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Damn I just know the Astros are good enough to beat the Cards....Lets go 'Stros
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I really want them to win just to spite Beltran
This shall be a great series just like last year.
It looks as Game 1 starters will be Pet te vs Carpenter
Damn I just know the Astros are good enough to beat the Cards....Lets go 'Stros
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I really want them to win just to spite Beltran
Teams are really even...
I can't predict this outcome.
The redbirds haven't looked so good lately. They're hurt and they sucked it up the last month, including dropping two to the Astros (one with Backe winning over Carpenter). Then they swept the Padres, but unimpressively. I mean, come on, it's the PADRES and the Padres one decent pitcher was apparently hurt. I like the Astros in six.
I think the Cards hitters are all healthy and think they win in 6, hopefully I am wrong.
Rolen's been out for a while, he didn't even make the NLDS roster. Sanders and Larry Walker were hurt off and on over the past month or so. Mulder caught one on the biceps, but will probably be able to pitch by game 2 or 3. Seems like they've got more guys hurt than that, but that's all I can think of offhand.
Sanders is MORE than fine.
Did you guys not hear about that setting an NLDS record for RBIs in a series??
Eckstein is hard to get out
Pujols is the best in baseball period
Edmonds is still that clutch MFer that all Stros fans hate.
Walker is still solid and will be looking forward to getting back to the NLCS
Nunez is still an underrated and unsung hero.
Yadier Molina came on late in the Padres series and will be harder than you think
Cy Young
Morris who pitches well in STL
Mulder
Suppan
then Carpenter again.
What team, did those games mean more to???including dropping two to the Astros (one with Backe winning over Carpenter)
Thanks for playing.
He wont even come close to playing.Rolen's been out for a while, he didn't even make the NLDS roster
Hes done for the year.
He had serious surgery to his shoulder.
He will be lucky to be a 280 hitter ever again.
The Scott Rolen everyone knew before this year, is gone more than likely.
Okay, I can make up cute little statements about all of our players too. Doesn't mean a thing. And maybe those games did mean more to the Astros, but it was still "Cy Young" on the mound vs. Brandon Backe, and we still won. Thanks for playing.
P.S. If you really think your starting rotation is better than ours, you're on crack.
The Cards don't look nearly as invincible as they did last year, and a healthy Andy Pet e is worth his weight in gold. I think the Astros gut this one out in seven.
^ I think Pet e is the difference maker this year for the Astros, they win a tough series in 7 games.
So, you think having Andy Pet te start two games instead of Pete Munro starting 2 games makes a difference then?
So does TPark just jump on the bandwagon of whoever the Stros are playing?
I couldn't agree more about the Cardinals. I was pretty nervous about playing them last year but we nearly beat them! I'm confident in the 'Stros and their pitching. Astros in seven.
Someone wanna tell me how this team is any different than last year???
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Classic coming from you.
No, Ive been a Cardinals fan for as long as I've been alive.
I was a Cardinals fan before being a fan of the Spurs.
Have been there through thick and thin with guys like Mark Whitten, Greg Jeffries, Lee Smith, Geranamo Pena and other stiffs.
So you think Chris Carpenter, had his total playoff focus, and was totally dialed in for that game, like he was in game 1 VS the Padres??? Or before the Cardinals clinched the division??it was still "Cy Young" on the mound vs. Brandon Backe
Get freakin real.
What exactly do you mean by that? I have never been a fair weather fan for any team. Spurs season ticket holder since 1987. As a current resident of Houston, the Astros are my favorite baseball team. Now that I live near the ballpark (5 blocks) I have season tickets for the Stros. I was born in New Orleans, and my family has had season tickets to the Saints in every season they were in New Orleans. I still cheer for them and even bought tickets to the SA games, even though I wont be able to get to any of the games. My buddies lucked out there.Classic coming from you.
You on the other hand are the guy who promised to stop posting here if the Spurs won the Championship. You are the one who didnt believe. You were also the one cheering for the Braves in the NLDS and now go for the Cards. Considering your history, bandwagon isnt too far from the path.
So he just half asses this stuff? He gets paid to play 35 times a year and cant get that down?So you think Chris Carpenter, had his total playoff focus, and was totally dialed in for that game, like he was in game 1 VS the Padres??? Or before the Cardinals clinched the division??
I would hope he looks a little better in the playoffs, but you can't just shut it off the last month of the season. You should know as a Cardinals fan they didn't want the Astros to make the playoffs. I would've expected a little better showing against Houston. The 'stros had the best record in baseball since mid-May (when Pet te started getting back into it after surgery and Berkman came back from his injury). Besides, no sane manager would want to face Pet te-Oswalt-Clemens in the playoffs.
Cy Young wouldn't have mailed it in. That tell you anything about Carpenter?
He's never thrown this many innings. In early september he surpassed his career high.
It would be understandable that he got a bit tired. I'd be surprised if he didn't.
Last year was his first full year in some time and he suffered an injury at the end of the year too to miss the playoffs.
The Astros are going to give the Cardinals one of a time. Astros win a tight series...due to their pitching.
If you think the cardinal rotation is on par with the Astros you are on crack. Likewise if you think the Astro bats are on par with the cardinal bats you are also on crack.
however....pitching wins les.
astros win.
against a weak hitting astros team it can be.If you think the cardinal rotation is on par with the Astros you are on crack
Look at the ERAs for Clemens and Oswalt and Backe for the regular season against the Cardinals.
Oswalt I think is in the 4s.
No, I wanted them to make it ahead of Philadelphia.You should know as a Cardinals fan they didn't want the Astros to make the playoffs.
Philly who had the best record since the All STar break, owned the freakin Cardinals all year,
while the Cardinals were 11-5 vs the Astros this year.
Hmmmmmm, weigh it up.
TPark, Roy has more problems with Cards than all the other Houston pitchers, mostly because of Jim Edmonds who owns him.
Oswalt vs Cardinals:
OPPOSING HITTER AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
Totals 223 57 12 0 5 23 11 50 256 .288 .377 .665 5.2 ERA
But Pet te, tonight's starter has a 1.35 ERA against the Cards
and Clemens has a 2.6 ERA
The pen has been dominant against the Cards and there is no Miceli there this year, who was the reason why St Louis won last year.
Wheeler has a 0.87 ERA
Lidge has a 0.00 ERA
So, as you can see, there is only one major pitcher that St Louis has had success against and that is against a pitcher who for the last 3 months has been getting stronger and stronger.
'stros down 0-2 at the moment. If only Bernie Williams could do what Sanders can.
3-0 Cardinals top of the 3rd.
You were never a Spurs fan.
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