TheGoldenGod
5 Star Man
- Nov 8, 2017
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In honor of opening day, I thought I'd get a little Cards thread a rollin'.
Here's to a successful season!
Here's to a successful season!
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Ahhh so you're one of those. Being one of the most successful teams in professional sports for over a decade just isn't quite good enough.Cardinals get 81 wins, miss the playoffs, bow tie boy raises nose in the air because they still draw over 3 million ticket buyers.
As a loyal Rhode Island Cardinals fan, I hope the Cubs are able to win 55 games this seasonAs a St. Louis based Cubs fan, I hope the Cards have a good, healthy, 4th place season.
As a loyal Rhode Island Cardinals fan, I hope the Cubs are able to win 55 games this season
As a St. Louis based Cubs fan, I hope the Cards have a good, healthy, 4th place season.
Ahhh so you're one of those. Being one of the most successful teams in professional sports for over a decade just isn't quite good enough.
It's amazing how bitter Cards fans are. 2004-2016 was one of the most successful runs any team has ever had. They were consistently excellent for that entire time, winning division titles, pennants, and championships along the way. That's probably not going to happen for the Cards again for as long as we live. We have two poor seasons(and not even THAT bad of seasons, they would've been playoff seasons in the NHL) and people mock the GM and call the owner cheap(after he just signed the most expensive contract in the team's history). Spoiled brats.
I'm looking forward to this season. There are quite a few question marks, but some intriguing potential both in the lineup and on the mound. We should be playing meaningful baseball the entire season once again. If Ozuna and Fowler can return to 2017 form this lineup could be lethal. If not, Tyler O'Neill should see plenty of action and he's a very exciting young player. Should be a tough battle in the Central. I'm ready for it.
Regarding you're injuries point, do you think players just have weaker muscles and ligaments today? You and I both know that is not the case. Todays pitchers throw harder and nastier stuff than ever before and are putting more and more torque on their arm. The way pitcher's pitch nowadays injuries are less so an unfortunate occurrence than an eventual certainty.I'm not really sure which group of supposed people you are alluding to but I'm pretty confident I'm not a member
I don't like baseball at all, not in its current form. My personal opinion isn't something new as the overall product and game has been in decline for quite a while. I'm sure my views are in the minority which is ok too. If my opinions were the majority Baseball wouldn't be handing out 400 million dollar contracts or whatever the numbers are. If I'm forced into a circumstance where baseball is on the TV I am uncomfortable because the fundamentals of the players are akin to watching little league. I'd much rather watch little league because at least the kids aren't supposed to know how to play the game 100%.
I see baseball, and other things, as a symptom of today's standards as a society as opposed to years past. I'll give one example.
To me, and a lot of baseball historians, Ozzie Smith is the greatest shortstop ever. If one doesn't agree he's the best ever they certainly agree he's in the conversation. Perhaps you don't know how Ozzie became a Cardinal. Garry Templeton didn't try to run to first base on a dropped strike 3 and the Cardinal fans booed. Surely nobody and I do mean nobody today can imagine the Cardinal fans booing one of their own for that type of play. Did Templeton even see the passed ball? It didn't matter to the fans at the game because of expectations. If you were a professional baseball player you were expected to hustle every play and execute the fundamentals. Expectations are far different today and as a result so is the game. Case in point Molina, Pujols, and the list goes on of players that don't hustle. Today's version of baseball is vastly different than 30 years ago and if you compare it to 50+ years ago I'm not sure it's even the same game. We're all told that athletes today are stronger and faster, and they take better care of their bodies than in yesteryear, but there's an invisible 100 pitch count barrier. There's 5 starters and a litany of relievers. Somehow with all the restrictions in place just on pitchers they find a way to get injured at a rate inconceivably higher then when there was a 4 man rotation with scarcely a reliever on the team.
I could go on all day and really pick apart the overall game but I digress. Put me in the membership of people who remember when baseball wasn't home run derby.