the pennants are in view the trash is flying 2007

[Siebert Outdoors]

6 HR, 11 R-We finally win in Chicago! Hope springs eternal... Go Cards

woooohooooo,  Just need the next 2 and the rest should be easy.  Especially the mets

[Valascus]

The who, GMAN? OOOOOOOOH...you mean that OTHER New York team? Geez...what are their names again?

Yeah an 11 run win is definately nice, especially against the Cubs in Chitown. What would make it even better is if the Pirates do the same thing to the Reds as they did to us...give 'em a whoopin'. I would sure like to have better than a 2.5 game lead. 3.5 sounds a lot better. Then at least it takes more than one bad series for us and one good series for them to lose first place. The match up tomorrow is not a great one. I like Suppan, but Zambrano is a beast...he has been a Cardinal killer for quite sometime now.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

the Mets tanked it with the Phillies they beat us 3 to 1 in that series and now the Bosox are bowing to the Yankees and finally the Cardinals wake up. Its getting close to October and Im lovin it

[Valascus]

So...uh...Muddy. What is going on with your Mets starting pitching staff? Glavine is now out with a possible blood clot in his pitching arm. That makes 3/5 of the starting pitching out with injuries. Good thing the Mets have as big a lead as they do. Just think where they could have ended up if they had not have played that well early on. Can't wait for the series to start up tomorrow night.

Boy...I may have to eat some crow on my picks for the playoffs. I had the BoSox picked to win the east. Man...5 game sweep...at home...to the Yanks...ouch. Doesn't get any more painful than that for a Red Sox fan. But really...I hate the Yanks, but a 5 game sweep is impressive.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Yea Val I have fear I dont know if you remember 1969 the Mets catching the Cubs the last day of the season eating up a 13 game lead in 34 days!!!!!

 The Bosox aint done yet and yes it was impressive and I hate the Yankees too but they have Jeter and hes the best in the game and I fear him in the post season He should be makin 2 X what they pay Arod

  Anyway your Cards lookin good and our age is showing WE NEED 2 Starters and a closer who can close more than car doors. Wille and the fellas have played well I am a true lifetime Mets fan and am used to facing reality we will be in the mix but I dont see any WS Pennants flying over Shea until 2007 or 2008 Its just good to have Minya and Willie at the helm and to have a quality team again IT DOSENT SEEM TO HAPPEN LESS THAN EVERY 20 YEARS :

[bassmasta7]

Cards and Chris Duncan are looking strong. Nice 5 game sweep by the yanks over the sox. Uh-oh for the mets, the injury bug is finally catching up with them and hitting them hard. Luckily they have a big lead and everyone should be back by playoff time. El Duque pitched very good yesterday. The mets are looking like the Cardinals of the past two years.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

NO they are not nothing could stink up the place like last years WS performance ;D

[K_Mac]

NO they are not nothing could stink up the place like last years WS performance ;D

Muddy you really know how to hurt a guy :'( ;D

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Sorry KMac if it makes you feel anybetter I was rooting for the Cards last year I dont know if anyone could have stopped the Sox once they came back and beat the Yankees last year The only time I root for an American League Team is when they paly the yankees Basically I root for the Mets and whosever playin the yanks

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Here we go Mets vs Cards  Game one tonite at 8:10pm EST

Hey Gman I found a phone number for direct service from rapala youi want it now?

[Siebert Outdoors]

this is for you muddy

Who's pitching?

[Guest the_muddy_man]

You WEAVER  uS maine  YOU DONT GET TO SEE Pedrp or Glavine this time around Muldar is coming back for you tommorow

 The game is 7:10 EST  OOPPSS!!!!!!  Im off to do my first class be back later  55 and back to school MIRACKLES HAPPENIN EVERY DAY even at SHEA ;D

[Siebert Outdoors]

well muddy right now its 7 to 1  

mets have the bases loaded and weaver is pitching with 1 out.  Here is your mets chance

[Valascus]

Good God man!! Albert Pujols flat out exploded!! 7 RBI on 2 HRs...and it's only the 6th inning!! That's frickin' nuts man. Mets are fightin' back though. 7-5, Cardinals still have the lead in the top of the 6th. Whew...they need to pull Weaver. He's gonna blow a 6 run lead. Heh...looks like Pujols and Delgado are playing a little "anything you can do I can do better". Mets answer Pujols Grand Salami with one of their own by Del-got-it.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

7 to 6 bottomof the 6th METS ARE IN THE WEEDS hope we get to see Izzy we really know him well Im goin on line with my school stuff be back in an hour or so

[bassmasta7]

C'mon Albert lets make it 10rbi.

[bassmasta7]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO... NOT IZZY!! Bye Bye victory :'( We were so close :'(

[Siebert Outdoors]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO... NOT IZZY!! Bye Bye victory :'( We were so close :'(

Yep should have left weaver in. ;D

[bassmasta7]

SON OF A *****!!!!!!!!!!!! I was right > > > > O Jason Isrignhausen > > :'( :'(

[bassmasta7]

That has killed our momentum and we now only have a 1 game lead in the division.

[Siebert Outdoors]

That has killed our momentum and we now only have a 1 game lead in the division.

Like said about 30 posts ago we are so streaky right now we might be fighting for the wild card.  I hope not but the way its going it aint lookin good.

[CJ]

The Cards just lost another tough onoe.If Izzy don't get it together..........I wish they would just give him away! >

You can tell he is getting use to walking off the mound before there is 3 outs.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Im not gonna rub it in I told you they would light up Izzy and they let him pitch to Beltran of all people, Game one is history now on to game 2

How do you guys pronounce Rapala Rap-ala or Rap-Ah-Lah ;D

[Valascus]

I was kinda lookin' the other way with Izzy in this thread, but now I think it may be starting to become a legitimate problem at the back end of the pen. Consider this...Izzy is 30-39 in save opportunities. That means he has 9 blown saves...that is the highest mark for that stat in the bigs. 30-39 means you are getting the job done %76.9 of the time. For a closer, that is awful. Think about it...if any of us only did our job %76.9 of the time...we'd be fired. A closer should not be getting beat that often...he only has three outs to get...and quite frankly I do not care if they are the "hardest outs to get" or the "most pressure filled outs". It's your job...get the outs...you are a closer for a reason...cuz you can supposedly take this "pressure". Did anyone on this thread ever play any ball? Did everyone else see that pitch Izzy threw? It was a cutter (cut fastball). It did absolutely nothing...no movement...no juice on it...nothing...just sat there and said,"Oh, Oh!! Tater me!!!" Beltran said later in a post game interview that he "knew Izzy's best pitch was his cutter, so I sat on that pitch." This is a bad sign folks. Izzy is becoming a little too predictable in his pitch selection. Beltran swung that bat with confidence...and on the FIRST PITCH HE SAW FROM IZZY. He knew exactly where that ball was gonna be and he killed it...now I remember why I hated Beltran...that '04 NLCS is all coming back to me now. The Cardinals brass needs to address this problem with Izzy is some way, shape, or form, instead of taking this "if we ignore it, it may fix itself" stance that they seem to have taken with it. Here's something else to consider. Last year Braden Looper for the Mets went 28-36 in saves (in what was a short season in the closing position for him, I believe). That means he got the job done %77.7. Just something to show how bad things have gotten. I think a lot of Mets fans would agree with me that the closing position was a problem for them last year. *sigh* Looks like yeat ANOTHER vulnerability that the Cards are starting to show. I don't even wanna get into the rest of the pitching staff squandering a 6 run lead. We all know the pitching right now is about as far from consistent as it gets. Oh well...bring on game 2.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

The big clue the Cards brass are missing is twofold

1 Izzy always throws the same sequence to the same batters ( The ones that hit him hard) he will shake off anything that makes him feel uncomfortable

YA THIT MIGHT MKE THOSE HITTERS LITTLE UNCOMFORTLE to see some different pitches once in a while

     AND HERE THE BIG ONE

IZZY TIPS OFF HIS PITCHES  see how Beltran adjusted his swing HE KNEW THE LOCATION  so either the whole league can read their (Men ON ) signals or they know which pitch is coming ( Which I believe is the case) B/c of some thing he is doing Earlier this year he had a funky slider/breakin g ball he was trying to use He kept flipin the ball then spinning it inside his glove as he got the signal I guess he didnt want the hitters to see the seams of the ball so they were keying off that IZZY HASBBIT OFTIPPINGTCHES and hes doing something agi\ain they have picked up on I GUARENTEE IT!!!!!!!!!