In the event of Rapture all other teams will be Left Behind: the 2015 St. Louis Cardinals

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/09/cardinals-to-activate-adam-wainwright.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/the-st--louis-cardinals-should-probably-stop-making-rap-videos-203519351.html

pitching Cole in game 1? not cool bros

i'm gonna do myself a favor and not listen that song

really wish i could take the afternoon off and watch these games today.

wacha has really struggled the last month or two. whether it's fatigue or hitters figuring him out or bad luck or whatever, he doesn't really resemble the pitcher from may/june.

and the lyons game is just a crapshoot. hopefully we'll just kind of luck out with one of the games today and get it over with.

doesn't matter. even if the cards lost both today, which i do not expect, they're not going to drop two more games in the standings while finishing vs the barves

if you believe in laundry, the '64 Cards were almost done in by the Mets at the end of the season

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/1964-schedule-scores.shtml

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yeah, very unlikely. but baseball's weird

So Wacha seems fried. Go go game 2.

yeah, it's been agonizing watching him the last 2 months. lance lynn, too, for the most part.

waino warming up for bottom of the 8th

tyler fucking lyons because: baseball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=27&v=KalbXGkJb_A

dammit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=27&v=KalbXGkJb_A

one more try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KalbXGkJb_A

via Bernie:

According to the injury-tracking site ManGamesLost.com, the Cardinals took the biggest hit among the 30 teams, having lost players worth a value of just under 18 Wins Above Replacement to injury time. No other team was all that close to 18 WAR, with Toronto second at 10 WAR lost to injury.
http://www.101sports.com/2015/10/01/how-the-cardinals-captured-the-nl-central/

from BP's Daniel Rathman under headline "Cardinals Clinch; Cardinals Are Doomed?"

If the standings were all that mattered, everything in St. Louis would be peachy. The Cardinals have clinched the division for the third year in a row, they’re the first team in the majors to reach 100 wins, and home-field advantage through the NL playoffs is theirs. Nothing anyone does over the weekend can take any of that away.

But given the competition, starting pitching is likely to rule the day in October. And the Cardinals, who turned out to have the deepest group of reliable starters in the senior circuit from April through August, might have the shallowest when it matters most.

yeah, that's about right. i can't imagine being less confident in a team that is going to finish with 100+ wins. but i've always been predicting doom all year, and somehow they keep on choogling. so i guess i'll prop up the feet, have a beer, be happy if they somehow progress but if they don't be satisfied that they made it as far as they have.

(and find new ways to criticize matheny, regardless of outcome)

baseball needs a version of hockey's president's trophy (best regular-season record) imo

obviously it wouldn't really mean anything, but with the playoffs having ever less to do with the preceding six months there ought to be some sort of recognition of the year's actual best team

alex fritz ‏@boxcar_fritz 1 hour ago
historic weekend: Kozma trys to be the 29th player in MLB history w/ more than 100 PAs & 0 extra base hits #stlcards

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQPhV-vUkAAfWH_.jpg:large

will matheny continuing benching Kozma (at 103 PAs) to preserve his place in history? or will kozma show 1941 Ted Williams-esque courage and demand to play (and not get a XBH because he doesn't know how)??

there's a strong chance kozma won't make the postseason roster (assuming greg garcia gets it instead), so i shouldn't make too much fun of the ol' kozster

Grover Land is a p good name

baseball needs a version of hockey's president's trophy (best regular-season record) imo

by the analytics (Pythag, B-R's Simple Rating), that'd be the Blue Jays

no

nor are we giving the 1960 world series to the yankees because they outscored the pirates 55-27

at a certain point lines must be drawn, and 'game' and 'season' are good places for them

why play the season at all when we can just go by pre-season metrics?

congratulations, 2016 washington nationals!

2015 nats, i meant

oh u guyz
162g is a fine sample

there should just be an awards ballot for best team

we should just make it an e-sport and watch algorithms process random samples of data. so hot!

http://i.imgur.com/Iwp0h1n.jpg
"i love baseball!!"

(i joek but ^that^ is pretty much how i enjoy baseball)

we should have a playoff Strat-O-Matic fap

weird we could get a roster sans Jay and Adams.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens. I think Jay will make it because he's a Matheny guy with a contract. I could maaaaybe see him deserving a bench role, but I have the sinking feeling that Jay will be starting instead of Pham (I'd prefer Grichuk over both but if he can't throw 100% he shouldn't be out there)

But cardinals seem to be signalling that Heyward will be starting in CF, so who knows

after watching or listening to nearly all the games this year, i am going to completely miss the cubs/pirates WC game today, and then miss the first 2 games of the NLDS as i'll be out in the woods sans internet. siiiiigh

jaded winner

I fully expect to emerge from the wilderness to learn that the cardinals have lost the first two games of the NLDS, 6-1 and 3-0, with that Grichuk is starting in CF and has been kicking the ball back into the infield because he's not able to raise his arm above his shoulder

grizzled Lackey Game 1 Starter

i'm not sure it makes too much of a difference (as long as lackey/garcia are 1 or 2 and lynn/wacha are 3 or 4), but you would think they'd wait until after the game tonight to decide so they know who they're playing, which rotation alignment would match up best against either the cubs or pirates.

i wasn't too optimistic about this playoff run even a month ago, but when martinez went down i kind of lost all hope. it would so useful to have one more guy with the upside to completely dominate a game.

pshaw, one more guy. isn't cardinals devil magic equivalent to like 3 more guys

Perhaps this season is the Cardinals' New Jersey.

don't make light of our devil magic. this is a very difficult time of the year for cardinal fans. so many ritual sacrifices, preparing of the she-goat for evil ceremonies, smearing blood in upside-down cross formations all over forgotten cellars. it gets exhausting after a while.

but whatever it takes to get lance lynn through to the 5th inning with fewer than 4 walks and 95 pitches, somehow. it's worth it

http://cdn.patch.com/users/22068930/2014/06/T800x600/60ecf348a94290afd09ad1915df8e6a4.jpg

cardinals need to end their 4 year long world series drought so their poor fanbase can find solace

i think you are going to sleep ten years in your cabin and discover theyve been raptured

how about some good news

Impending free-agent Jason Heyward on possibly coming back to #STLCards: "This is definitely an ideal situation."

— Jenifer Langosch (@LangoschMLB) October 14, 2015