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<!--quoteo(post=66072:date=Oct 9 2009, 02:34 AM:name=biggz)-->QUOTE (biggz @ Oct 9 2009, 02:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->"That ball got lost in 50,000 white towels shaking in front of Matt's face," Wainwright said. "It doesn't really seem fair that an opposing team should be able to allow their fans to shake white towels when there's a white baseball flying through the air. How about Dodger Blue towels?"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Awww, that's so sad. It's never "fair" when you lose......
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Toughest loss to come back from is a low scoring game decided late.
Go Dodgers!
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Are you fucking kidding me Wainwright? What a sore loser. It'll be interesting to see if Cards fans are waving towels this weekend. I hope they are and they still lose.
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I have no idea what it feels like to lose in this manner.
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Wainwright is a gigantic dick smack. Every Cub fan should really listen to a few of his interviews. He would easily be the most hated Cardinal.
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The Dodgers should distribute rally towels in St. Louis for game three. They should say "boo hoo" on them.
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Let me ask you a question. With 2 outs in the ninth inning, as the guy you are rooting for hits the ball to the outfielder, how many of you, if you were sitting in the stands, would remember to waive your towels? None?
People waive towels before and after plays, and probably during plays, once a hit or out has been decided. But people are too busy watching the game to think to waive their freaking towel during the play. they are too busy watching the play and holding their breath, waiting to see what happened.
Wainright can go fuck a duck.
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I can't wait till the Cards lose this series and to see what Tom's revenge on that little shit is. Don't know how he will do it cause I know the kid's at a different school now, but I know Tom has something planned.
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What a complete asshat. Think STL fans and media are just a little infatuated with the Cubs? Wow...
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Bernie Miklasz
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Bernie Miklasz
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/09/2009
LOS ANGELES — Those lucky Dodgers, leading a charmed life and enjoying outrageously good fortune.
The Dodgers thought they were playing the Cardinals in the 2009 NL Division Series.
Instead, the Chicago Cubs showed up again.
Last October, the Dodgers swept the Cubs in three games, swiftly but cruelly destroying the inflated hopes of a cursed franchise. It was predictable.
This October, the Dodgers have a chance to sweep the Cardinals, who have inexplicably turned into the Cubs, right before your disbelieving eyes. And that was unpredictable.
Do not adjust your HD TV sets at home, and do not throw any hard objects at those television screens: These aren't really the Cubs; they only look like it. They are the Cardinals, striking out and dropping balls and loitering on the bases and blowing saves and going all Leon Durham '84 on us in an epic meltdown.
Except that there is no curse in St. Louis today.
Only curse words.
And there is no billy goat haunting the Cardinals.
But Matt Holliday is turning into the goat of this bizarre NLDS
Thursday, the Cardinals had a win in Game 2 loaded up and ready to transport back to St. Louis. It was the bottom of the ninth inning. The Cardinals had stood on the shoulders of their tenacious and brilliant starter, Adam Wainwright, long enough to barely squeeze a 2-1 lead from their veins. The Wainwright curve ball was awesome for eight innings; he displayed the best hook in LA since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played for the Lakers.
There were two outs, with no runners on. Dodger James Loney hit a routine line drive to left field. This was it, third out. The Cardinals were somehow going to survive 48 hours of offensive ineptitude to win a game and take a 1-1 series back to Busch Stadium.
In a few seconds Dodgers fans would be streaming to the parking lots for the drive home.
Except Holliday, playing left, had a GPS malfunction. He lost track of Loney's game-ending out.
"I couldn't see the ball," Holliday said. "I lost it in the lights."
Holliday fumbled away the third out. Loney ended up on second. And closer Ryan Franklin had his own little Southern California earthquake, getting swallowed up in a winning Dodger sequence of walk, game-tying single, another walk and game-winning single.
Dodgers 3, Cardinals 2.
"Tough to swallow," Holliday said.
Evidently.
"I feel terrible," he said.
Undoubtedly.
Agent Scott Boras may feel even worse.
"The ball hit my stomach," Holliday said.
And stomachs turned throughout St. Louis.
After freezing in Game 1 by taking three consecutive strikes with the bases loaded and no out, and after offering a tribute to Chris Duncan with the ninth-inning error in Game 2, Holliday is not exactly giving Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. a reason to succumb to the free-agent demands of Boras.
Is Holliday the only Cardinal wearing the Cubs' hat in this series? Well, of course not. And Holliday did homer to give the Cardinals a 1-0 lead in Game 2. He also left a runner in scoring position with a ground out in the third. And that was the theme for the second consecutive game.
The Cardinals were 0 for nine with runners in scoring position Thursday and flunked at numerous chances to open up a comfortable lead for Wainwright. In the first two games, they're three for 22 with RISP. That includes Brendan Ryan's 0 for five, Yadier Molina's 0 for three and Holliday's 0 for two. If that weak batting average with RISP keeps up, it'll be RIP on Saturday.
Dodgers manager Joe Torre has neutralized Albert Pujols, and none of the hitters who follow Pujols in the lineup are giving Torre a reason to regret his tactics.
And then there's Franklin. Yes, Game 2 should have been snapped to a close by Holliday's glove. Yes, Franklin was a victim of some bad luck. But he also caved after Holliday's misplay. In his last 15 appearances, dating back to Aug. 23, Franklin has allowed 36 base runners in 13 2/3 innings, has been racked for a .357 batting average, and has blown four saves in 11 chances.
In losing 16 of their last 23, the Cardinals have scored three runs or fewer 14 times. In the 16 losses, they're hitting .197 with runners in scoring position. It isn't pretty.
The Cardinals come home to St. Louis now. They're in dire circumstances as they walk into Busch Stadium for Game 3 on Saturday. The comeback begins with these two steps:
1. Quit impersonating the Cubs.
2. Win a game. Survive.
It's all they can do.
Oh, and one more thing: catch the ball.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
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the reactions by the cardinal players and fans and media doesn't surprise me in the least. typical classlessness from a classless organization. have you ever seen a team so quick to call other teams cheaters?
Wang.
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I also think it's funny that Brenly is in the booth for these games. That must really be salt in the wound for Cardinals fans, even though Bob has been very unbiased in both games.
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I've hated the Cardinals since I was a little lad. Growing up in Davenport, Iowa we had a few kids who were Cardinal fans and they were insufferable. The White Sox were not on my radar screen until a couple of years after being on this board. It's now a tossup as to which team I hate worse, but I think the Cardinals will always have the edge with me.
I'm 100% fine with this. I'm just glad there's an actual plan in place that isn't, "Let's load up on retreads and hope we get lucky." I'm a little tired of that plan.
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<!--quoteo(post=66114:date=Oct 10 2009, 06:48 AM:name=Lance)-->QUOTE (Lance @ Oct 10 2009, 06:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I've hated the Cardinals since I was a little lad. Growing up in Davenport, Iowa we had a few kids who were Cardinal fans and they were insufferable. The White Sox were not on my radar screen until a couple of years after being on this board. It's now a tossup as to which team I hate worse, but I think the Cardinals will always have the edge with me.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
for me it was opposite. there weren't a whole lot of cardinal fans in my area growing up, so i really didn't have a problem with them. then i joined cubstalk and a whole new world opened up. now i hate those fuckers, but not as much as i hate the white sox. the only professional team i hate more is the packers. the vikings are close, the cardinals are close, the cowboys are close, but i hate no one more than the packers and the white sox.
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