Baseball. The national distraction. Here goes...
Albert Pujols is petty. He is so meaningless and irrelevant tonight. (I point my fingers to the sky)
Chris Carpenter throws a first pitch strike to David Murphy...
Strike two - "The first good breaking ball we've seen Carpenter throw" - JB (sorry, couldn't get my technology to switch to Rooney and Shannon)
Murphy lines out to Punto ONE OUT
ARCH sighting number two (Pujols is overrated and over 40)
Strike one swinging to CJ Wilson.
Strike two swinging (there was a ball before that)
Wilson flies out to Jon Jay in CF (Where have you gone, Colby Rasmus?)
Turn over the line up...here's Kinsler in the 3rd...
One ball one strike...(called strike, Carp is nasty!)
Strike two swinging (Kinsler wasn't even close)
Fly out too Berkman in Right to the BOTTOM OF THE 3RD!
Punto leads it off and takes one down and in...
SINGLES TO CENTER! First Cardinals hit of the night...
Carp up..."It's not always a given that LaRussa's pitchers are up there to give away an out" - JB
Pulls back on ball 1...Appeal! STRIKE ONE
Oquendo giving the signs...he should be the MGR some day.
Carpenter misses strike 2.
A check on Punto...weak...I hate those perfunctory pick off plays...
Ugly foul bunt for out number one. "Carpenter does not do his job." JB F - that Joe Buck, Carpenter did his job. He was the SERIES MVP!
Michelle Obama is neutral, Ron Washington could tell. What did he mean by that?
Strike one to Furcal, strike two sliced down the line. Jon Jay on deck...
FURCAL WHIFFS on the 0-2. Wilson's first SO of the night? -JB No, he struck out Carp on the bunt.
Jon Jay breaks his bat on the first pitch, ground out to Kinsler. INNING OVER
TOP O' THE FOURTH TO YA!
Carp goes high and tight on Andrus...then he gives him something to foul off...one ball one strike...
We are in St. Louis because the NL won the All star game...thank you Prince Fielder and Joe Buck...
Also, CJ Wilson gave up the Fielder homer. Losing pitcher. He's an Angel now, like that loser Pujols...
Full count to Elvis Andrus...
STRIKE OUT NUMBER ONE FOR CARP!
J-Ham up...Washington chewing Sunflower seeds on air. Even though his wife told him to stop. Dangit Wash, why are you so cute?
J-HAM srikes out looking. Oh, wait...Tim, Joe...there is an awesome pitcher working right now? And you are talking about Maddux. Bitches.
Michael Young takes strike one while you guys were emptying your lungs of total BS.
The ump wasn't paying attention...ball 2 was strike two...
Ground out to Furcal...TO THE BOTTOM OF THE 4TH!
The Anaheim Angels 30 million dollar 2021 DH leads it off...
He works a hitter's count... 2-0
The birds on the bat on his jersey take a HBP to put Albert Pujols, civilian...on first base.
Matt Holliday, the under-appreciated saviour of the Cardinals, shoots the first pitch down the right field line for a double. The birds on the bat end up at third wearing Albert Pujols...for now...
Now it is up to Lance Berkman...who draws his super powers from the birds on the bat on his jersey...takes ball one...
Shoots a double down the RIGHT FIELD LINE AND THE CARDINALS (not Albert Pujols) lead the game 2-0 in the fourth!
Here's the Series Goat, David Freese, who fouls it out of play down the right field line...What's up with hitting it to the opposite field, Goat Freese?
Yadi Neck Tattoo on deck tattoo.
FREESE TAGS IT TO CENTER...And Hamilton catches it...Berkman tags and goes to second...that ball almost got outta here...but Goat ain't got no power to CENTER!
YADI! YADI! YADI!
Yadi grounds out to Elvis on the first pitch. TWO OUT...
Punto walks and here is Carp batting again...TURN OVER THAT LINE UP, CJ!
The Angels are gonna suck so bad in 2012.
Or will they suck so good? Either way, they suck.
Carp strikes out ... INNING OVER
Top O' the 5th to ya!
Ball one and two to Beltre before I could blink...
Beltre base hit to right...LET'S CHAT WITH TONY!
THE BALL is SLICK! is Chris OK? Is Angel Pujols ok? Crazy play! Blah blah blah...I could win this series with Punto in the 3 hole and Theriot batting clean up! I'm Tony Fing LaRussa...
Tony, thanks for your time.
He started in '79 with the Pale Hose, the year I was born...
NELSON CRUZ strikes out swinging . Carp got away with one? He got away with lots in this post season, Tim McCarver. Why don't you recognize? He's nasty...
Here's Napoli, who is also nasty...
Napoli flies one to right and this game is tied - JB...Napoli...wanna be a Cardinal?
Napoli 2 run HR
Where's Allen Craig as a light mist starts to fall here in the fifth?
David Murphy is up. He makes a lot of outs this series, I think.
Murphy chases a nasty pitch for SO number 4 for Carp.
CJ Wilson taps out to PUNTO! That's thhe POINT! Tie game...how will this end, Alexei Ogando? Groundhog day tommorrow...
End of the first half of the 5th...
FURCAL leads it off...
chopped foul, strike one, ball one in the dirt, strike two in the 53rd postseason game for Furcal, outside full count (where was ball 2?), fouled it off, LEAD OFF WALK TO FURCAL!
Jon Jay grounds out to second...Furcal to second.
ANGEL Pujols IBB...BORING! Won't miss that!
Holliday up...GIDP?
Yes...GIDP to Beltre...this sucks! Who will win?
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Game 1 - Inning the Third
OK...bear with me here...I'm gonna try and get Shannon and Rooney on the audio here...BRB...
It's New Year's Eve and heady times. I'm waiting for the disc to go through all the pre-game/pre-disc rigamarole so I'll take this time to reflect...2011 has had its ups and downs. Sure, my team won the World Series, but right now my thoughts and my wife's thoughts are with a very dear friend who is perhaps close to death tonight. This is not how we envisioned starting 2012. Baseball seems so utterly irrelevant along with a lot of other things right now. She has a five day old daughter and a husband who need her healthy. I've been on the phone with friends tonight, trying to remain strong. I am thinking of all the people I have lost to the inevitable - some sooner than expected and sooner than was just in the order we wish for the universe...but I think of their vitality and how we carry it with us...This person carried Anne and I in ways we hadn't appreciated without the benefit of hindsight. We are so blessed to know her. We hope to see her this summer.
This week, a student asked me to correct her English on the following phrase, "The world cannot end, because there are still people here to give it life." There was nothing wrong with her English. We are each others' reward. Give our world life in the new year...
Go Cards...
It's New Year's Eve and heady times. I'm waiting for the disc to go through all the pre-game/pre-disc rigamarole so I'll take this time to reflect...2011 has had its ups and downs. Sure, my team won the World Series, but right now my thoughts and my wife's thoughts are with a very dear friend who is perhaps close to death tonight. This is not how we envisioned starting 2012. Baseball seems so utterly irrelevant along with a lot of other things right now. She has a five day old daughter and a husband who need her healthy. I've been on the phone with friends tonight, trying to remain strong. I am thinking of all the people I have lost to the inevitable - some sooner than expected and sooner than was just in the order we wish for the universe...but I think of their vitality and how we carry it with us...This person carried Anne and I in ways we hadn't appreciated without the benefit of hindsight. We are so blessed to know her. We hope to see her this summer.
This week, a student asked me to correct her English on the following phrase, "The world cannot end, because there are still people here to give it life." There was nothing wrong with her English. We are each others' reward. Give our world life in the new year...
Go Cards...
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Game 1 - Second Inning
Michael Young is batting clean up because Ron Washington is a m f ing genius.
Joe Buck calls him "one of the classier players in the game" What makes him classy? His name is Young and he's gettting old and he can't play SS anymore so he was classy and only bitched a little bit about being a 1B/DH in his twilight years. Carp probably strikes him out...
NOPE...2 hops to Furcal the Ring Demon...ONE OUT
Beltre up. Good glove, decent bat, low average...not a HOFer. Nelson Cruz on deck swinging..should be practicing with his glove...
FIRST EXTRA BASE HIT OF THE NIGHT - Beltre doubles off the series goat's glove, David Freese...
And here's Nellie Cruz. He is holding a bat.
Remember when Nelson Cruz was "Mr. 11th Inning" - Joe Buck? Yeah. I don't either. Napoli on deck. Series goat David Freese at 3rd.
Full count, good pitch from Carp with 1st base open...McCarver said that...Does he challenge Cruz? I don't think so...AND HE WALKED HIM...
Why aren't I listening to Rooney and Shannon? Next inning...
"This is precisely why Washington has Napoli behind Cruz" - JB Because Wash is m f ing GENIUS! He really is. I believe in Wash...
1-2, what does Carp do?....Throws a bad one out of the zone that Nap does not chase and Carp says audibly "GOD DAMMIT!"
Molina is coming out to tell him not to take the Lord's name in vain...oops, Pujols did that...
DOUBLE PLAY BALL! 6-4-3 INNING OVER!!!
There's the ARCH! (First sighting)
Here's Matt Holliday, under-appreciated Cardinal....
Takes strike one
THERE'S BIG MAC (first sighting)
Up the middle, off of Wilson's leg, Kinsler takes care of it...one out...
McGwire is a good hitting coach as long as the Cards are hitting good...
Berkman up. My hero. He gave over 2 million dollars to charity last year. Put him #7 on the celebrity giver list. Where is Albert Pujols? Anaheim (It's not LA, Al.)
Berkman works it 3-1. Some organizations thought he was finished.
Off the plate, Beltre's good glove takes care of the slow moving Berkman.
Here comes the series Goat...David Freese...
CJ Wilson throws like a jerk.
2 balls inside to start Freese...hitter's count...what will he do?
Look at ball 3 low...
"Seeing the ball extremely well" -JB
Strike one on the inside corner...
In case you didn't know, he went to Lafayette High in St. Louis. So did Ryan Howard...He was a senior..Freese was a freshman...Howard gave him a swirly at Freshman orientation...
And he draws a two out walk...
Here comes the great golden god of catching, Yadi Molina who will be in my good graces until he signs with the Angels after 2012...
Molina works it 2-0...Punto on deck...
Ball 3 is called strike 1
Slices strike 2 foul...Jose and Bengie are there with Mama Molina...
His brothers each have 2 rings...Yadi only has one :( What will he do about that?
Ball 3 finally arrives...Full count...foul off...Wilson will probably strike him out...
Nope...ground out to Elvis...
INNING OVER
Joe Buck calls him "one of the classier players in the game" What makes him classy? His name is Young and he's gettting old and he can't play SS anymore so he was classy and only bitched a little bit about being a 1B/DH in his twilight years. Carp probably strikes him out...
NOPE...2 hops to Furcal the Ring Demon...ONE OUT
Beltre up. Good glove, decent bat, low average...not a HOFer. Nelson Cruz on deck swinging..should be practicing with his glove...
FIRST EXTRA BASE HIT OF THE NIGHT - Beltre doubles off the series goat's glove, David Freese...
And here's Nellie Cruz. He is holding a bat.
Remember when Nelson Cruz was "Mr. 11th Inning" - Joe Buck? Yeah. I don't either. Napoli on deck. Series goat David Freese at 3rd.
Full count, good pitch from Carp with 1st base open...McCarver said that...Does he challenge Cruz? I don't think so...AND HE WALKED HIM...
Why aren't I listening to Rooney and Shannon? Next inning...
"This is precisely why Washington has Napoli behind Cruz" - JB Because Wash is m f ing GENIUS! He really is. I believe in Wash...
1-2, what does Carp do?....Throws a bad one out of the zone that Nap does not chase and Carp says audibly "GOD DAMMIT!"
Molina is coming out to tell him not to take the Lord's name in vain...oops, Pujols did that...
DOUBLE PLAY BALL! 6-4-3 INNING OVER!!!
There's the ARCH! (First sighting)
Here's Matt Holliday, under-appreciated Cardinal....
Takes strike one
THERE'S BIG MAC (first sighting)
Up the middle, off of Wilson's leg, Kinsler takes care of it...one out...
McGwire is a good hitting coach as long as the Cards are hitting good...
Berkman up. My hero. He gave over 2 million dollars to charity last year. Put him #7 on the celebrity giver list. Where is Albert Pujols? Anaheim (It's not LA, Al.)
Berkman works it 3-1. Some organizations thought he was finished.
Off the plate, Beltre's good glove takes care of the slow moving Berkman.
Here comes the series Goat...David Freese...
CJ Wilson throws like a jerk.
2 balls inside to start Freese...hitter's count...what will he do?
Look at ball 3 low...
"Seeing the ball extremely well" -JB
Strike one on the inside corner...
In case you didn't know, he went to Lafayette High in St. Louis. So did Ryan Howard...He was a senior..Freese was a freshman...Howard gave him a swirly at Freshman orientation...
And he draws a two out walk...
Here comes the great golden god of catching, Yadi Molina who will be in my good graces until he signs with the Angels after 2012...
Molina works it 2-0...Punto on deck...
Ball 3 is called strike 1
Slices strike 2 foul...Jose and Bengie are there with Mama Molina...
His brothers each have 2 rings...Yadi only has one :( What will he do about that?
Ball 3 finally arrives...Full count...foul off...Wilson will probably strike him out...
Nope...ground out to Elvis...
INNING OVER
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Game 1 - First Inning (But also introductions)
First of all, Tony knew it the whole f-ing time. He knew he was gonna win it all and then retire on top. That's the takeaway from the intros...Also, Allen Craig and Jon Jay (The Federalist) had no idea they were big leaguers yet. But, damn, they were big leaguers in this series...SO...
Top o' the first +
Kinsler smartly rockets a ground ball at the series Goat David Freese who McCarver calls "not a good third baseman"...but guess what...the idiot tries to steal second on Yadi Molina...ONE OUT
Then Elvis Andrus, who apparently was at the plate, grounds out easily to Albert Pujols...who can't make a routine throw and makes Chris Mer Fin Carpenter dive and tag the base and "to his credit" - McCarver again - Andrus doesn't step on Carp's hand. Good thing because he is the real MVP of the series...
(note the beginning of a theme - Albert is OVERRATED)
Hamilton grounds out easily...
BOTTOM of the FIRST
Furcal the "I'm gonna get a ring" demon...draws a walk from CJ wilson who takes cryogenic therapy according to Joe Buck. Douche (I mean CJ not Joe Buck. I hate the Angels).
Then Jon Jay GIDP.
Then Pujols comes up and does his best impression of an Angels hitter and lines out to third. Just to be sure, Beltre throws to first to record the out.
END OF FIRST INNING
Top o' the first +
Kinsler smartly rockets a ground ball at the series Goat David Freese who McCarver calls "not a good third baseman"...but guess what...the idiot tries to steal second on Yadi Molina...ONE OUT
Then Elvis Andrus, who apparently was at the plate, grounds out easily to Albert Pujols...who can't make a routine throw and makes Chris Mer Fin Carpenter dive and tag the base and "to his credit" - McCarver again - Andrus doesn't step on Carp's hand. Good thing because he is the real MVP of the series...
(note the beginning of a theme - Albert is OVERRATED)
Hamilton grounds out easily...
BOTTOM of the FIRST
Furcal the "I'm gonna get a ring" demon...draws a walk from CJ wilson who takes cryogenic therapy according to Joe Buck. Douche (I mean CJ not Joe Buck. I hate the Angels).
Then Jon Jay GIDP.
Then Pujols comes up and does his best impression of an Angels hitter and lines out to third. Just to be sure, Beltre throws to first to record the out.
END OF FIRST INNING
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