Posted on 10/09/2005 9:09:14 AM PDT by SCALEMAN
Cardinals swept the Padres early this morning 7-4 to close out their first round in the MLB Playoffs.
Reggie Sanders set a record with 10 RBI's in the 3 game series.
Padres Woody Williams was lit up for 5 ER in 1 2/3 innings with a post season ERA of 27.
Cards Morris returned to form with a 6 inning 2 run performance.
Eckstein went 3-4 with a two run dinger.
Pujols 2-3 with 1 RBI, he carries a .556 BA in post season.
Cardinal Nation is still PO'ed about the 10:00 pm CDT start time, with the Yanks avoiding elimination by being rained out, the game could very well have been moved up.
Seeing as how my Twins couldn't make the post-season this year, I find myself rooting for the Cards this year. I know I'm more than pleased to have seen Boston knocked out, and soon, hopefully, the yanks.
I'm a lifelong Cards fan and am having fun again this year. I'm rooting for the Angels now as they have the two Molina brothers on their team and we have the third. I don't know if there ever was a World Series with 3 brothers playing in it. I remember the Cards/Yanks series with the Boyers (Cletus and Kenny) but don't know about 3 brothers in a WS together.
The Cardinals opened the NL division series at Arizona on Tuesday night. The game began after 10 p.m. CDT, making it hard for many local fans to watch.
"To say I'm sorry is the understatement of the year," Selig told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday. "You can't imagine how badly I feel. The team fights all year to get into first place and this was not good."
The game started so late because the television networks that show the playoffs, along with baseball officials, do not want to have two games on at the same time.
There were three games Tuesday, and two were out West, complicating the broadcast schedule.
"Our people had pored over this for hundreds of hours with the networks," Selig said. "It's a very tough situation, one where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't."
Selig, however, said he has ordered that there will be no more repeat performances.
"I told our people, "No more 10 p.m. starts,' " Selig said. "That's the end of it."
Good thing my Golden can tell time , I told her she better not wake me at 4 like she has been doing for the last few weeks. Told her not until at least 7:30 and that's the exact time she did. (She has done it several times before.) Then we went back to sleep for a few more hours.
So three years later nothing has changed.
The Cards play two day games at home then go to the left coast and play a late night game.
A big part of it is the East coast bias. ESPN = Eastern Seaboard Promoting Network or Eastern Seaboard Pandering Network. And I ain't pleased with Fox either for several reasons.
It's all about the bucks. But the pisser is that they knew on Friday there was a very good possibility the the Yankees might be saved for a day by a rain out , and should have made provisions. Instead they called the Yanks game early in the am and ran a college football game in the slot. BS.
The Yanks are about to go under, the BoSox have already suckked the big one and they continue to ignore the two best teams in baseball, the Cards and ChiSox.
The NFL does the same crap. When we built the Dome here there was some talk about a Superbowl here in Stl, but the commish put the end to that with his statement about no SB in cold towns. Now they are gonna play this years SB in Detroit, the armpit of the Midwest.
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