Willie McGee is part of the 2018 St Louis Cardinals

Ozuna just checked his swing and the ump signaled he’d been hit by the pitch on his arm, Ozuna waved him off and said it was the bat, then grounded into a double play.

twice in this series the cardinals' manager has intentionally walked rizzo to get to bryant. one of those times there was only one out.

at least it's better than rock paper scissors

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— 📼 (@VanHicklestein) July 22, 2018

damn, now Bud won’t make it out of the next road trip alive.

― omar little, Saturday, July 14, 2018 11:32 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly (and i felt this way the last 2 seasons especially) i would rather see them go down in flames a little earlier this year and be sellers at the trade deadline rather than hanging on all year only to end up a few games out by the end. i don't blame bud norris for where they are this season since he's been really good all year. i blame greg holland. i hate his face and he sucks

shit face holland dfa'd, man with a good name dakota hudson will take his roster spot

As Cras references here, the tension never really abated between Tommy and the front office. Recently he asked for an expensive piece of exercise equipment and became unhappy when the team didn’t provide it. Many small clashes, I’m told by source. TB has been on him a long time. https://t.co/L9FiZ49Rt7

— Mark Saxon (@markasaxon) July 31, 2018

i'm gonna miss watching tommy pham.

it sure has been a tough year for st louis. 3 years without playoffs! can anyone else possibly understand what that feels like to have to watch?!

guessing pham's pissed that he won't get to play against the cardinals -- he seems like the kind of guy who still burns with hatred for the JV baseball coach who once moved him down in the order

yeah, he definitely plays with a chip on his shoulder. for the most part that's worked well!

pham is hard to project, i think. but there's a decent chance this goes down as a criminally terrible trade for the cardinals

impostor

Lance Lynn kept the pinstripes, lost the beard ... pic.twitter.com/hjvggSTbYQ

— Ryan Fagan (@ryanfagan) August 1, 2018

from the EW FB group:

Al Hrabosky, on the Cardinals broadcast. "I don't believe in launch angle... Launch angle means fly outs to me". As the words were leaving his mouth, Matt Carpenter hits another home run. Never change, Al.

He is one of the dumbest men in professional sports

adolis garcia making his debut in CF tonight

part of me thinks carpenter embraces this hashtag because it could eventually lead to a lucrative new salsa company

Another big series win! Here we come... back at it Friday in Kansas City! Proud to be a redbird... #ItsGottaBeTheSalsa 🍅🔥🌶

— Matt Carpenter (@MattCarp13) August 9, 2018

looks like mike shildt, like matheny, doesn't know how to say no to molina. yadi is starting his 18th straight game tonight, apparently a record for catchers 35 or older.

Molina's knees must be made from metal or something. Both the Pudge's (Fisk & Irod) caught alot of games late in their career, so I could see him hanging around for a while longer.

his cup is made of metal, now, but i don't know about his knees. but yeah, he's something else. it seems ridiculously risky to play a catcher 18 games in a row at pretty much any age, let alone 36, but he's hit .313/.345/.488 (wRC+ 126) during that span, hitting consistently pretty much the whole time, so what do i know

sorry, "ridiculously risky" is a little too much there. i guess i just mean "shortsighted"

regardless of who wins, this has been an unbelievably tense last three innings

2018 with Matheny: .505
2018 without Matheny: .640

mgr of the year!

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posting this here again because it's still making me lol this morning

seven-game winning streak, only 4 games back

though five of those seven were against the marlins and the royals

Yeah, story of the last few years - beating up on bad teams, mediocre against the good ones. Still, if they were going to bust into a 7-game winning streak, now is the time to do it! A big part of the streak has been carpenter and the bullpen (who have gone from closing game after game to being unstoppable since the all-star break).

this is about as wild as the cardinals get

After being hit, the trainers wanted to see if @MattCarp13's hand was ok. He tested his strength by trying to open a jar of salsa. He opened it!

"If I can open it, I can play!" - Matt Carpenter #ItsGottaBeTheSalsa 🔥 pic.twitter.com/fx3wgmdxum

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) August 16, 2018

https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2018/8/19/17755916/system-sundays-the-cards-emerging-star-crop

cautiously optimistic

optimistically optimistic

i knew things would be better after matheny, but jesus

, but jesus

unintentional irony there

shildt, man

The #Stlcards will announce that Mike Shildt is now their manager, stripping away the interim title

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) August 28, 2018

✓

shildt likes to keep his eyes in the shade and i respect that

https://i.imgur.com/bT7ImBL.jpg

there aren't too many big-league managers who never played in at least the minors (although schildt did play college ball). last one i can remember for sure is dave trembley, but there might have been others since

the two true outcomes player

John Gant is the only player in Major League history to hit 2 HR and never reach base safely in any other way. #STLCards

— Joe Trezza (@JoeTrezz) August 31, 2018

greg holland's revenge

it was a stupid game. baseball is a stupid game

part of me thinks carpenter embraces this hashtag because it could eventually lead to a lucrative new salsa company

well, that didn't take long

Hey @MattCarp13! We get it! Bueno Mojo Salsa available 9/13 at our St. Louis stores. #ItsGottaBeTheSalsa #SchnucksMojo #Schnucks @Cardinals 🍅🌶🔥🛒 pic.twitter.com/BwXAohu9lT

— Schnucks (@SchnuckMarkets) September 10, 2018

4 losses in a row = drop out of WC2 slot

the rest of the season features 7 more games against the dodgers, cubs, and brewers, so for better or worse they'll have a decent opportunity to earn it.

news broke earlier today that they offered flaherty and another player for donaldson, last off-season. glad that didn't work out!

i hope i eat my words later tonight, but my stomach is already in a knot about this wainwright situation. he's starting tonight in a crucial game against the dodgers, still in the rotation, after an awful comeback start last week. watching that game was excruciating.

it started with an inning of the best velocity and movement i've seen from him since early 2017, which of course got me really excited about the possibility that his rehab actually worked and he was going to be useful down the stretch. a wonderful capstone to a great career. this was quickly followed by a nightmarish beatdown that should have been much worse, coupled with a 6-mph drop in velocity on his fastball, hanging many curves in the middle of the zone, and an ill-advised decision to send him back out for one more inning, which featured the same worrisome velocity and hanging curves. but no one scored in that last inning, somehow, and then the offense saved the day so that he didn't get the all-important Loss. immediately afterward they announced he would remain in the rotation. a very matheny-esque decision imo. it could get ugly out there.

especially frustrating because he could be legitimately useful in the bullpen right now.

Game score 75!

i am a genius

*eats words*

that was ~vintage wainwright~, it really was. if nothing else i'm really happy i was able to sit down and see it tonight, even if i'm not sure it'll ever happen again

Gomber has missed several possible called strikes tonight because he and Molina are not entirely on the same page and YM has to lunge around a bit.

yeah, on the Sunday Night Baseball game the announcers were raving about his pitchframing abilities, but to my eye they haven't been particularly outstanding of late (not sure what the metrics are (or how reliable said metrics are))

tyler o'neill, the guy at the party with his shirt off

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