2006 MLB Playoffs - Page 4

When you have to rely on your bullpen as much as the Mets had to, it sort of becomes inevitable.

For sure it was a pathetic at bat. He should have jumped on the first pitch knowing Wainwright wouldnt want to fall behind with the bases loaded just coming off walking the guy before him. He took a fast ball right down the middle then had to deal with 2 nasty curveballs. Also if this playoffs proved anything David Wright is NOT the Mets Derek Jeter. Jeter would never choke that bad in the playoffs.

Hopefully the World Series is compettive. Not sure who I am for there are a couple of guys on each team I wouldnt mind see win a ring.

After the first pitch, I said "well, that was the one you might have had a chance at".

In that situation, with two strikes, you've got to swing at any pitch that looks like it might come within a foot or two of home plate. Don't go down looking! Wow.

That didn't look like a bit of sprinkling, that looked like it was raining. That gets me real excited for W.S. baseball for Detroit, which probably is already getting snow.

Forecast in today's Freep: 51 and cloudy for Saturday, 49 and showers for Sunday.

Perhaps you all might want to make friends with Carlos Beltran, because he's the reason I'm going to drink myself to death tonight.

7-2 cards. Well looks like it has potential to be a series afterall. Pujols with a HR. If he gets his power stroke back fulltime the Cards have a great chance.

Of course it could be a series. It's baseball. Besides, Verlander's ERA going into this game was something like 6 or 7 since the start of August. I think the key for the Cardinals could be having Carpenter and Suppan at home. In a weird way, it might actually work out better for them going the distance with the Mets. Steal one in Detroit and have the two guys who benefitted most from pitching at home this year start in St. Louis. We'll have to see.

There's no reason for the Cards not to win. They have a very good team that has sputtered at times because they're a bit on the old side and have had a lot of nicks throughout the year. And frankly, Detroit is an odd offensive team. They don't have much power, but they also don't run. They're a doubles team and if that's not happening, they don't score much. They've just had dominant pitching all year, and if it fails them like it did last night, they're doomed.

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What don't you get? Do I really have to explain to someone who said you can't see a trend in 18 games that a team can be good enough to win 4 out of 7 and not have been the best team over the course of the season?

Anyone who watched baseball saw that the AL was miles ahead of the NL this year. That doesn't mean the Cards shouldn't or can't win.

You also conveniently edited out the part where I mentioned how many injuries the Cards had throughout the year.

All I've said from the start was that the National League isn't as bad as you guys say it is, you disagree, and thats great. But when the Cardinals won game one I expected something along the lines of, its a short series, anything can happen.

Not how the Cardinals are a quality opponent.

The latter sort of goes against the whole league superiority jive.

No, it doesn't. The NL is down, that doesn't mean they're high school teams.

It is all about Albert Pujols and the Cards right now they are soo close to the series win! I wonder if he’ll pimp out his house a little bit more or if he will just keep the down-to-earth pad that he has in this video http://attblueroom.com/sports

Why, you know, is Dusty, you know, Baker, you know, still on, you know, Baseball, you know, Tonight, you know, you know?

Drives me fucking insane.

A shocking revelation considering the rhetoric I've seen used.

I can't say its all that surprising to see the Cardinals where they are now, since this is exactly how they played the Mets. A scrappy bunch, taking advantage of every god damned thing your team gives them.

Obviously the Mets showed you could lay some wood on them in game four, so perhaps seeing Reyes again (assuming they ever will, given all of these potential postponements) will do wonders for Detroit's bats, but the Tigers also lack the left handed bats to take advantage of St. Louis' predominantly right handed staff.

I mean, wheres Detroit's Carlos Delgado?

Christ, I can see why this is one of the lowest-rated series ever. Even if the Cardinals wanted to lose, they couldn't because the Tigers keep making error after error. How uninspiring.

As if the quality of play has anything to do with it. Nothing on God's green Earth could have caused a series between Detroit and St. Louis to garner strong ratings, not in this day and age.

Detroit hasn't been a great hitting team at any point this year. They've been opportunistic on offense, and leaned on great pitching. Now their pitchers can't stop throwing balls into the outfield, and they're fucked. I think they've buckled under the pressure.

And unless there are some major changes to the team, they won't be making a return to the playoffs any time soon. This is Detroit's chance, and it looks like they're gonna blow it.

I was more referring to their lack of a strong LHB, but yeah, I know. The thing about St. Louis, though, is that just about every arm on their staff is right handed. Not having a big left handed bat, like a Carlos Delgado, is killing the Detroit Tigers right now.

Delgado destroyed St. Louis pitching in the NLCS (304/448/826), without him, it wouldn't have even been competitive.

Thanks to Chris Duncan, McCarver look's like a genius for once. Never thought i'd see the day.

And it seems like the most boring World Series I've seen in recent memory will come to an end in 3 more outs..

Now let's have the rumors fly! Who's staying, who's leaving??

Sean Casey...should have saved some for the rest of your team. Damn, bro.

Ka is most definitely a wheel. This is the payback for the Cards getting swept by Boston 2 years ago TONIGHT. Freaks me out!

Go crazy Card fans!

Are you kidding? Game 2 was enough to put it passed the 2004 World Series.

But at least the 2004 series had some nice drama to it.

I would've wanted the Tiger to win.

I haven't been posting on the thread because I tend to post most of my fan related stuff on a Cardinals board but I have to say getting to see this was freaking awesome!

Sure the Tigers made some pretty bonehead moves. Why didn't they start Rogers tonight? Why didn't he start Game 1? Why did it take so long for them to move Polanco? How could they possibly make that many errors?

But at the end of the day, I have to agree with Kruk, it was the Cardinals who put the pressure on the Tigers to make those kind of errors. Having dealt with the sweep in '04 the loss to the Astros in '05, this team finally said, "Hey, how about we fuck around and win this thing."

What made the most difference for the Cardinals was really the fact that a lot of different guys were all getting hits. Eckstein, Miles, Rolen, Edmonds, Wilson, Taguchi, Belliard, there were tons throughout the whole post-season and then their relief pitchers all of the sudden became crazy strikeout pitchers. A relief squad that had been average all season suddenly stepped up and started pitching well.

I think you can hate on LaRussa all you want for his personality, past actions, etc., but he did an amazing job managing and getting these guys prepared.

Good job by the Cardinals. As a Halos fan its nice to see Edmonds finally win one and Eckstein picking up his second ring.

Nice to see Albert getting a ring as well.

Spiezio as well.

Add Jeff Weaver and it's almost the Anaheim Cardinals of St. Louis.

A few notes on the series.

- Kenny Rogers. Cheaters never prosper and all gamblers eventually lose?

- As much as the lack of defense helped turn the Series in the Card's favor, the Tigers weren't beating Carpenter in game 3 and Duncan actually provided Detroit with one more gift than the Cardinals got tonight, so it's quite possible the only game it really decided was 4.

- Maybe the White Sox should've held on to John Rooney.

- I wonder if it's possible for a human being to be drunker than Mike Shannon is right now?

- Jeannie Zelasko needs to dissapear into a river somewhere.

- Rolen deserved the MVP.

- I'm going to go watch my 2005 World Series DVD.

I'm glad that once baseball starts up she's gone from the FOX NASCAR broadcasts. I feel she is the most annoying sports interviewer/commentator (whatever) on TV right now.

I always heard that Edmonds was a pretty big jerk when he was in Anaheim and is glad he left.

Yeah I heard the same thing about Jim. Then again wasn't he on that Angels team in 96 that tanked the first place lead of 12 games to Seattle and lost in the 1 game playoff?

Frankly the Angels were a pretty sad franchise during the 90's. He's a great player that leaves it all on the field.

Nice to see Spiezio pick up a ring as well.

Oh, you had to bring that back up. I was a crushed little boy that weekday afternoon after running home from school.

Same here my man. Watching the big unit come out of that bullpen was pain.