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GOBs be darned, this season has been a blast, and here's a chart to prove it! Go CARDS!...

bjork24 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:58:07 -0000

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Aaron Miles is a sad fellow

bjork24 — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:19:45 -0000

Long story, but my friend's fiancee's friend's boyfriend had a run-in with ol' Grit himself at a bar in Chicago, and wrote about it in an email. I think it's an interesting look into the mind of the saddest little utility player in the MLB. Enjoy!

Here's the email in its entirity:

Miles walked into Monsignor Murphy's last night and sat right by me at the bar (I just got back from Chicago).

He came in by himself.. and I immediately said "go Cardinals! How do you like Chicago?" I knew who was in seconds.

He said, "That's not very nice... I love Chicago"

Anyhoo, I went out to smoke and told the bartenders Alex and Dougie that the person sitting at the end of the bar by me was Aaron Miles. They told me I was wrong, so we put some bets in the bet box (which I won)

Then this is where this story gets odd. When he told us where he lived (Aldine and Broadway-BT), he said he didn't realize how many gay men lived there. But he said he didn't care. He was doing shots left and right, told us his brother is gay, his sister is hooked on drugs and that his kids cry every time they talk to him on the phone... and that made him depressed. He was throwing f-bombs all over the place, talked about his first at-bat back at Busch.. how the Cardinals management threw him under the bus... that MO doesn't run the team... DeWitt does. Talked about the Edmonds situation. He said that the Edmonds situation was a Cardinals upper management decision and that TLR "took one for the team" on the whole situation. He said Albert is the best player in baseball but that he's not a leader in the clubhouse... how he's always bitchy after games and never does interviews and so that makes other players have to answer to the media too much for him.

And on his first at bat back at Busch, he said initially he didn't hear anyone clapping... and he was a little taken aback. But he changed his mind after he watched the tape and multiple Cubs fans told him they gave him a loud ovation.

He misses St. Louis and OB Clarkes. Said it was funny that a Cards fan in Chicago can recognize a Cubs or Cardinals players, but a Cubs fan couldn't recognize either.

He was talking about a lot more stuff, but mainly he was just depressed and wouldn't shut up about it. At one point, Alex even asked him if was going to be ok. Man, he was all over the place. He sat with us for 5 hours or so. We kept talking as if we were Dr. Phil. It was seriously crazy stuff. I couldn't believe it.

Either way, I just wanted to share. He talked about all kinds of other stuff. But he confirmed a few things for me. Cubs fans are mostly compromised of bandwagon fans, that the Cardinals are being run by a bunch of hacks and liars, Pujols IS the best player in the game... and that ball players lives aren't always all that. Oh, and that he likes shots and Monsignor Murphy's... haha.

That's all I got. Crazy stuff. He was a total mess.

Poor Miles.

Cardinal Dreams

bjork24 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:49:14 -0000

Although this may be a bit "out of left field", I figured we were all Cardinal-crazy enough to have had at least one or two dreams about the Cardinals, or maybe a player in particular. If this is too far off topic, feel free to delete it, but I was hoping it might be light enough (and hopefully funny enough) to keep around. The reason I bring it up is because I had this weird dream where...

... I was playing center field (Ank must've still been injured), and I kept having the ball hit to me. I could catch it fine, but when I'd try to throw it back to Welly (who was pitching in this particular dream) I could barely muster enough force to get it to edge of the infield dirt. Then, out of the blue, Jimmy Edmonds appeared in the on deck circle, and as he knelt down to tie his shoe or something, I launched a ball his way that ended up plunking him right in the ribs... without taking a bounce. I immediately felt bad about hitting him, but he stood up, brushed off the hit, and jogged out to talk to me in center. I was certain we were going to fight, but he was very jovial and laughed it off.

I guess this is my subconcious trying to deal with JED's move to the Cubbies. It's still a love/hate relationship, I guess. Anyway, that's my most recent dream involving the Cardinals. I've had plenty of others, but I thought I'd open the floor to anyone else who had a good one to share.

MLB Road Records

bjork24 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:17:13 -0000

I'm not much of a stat head myself (although I love reading about them when other people do the math), but I noticed something interesting when I was looking at the standings tonight. Only four teams (LAA, PHI, FLA, STL) have a winning road record, the White Sox are the only team at an even .500, and everyone else is bringing up the rear. I'm not sure what it means, but it feels good to be one of the elite few with a winning record on the road as well as at home.

GO CARDS!!!

LAA (16-11) .593
PHI (15-13) .536
FLA (13-12) .520
STL (13-12) .520
CWS (17-17) .500
TOR (16-17) .485
OAK (13-14) .481
MIN (12-13) .480
TB (11-12) .478
TEX (15-17) .469
NYY (14-16) .467
ARI (11-13) .458
HOU (15-19) .441
CHC (10-13) .435
SF (12-16) .429
BOS (14-19) .424
MIL (13-18) .419
LAD (12-17) .414
NYM (11-16) .407
DET (12-18) .400
KC (11-18) .379
CLE (9-15) .375
WSH (11-19) .367
PIT (11-19) .367
BAL (10-18) .357
SD (10-20) .333
CIN (9-19) .321
SEA (7-20) .259
COL (8-23) .258
ATL (7-21) .250