one and the same https://t.co/NLImFrVLql— keithlaw (@keithlaw) July 12, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
man, what the fuck happened to tommy pham, he just fell off a cliff in mid-may. actually, i guess he had a weird 13-game hitting streak in early june, but other than that it's been bleak
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 July 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Feel like he's on the wrong side of 30 for a breakout season to materialize.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 14 July 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
The curse of Ryan Ludwick
― omar little, Saturday, 14 July 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
#STLCards announce that they have fired Mike Matheny.— Jenifer Langosch (@LangoschMLB) July 15, 2018
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 15 July 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
damn, now Bud won’t make it out of the next road trip alive.
― omar little, Sunday, 15 July 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
it finally happened
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 July 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
i'm going to miss the Karl's disses.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 15 July 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
hey, maybe another team will hire him!
*crickets*
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 July 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
I wouldn’t put it pass the Orioles.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 15 July 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
HAHAHAHA! As a Reds fan, it's hilarious that this game tonight was the straw that broke the back. I think Matheny is still trying to change pitchers.
― earlnash, Sunday, 15 July 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
Amazing! Love that his old school bullshit sealed it. What a dunce.
― bnw, Sunday, 15 July 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
In years to come, they will discuss a cold feeling that happens in the door way to the bullpen from time to time in games.
― earlnash, Sunday, 15 July 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7PmE9-W4AEl1qz.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Sunday, 15 July 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
bernie miklasz on twitter:
"The lethargic and messy baseball aside, and crumbling player relations aside, I can share this: management was not happy with Matheny’s quotes in @markasaxon piece in @TheAthletic (1/2)"
"As I wrote for @TheAthleticSTL Friday, management uncomfortable with Matheny’s expressed zeal for old-school tough guy stuff and referring to today’s game as "soft" … felt (2/3)"
"That (3/3) whenever Matheny gets on the soapbox with old-school preaching that’s a huge turnoff to young players, it reinforced team’s rep as uptight, stressed, humorless and not a fun place to play."
"That’s why I was astonished by the attacks on @markasaxon ; without Matheny running his mouth and all but bragging over having Bud Norris being his enforcer/snitch, Saxon had much less to build his piece around. Today’s players are different. This manager never got that."
"If you go back and read the reporting on why Joe Girardi was sacked by the Yankees, you wouldn’t be so quick to assume he’s the right guy in STL. The ability to communicate-connect with young players, and all kinds of players, will be a priority in choosing next STL manager"
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 July 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link
Also very good - got me to download the app —Miklasz: In the end, Mike Matheny simply never delivered on the promises that led to his hiring in the first place https://theathletic.com/432508/2018/07/15/miklasz-in-the-end-mike-matheny-simply-never-delivered-on-the-promises-that-led-to-his-hiring-in-the-first-place/
― bnw, Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
congratulations Cardinal fans
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
the only drawback to all of this is that the cardinals failed to call up triple-a manager STUBBY CLAPP
― mookieproof, Sunday, 15 July 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
He’s a manager now???!!!!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
The Cardinals’ players are now “on notice” after the team fired manager Mike Matheny on Saturday, Mark Saxon of The Athletic tweets. If the Cardinals (47-46) don’t turn things around during the coming weeks under interim manager Mike Shildt, there may be “sweeping changes” to their roster, per Saxon. St. Louis’ front office, for its part, “has pined for years to be a seller and stock up for the future,” Saxon writes.
the front office is dad now, and dad is mad
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
if the 2018 season is going to amount to anything, we'll find out in the next 2 weeks. a 5-game series against the cubs, 3 against the reds, another 3 against the cubs, then the trade deadline. i'd think they'd have to win at least 6 of 8 against the cubs in order to have a fighting chance this season, and they haven't exactly stepped it up against quality opponents the last three years this season
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
nice little game from carp
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 20 July 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
He has been on fire for a really long time
― Karl Malone, Friday, 20 July 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Bit of a gap but 6 HRs in his last 4 games.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 20 July 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
16 total bases today
― Karl Malone, Friday, 20 July 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
brett cecil getting a pep talk mound visit in a 16-2 game lol
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 July 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
carpenter in 56 games since 5/16:
.346/.435/.738, 20 HR, 24 2B, 33 BB, 38 RBI, 50 R
only mookie is within 80 points of his 1.174 OPS. only 12 players are within 200 points of it
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 July 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
yadier molina is the slowest person who has ever moved
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 21 July 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Sunday, 22 July 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
twice in this series the cardinals' manager has intentionally walked rizzo to get to bryant. one of those times there was only one out.
― na (NA), Sunday, 22 July 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
at least it's better than rock paper scissors
pic.twitter.com/ff9kJcoaCa— 📼 (@VanHicklestein) July 22, 2018
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
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― Andy K, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
shit face holland dfa'd, man with a good name dakota hudson will take his roster spot
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
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?!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
impostor
Lance Lynn kept the pinstripes, lost the beard ... pic.twitter.com/hjvggSTbYQ— Ryan Fagan (@ryanfagan) August 1, 2018
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
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.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 August 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
He is one of the dumbest men in professional sports
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
adolis garcia making his debut in CF tonight
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 August 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 August 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Sunday, 12 August 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 August 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
2018 with Matheny: .505 2018 without Matheny: .640
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link
mgr of the year!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link