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My Twitter timeline was just awesome to read tonight. I like my friends, but seeing them meltdown and freakout was a treat, because they're your typical douchey, arrogant Cardinals fans.

And given that it's the Cardinals, no one should bat an eyelid at the bizarrness of the event. After the last half decade or so, I'm convinced the Cardinals are a real life version of the "Angels in the Outfield" Angels. God himself saw the movie 20 years ago, was amused, and decided to...

I'm convinced that, many years ago, the baseball gods determined that the St. Louis Cardinals would be their "chosen" team. By that, they would make sure that they received an absurd amount of playoff good fortune and luck. But, in order to balance things out, they would make sure the Atlanta...

If only we had 25% of the Cardinals playoff luck/good fortune.

Yeah, probably underselling our guys a little bit. We've got some patient hitters but we've also got some "swing at everything" guys that probably jade my view of the lineup as a whole.

I'd kill for our lineup to be just half as patient and disciplined as the Red Sox lineup. A 30+ pitch 1st for Wainwright.

David Ortiz scored from 1st? I know it was a gapper but that's still surprising.

Holy **** what a terrible call. Red Sox just got screwed big time if this doesn't get overturned. Instead of bases loaded one out, it'd be runners on 1st and 3rd with two outs.

Fredi was the only reason Donnie Baseball wasn't, by a considerable margin, the worst manager in the playoffs. Well...I guess Dusty Baker is worse than both, but I'm not counting him since the Reds lost in the WC play-in game.

Eh...in this case we're talking about a historically great closer. This 2-3 year stretch he's on has been nothing short of incredible. So, in this instance, it's not necessarily a problem since we're talking about Kimbrel. However, right now we don't have a legitimate ace, although Minor...

Holy choke job Batman. Tigers, up 5-1 in the 8th, give up a game-tying grand slam, throw a wild-pitch in the 9th to advance a runner from 2nd to 3rd with 0 outs, and lose on a walk-off single. Sounds like something we'd do to choke away a sure win the playoffs.

Or, simply just "losses" as I call them now. At least in the playoffs.

Yeah...this was his exact quote. Which, to some degree is true. Not just his **** not working in the playoffs, but the playoffs being luck. Obviously not every run scored and every win is because that team got lucky, but when you take a 162 game season, then decide its champion in a series...

Is there some sort of advanced stat or something that shows why it's stupid to pinch-run for your best or second best hitter? I feel like it's as bad or even worse than sac-bunting with a runner on 1st and 0 outs in a tie game in extra innings....oh, and the Dodgers did that too. Fredi still...

Don't forget Wacha flirting with a no-hitter.

Same here. This is going to take along time to shake-off. Kimbrel getting through 2 innings wouldn't have been a guarantee, but it would've given us our best chance to hold the lead, and force a game 5 back in Atlanta...where we have the best home record in baseball and would've cleared the...

Funny? Why does you closer have to pitch the 9th inning and only the 9th inning? Why can't we expect our manager to be a little unorthodox in a playoff elimination game?

Say Kimbrel starts struggling in the 9th. Gives up a lead-off hit or walk. Who cares? Hopefully he would've gone 1-2-3 in the 8th, getting through Puig and Uribe, and then you can bring in Carptner or whoever else to face the bottom third of the order.

#FireFrediGonzalez is trending on Twitter. So...at least we've got that going for us.

Maybe Fredi was just saving Kimbrel just in case he needed him for the 6 out save in game 5?