Originally Posted by Romosexual:
Cards are in trouble ...
as a hater of everything successful sports related - I want to see how the 'best fans in baseball' handle a 5-10 year stretch (which is coming) of futility (by Cards standards) that is inevitably coming ...
will you still fill the stands? Will attendance still be right around the tops in the bigs?
...or, if the Cards actually suck for 4-5 years in a row ... will the following dwindle?
Basically, in my adult life, the Cardinals have always been good and have always competed. I want to see them be terrible for a few years and I want to see what happens. Would love to see that fan base eat some crow after all of these years.
...really, really easy to cheer for a winner. Let's see how you guys handle a loser.
Originally Posted by Romosexual:
Cards are in trouble ...
as a hater of everything successful sports related - I want to see how the 'best fans in baseball' handle a 5-10 year stretch (which is coming) of futility (by Cards standards) that is inevitably coming ...
will you still fill the stands? Will attendance still be right around the tops in the bigs?
...or, if the Cards actually suck for 4-5 years in a row ... will the following dwindle?
Basically, in my adult life, the Cardinals have always been good and have always competed. I want to see them be terrible for a few years and I want to see what happens. Would love to see that fan base eat some crow after all of these years.
...really, really easy to cheer for a winner. Let's see how you guys handle a loser.
If only there were like dozens of years of crowd histories to prove how St. Louis fans supported the team when it was bad in the 70s and 90s.
Always fun to be lectured by a guy that was a Cubs fan until they tanked then discovered the Royals right around the time they became good to lecture us about fairweather, though. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
If only there were like dozens of years of crowd histories to prove how St. Louis fans supported the team when it was bad in the 70s and 90s.
Always fun to be lectured by a guy that was a Cubs fan until they tanked then discovered the Royals right around the time they became good to lecture us about fairweather, though.
This...very few bright spots in the 70's...sat through an absolute double-header raping by the Big Red Machine with my family in like 95 degree weather and never even considered leaving before the last out.
Crowds back then would not be great by today's standards, but nothing like other perennial 3rd through 5th place clubs. [Reply]
Reyes took his physical this morning....and isn't cleared to throw this afternoon. Skipping his session.
So that's good news.
Gonna be a fun season, gents. Looking forward to hitting 15 singles and scoring three runs. But hey, nobody backs up 3b better than Mike Leake. Go get 'em, Tiger! [Reply]
I said 85 earlier in the thread, I'm sticking to that. And, despite what some idiot's ramble about I'll go to every game I can. My brother and I still bought our 16 game package and we'll stay for every out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry:
Cards won in arbitration with Wacha.
The fact that they went to arbitration with him shows how little they think of him. The Cards avoided arbitration with Jon Jay, FFS. They buy out everyone's arb years. Wouldnt' surprise me if he's a non-tender candidate in '18. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Reyes took his physical this morning....and isn't cleared to throw this afternoon. Skipping his session.
So that's good news.
Gonna be a fun season, gents. Looking forward to hitting 15 singles and scoring three runs. But hey, nobody backs up 3b better than Mike Leake. Go get 'em, Tiger!
I had forgotten that they actually led the NL in HR's last year. How the hell did I forget that? [Reply]