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Ichiro does something awesome [ ]
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Conradian Play [ ]
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Fort McHenry mentioned [ ]
Derek Jeter called "Clutch" [ ] (Called a "future Hall of Famer" [ ])
Orioles get a one-run lead at any point of the game []
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Oriole HoFer shoutout chart: Palmer [ ] F. Robinson [ ] B.Robinson [ ] Weaver [ ] Murray [ ] Ripken [X] Any of the St. Louis Brown HoFers (Rick Ferrell, George Sisler or Bobby Wallace) [ ]
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The greatest and classiest fans in baseball, ladies and gentlemen!

Ok, I think we can officially call this a shellacking now.

The greatest and classiest fans in baseball, ladies and gentlemen!

What did they do?

Oh FFS, Joey, now what?

The greatest and classiest fans in baseball, ladies and gentlemen!

?

I'm guessing Joey wasn't happy with the Albert Who? sign.

The woman they just showed holding up the big "Albert who?" sign.

They kept actively cheering as the Cardinals poured it on, well past the point at which they should have been simply nodding favorably to each other.

I'm guessing Joey wasn't happy with the Albert Who? signed.

I guess he wouldn't take much enjoyment in the Albert Pujols facebook meme, where they have Albert sitting in front of a big screen tv watching the Cardinals play in the post season, either.

The woman they just showed holding up the big "Albert who?" sign.

Uh...sure.

This is the evidence that Matheny doesn't know the quality of his relievers. In this situation you should bring in your worse reliever, which is either Scrabble or Salas, not one of the better ones.

To be really sporting, the Cardinals should have voluntarily left one of their best starting pitchers off the postseason roster.

The point is that when you cut through all the smug BS, there's really nothing special about Cardinals fans; at heart they're exactly like all the rest of us.

This is the evidence that Matheny doesn't know the quality of his relievers. In this situation you should bring in your worse reliever, which is either Scrabble or Salas, not one of the better ones.

I think that has already been proven beyond any standard over the course of the year.

The point is that when cut through all the smug BS, there's really nothing special about Cardinals fans; at heart they're exactly like all the rest of us.

You just figured this out?

Love Rosenthal hitting the triple digits on both swinging strike threes against Werth and Harper.

He'd have been a nice guy to see in yesterday's 8th, no?

Harper has been having a slow start to his postseason.

there's really nothing special about Cardinals fans; at heart they're exactly like all the rest of us.

I'm sure every actual intelligent Cardinal fan knows this, since about age 9.

Harper has been having a slow start to his postseason.

Harper is on the record as saying he's never done well in All-Star Games. Don't know if anybody has ever asked his history in playoffs.

And he closes the game out with another 100-mph swinging strike.

Go BIRDS!!!!

Well, that sucked, but if you told me before the series that we could get out of St. Louis 1-1, I'd be ok with it.

Take it. Gotta win a road series now.

That's a winner. Tie series.. Both team probably are happy with that result.

So a best-of-three in Nationals Park isn't so bad.

Uh, why don't they have the tarp down, what with it raining and all?

Boo to the rain!

there's really nothing special about Cardinals fans; at heart they're exactly like all the rest of us.


I'm sure every actual intelligent Cardinal fan knows this, since about age 9.

Watching a national broadcast last week(or week before can't remember) and the announcer kept going on about how the Cardinal fans are different, in that they cheer for the other team when they make a good play, and he mentioned that the players on the other teams even talk about that.

Not sure if that makes us special, but yes, every group of fans is different, to think differently is silly.

Is that a triple, or do they call that a double and error? I give the benefit of the doubt to the batter.

At SABR this summer they had a scorekeepers panel and Stew Thornley (who does it in Minnesota) said that was in fact the official directive from MLB.

So a best-of-three in Nationals Park isn't so bad.

Agreed- hopefully everybody's worked the yips out of their system and all that

Quick question: Is it true that St. Louis has the highest number of people who keep score? I seem to remember reading that somewhere. That would be a pretty good way of proving they are the "best fans in baseball", I'd say. I'm not even able to keep score in most games (mainly because of the need to "get food" or "couldn't find a pencil" or "was a cheapskate").

I'm not even able to keep score in most games (mainly because of the need to "get food" or "couldn't find a pencil" or "was a cheapskate").

I tried a few times, but as it wasn't second-nature, it just pretty much ruined the contemplative nature of the game for me.

Quick question: Is it true that St. Louis has the highest number of people who keep score?

At games I go to, not everyone is keeping score. There are some younger kids, some huffed-up teens, some girlfriends (and boyfriends), etc., who don't keep score, but maybe 75 percent of the rest are keeping score. Don't know how that compares to other parks, but most of us (at least me and all the kids I knew) who were brought to Busch Stadium learned how by age 7 or 8 and kept it up from then on.

EDIT: A great souvenir I still have is from when I showed up for BP before a mid-'70s Cardinals-Mets game and saw Tom Seaver hanging along the front-row seats and I ran down and got his autograph on my scorecard, in Busch Stadium No. 2 pencil.

Quick question: Is it true that St. Louis has the highest number of people who keep score?

There is no way to prove it one way or the other, but generally speaking, it seems that more people keep score in St Louis then most other parks(I think Cincy is another one with a high percentage) at least according to the announcers.

At games I go to, not everyone is keeping score. There are some younger kids, some huffed-up teens, some girlfriends (and boyfriends), etc., who don't keep score, but maybe 75 percent of the rest are keeping score. Don't know how that compares to other parks, but most of us (at least me and all the kids I knew) who were brought to Busch Stadium learned how by age 7 or 8 and kept it up from then on.

That is far more than in most stadiums. I, admittedly, wasn't looking that hard, but I can't remember seeing a single person keeping score last night in OPACY.

I tried a few times, but as it wasn't second-nature, it just pretty much ruined the contemplative nature of the game for me.

I don't always keep score for the entire game, but usually I'll get most innings in there. I also buy the score pad that they sell, then I paperclip the ticket to the scoresheet/program so that I have a record of every game I've been to. Alas I haven't organized them in any way so it does me no good as they are spread out over about 10 different boxes.

Let me tell you, it effing sucked last night during the rain delay. They didn't even bother to show the Nationals game on the Jumbotron until it was in like the 8th or 9th inning with the only entertainment being the ALDS logo screensaver they put up.

You also didn't come to see me. 2 hours and you didn't bother. Thanks.

That is far more than in most stadiums. I, admittedly, wasn't looking that hard, but I can't remember seeing a single person keeping score last night in OPACY.

I WAS!!!

but maybe 75 percent of the rest are keeping score.

And when I wrote 75 percent of the rest, I meant like maybe 10 or 15 percent. It certainly isn't most, but there's definitely a person or two every row, or so I recall.

Sorry Larry. As I said, it's been a crazy past few days.

Sorry Larry. As I said, it's been a crazy past few days.

When the O's get to the ALCS, I'll be working Game Four or Five. I'll let you know.

Don't like I they have replaced the orange towels with white. Gives off the wrong message.

Don't like I they have replaced the orange towels with white. Gives off the wrong message.

I have no doubt that they're saying the same thing in the press box right now.

That sea of orange last night was impressive. And when Martin hit that homer, you really knew how numerous O's fans were last night, because the cheers were very quiet.

Great, we're subjecting the Asian media to Craig Sager. How are we going to explain him to them?

We commented last night that sticking the Asian reporters in the segregated press box (that's where MASN does their pre/post game) seemed a bit... wrong.

R.B. Fallstrom reports Jaime Garcia was pulled because his arm didn't feel right. He's had problems in the past, so I hope it's not serious.

Sager is the most annoying, loathsome human being in the history of the universe.

Nunez DH?!?!?!

WHAT THE ####, JOE?!?!

I'm glad I'll forever be able to say that I saw Ichiro play in person, even if it was as a Yankee in one of the final years of his career.

Raul Ibanez hit a foul ball last night that hit in the upper deck on the third base side. I have never seen a foul ball hit into that part of the upper deck. I assure you that the fan who missed that ball had no expectation that a ball would come anywhere near them last night.

I'm not horrified by Nunez being the short half of the DH platoon. However, if he gets within 100 yards of a glove this playoff season, I'll kill Girardi with my bare hands.