St Louis Cardinals 2026

#551      
whatahack
Brosky said:
This is how I remember it: Gussie Busch was the new owner of the Cards as of '53. It was also the first season of the Baltimore Orioles ( prior to that the St. Louis Browns.) Bill Veeck made that decision when Busch with mucho $$$ bought the Cards. So I think Sportsman's Park became Busch Stadium at the start of that year. It was a very difficult park to hit home runs; In deep left center and right center, I think there were fences at about 420 feet. The right field line was just 310 feet, but a screen out there rose to some 40 or 50 feet. Veeck, by the way, wrote a funny book named "Veeck as in Wreck."
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Gussie wanted to name it Budweiser stadium but MLB said no. There was no Busch beer at the time, so Busch stadium was okay. The next year he introduced Busch beer....
 
#553      
Brosky
I predict a big game this afternoon for Gorman. BTW, his defense at 3rd is better than I thought it would be.
 
#554      
pruman91
Mr. Walker with a 2 run 425 ' smashed tater...............Cardinals lead 2-0 going into bottom of the 4th.....wowsa......
 
#555      
IlliniFan85
Brosky said:
I predict a big game this afternoon for Gorman. BTW, his defense at 3rd is better than I thought it would be.
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No big game so far... but I am please to see he hit 2 balls 107.6 and 110.8. Just wish he was doing that more.

I am losing my faith in him, which blows because I really was rooting for him to finally succeed.
 
#556      
BillyBob1
pruman91 said:
Mr. Walker with a 2 run 425 ' smashed tater...............Cardinals lead 2-0 going into bottom of the 4th.....wowsa......
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That was a bomb!

I’ve never seen a runner on second blatantly showing the batter where the pitch was going to be.
 
#558      
pruman91
Fermin ????....................lol , Church had a better chance than Fermin ...........................
 
#559      
Brosky
This is the kind of disgusting loss that can bust a team's morale. Caray kept talking about the "flamethrower's". 100 mph on the gun, but O'Brien's bottom line is he blew the lead and let the team down. Bounce back has to come in Sacramento and that hinky ballpark.
 
#560      
Ryllini
Brosky said:
This is the kind of disgusting loss that can bust a team's morale. Caray kept talking about the "flamethrower's". 100 mph on the gun, but O'Brien's bottom line is he blew the lead and let the team down. Bounce back has to come in Sacramento and that hinky ballpark.
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Tough loss, no doubt. This 16 game stretch, however, has been a resounding success. 9-7 with only 1 series loss and 5 of the loss by 2 runs or less. The pitching has been really good to dominant. I have raised my expected level of wins for this team, but it will be interesting if this team has another level comes the all star should their noses still be in the race.

I'm looking like a genius for never moving my Jordan Walker bobble head off of its prominent perch on my wall of baseball. 😉
 
#561      
pruman91
ball busting loss for sure..........hope to see them rebound in this 3 game road series......the A's were in 1st place in their division last time I checked and have some very good players..................LET'S GO CARDINALS !!!!!!!!!
 
#565      
IlliniFan85
Looked at the score, saw we had 3, by time the video for mlb.tv loaded we had 4, and I thought that's cool. This should make it easier for our pitcher, then Church got out and they did a montage of tonight's pitcher, at which point I immediately thought we didnt get enough.
 
#566      
BillyBob1
This home plate umpire is missing numerous balls and strike calls for both teams in just the first inning. Two calls were challenged and reversed.
 
#567      
IlliniFan85
BillyBob1 said:
This home plate umpire is missing numerous balls and strike calls for both teams in just the first inning. Two calls were challenged and reversed.
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#568      
pruman91
stake Pallante to a 4 run lead and watch him give it away.....send him down to AAA and bring up another pitcher.....anybody is better than this minor league pitcher.....send Saggese with him , it was his non play at third to prolong the inning.........Saggese's sidearm throws from 3rd ain't cutting it............
 
#569      
BillyBob1
Obviously it’s a rating for umpires, but what do the numbers stand for. Also, he missed that 3rd strike call on Church.
 
#571      
BillyBob1
Nice seeing Gorman get on ahead of JJ!

Don’t blame 3rd baseman for taking his eyes off that ball.
 
#573      
pruman91
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THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!................

I had to turn off the game after Pallante gave up those 3 runs.....I think my post last night showed my disgust with him and was pleasantly surprised to see a win for the Cardinals................great to see Wetherholt get the HR and game winning RBI's..............also great to see O'Brien bounce back from his rough outing Sunday.......

I would really like to see the Cardinals get and stay above 10 games over .500 for a while.......I really really do...........
 
#574      
Dee_4_Three_83
Se Il Illini said:
Nootbar will be an improvement. But he is not a longterm answer. Slot him in at 7-9. Do not let him get near the top of the order like he was last year.
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This article suggests Noot should bat 5th after Walker. The main argument was to move Gorman down to 7 and have better Lefty-Righty alternation. I think I am with you, I would rather have Noot in the 7 spot and see if Gorman can make it work. Somebody needs to, or Walker is going to be pitched around more and more as the season progresses.

One tool from Noot I am excited to see is his plate discipline. He may be tapping the helmet quite a bit this year. ABS may have a bigger impact on his numbers than anyone else I have seen. He is notorious for getting borderline calls go against him. If he gets a few of those back, he may get some more pitches to drive.
 
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