I have no thoughts on baseball playoffs. I come merely to stalk you and say hello. And also that being from LA, all I can do is parrot Dodger love. *nodnod* We DONT NEED NO STINKING SPORTS NEWS.
Wow. I totally don't agree with you about Suppan (He hasn't been good since he pitched for Pittsburgh? What?), but to each their own. Weaver has been fantastic for us, in the regular season *and* the postseason so neither of his starts surprised me (I mean, it was Carlos Beltran who hit the homerun after all, and Carlos Beltran has hit a homer off, like, every Cardinals pitcher) - I just hope he'll stick around for next year without making us pay him some huge amount of money.
You're so down on the Cards! I just have a totally different outlook on things this postseason. I mean, third time's a charm, right? :))
Well, let's say that Suppan hasn't been the consistant dominator for us that he was the Pirates. He works to the defense more and he's had such an up and down season (like everyone else in the rotation!) that I wasn't expecting much from him. Plus, there was that Padres game.
Weaver is awesome, I said so--he just so rarely escapes the fifth inning alive. NLCS 4 showed what happens when our bullpen gets overexposed, so I figured that even if he could hold out, they'd cough it up.
I'm trying to be a realist; their track record when they lose the first game of a postseason series is not good, and the Mets owned them in the regular season mostly through firepower. Look at it this way, if I expect the worst, I can only be pleasently surprised. :-)
Well, Suppan hasn't been dominate since before we got him, actually. He has never had the overpowering stuff; he knows how to use what he's been given, even if his record isn't always the best. (He gets very little run support from us, which doesn't help.) But he *is* a big game pitcher; I mean, he beat Roger Clemens in Game 7 in 2004. And in the postseason, what you need are big game pitchers. (As an aside, Suppan only gave up three runs in that Padres game. We should have been able to do enough offensively to win anyway and didn't - that was the fault of our hitters. I'll take a pitcher giving up three runs with our offense any day
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You're so down on the Cards! I just have a totally different outlook on things this postseason. I mean, third time's a charm, right? :))
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Weaver is awesome, I said so--he just so rarely escapes the fifth inning alive. NLCS 4 showed what happens when our bullpen gets overexposed, so I figured that even if he could hold out, they'd cough it up.
I'm trying to be a realist; their track record when they lose the first game of a postseason series is not good, and the Mets owned them in the regular season mostly through firepower. Look at it this way, if I expect the worst, I can only be pleasently surprised. :-)
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