Atleast before he came to the Cubs I respected him. Now even Cardinal fans hate him.

Not sure but in some quotes when Duncan got sent down, Daniel LaRussa said that “There isn’t any outfielder in our system that has more potential to be an impact, productive player than Chris Duncan..”

Ummmm, I think he's nuts, potential wise Rasmus is on par with just about anyone I would think...however this is coming from a guy who drives drunk while rescuing animals simulcastly....

37-27.

but still a long way to go.

pujols out for three weeks.

say it aint so.

Pujols is my favorite player even tho im a giants fan.

You're forgetting, Rasmus isn't he son of his Pitching Coach/Friend. LaRussa is pretty blind when it comes to Chris Duncan. The guy hasn't done ANYTHING since he got he sports hernia or whatever it was last year. Before that, he was actually a very productive player.

Pujols/Wainwright both go down in the same week. LaRussa needs to really shine here, because the Cards could be in trouble otherwise. tread water, stay afloat...help is on the way eventually.

God I wish my Royals played in your crappy division/league. NL sucks...good luck avoiding the sweep tomorrow. Yeah, that's right, I'm trash talking while I can.

so sad

Yes, it is sad that Cards trolls come to my thread the same way and say the same things.

Sorry you couldn't avoid the sweep and can't handle a little trash-talk.

you're right, i couldnt avoid that sweep. i've been in a slump lately. im only hitting .247 over the past month. i'll pick it up in july though, i always do.

Chris Duncan and injuries are combining to kill this team.

Here's hoping the Cards sweep the Royals in KC so we can see if KK decides to venture over this way again. I like his tried and true method of knocking the NL Central. He's good for that at least a few times a season. Congrats on sweeping the Cards while missing all our best pitching and 3 starters (Pujols, Molina, and Tony's objectivity when it comes to Chris Duncan).

I'm not knocking the NL Central. I'm knocking the entire National League. How many times does the AL have to completely demolish the NL to prove which league is VASTLY superior? It's not even close and don't worry, when the Royals do play awful, I don't avoid talking about it. Other people take shots at KC all the time in the Royals thread and I deal with it...so when we do well...you better believe I'm gonna do a little trash talking to the "best fans in baseball."

Also..blaming it on injuries is pathetic. They happen to every team. I guess I can blame the Royals sucking the past 4-5 years on Sweeney being hurt all the time, right?

Eh, most people don't lose the best player in the game. I'm just saying the Royals got to play the Cards at an opportune time in during the season, which you can't deny. Generally the NL is pretty crappy this season. I actually think the Central might be the strongest this season in the NL. Cards did take 2/3 from the Red Sox (no Papi, no Pujols, pretty fair comparison). That's clearly a large enough sample size to make a judgement

I think losing your ace, best hitter, and best defensive player is going to hurt a team and is way more than 'other teams' injuries.

Part of the game. Prepare for more pain starting Friday.

im going friday night. pujols jeresey and all.

QFT! Unless not......then I never said this.

Ryan Franklin currently in full auto-destruct mode in the 9th.

Yeah. I wouldnt' be surprised if we dropped two of three to them. We can't stay this red-hot forever...we gotta drop a series at some point. As long as we don't get swept so we can say we won the season series.

Wee! You walked a minor leaguer to lose 3-2 in the bottom of the 10th. Thank you St. Louis!

welcome to the redbirds weak link, the bullpen.

First 5 innings, 9 hits, 0 runs. When will Tony realize Villone is effective as a situational lefty, but terrible against righties? For such a stats guy, he seems to be ignoring the obvious statistics.

EDIT: Gotta love Pujols coming back from the DL to go 4-4 w/ an IBB.

Don't worry, you guys will probably crush Davies tomorrow. He'll probably try to let you win one game against us by walking a ton of batters. I expect to be blown out tomorrow.

2 out of 3 from the Royals...that's a little more like it.

Mark Mulder pitched the 9th today. I saw it with my own 2 eyes, yet I still can't really believe. Not sure what shocked me more...that, or Chris Duncan actually hitting a HR again.

Also, are the Mets always that bad defensively? Yikes.

I was gonna put a movie in and skip the ninth with that lead, until I heard that Marky Mark was gonna pitch the ninth.

He looked good. I think that the pen will be good for him. Hopefully he can survive in the pen all this year and start off next year in the rotation and leave these injuries behind.

but i wont hold my breath.

Is Wellemeyer coming off the Duncan high? ie) should I drop him

Ankiel is gonna hit over 30 yacks this season.

Amazing.

Reposting in the Cardinal's thread, as I feel ya'll deserve the complement...

yeah, we're pretty amazing.

personally, i wouldnt have cheered Jimbo, but I wouldnt have booed him.

but i was never a huge edmonds fan to begin with.

I say cheer him once for all the awesomeness that he brought (we don't make the 2004 Series without what he did in the NLCS). After that, boo him like any other Cub. Can't really blame the guy for wanting to continue his career, and it's not like he had tons of options after both STL and SD had basically said "we dont' want you anymore".

SD was never really a good fit for Edmonds w/ that pitcher's park they play in.

brewers trade for cc.

cubs trade for rich.


im soooooo not impressed.

poor Mark Mulder

I don't think I'm overstating that his pitching career is probably over. That shoulder can only take so much punishment.

if we only had a closer.

if we only.

I you only had a damn closer that didn't cost me a HUGE parlay...damn you Jason Inringhausen

I think you mean an entire bullpen really.

yeah maybe.

but add K-Rod to the Redbirds and thats 20 more wins, easy.

I'll tell you something else. Yadier would have thrown out at least two runners if he had made the all-star team.

It bothers me that these "all-star" catchers cant throw anyone out.

And dont give me that "they stole 'em off the pitchers" crap. Yeah, Jeter did. The rest, with a Yadier like throw, could have been had.

ASG is always about offensive statistics. If Yadi can ever get a situation where he's driving in a good amount of runs, he's got a chance. He's worked himself from a .215 hitter up to about a .300 hitter so far. He's come a long way....and no one can really touch him defensively.

Good thing Jason Varitek made it then.

Yadi has him by far on both sides of the plate.

And why was Lohse not on the team?

Fuck you, Clint Hurdle.

nice little four game sweep.

62 to go. gotta win and least 35 I think, maybe 40.

OMG this bullpen....

epic levels of failure at this point.

Not to be overly dramatic, but that series may have destroyed this team.

and it still continues

I fear the same. Too many holes to fill in that bullpen to fix this at this point.

Agreed. I don't think they should do anything of real significance at the deadline. For a team that for all intents and purposes looked like a 90-100 loss team, the emergence of Ryan Ludwick, Dave Duncan finding another amazing reclamation project in Kyle Lohse, Rick Ankiel establishing himself as a full time OFer and big time power threat and the Rolen swap being an enormous positive is enough for me to call the season a success. With Rasmus and others on the way it looks good if they can get a find some more arms and Carpenter can come back as effective.

bullpen blew another one, but Pujols saved them

I actually watched the entire 5 hours and 20 minutes of the game

I have this really uneasy feeling that the Cardinals would put Wainwright in the closer spot when he comes off of the DL. Considering Wainwright has developed into one of the best starters in the NL I believe this would be a disaster. If La Russa has any common sense he will put Wainwright back into the rotation, and then move either Looper, Pineiro, or Wellemeyer into the pen.

Agree entirely.