NL Wild Card: St. Louis Cardinals vs Los Angeles Dodgers

They're also not showing MPH

i said "wow!" out loud at the tommy edman play, and then the announcer yelled "wow!"

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

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?

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.

i can heavily relate to this

I had to google Joaquin Andujar

the legend goes that he was an angry man sometimes

Fumbly!

That short stop sucks

Yes

I had no idea Bellinger was that awful this year. Wow.

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

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.

Solo shots should not kill you

Tank Howard's long career also ended as a Cardinal (St. Louis- this time) to bring this thread hijack full circle.

runners are being left on base at a healthy clip

The Andujar meltdown was something else--not sure if he was slightly more or less crazed than pine-tar Brett.

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.

That was a p impressive catch by Goldschmidt to end the inning.

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

Breath

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.

Unbelievable

They got that call wrong

Certainly looked that way.

Baseball is a great game

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

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

Fuck the Dodgers

truly, the real america's team

fuck the dodgers

BtW, where is VHS?

I hope we go 15

That new SS looks better!!

Boing

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

Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing.mp3

Cards could really win this

how are these wiggles jansen does not balks

Cards were a foot or so from winning this

Yeah, that was their chance

i have a bad feeling about this

fuck, here comes pujols

every cardinal fan in the stadium is like fuck

This cannot happen

Would be awfully cool though

Back to normal broadcasting

Awww