes, they absolutely CAN do it all at once. They just lack the will to do so. I can absolutely complain about activity for activity's sake. This will change precisely nothing. They're still helmed by an idiot and taught by a guy that was a shitty hitter at the big league level but is hell-bent on making everyone he teaches the same kind of inside out POS hitter he was. I don't give a shit about firing Maloney - it means precisely dick. This is pure PR and nothing more. They want to give the impression of doing something without having to actually make a difficult decision. |
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06-09-2017, 03:39 PM | #860 |
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Fire Matheny now. Fire MO end of year.
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06-09-2017, 03:40 PM | #861 |
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Seriously - how many homeruns will Matt Adams need to hit elsewhere before we think "huh...maybe this Mabry guy is a ****ing idiot afterall..."
Or will we need to see another 1/2 dozen hitters get progressively worse at this level and need to be sent to the minors to 'unwind' (i.e. get proper coaching) first? This gutless, arrogant, complacent organization has driven me around the bend. |
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06-09-2017, 03:53 PM | #862 | |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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But we both know that won't happen. |
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06-09-2017, 05:06 PM | #863 |
Greatest QB Duo of 2015
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The moves made today are the equivalent of doing a paint job on a car that has a scrape on its front door while the alternator and engine need to be replaced.
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06-10-2017, 05:27 PM | #864 |
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Well, they've won two in a row now. I guess a couple of rolling heads woke them up a bit.
Watch them **** around and save Matheny's job. |
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06-10-2017, 05:43 PM | #865 | |
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These are the kind of shit teams they were beating during their 'hot' steak. And they should have lost last night. They still suck. |
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06-10-2017, 06:49 PM | #866 |
In Search of a Life
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I'm spending the next 5 days on the beach in the Bahamas
Keep it under control |
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06-11-2017, 05:45 PM | #867 |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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Fun fact: Cardinals are 10-2 against the NL East, 19-30 against everybody else.
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06-14-2017, 06:56 PM | #868 |
In Search of a Life
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It appears Mike Leake's CY Young season has come to an end.
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06-14-2017, 07:55 PM | #869 |
Hung off the Night Train
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06-16-2017, 02:50 PM | #870 |
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