re: Cards fans, does Marmol make it through May?

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Why did you guys give up your last manager. I cannot remember his last name but I believe his first name was Mike. He came up thru your farm system and was good. I’m a Cub fan but St Louis is good for baseball.

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Schildt. Was a TLR "disciple", that's how his hire was sold to everyone. He was blind sided by the fire and no one really knows why it happened.

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I know this will not go over well here, but there is a reason why Willson Contreras was not retained by the Cubs. I know Cards fans, (The best in baseball), don’t want to hear it, but look at the pitching numbers by both teams last year and now. Ross didn’t like how he called games and he can’t frame for shite. But hey, you guys got us.

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Uh, our pitching was bad last year? All we did was return a bunch of old pitchers and they got a little worse, pretty normal thing to happen.

Schildt was fired because he played the best player available at the position.

Mo'ron. Wants a shill to listen to my hat he says and who he wants playing. Shildt fate was sealed when he sat veterans on nice sized contracts to play younger ones who were playing better.

My source said dejong being sat for younger players was the last straw. Local shill media will never ask or tell the real reasons, they suck teams penis

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My source said dejong being sat for younger players was the last straw. Local shill media will never ask or tell the real reasons,

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McKernan is the only person I've heard touch on this, and even he dances around it a little bit.

We need another Joe Strauss.

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Uh, our pitching was bad last year? All we did was return a bunch of old pitchers and they got a little worse, pretty normal thing to happen.

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Yes, it's a hard thing to quantify no doubt. Let's just say WC40 didn't help in that regard. And yes the Cards pitching was not great last year....I don't watch enough to say if it's worse at this point this year compared to last year, but....

There's a reason not only the Cubs let him walk for a draft pick and the Stros and all other playoff contenders balked at the trade deadline - No one trusted him with their staffs in playoff situations and that is a reality.

He'll give you .250 and 15-20 homers by year end with streakiness on both ends and by the end of the year you'll have him DH'ing or playing another position more and more often. If that's what you want and expect, and are not too concerned with whatever drag he may contribute to pitching struggles, then you got it.

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My source said dejong being sat for younger players was the last straw. Local shill media will never ask or tell the real reasons,

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It's certainly odd how many chances he's gotten to turn it around.

I've been on the trade Flaherty train for 3 years now. I don't think he'll ever repeat his 2019 season. We will constantly be teased by his potential and by the time we part ways we will get a bag of balls for him. The time to trade him was two years ago. It's going to be a repeat of Carlos Martinez.

Flaherty has given up 7 ER in 2 1/3

bases loaded again, 1 out for the Angels


Trout not playing


Final line on Flaherty: 2.1, 9 hits, 10 ER, 1 BB, 3 K

Today is not any better...

Baseball gods were grossed out by seeing Contreras in that uniform

As a Cardinals fan I would have preferred to go into the season with Knizner and Herrera than to have given Contreras the contract they gave him.

I mean, the on field results couldn't possibly have been any worse but at least then there would have been capital to spend on the free agent market for pitchers.