Posted on 09/27/2006 10:02:41 AM PDT by pkajj
The 1964 Phillies, the gold standard for late-season collapses, soon could get a reprieve. Yes, the 2006 Cardinals are flopping that badly.
The team's meltdown already might have cost first baseman Albert Pujols the National League MVP award and right-hander Chris Carpenter the Cy Young. Such trifling disappointments won't be the extent of the fallout if the Cardinals fail to win the NL Central; manager Tony La Russa, threatening to become the heir to Gene Mauch, might be embarrassed enough to walk away.
The '64 Phillies blew a 6½-game lead with 12 to play. The Cardinals had a seven-game lead over the Reds with 12 remaining — and an 8½-game lead over the Astros with 13 to play.
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The Astros were all but dead (once again) and now are on track for the playoffs beating the Cardinals once again!
Sweet!
The Cards can finish with a losing record if they continue their current freefall. 2-8 in their last 10 with 8 games remaining.
Phil Garner may be the luckiest manager in the history of baseball.
My guess: the Red Sox slipping back and letting the Yanks take it all. Some freeper will come along with the real deal.
The Tigers tried to blow a 10.5 game lead. They still could lose the division, but the Royals came to town.
That was the episode about the NY Giants' Bobby Thompson's homerun against the Dodgers.
The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!
Wait, the Cards finish with a four game series with the Brewers in St. Louis. The Cards are safe. (Spoken as a Brewers season ticket holder.)
As a Dodger fan, I need the Cardinals' help...we're two back with five to play, and had the Cardinals not lay down and choked the last two nights, we'd very likely be tied with the Padres...who, along with the Cardinals, have owned us.
However, Philadelphia, with whom the Dodgers were tied for the wild card going into last night, lost, while the Dodgers won big in Williamsport...errrrr, Colorado...so the Dodgers lead by 1 game, with two remaining in Colorado, and three at Battery Chuck Park in San Francisco.
Since the wild card team can't play the team from its own division in the first round, the Dodgers (if they get the WC) will probably get the Mets, and St. Louis would end up playing the Padres again (if the Birds don't totally FUBAR these last five games). Should be interesting.
At first I thought this was about the football team....LOL
Thank God it's not.....yet
Who is Ken Rosenthal? I'm a baseball fan from way back and I cannot ever recall reading something by this writer.
tdtw
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