Annoying
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:53 (four years ago)
Circa 1982 my father had a dream in which Gene Tenace held a bat as if it were a mic and sang "My Way."
Growing up in St. Louis was weird, circa 1982
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:54 (four years ago)
i always forget tenace was on that '82 cardinals team!
his fangraphs stats are kind of insane for that season, surprisingly so. he only got into 66 games, 165 PAs, and somehow put up a 168 wRC+ and 2.1 fWAR!! over 600 PAs, that would be like a 8 WAR season!
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:54 (four years ago)
They're also not showing MPH
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:54 (four years ago)
i said "wow!" out loud at the tommy edman play, and then the announcer yelled "wow!"
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:56 (four years ago)
they show the strike box in the replay sometimes, after a close pitch
you can also see it here: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?date=10/6/2021&gamePk=660937&chartType=pitch&legendType=pitchName&playerType=pitcher&inning=&count=&pitchHand=&batSide=&descFilter=&ptFilter=&resultFilter=&hf=scoreboard#660937
SICCCC
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:57 (four years ago)
Note: I have utterly no sports allegiances except, paradoxically, for the 1982 Cardinals.
So I have lived for 50 years, mostly just keeping silent during most sports-related conversations. Unless they happened to veer into territory that might somehow involve the Cardinals from 1978-1984.
Imagine spending four decades like this: mostly remaining silent, but patiently hoping that Ozzie Smith or Bruce Sutter or Joaquin Andujar might come up in conversation.
And who should come up but: GENE muthaflippin TENACE?
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:08 (four years ago)
i can heavily relate to this
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:12 (four years ago)
I had to google Joaquin Andujar
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:13 (four years ago)
the legend goes that he was an angry man sometimes
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:16 (four years ago)
Fumbly!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:18 (four years ago)
That short stop sucks
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:18 (four years ago)
Yes
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:27 (four years ago)
I had no idea Bellinger was that awful this year. Wow.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:28 (four years ago)
Andujar's meltdown against the Royals was an all-timer. Dude made Carlos Zambrano seem even-keeled.
Tenace reference...I was 3 years old and got drunk as f'k.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/23/archives/as-beat-reds-32-in-seventh-game-and-take-series-tenace-bats-in-2.html
― earlnash, Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:40 (four years ago)
I can wax poetic on Merv Rettenmund too who played college baseball at Ball State.
Tank Howard was the next BSU Cardinal to play in the bigs. Saw him play a game in college, dude looked like a ball player. Mike Roesler who was at Ball St. also the same time got a cup of coffee eventually with the Reds too.
― earlnash, Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:44 (four years ago)
Solo shots should not kill you
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:45 (four years ago)
Tank Howard's long career also ended as a Cardinal (St. Louis- this time) to bring this thread hijack full circle.
― earlnash, Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:46 (four years ago)
runners are being left on base at a healthy clip
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 October 2021 02:18 (four years ago)
The Andujar meltdown was something else--not sure if he was slightly more or less crazed than pine-tar Brett.
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 October 2021 02:27 (four years ago)
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/e/1c/e1c2b59d-4918-522c-a7a8-53be51c329b6/581a0914c7fd9.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C805
https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/ar_16:9,g_auto,q_auto:good,w_1536,c_fill,f_jpg/mlb/nbpogto9uyxivzisgxw5
Close.
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 October 2021 02:30 (four years ago)
That was a p impressive catch by Goldschmidt to end the inning.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 October 2021 02:58 (four years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/QwnEwVD.jpg
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:06 (four years ago)
Breath
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:16 (four years ago)
Listening to both radio streams, each booth has one deeper, smooth-voiced guy, and one slightly nasally reedy-voiced guy. Strange that the latter are getting the majority of the airtime.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:26 (four years ago)
Unbelievable
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:26 (four years ago)
They got that call wrong
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:27 (four years ago)
Certainly looked that way.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:31 (four years ago)
Baseball is a great game
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:37 (four years ago)
it's all i could hope for. obviously the dodgers are the better team, and the ilx dominant fave. everyone loves the dodgers on ilx
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:39 (four years ago)
meanwhile in god's country
the dodgers, the team that was so well-funded that if they would have won less than 98 games it would be an abject failure
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:40 (four years ago)
Fuck the Dodgers
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:40 (four years ago)
truly, the real america's team
fuck the dodgers
BtW, where is VHS?
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:42 (four years ago)
I hope we go 15
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:51 (four years ago)
That new SS looks better!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:52 (four years ago)
Boing
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:52 (four years ago)
lol
seriously, he may have won his starting role back tonight, if they continue in the postseason
otherwise, i think the cardinals will probably trade dejong and keep sosa as their main SS for next season. so basically, if the cardinals win, sosa is gone, if the cardinals lose, dejong is gone. weird, but true
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:53 (four years ago)
Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing.mp3
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 7 October 2021 03:55 (four years ago)
Cards could really win this
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:01 (four years ago)
how are these wiggles jansen does not balks
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:04 (four years ago)
Cards were a foot or so from winning this
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:05 (four years ago)
Yeah, that was their chance
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:07 (four years ago)
i have a bad feeling about this
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:09 (four years ago)
fuck, here comes pujols
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:11 (four years ago)
every cardinal fan in the stadium is like fuck
This cannot happen
― Bee OK, Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:11 (four years ago)