I wouldn't quite say that. I didn't think home-field mattered much in baseball, but then I realized that it effects who bats/pitches first in the 9th and extra innings. I'd say it is a HUGE advantage to be able to bat second and know what you have to do to win. I wouldn't wanna bat first and then score a run because the other team could come back and win on a 3-run walk off homer.
I am registered under the name "washualum", but I like to keep a low profile (and not show my true Houston roots), so I pretty much keep my posts neutral between Houston support and St. Louis hating. You may go ahead and use it, but I think they're all getting the point... a lot of the fans there are already getting sick of other cardinals fans complaining about the ballpark. Honestly... if it was so small, shouldn't the "better" lineup have taken more advantage of it? And, if its got a roof... doesn't that help both teams handle the shadows? They're just complaining because they obviously lost... if they had won all 3, they'd be asking that the new dimensions in Busch II be the same...
naww...I dont hate baseball....hell, I used to play for many years as a youngun. I dont like watching regular season ball...it makes me want to play again...and I dont have the arm for it anymore. Besides, I dont really have the time to sit and watch...Ill keep up with how they are doing...and watch when I can...but not enough to be able to comment on it worth a damn. tho...Im definitely up for a viewing party when the Stros reach the WS...Live anyone?
I dropped a Seinfeld quote on them. On page 2: http://forums.stltoday.com/viewtopic.php?t=200502&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= Let's see how they react.
codell and I were there last week, and I ask about you. He said you were not a baseball fan. Blame him for non-invite...the unvitation.
sorry about that R2K ......i thought you hated baseball Behad ...we'll talk about a possible weekend viewing party after we take care of business don't want to jinx anything
no worries bud....you may have interpreted that when I mentioned I dont really watch regular season games...depending on my mood that day..it may have come out harsher than it was meant to. btw....as the ultimate homer...I am physically incapable of jinxing....ergo...my comment about Live..
Absolutely amazing site. Some of the worst fans I've ever seen. I can't imagine what they would have been like if they were Rockets fans during the championship years.
WOW...the deadbird fans are REALLY cranking up the cryin'...I like them, fo the most part, and think they are truly classy and knowledgable fans even though I get sick of hearing about it. But you GOTTA read this post: http://forums.stltoday.com/viewtopic.php?t=200934&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10 ohiodock Forum User Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 420 Posted: 19 Oct 2004 23:01 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As someone who was a baseball fan before the leagues expanded to 12 teams each in 1969, I am fundamentally opposed to the Wild Card concept. A lot of people had problems when the division format was put into place in 1969 because all of a sudden all a team had to do was finish first out of six teams instead of first out of 10 teams in order to reach the post-season. However, we rationalized the new structure by saying that a team still had to at least win a division championship in order to make it into the post-season. The Wild Card has changed all of that. I cannot stand it. I did not like it in 1995 when it started, I did not like it in 19978 when a Wild Card team won the WS, I did not like it in 2001 when the Cardinals were the Wild Card team, I do not like it today. In my mind, it is BS for the Cardinals - or any other team for that matter - to have to beat a team from their own division that they beat in the 162 game season by 13 games in the standings in order to be called the league champions. I used to have a lot of respect for baseball because it rewarded teams that established their excellence over the long haul. You had to win something to keep playing after the end of the regular season. Now a team gets hot for a few weeks, sneaks in with the best second place record, and is one game away from going to the World Series. Three of these teams have won the World Championship. It is ridiculous. I still watch the post season because I love to watch good baseball. But, frankly, my heart isn't in it like it used to be because of the wild card. I will not be a wreck if the Cardinals lose to the Astros because I know in my heart that the Cardinals are the better team and the Astros ended up where they are because of a gimmick created to generate more TV revenue. Until baseball restores the old system that rewards teams that win championships, instead of this traveshamockery that rewards prolonged excellence over an entire season with one extra home game, I really don't care who wins in the post season. Did anyone call for a WAH-bulance to revieve the deadbirds??
Dude, that whole thread has some of the most stress-out, gripping, meltdown redbird fans I have seen on that sight. Punish the wild card team? The funniest is when someone says the wild card team should play the team with the best record in the first round, regardless of being in the same division. Someone answers him, "If that's the case, then we just lost the first round 3-2". Classic!
