Cardinals After Dark 5/7

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1. I kind of don’t want to see Mikolas’s face for a pretty long time.

2. Still finalizing plans, but Oli said that Contreras could be headed for surgery as early as tomorrow.

   – Jeff Jones

3. Paul Goldschmidt and $50 million to the Rockies. How can they say no?

4. At this point I’m only rooting for Brendan Donovan and Masyn Winn.

5. Our 5th inning ERA is 9.00

   It gets worse.

   That’s only counting 36 earned runs. We’ve allowed 45 runs.

   No other team has allowed more than 29 runs.

6. You can’t convince me that isn’t a Redditor dressed up in a Goldschmidt costume. Jesus Christ what has happened to him. He’s swinging at nothing. That 1-2 pitch in the 9th was so obviously going to be outside and he hacked at it the second it left Ottavino’s hand.

   Our Catcher who’s seems to be the only thing holding this team together is now going to be out for *only* half the season if we’re lucky.

   Mikolas is genuinely in the running for worst SP in the bigs. He is throwing batting practice. And the worst part is he’s not even eating innings. Dude we’ll take the runs if you can just stretch the game. You barely got through the 4th!

   Our best hitter the last few weeks is motherfucking Alec Burelson.

   A complete overhaul is needed. Players, coaches, FO, all of it. I’d even sack Fredbird if it could get the team average above .220

7. Hey guess what, this team sucks.

8. One of these days we’re actually going to score more runs than our opponent regardless of whether we’ve given up an early lead. I don’t know when, but the law of averages dictates it will have to happen eventually

9. *”Catcher’s interference calls have soared this season as teams have coaxed catchers to get closer to the plate — and closer to hitters — in an attempt to get more low strikes.”* Okay? How about we don’t do that. Seems like a stupid risk to begin with and look what happened.

10. Most pain Willson has ever been in, he says.

11. It’s honestly sad to see goldy perform like this.

    While last year was a major drop off from his mvp season, he was still a pretty good player overall. Right now he looks worse than almost any player I’ve ever seen. Completely lost. What an absolutely brutal AB there in the 9th.

    This would just be a terrible way for his career to end. Some players fall off a cliff when Father Time hits, but this is extreme.

    It’s been frustrating, but the guy is in his 6th season as a cardinal and has had the best offensive run the franchise has seen since Pujols. Even won an MVP. I just hope he figures it out – would be awful to see him forced into retirement or DFA’d mid season.

12. I don’t think I can watch cards baseball on a consistent basis until Oli is gone. Team absolutely stinks and I’m sure he’ll get a longer leash than Shildt. We are entering 90s cards territory.

13. Whoa whoa whoa, so you’re telling me that we’re now officially (at) .500???? But I was told we would suck..?

    Ha, love for the birds to back it up. Fuck the naysayers. Every one of y’all, respectfully fuck off. This is a damn solid ass team and I’m happy to be a Cardinal!

    2024 NLC crown is ours by October.

14. No Walker, no Contreras, Goldy sucks. What’s the point. Canceling my Fubo for a couple months

15. I was pretty down on the season before today’s game. But without Contreras its hard to imagine the team going on a run. Goldy looks truly lost up there and the team needed him so bad. I love the dude but he aged 15 years this offseason

16. DOOOOOOM!

17. Fire Mo already. Jesus.

18. We stink so bad. We find a new way to lose every night. My wallet is closed. I will be attending zero games this year.

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20. The one takeaway I am 100% confident on after this game is that Mikolas is absolutely fucking cooked.

21. I’m not saying I am a pro-caliber hitter. But if you put me out there I will also go 0-5 with 3 Ks and I’ll do it for a lot less than $26 million.

22. Man, I thought the series loss to the White Sox was a nut punch.

    Seems like things are clear now. Trade everything that isn’t nailed down and plan for a rebuild.

23. Goldy needs an IL stint with “shoulder impingement”.

24. “The one thing I’d ask from our fan base right now is a little bit of patience, because we do think that we do have the talent to win”

25. Is the season already done for the St. Louis Cardinals? When you have a manager who should’ve NEVER been given the job, a president of baseball operations who sits on his ass all the time, an owner that won’t fire anyone, what more can the Cardinals do with this season? Goldschmidt is 36 and on an expiring contact, should he be moved before he leaves for better weather and a better chance at winning and the Cardinals end up with nothing

26. Well..

27. I haven’t watched liked the last four games and I have missed nothing in that time frame

28. Willy (personality and production) and Winn (personality and upside) were basically the two reasons to watch the bottom of the inning at Busch this year. Losing Willy absolutely kills. Literally the only must-see person on the team is Sonny now with him out. It’s a really depressing roster without many answers in sight.

29. In other news, I’m excited for the Memphis game tomorrow. I assume Robberse is pitching, and Northfolk is such a juggernaut. Time to see if Robberse is actually legit

30. Mo is turning into the most unpopular StL sports figure since Stan Kronke.

31. Random thought: Call Luken Baker up and let him get some DH at-bats, at-bats that won’t be going to Contreras.

32. Who could have ever imagined that this year would be a bigger fucking colossal disaster than last year.