The Happiest Time of the Year
By
Amanda
Posted at 6:43 pm
Here at Red Hot Mama, series with the Cardinals are our favorites because it's our tradition to talk smack with Bellyitcher and her Proxy. Now, Bellyitcher hasn't updated since the beginning of March, but I bet she'll still show, since I got an e-mail from her less than a week ago, but even if she doesn't, we can talk smack about the Cards anyway. They do suck, after all.
C. Trent's got the line-ups:
Your Cincinnati Reds
Josh Hamilton CF
Brandon Phillips 2B
Adam Dunn LF
Ken Griffey Jr. RF
Edwin Encarnación 3B
Scott Hatteberg 1B
Alex Gonzalez SS
David Ross C
Aaron Harang P
Those Freakin Cards
Eckstein SS
Duncan LF
Pujols 1B
Edmonds CF
Rolen 3B
Spiezio RF
Kennedy 2B
Milina C
Wells P
Ross is starting while Javier Valentín waits not to be used to pinch hit. Time to fire Narron.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but I get the feeling Narron’s playing Ross just because people are saying he shouldn’t. He’ll probably leave each reliever in for just one batter, too, just to show us.
Jeff Piccoro just said that the Cards have had only one win at home. Let’s keep it that way.
Oh boy, George Grande is announcing and Edmonds is in the line-up. It doesn’t matter that he’s 80, George will always idolize him.
We’ve got crazy thunderstorms going on right now, the game will be soggy – if it’s played.
Oh, man. Buck is doing the game for the Cards. I love Joe Buck games.
Welcome, girlfren. Yeah, I saw that it was raining. It’s a shame, because it’s lovely here. Birds tweeting and everything.
Lucky duck. I’ve already lost satellite twice. I also have a sick kitty to baby so I might be in and out.
What’s wrong with the kitty? Ate too many ecksteins?
I think he got a hold of an old Steve Kline hat.
Ew. My cat just ingests too much of her own fur.
Dang rain delay. In the meantime, check out the second headline under ESPNews Headlines:
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Heh heh. Wang.
Don’t they have editors? That’s awesome.
My baseball channel started showing an Ozzie Smith Beyond The Glory. So I’m watching a thing about Stonehenge.
We’re watching The Daily Show, since The Sports List is on FSN during the rain delay. Top ten weird moments in sports history.
Top of the hour start time!
I’ll give the kiddo a bath and see you then!
I’ve really liked Wells so far. Too bad he has Marquis’ old number.
Hamilton not starting things off right, but if the rest of the game goes like that, we might finish it before the rain comes back.
Ooooh, pickoff!
Phillips is a madman.
That was a quick walk.
Griff’s coming off a bout of the diverticulitis, which isn’t an ailment you hear about too much in baseball.
I wonder why LaRussa flip flopped Jimmy and Scotty.
Griffey had “swelling of the colon”? A) Gross and B) I’m sure that hurt, but it sounds fake.
Ah, diverticulitis I’ve heard of. Buck just said his colon was swollen.
And people joke about Edmonds. Too much?
Heh.
Your guys aren’t going to be able to lob it into left and expect it to be a hit every time this year. Dunn’s turning over a new leaf and learning about defending this year.
Guess the inning of the Cardinals’ first hit. I’m going with 4th.
Who’s that catcher? Is he new?
David Ross. He was around last season as Bronson Arroyo’s personal catcher. He had a career year and I called for him to be traded at the deadline. Instead, they dealt LaRue in the offseason and made Ross the #1.
Now Ross is hitting a big fat .163. And even though we’re up against a righty, Javy’s on the bench.
I’m starting to understand that seething rage against the manager that I found so baffling from other bloggers when I first started this gig.
Eckstein error? That must have been a special gift for me. 😉
Ugh. That was so easy.
Ah, well Ross is cute.
Dammit, I was really hoping Buck would say “Swing and a miss” there.
In a hole early. At least the team is consistent this year.
Your feed must be earlier than mine. Your comment popped up just as it was happening on t.v.
And YAYYYYYY! That’s our good fielding, light-hitting, ironically described shortstop.
At some point I believe we all get to give Narron a Wet Willy for continuing to play Ross.
You never know when all-glove, no-hit catchers will come in handy. Like a Game 7 of the NLCS, for example.
I misspoke before. Ross’s OBP is .163. He’s hitting .105.
LaRue’s hitting .138 for the Royals, so I guess we were damned if we did and damned if we didn’t, but Javy COULD be starting today.
Man, these swings are just terrible.
Ooooh, I was wrong, 2nd inning.
Look at it this way, Ross could be the next Mendoza. 😉
Hahahahahaha – Rick Ankiel is leading the entire Cardinals organization in HRs.
Oh, that’s so sad.
It’s weird not watching just everything going the Cards’ way in a game. What’s up with them this year? Just slow getting started?
All right Phillips. Let’s see if you can stay on the base this time.
Some people will say World Series hangover. I just think they aren’t a very good team. They weren’t very good the second half of last year, and they didn’t do a whole lot to get better. Kip Wells and Adam Kennedy were the big pick ups. And Pujols needs glasses, Rolen always starts slow, and Jimmy’s just old.
It *was* a quiet off-season. You might say that TLR fell asleep at the wheel. :doze:
Yeah, I know it doesn’t make sense, but I wanted to work the jab in there somehow. Has he ever commented to the media on his quasi-DUI?
They are practically begging Jr. to hit a home run.
The next day he talked about how embarassed and stupid he was. But nothing since then. His lawyer just made a motion to have the case go to trial.
Hmmm.
I don’t think Kip’s got it tonight.
I bet it wouldn’t have been illegal in St. Louis. Is the BAC limit .08 or .1 there?
Now I’m begging Hatteberg to his a home run.
Aw. Not this time. How atypical for Hatte to swing at the first pitch.
You know, I have no idea what the limit is here. Google tells me it’s .08.
Kennedy is sucking so far.
MOLINA INFIELD HIT!!!!!!!!!!!
The slowest player probably ever!
Harang loves to draw and was a graphic design major at San Diego State University. Huh. I need to add that to his Human League.
Look! It’s our Adam Dunn!
Aw, Duncan’s got some facial hair to try to look like a grown-up. How sweet. 🙂