Rick Ankiel was a generational lefty, and before Matheny destroyed him, Siegrist was a beast.
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Putting aside the asine move by Mo today and the broke dick Fowler still starting notwithstanding.......You got to give it up for the team in this series. The Dodgers have a loaded lineup. Winning the NL championship would surprise no one. We have totally owned them in these 3 games. Pitching was solid. The offense woke the fuck up. Schilt made the right bullpen moves.
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I will never fear the Dodgers. Win 150 regular season games and I still won't fear them.

With Clayton Kershaw pitching like peak Koufax they managed to lose not one but TWO playoff series to a Mike Matheny led ballclub.

That's like losing to Kim Anderson when Michael Jordan is your shooting guard.

No, the Dodgers are just paper tigers and will forever be our bitches. Kick rocks, LAD.
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It helps when your starters give up four earned runs over the first three games. Let's close it out strong today boys!

Could Ozuna actually regain his power consistently? If he does, it could be an interesting summer (provided they finally cut ties with Fowler).
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He has the potential to be the most maddening player in a long time if he can start hitting the ball with authority.
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Baseball Savant puts the Ozuna gif into their 404 error page.
https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/oops
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Fire that turd Mo
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Anyone else see how much of a dumpster fire Rosenthal has been so far this season for the Nats? Wowza. Dude cannot throw a strike to save his life.
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I'm afraid he is cooked, like Steve Blass cooked. Physically he seems fine.
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I DO NOT miss seeing the Cards carry an extra pitcher while Matheny only used the same few relievers.
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What Matheny did to Siegrist should entitle Siegrist to restitution.

He treated him worse than Bowman and poor Bowman looked about ready to start lobbing them in their lefty because his right arm hurt so bad. His return last year was just excruciating and not just because we knew what was going to happen.

It was just sad watching the dude try to throw. You could see that his arm was just in tatters and that he was trying all kinds of weird shit with his delivery to protect it. He was all but shot putting the ball up there at times to avoid stressing that shoulder any further.

But man, Siegrist was a monster and Matheny absolutely torched him. Probably cost him a deal not unlike what Miller ended up getting. Siegrist is $20+ million poorer because of Mike Matheny.
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Throwing out the TLR getaway day lineup and Wacha is getting piss pounded as well. Glad I have today off to watch it.
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To anyone not fortunate enough to be able to watch this game:

However bad Wacha's line score may look - he actually looks worse from the mound. He has NOTHING today. Fastball started at 91 and he can't keep it away from the top of the zone. Cutter's doing nothing, curveball can only be used up because it doesn't have the break to start in the zone and dive under a bat (so you can only use it to steal strikes when the hitter gives up).

So he can't set batters up because his fastball is gonna get smoked unless he throws it for a ball. He can't get enough run on it to get it inside to righties and the cutter can't do anything to lefties because it's spinning.

He's a sitting duck out there and it's frustrating that he was allowed to hit for himself in the 2nd, let alone give up 4 in the 3rd.

You could tell from the first batter that he just didn't have it today. When they got the lead, they were able to undo any damage he had done and start anew. With a day off tomorrow, an extra reliever in the pen and 2-3 guys out there with starters backgrounds, that should've been a bulllpen day from the 3rd on.

Really bad hook from Shildt.
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Well batting practice day continues and the Cards amazingly have the lead in the 5th 8-7.
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I can't say I've ever seen a game like this in April at Busch. This is one of those games you'll see in Colorado, Cincinnati or Milwaukee. Wrigley when the winds blowing out.

But April in St. Louis? This has just been a really weird one.
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