Baseball blubberings: Astros -Cards- Arizona-Mariners- et. al.

[Zeno]

The Astros, behind Oswalt, will win today.

But then how does that set up their rotation for the clash with the Cards? The Cards play the Reds today in a game that has little meaning, besides getting to 100 wins, which does have that nice ring to it, but they must sweep the Reds to get it. The Cards have Morris flinging today.

So how is Tony going to set up his pitching rotation?

In much more mundane and boring news, the D-Backs have won 7 straight and should complete a sweep of the lackluster and goofball SF Giants, one of the more dysfunctional and idiotic teams in baseball. Brandon Webb is on the mound for Arizona to finish out the season. It's in the bag - And if so; Arizona ends with the season a paltry 78-84. But that's an improvement of 27 more wins than last year. Progress.

Two players you will here more about in the future from the D-Backs:


Tony Clark , for 130 games to date, he has a .304 BA with 30 HR, 87 RBI, an OBP of .366 and SLG of .636

Chad Tracy , for 144 games to date, he has a .309 BA with 27 HR, 72 RBI, an OBP of .359 and SLG of .553


The Mariners have someone on their team that has at least 200 hits per year for 5 years straight.

One last remark:

At least half of what sports announcers say is garbage. And some spew garbage out at an incredible rate. When I watch a game, the mute is almost always on. It's better that way.

-Zeno

[Clarkmeister]

Cards rotation is Carpenter, Mulder, Morris and likely Marquis. The first 3 are set. Marquis supposedly has the slight edge over Suppan right now. Frankly, I prefer Suppan, but it's not the first time I've disagreed with TLR.

[Ulysses]

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Cards rotation is Carpenter, Mulder, Morris and likely Marquis. The first 3 are set. Marquis supposedly has the slight edge over Suppan right now. Frankly, I prefer Suppan, but it's not the first time I've disagreed with TLR.

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If the Astros and Cards meet in the playoffs, do you think the Astros will sweep the Cards or will the Cards take a game?

[Clarkmeister]

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Cards rotation is Carpenter, Mulder, Morris and likely Marquis. The first 3 are set. Marquis supposedly has the slight edge over Suppan right now. Frankly, I prefer Suppan, but it's not the first time I've disagreed with TLR.

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If the Astros and Cards meet in the playoffs, do you think the Astros will sweep the Cards or will the Cards take a game?

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You better worry about getting in the playoffs. Right now you are looking at flying to Philly tomorrow for the one game play-in, which is bad when your team struggles to score more than 0 runs a game.

[GuyOnTilt]

If the Astros win the NL Wild Card it'll be STL vs SD and HOU vs ATL in the NLDS. Or are you assuming they both win those?

GoT

[Clarkmeister]

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If the Astros win the NL Wild Card it'll be STL vs SD and HOU vs ATL in the NLDS. Or are you assuming they both win those?

GoT

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I think he's (correctly) assuming both teams advance.

But that's if Houston makes it in.

[GuyOnTilt]

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If the Astros win the NL Wild Card it'll be STL vs SD and HOU vs ATL in the NLDS. Or are you assuming they both win those?

GoT

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I think he's (correctly) assuming both teams advance.

But that's if Houston makes it in.

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Tie game right now. I'm biting my nails.

If we're assuming they both win, then obv their rotation for the NLCS will depend entirely on how they fare in their respective NLDS, so who knows?

GoT

[Clarkmeister]

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Tie game right now. I'm biting my nails.


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If you lose to the Cubs, you should feel great shame.

[GuyOnTilt]

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If you lose to the Cubs, you should feel great shame.

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3-base errors rule! Houston fans reaching out for that ball do not, wtf.

GoT

[Zeno]

The Cards will sweep. The Astros will not.

Anyway, I was just curious to know how Tony was going to set up his pitching rotation.

-Zeno