"Look at that scoreboard now, Grasshopper"
Couldn't you see Pujols saying that to Ausmus as he crossed the plate last night?
Last night’s Cardinals/Astros game was one of the most exciting games I’ve ever seen. Even after Berkman hit that homer to put the Astros up I didn’t feel like the Cardinals were done. They’ve just had too good a season and have too many character guys on that team to not at least get the series back to Busch.
I have one question for Tony LaRussa. According to that idiot Steve Lyons, LaRussa basically said before the game that Berkman was the one guy in the Astros lineup that the Cardinals couldn’t let beat them. Then how did he almost do it? I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that you could hit a pitching wedge into the Crawford Boxes. There won’t be any cheapies for the rest of the series.
Pujols’s homer was such a bomb. Everyone knew that ball was gone as soon as it left his bat. And his reaction was one for the ages. He just looked like he was telling all of the Astros fans to shut the fuck up. And they did. You could have heard a pin drop in that place. Lidge brought that on himself. How does he walk Edmonds in that situation? They showed the graphic that Edmonds was 1 for 13 lifetime versus Lidge. And its not like it was battling walk where Lidge threw ten pitches; he walked him on a 3-1 count.
I can really feel for the Astros fans. To be so close and lose like that is heart wrenching. The only thing they can really hang onto is that it was only Game 5. I wrote yesterday that I thought that the Astros were playing like a team of destiny. That one swing last night may have changed everything. As Bill Simmons said, that was “a stomach punch” game. And it’s very hard to recover from a stomach punch.
Pujols is a very underrated defensive first baseman. I thought that the plays he made last night in the bottom of the 9th were both very solid. Both of those balls were very hard hit, but he made the plays look routine. If Tavares gets on to start that inning things could have gotten a little bit interesting with his speed.
I’d be very surprised if this series doesn’t go seven games. I’m MLB’s happy. If the Astros would have won last night there wouldn’t have been any baseball until the start of the World Series on Saturday. Talk about losing national momentum. And I know that there’s always talk about how players are overpaid, and I agree with that to a point, but think about the economic impact that Pujols had on the Cardinals organization and the city of St. Louis with that one swing. There will be a lot of money made by the Cardinals because of that one swing.
Last night’s Cardinals/Astros game was one of the most exciting games I’ve ever seen. Even after Berkman hit that homer to put the Astros up I didn’t feel like the Cardinals were done. They’ve just had too good a season and have too many character guys on that team to not at least get the series back to Busch.
I have one question for Tony LaRussa. According to that idiot Steve Lyons, LaRussa basically said before the game that Berkman was the one guy in the Astros lineup that the Cardinals couldn’t let beat them. Then how did he almost do it? I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that you could hit a pitching wedge into the Crawford Boxes. There won’t be any cheapies for the rest of the series.
Pujols’s homer was such a bomb. Everyone knew that ball was gone as soon as it left his bat. And his reaction was one for the ages. He just looked like he was telling all of the Astros fans to shut the fuck up. And they did. You could have heard a pin drop in that place. Lidge brought that on himself. How does he walk Edmonds in that situation? They showed the graphic that Edmonds was 1 for 13 lifetime versus Lidge. And its not like it was battling walk where Lidge threw ten pitches; he walked him on a 3-1 count.
I can really feel for the Astros fans. To be so close and lose like that is heart wrenching. The only thing they can really hang onto is that it was only Game 5. I wrote yesterday that I thought that the Astros were playing like a team of destiny. That one swing last night may have changed everything. As Bill Simmons said, that was “a stomach punch” game. And it’s very hard to recover from a stomach punch.
Pujols is a very underrated defensive first baseman. I thought that the plays he made last night in the bottom of the 9th were both very solid. Both of those balls were very hard hit, but he made the plays look routine. If Tavares gets on to start that inning things could have gotten a little bit interesting with his speed.
I’d be very surprised if this series doesn’t go seven games. I’m MLB’s happy. If the Astros would have won last night there wouldn’t have been any baseball until the start of the World Series on Saturday. Talk about losing national momentum. And I know that there’s always talk about how players are overpaid, and I agree with that to a point, but think about the economic impact that Pujols had on the Cardinals organization and the city of St. Louis with that one swing. There will be a lot of money made by the Cardinals because of that one swing.
posted by CFunk28 at 1:22 PM
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What percentage of the greater St. Louis area was watching that Rams game last night? 2, 3 percent? Maybe.
Pujols is very underrated defensively, especially for guy who's only been a full time first baseman for two years now. I may just be in love with him but I think he'll get himself a Gold Glove before it's all said and done. Hell, Palmeiro used to win them when he only played 45 games at first.
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