Postgame: Cardinals Beat Giants

I see that my prediction of 3 homers by Pujols was way off

He only hit 2, DFA the shmuck

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by CB30 on May 30, 2009 9:43 PM PDT reply actions

Yes, please!

Then we wouldn’t have to face him.

Judgment Day is coming
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by Natto on May 30, 2009 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions

So that wasn’t so hot.

Extremely Understated.

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by nvsfg on May 30, 2009 9:53 PM PDT reply actions

Check out this awesome game

Texas and Boston College tied at 2 in the 21st. in the Austin, Texas regional

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Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right

by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 9:54 PM PDT reply actions

Link Fail

Here it is

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions

9 ABs for the leadoff hitter

by wilriv21 on May 30, 2009 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions

Texa’s closer threw like 160 pitches.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on May 30, 2009 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Its not like he’s made of porcelain

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by CB30 on May 30, 2009 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions

colleges are known for child abuse of pitchers

by wilriv21 on May 30, 2009 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions

Some

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah there are some amazing line scores in this game.

“How did you do today?”
“well I went 1 for 10”
“Oh, a double header?”
“nope, 1 game”

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Ouch

Texas catcher struck out 6 times, what kind of sombrero is that?

Insanity is just a state of mind.

by KTJ on May 30, 2009 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Double platinum with chocolate sprinkles or something

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by CB30 on May 30, 2009 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions

I like how you put it the other day:

[Precious Metal] Sombrero

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Hmm

This might be up to a palladium level.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

by KTJ on May 30, 2009 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions

uranium sombrero

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by theghostofjasonellison on May 30, 2009 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions

where did you find the PC?

by wilriv21 on May 30, 2009 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions

Someone mentioned it elsewhere.

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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on May 30, 2009 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions

169

That’s gonna hurt tomorrow.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

by KTJ on May 30, 2009 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions

That gamecast thing is… fun.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on May 30, 2009 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Gamecast fail

Ummmm… No. That Anteater looks like a Bulldog

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions

Todays Regional roundup

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

BOSTON COLLEGE

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on May 30, 2009 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions

Where’s the O?

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions

in both words

by wilriv21 on May 30, 2009 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Belfiore

He must be an athlete. P/DH threw 9.2 Innings and is the no. 5 hitter.

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Live video feed

Link

Insanity is just a state of mind.

by KTJ on May 30, 2009 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Thanks. Still a packed house.

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by Giant among Angels on May 30, 2009 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions

2+ games for the price of one

Insanity is just a state of mind.

by KTJ on May 30, 2009 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Way too many Cardinal fans at the yard

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by CB30 on May 30, 2009 10:03 PM PDT reply actions

And in even better news, Bochy is apparently sticking with Pablo at 1st, Uribe at 3rd. I’m so glad I follow this team, and not some really lame team like the Cardinals.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/30/SPEA17U63D.DTL

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by theghostofjasonellison on May 30, 2009 10:16 PM PDT reply actions

Too bad

Ishi was starting to heat up

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by CB30 on May 30, 2009 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions

I just don’t want to see Uribe in there every day. It really doesn’t help this team

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by theghostofjasonellison on May 30, 2009 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions

Dude hits triples

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by CB30 on May 30, 2009 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions

it also doesn’t help this team as they go forward into the future. Everybody wants to contend, but this year was supposed to also be used for evaluation. Now we won’t know if Ishi is the first baseman going forward or not. Not only that, but Guzman will be stuck at Fresno and we won’t find out about him either. It would be one thing if Uribe was a serious long term third base candidate, but the guy is just a stopgap. It won’t answer any questions about the 2010 team.

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by rxmeister on May 31, 2009 6:26 AM PDT up reply actions

it doesn’t look as bad in print as the idiots doing the pre game made it out to be. Sounds like they’ll re-evaluate again when Pablo is healthy enough to go back to third.

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by rxmeister on May 31, 2009 6:51 AM PDT up reply actions

Oops: Link

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by theghostofjasonellison on May 30, 2009 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions

hah! My first link ever

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by theghostofjasonellison on May 30, 2009 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions

Will be interesting to see how Sanchez/Whiteside battery works out. Always thought Sanchez relied too much on Molina to get him thru a game and now Sanchez will need to focus more. Which is a good thing. Expecting good things.

by wilriv21 on May 30, 2009 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions

wow…no wonder we don’t trust bochy with veterans and refer to schierholtz as “who?”. It seems lately that the only time an OF is taken out, the player being removed is lewis. Ishikawa improves his patience at the plate and provides good D while improving and what does he get? a seat on the bench. unbelievable.

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by Speedforthewin on May 30, 2009 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Absolutely horrible & depresing decision but i was expecting it to happen sooner or later. Given that Sondoval was doing alright at 3B it’s stupid to stop him from continuing there as he holds much more value there. Given that Ishikawa has been heating up lately & has far more potential than Uribe it’s stupid to play Uribe ahead of him. Well it’s stupid to play Uribe instead of anyone actually, he’s a replacement level player without any upside. If you’re not playing Ishikawa (a replacement level player with upside) then you should be playing Guzman or anyone else. Uribe is ok as a bench player but it’s inexcusable to have him start but then Bochy’s clueless as to the value (or lack of it) of players like him, just as he was with Castillo last year.

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by GiantFan on May 31, 2009 1:35 AM PDT up reply actions

Sandoval has arm issues, which will prevent him from playing 3rd or Catcher, at the risk of a more serious injury.

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by CB30 on May 31, 2009 2:00 AM PDT up reply actions

I understand why Sandoval is playing 1B at the moment, but Bochy’s said that he’s going to continue there (with Uribe at 3B) even when his arm issues have cleared up.

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by GiantFan on May 31, 2009 2:19 AM PDT up reply actions

When?

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:-(

by Cookyman on May 31, 2009 2:21 AM PDT up reply actions

Well that’s the general implication from the article above and on the article on the Giants mlb site. You’re correct, there’s no actual quote from Bochy claiming that’s going to happen, so i may have jumped the gun, but from what they’ve said, that’s the way they seem to be going.

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by GiantFan on May 31, 2009 3:04 AM PDT up reply actions

Oh, I should have read the article. That sounds like a horrible idea. It doesn’t really help us in the short term, since Uribe hasn’t actually been hitting better than Ishikawa, and in the long term Ishikawa loses playing time and Pablo loses value.

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:-(

by Cookyman on May 31, 2009 3:23 AM PDT up reply actions

they were talking about it on the pre game show as well. Bochy made it pretty clear there that Uribe is now the starting third baseman.

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by rxmeister on May 31, 2009 6:28 AM PDT up reply actions

that means

fire Bochy now.

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Ishikawa, let the boy hit against lefties.

by kennv on May 31, 2009 6:28 AM PDT up reply actions

yup

Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.

by Aadik on May 31, 2009 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions

URRRRRRGH

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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on May 31, 2009 8:45 AM PDT up reply actions

If there is any truth to any of this then why did they wait until Ish started hitting the ball? I was calling for Ish to be beheaded a couple weeks ago and now I want to see if the recent surge is real or an illusion.

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by Giant among Angels on May 31, 2009 9:10 AM PDT up reply actions

BOULDERSKULL STRIKES AGAIN

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by groug on May 31, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions

I honestly don’t know why anyone would believe a word that tumbles out of Bochy’s mouth, to a reporter or to anyone. It has become quite obvious that he never does what he says, if he remembers saying anything at all.

by satyricrash on May 31, 2009 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions

yup

by Merope on May 31, 2009 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions

that means

fire Bochy now.

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Ishikawa, let the boy hit against lefties.

by kennv on May 31, 2009 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions

i see zero reason

to pitch to Albert Pujols ever again. ever.

by sayheybk on May 30, 2009 10:17 PM PDT reply actions

I’ve never understood why he hasn’t gotten the Bonds treatment yet. To be honest, I haven’t seen Ludwick bat, I’ve been in San Diego and I’m not about to watch Padres V Cardinals, but speaking from no knowledge whatsover, why not just walk Pujols to get to Ray Durham 2.0?

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by theghostofjasonellison on May 30, 2009 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions

because the Bonds treatment

was dumb for Bonds, and it’s even dumber for Pujols. His OBP is not even .500.

I think we figured out that you had to have a SLG of 1.000 or something to make the “auto IBB” a good strategy.

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by zenbitz on May 31, 2009 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions

i live in san diego too. and without watching anyone else’s at bats for the Cardinals otherwise i can still confidently say NEVER PITCH TO PUJOLS AGAIN.
GIANTS BRASS, GET IT DUN.

by sayheybk on May 30, 2009 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions

I thought they did a good job of pitching around Pujols yesterday. They walked him twice, and the HR’s came leading off innings. The one at bat they should have walked him and didn’t was the at bat that Zito struck him out. That being said, Pujols has entered that Bonds zone, where only ARod and Manny have visited before. Unless you’re an elite pitcher like Santana or Lincecum, you simply cannot get them out, so pitching to them makes no sense. I would walk him every chance I get.

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by rxmeister on May 31, 2009 6:31 AM PDT up reply actions

You would lose a lot of games.

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:-(

by Cookyman on May 31, 2009 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions

Chicken.

by satyricrash on May 31, 2009 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions

mmmm.

by sayheybk on May 31, 2009 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions

I didn’t really enjoy that game.

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by groug on May 30, 2009 11:08 PM PDT reply actions

Hey, at least Romos back!

Oh wait…….

In all honesty though, he did look nasty untill that bloop and then…….

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by GrahamCrakalaka on May 30, 2009 11:52 PM PDT reply actions

Two of three hits were pretty cheap, and he looked nasty on the two Ks. I’m glad he’s back.

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by jponry on May 31, 2009 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions

Zito probably shouldn’t be 1-6.

Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.

by cheno on May 31, 2009 1:34 AM PDT reply actions

doesn't know how to win.

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Ishikawa, let the boy hit against lefties.

by kennv on May 31, 2009 6:28 AM PDT up reply actions

Won’t happen, but if he wants a better record next year then he should take a pay cut to help get a bat.

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by Giant among Angels on May 31, 2009 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions

The Giants are 4-6 in his starts.

BILLY SADLER COULD DO THAT

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by groug on May 31, 2009 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions

Well

he probably could do what Sanchez has been doing

Sadler = Sanchez

by wilriv21 on May 31, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions

You keep saying that. I do not think that = means what you think it means.

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by Johnny Disaster on May 31, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions

Bochy continues to be an idiot

I’m more upset over Bochy’s comment after the game that he left Zito in the game because it was “his game and he earned it.” No, numbskull, the idea is to win the game. If Zito’s feelings are hurt in the process, he has 126 million dollars to wipe his tears away with. Besides that, I think Zito would have preferred to be taken out and win, then to stay in and lose. Zito gets by with guile and slop. Fourth time around to the same hitters is asking a lot of him.

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by rxmeister on May 31, 2009 6:55 AM PDT reply actions

Yes

I thought the same thing.

Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??

by tobias on May 31, 2009 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions

We didn’t make it that far, Bochy’s monotoned monotone put us to sleep.

by Merope on May 31, 2009 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions

I was calling for Zito to be removed in the 7th. When Cranium Maximus left him in until the lead was gone, I turned the game off and went out drinking.

by Lars The Wanderer on May 31, 2009 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions