Comment by Southsideblue

June 25, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

Yikes?!? Yikes what?
Away records
Boston 18-22
Arizona 16-23
T.B. 15-18
Milw 18-21
W. Sox 18-23
Minn 16-20
Fla 18-20

Only 5 teams don’t have a losing road record. 3 are in the AL. The Cards at 22-16, worries me a bit, but Yikes? They play 6 games at each other park. They don’t play the Brewers until July 28. Both Zambrano and Soriano should be at full stride by then. Ben Sheets should be on the D/L by then.

Comment by cardsfan

June 25, 2008 @ 5:33 pm

I think the point was that the Scubs don’t play well on the road. What does it matter what the other teams do on the road? When the Scubs are on the road the teams they will face will be at HOME. Or have I missed something here?

Comment by Southsideblue

June 25, 2008 @ 6:14 pm

Mine point? What teams play well away? The Cubs play at home has vastly counteracted being 4 under away. What other teams can say that? Boston and TB.
45 road games and 40 home games left. If they win 25 at home and 18 on the road, it will equal 91 wins. Some of the away series include SF, WS, ATL, PITT, CIN and twice at HOU. 20 games against bad teams. I’m not worried at all. Cubs should win 95-100. If St. Louis is better than that, LaRussa is the greatest manager ever.

Comment by cardsfan

June 25, 2008 @ 8:27 pm

No, if the Cards win more than 91 games, LaRussa is just being LaRussa. And why are you people still surprised by what this young Cards team is doing? They have the 2nd best record in the NL, right behind the team you all think is the greatest. They’ve shown how much moxie they have all season long, and nothing these kids do would surprise me anymore, even winning more than 91 games.

Mine point? There’s a long way to go in this season, and Scub fans are always too quick to anoint the Scubs champions. Besides, winning the division is only the first step, and historically the Scubs have failed miserably in postseason.

Comment by oki290

June 26, 2008 @ 12:28 am

Is Jim Edmonds going to get a standing O when he returns to St. Louis? Great pickup so far.

Comment by cardsfan

June 26, 2008 @ 5:13 am

He just might. See, Cards fans are willing to acknowledge great players whether former Cardinals or not. In Baseball Heaven we even applaud a player on the opposing team if he makes a good play, something completely foreign to the Scub fateful. Jimmy gave us the best years of his career, and we still appreciate his abilities. So don’t be surprised if you hear cheers when he comes up to bat. Will there be some booing? Sure, after all he IS the enemy now, but mostly you’ll hear cheers.

Comment by cubssuck

June 26, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

Mine point is the mighty cubbie juggernaut is showing cracks in the foundation.

Big difference - Caveman Carlos Zambrano beats up his catcher in the public’s view and is patted on the back. An Astro pitcher goes after the GM and is released. Just goes to show how stupid the Cub ownership is.

Comment by Southsideblue

June 26, 2008 @ 9:01 pm

Barrett wasn’t Z’s boss. Chacon tried to choke his. If you got into a fight with a co-worker, you may not lose your job. If you try to fight your boss, you get fired. Also, you’re comparing Z to Chacon?!? If it were Oswalt, do you think things would be different?

Comment by cubssuck

June 27, 2008 @ 8:10 pm

You brainwashed sheep are all the same. Hitting a coworker is immediate termination in most places, boss or not. Cavey should have been thrown off the team and anyone with half a brain knows it.

Comment by cardsfan

June 29, 2008 @ 4:11 pm

“…and anyone with half a brain knows it.”

And there you have it.