Rockies get a sweep of Arizona on the road and it's 8 in a row against them road and home. Thankfully if there is a worse closer than Wade Davis it's the guy rocking the closer role for Arizona in Greg Holland.
MLB: ****General Discussion Thread - Baseball Season 2019****
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Watching Yanks/Astros and it got me wondering how many games have been delayed, postponed or played in the rain this year. Damn, seems like it rains in half the games I watch.
Yanks took a 6-0 lead in the bottom of the 4th on three homers and than the tarps came out. Think it's going to be a late late night in NY, again.
Yanks took a 6-0 lead in the bottom of the 4th on three homers and than the tarps came out. Think it's going to be a late late night in NY, again.
Classy reception for Albert Pujols last night from St. Louis fans. Even classier reaction when he homered today. Tip of the hat to them considering that some of the nicest guys and best players in the league are routinely boo'd on the road.
I was there for today's game and yesterday's. You could just feel he was hitting one out this weekend. Was just a great atmosphere all around.
As a Cards fan, I was fine with the extended ovation for his first AB. But I draw the line at cheering for his HR and a curtain call. After you get your ovation, you’re back to being the opponent again and I want to kick your ass on the field.
Albert gave us tons of great memories, four WS appearances, and two titles. But he also chose to leave because he said STL didn’t embrace him enough. I wonder if he’ll get the same ovation if he wears an LAA hat in the HOF.
Rockies go to Dodgers and get swept which is no shock. But all 3 came in walk-offs by the Dodgers.
Don't remember the details, but did the Cardinals offer him the same money as the Angels? Is money what you mean by embracing?
Cards offered very similar money. I seem to recall they offered the same average annual value, but maybe 8 yrs instead of 10? LAA also gave him a post-playing contract for something like $1m/yr for 10 more years.
The big rub to me, and all cards fans, was that Pujols’ explanation for why he chose LAA over STL was that the LAA “embraced” him more and “felt more like a family to me” than STL. Which, to cards fans, is total BS. Even if his last 8 years had gone as so-so as his years in LA have gone, the dude would be the king of STL and the face of the cardinals for generations to come. It was just a way for him to justify going to LAA.
It’s a lot like Hoiberg and ISU. He could’ve cemented his legacy as the greatest Cardinal of all time. Instead he chose to leave and became just a guy who had some great years here.
I can get that. At least the Cards won the homer game, standing O for a homer that beat you would be bad from a Cards perspective.
BTW, as a Yankee fan I am almost over Bob Gibson and the 1964 World Series. Almost. Just need a little more time. At least Mantle homered.
I think the Angels offered him more years and money, but I think the money per year was close or the same.
Agree, the 'family' comment is a little over the top. Not a Cardinals fan, but St. Louis is one the best, if not the best, baseball town in the Bigs.
Yeah, if he had just had said it was about making the most money possible, there would’ve been less drama. But he talked a bunch about how the LAA organization really felt like a family to him. To say that after the way the city treated him his whole career was complete BS.
Hey, you got Johnny Keane out of the deal (I can't claim to know why it happened, but it did).
Remember Frank Miller's (cartoonist) criteria for an official world series?
I'm not sure his treatment by management was the same as what he was getting from the city. It the end, I think it worked out. He's still one of the greats. He's still respected. I'm not bitter over it.
Is there an umpire worse than Angel Hernandez is behind the plate? He's untouchable because he cries racial discrimination at any hint of critical assessment but it still remains that he sucks horsehide and stitches as an ump.
He would remind us every year that it wasn't official if it didn't involve the Yankees.
