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Monday, August 15, 2011
In their one and only appearance on ESPN, the Rockies became the first modern team to lose 17 consecutive games on Sunday, falling 6-2 to the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium.
The Phillies had cornered the market on Sunday misery, their 1927, 1928 and 1960 teams all dropping 16 straight. The indignity now belongs solely to Colorado.
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Looking nervous and hesitant, starter Esmil Rogers nibbled at the strike zone, hardly resembling the pitcher who beat the Reds last week. Pressure found its weakest point with Albert Pujols batting. The Cardinals slugger launched a slider onto the left-field concourse. NASA estimated the distance at 465 feet, the longest ever at Busch Stadium 3.
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1. The District Attorney Posted: August 15, 2011 at 05:48 AM (#3900094)What if they won the other 6 days??? Fabricated nonsense.
It was a good thing in 2007 when the Bosox broke their 89-yr streak of only clinching the WS during a full lunar eclipse.
Why that is, though, I couldn't tell you.
First "When you look at how good Aramis Ramirez was at every step of the minor leagues and then you look at Alvarez, it's no context." Now this. Is today, for all intensive purposes, the First Annual Throw in Odd Words Into a Sentence Tournament?
NASA? Are they considering replacing the space shuttle by throwing satellites to Pujols so he can launch them into space? Nah, can't be. No way NASA will be able to afford him.
Goddam Greg, I didn't even see that in my post. Must be a contagious case of the Mondays.
I didn't quite work out what the alleged clever play was, but with my literary skills that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't one there.
No... basically what happened is that I was thinking about saying something like "when you take into account the context of Ramirez's numbers compared to the context of Alvarez's, it's no contest". Just a stupid Monday mistake.
I don't either, but, and everybody might already know this, they're 33-8 in day games and 39-38 at night.
cmon
and you think the rockies were bad? HAH you don't know from bad
why just yesterday afternoon the astros squandered multiple opportunities to get on base in the first place
but they DID cleverly use many opportunities to ground into a double play which may be why manager bad mills does stuff like sac-bunt in the first inning with the #3 hitter
Can't say I agree, 4 walks is a decent showing.
Ah ####. I'm going to blame being tired at the time of posting that.
Yes, but is your streak of making 'stupid Monday mistakes' up to 18 consecutive Mondays yet?
* Personally, I'd prefer if Faith Day were a celebration of Eliza Dushku.
AAAAA-MEN
Of course, you mean AAAAA-MEN (Seth Smith's at-bat music).
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