Say Something Nice About the Cardinals Thread

[endaround]

They are located in St Louis and not East St Louis, so there is that.

[TracyThom]

I can give plenty of compliments to the St. Louis area, plus the entire state of Missouri and southern Illinois too:

 

-They have plenty of Chick-fil-a restaurants in that area. We only have one in Wisconsin.

-You can buy a 3-bedroom house for the price of a VCR in some parts of southern Missouri.

-Speaking of southern Missouri, and especially the Ozarks region, new jobs in the pharmaceutical field are popping up all the time. (Business does slow down when the supply of pseudoephedrine runs low or the lab blows up.)

-I've heard that the St. Louis based restaurant chain Lion's Choice has some delicious roast beef sandwiches.

-The City of St. Louis saves it taxpayers money by not purchasing extravagant items like street sweepers. All of those car parts scattered alongside the medians of the Interstate give the city character.

-There is a city in southern Illinois named Metropolis. I would love to tell people I was from Metropolis.

- Among all of the states, Missouri is now 42nd in the prevention of rickets. Watch out Arkansas, they are coming for you next.

[Big Ern2440]

Chris Carpenter may stare people down, but he's nicer then Gengis Khan.

[SZBrewerFan]

The St. Louis Cardinals.......there not the Cubs??? Sorry that's all I got!

[Funketown]

[stalton]

The classies are the classiest classies ever to class on the face of the classy earth.

 

That and St Louis beating the Phillies allows me to go to the game on Sunday versus having to miss a day of work on wednesday

[gregmag]

Red Schoendienst.

 

I sent this e-mail to a Cards fan buddy, overly dramatic, yes but it's what I'm feeling right now...here's an excerpt...

 

Despite my deep affection for you as a great friend, I hate your favorite baseball team with every fiber of my being. It it the type of irrational hate that has caused humanity to start wars. I'm not proud of it, but I've never experienced anything like the Cards for bringing that out in me. They are a great, resilient team that I begrudgingly respect, but I wish nothing but pain on that mean spirited hypocritical jerk in the dugout whose personality has soaked into that franchise like some incurable disease. I'm sure we'll enjoy many a great time when this is over, but if we lose I will be physically and mentally unable to discuss the events of the series for the remainder of my inevitably shortened life. Love ya brother.

This is seriously one of the greatest paragraphs in the history of the English language.

 

I really like living in St. Louis. For people from Milwaukee to knock St. Louis makes no sense, because the two cities are very similar. Cardinals fans, for the most part, are very friendly and enthusiastic. It's a great place to go to a game wearing Brewers gear.

 

Berkman's comments were pretty fair. I liked his "I'm not the czar of baseball" thing a lot. He gets safe passage out of town in my book.

 

The Cardinals aren't anywhere near as bad as the big-market teams. The Yankees and Red Sox have basically destroyed baseball; because of them, baseball is no more a serious competitive sport than pro wrestling is. It's just another area of life in which having money equals usually getting to be on top. If I didn't live on Earth in 2011, maybe I would find that novel.

 

BTW, the "Alberta" stuff has to stop. That's the only thing Nyjer has done that genuinely annoyed me. (In contrast, dropping f-bombs on national TV was downright heroic, especially because I don't think he even knew he was doing it.) When are we going to stop insulting men by calling them women? Women are cool.

 

No, the simple reason to despise the Cardinals is that LaRussa and Carpenter are the two foulest human beings (and I use that term only in its technical sense) in baseball; Pujols is lucky they're with him, because they make him look merely odious; and I would say Molina is a rabid punk, but somewhere there's probably a pretty good band called the Rabid Punks, and I wouldn't want to hurt their feelings. All of those guys are evil, entitled, lying sacks of suet who are taking air and food away from more deserving life forms.

 

Also, Holliday looks like an arrogant jock, but I have no idea whether he actually is, so I'm just going to file that in "subjects for further research."

 

That's plenty, though. The Cardinals must be destroyed. I'm convinced that every time the rancid ball of tar in LaRussa's chest experiences disappointment (shame would be too much to ask), a sick child somewhere starts feeling better. That's what this series is about: Cream the Cards for the Kids!

 

[bullox]

Women are cool.

Sure, but you don't see many in the discussion for greatest hitter of our era and top 10 of all time.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

I would say Molina is a rabid punk, but somewhere there's probably a pretty good band called the Rabid Punks, and I wouldn't want to hurt their feelings.

Hilarious. This was the best I could find...maybe they could play behind the stadium after a game...

http://www.myspace.com/rabidpunkguitars

[sdcheezhd]

Thanks much SoCal and Greg. I have cut pasted and forwarded.

[Hammer]

I like that TLR is too drunk to IBB Prince there with 1st open. He's a swell guy!

[craigharmann]

They make good losers.

[MadScientist]

They do a good job bringing Reds fans and Brewers fans together.