brew crew need to get their shizz together, monty, so we can have our epic world series showdown

this was about a week too early.

Fuck yeah, going to game six...come on Grienke, have a game, I want to see em' close it out.

Wolf was THE MAN last night. Time for Grienke to shine (hopefully)!

doesn't greinke just kinda pitch however he feels at home and then the offense completely bails him out?

Ha! Usually, yes, that's a pretty good summary of the year for him. I'll take any win, no matter the method.

Game 1 at Miller Park, Burlington native Tony Romo will throw the ceremonial first pitch to Charles Woodson.

god that was brutal

They've started calling the Tigers rotation the Chik*fil*a Men's Room, and Scherzer, Chipotle, in the Metroplex.

Missed the game Saturday night, because I was with my youngest seed on a Webelos campout, but I approve of the result. I should be more nervous about the Cardinals than I am.

Reminds me of the A's-Reds '90 Series when I had little to no concern over facing the Reds.

LaRussa has something to prove after losing 8 straight World Series games.

the cardinals won the world series in 2006.

I realized it a few minutes ago after posting. Other than old age, i don't know how I could've forgotten that one.

they barely made it into that postseason too and then all of their GREATEST FANS IN THE WORLD spent the whole offseason talking about how great they were, when they really weren't. i really hate the cardinals and their supposed best fans.

This is pretty much the highlight of my career as a Cincinnati Sports fan.

The phrase "Yadier Molina" still causes you to convulse. & you cannot see a picture of Carlos Beltran without imagining a bat on his shoulder. Correct?

As an aside: I nominate the Littlest Molina for Biggest D-Bag in Baseball. The fake whinging hand gesture he does after hits caps it.

Ugh....we left after Prince's last at-bat, could not take watching the cards and their fans celebrating on our home turf. I'll be pulling for the Rangers.

Pulling for Rangers as well....god I hate the Cardinals.

You deserve it Tim. They played great in '90.
I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to get a bit long-winded here.

Coming off winning the "Earthquake" Series against the Giants in '89, and winning 103 games in '90, I predicted the A's would only play (8) games in the postseason. Um, unfortunately I was right.
While winning the series the year before was great, they somehow didn't get their "due" cos the series was overshadowed by the earthquake. Every Giants fan I know has made me keenly aware of this fact that it "didn't count" for over twenty years now. (I was at Games 1-2 in Oakland in which they thoroughly dominated the Giants) '90 was a horse of a different color. Even before making my prediction, I was keenly aware that the Reds had gone coast to coast in their division that year. Thsi was done without the help of Eric Davis who was out most of the year with an injury, but would be be back for Game 1 starting in center field. I distinctly remember being asked that afternoon before game 1 about the impact EDavis would make, and I boldly pointed out he would "do nothing in the Series". I believe it was in the first inning he smoked a three-run home run to dead center off Dave Stewart. It was done in typical ED style, where he flipped the bat, didn't look up once and kept spittin' chew. I spent the rest of the first inning pulling my foot out of my mouth. They A's never recovered from the HR blast. Game 2, a bit tighter, 11 innings, a bouncing ball hit by Joe Oliver over the bag wins the game after LaRussa inexplicably moved 3rd baseman Carney Lansford closer to the hole between 3rd & SS. I'm at Game 3 feeling good about a win. Chris Sabo hits his 1st of two HRs, Reds 2-0. Ugh. Harold Baines bridges the gap with a bottom 1st HR to bridge the gap. Ok, no worries. By the end of the 3rd or 4th, can't remember which, the Reds had 11 hits.
Game 4 came around and refused to watch the Reds celebrate on my field, so I gave away my WS tix to a friend. As predicted, the A's played 8 games in the post season.

The A's are heading into the '12 Season without a new ballpark, without any revenue, and knowing quite well, no free agents (even if we could afford'em) want to play in the Mausoleum. Out of all of this, the only redeeming "Baseball" news is effin 'Moneyball'. The book was good, the film, a bit fat 'Meh'

Ugh.

Don't get me started on the '88 Series, the '91 ALCS, the string of deciding Divisional playoffs games they just couldn't get done. They finally won in '06, but were swept by the Tigers in the ALCS. I'm sure that's why I didn't remember the Cards winning in '06. I've blocked it all out.

It's tough being a sports fan. Expectations are the building blocks of resentment.

He can prove it after 12 straight. LOL

Hey Bobby, I'm still waiting for a "thank you" for just giving you Nelson Cruz by way of the Brewers.

Ugh

yes, that is correct.

molina's tittybaby routine with brandon phillips is also up there.

That last one has me almost too intrigued to ask. Though I'm sure there's great commentary from La Russa & Dusty Baker about it. If it's anything like the NLCS between those two a decade ago.

(As I recall, & I was out of the country for it, so my recall is all second/third hand, that '02 Giants-Cardinals NLCS was awesomely histrionic. Wish I could have been there.)

Yes, a "Thank You" is definitely in order! Amazingly, Cruz was a throw-in as part of that trade with the Brewers. Carlos Lee was originally the main focus of that deal...LOL

Also, Cruz was put on unconditional waivers by the Rangers before the 2008 season, and NOBODY CLAIMED HIM.

Kinda think every other team in MLB would like a do-over on that!

This pretty much just sealed the series win for the Cardinals.

St. Louis, congratulations on your upcoming World Series title.