striker42
Well-known member
Let's face facts ladies and gentlemen, we're cursed.
Its been 18 years since we won a playoff series. We've lost the last 9 playoff series in a row. In 7 of those series, we've had to watch the opposing team celebrate in our stadium.
The fact that we're cursed has never been clearer than in this series. Critical injuries down the stretch to Culberson, Camargo, and Inciarte have hurt us. Martin goes down in Game 1 without ever throwing a pitch. Freeman, our best hitter, goes MIA due to bone spurs in his elbow.
Then you have the fact that the Cardinals have consistently benefited from insane amounts of luck. I can't begin to count the number of weak hits they've collected, many going for doubles. This reached the point of ridiculousness yesterday. Albies hits a ball hard with the infield in and man on third and yet it goes right to the second baseman. Still, the Cardinals would have been eliminated had it not been for a double and single tying the game in the 8th, both with exit velocities under 70 mph. The odds of getting a double and single on two balls hit that weakly was, best I can tell, about 1 in 250.
Much of the frustration on this board has been centered around this curse. We're helpless watching an inevitable conclusion slowly approach. We're sitting and seeing fluke play after fluke play torpedo our chances. We can do nothing but watch as a series that should have already been won seems to be slipping away again.
So now is the time to do something about it. Here's our chance to do anything we can to break this terrible curse afflicting our team. So post here anything you think might ward off this curse. I don't care if its GIFs, pictures of an animal you've sacrificed, or step by step instructions for summoning Baphomet. We have to break this curse!
Its been 18 years since we won a playoff series. We've lost the last 9 playoff series in a row. In 7 of those series, we've had to watch the opposing team celebrate in our stadium.
The fact that we're cursed has never been clearer than in this series. Critical injuries down the stretch to Culberson, Camargo, and Inciarte have hurt us. Martin goes down in Game 1 without ever throwing a pitch. Freeman, our best hitter, goes MIA due to bone spurs in his elbow.
Then you have the fact that the Cardinals have consistently benefited from insane amounts of luck. I can't begin to count the number of weak hits they've collected, many going for doubles. This reached the point of ridiculousness yesterday. Albies hits a ball hard with the infield in and man on third and yet it goes right to the second baseman. Still, the Cardinals would have been eliminated had it not been for a double and single tying the game in the 8th, both with exit velocities under 70 mph. The odds of getting a double and single on two balls hit that weakly was, best I can tell, about 1 in 250.
Much of the frustration on this board has been centered around this curse. We're helpless watching an inevitable conclusion slowly approach. We're sitting and seeing fluke play after fluke play torpedo our chances. We can do nothing but watch as a series that should have already been won seems to be slipping away again.
So now is the time to do something about it. Here's our chance to do anything we can to break this terrible curse afflicting our team. So post here anything you think might ward off this curse. I don't care if its GIFs, pictures of an animal you've sacrificed, or step by step instructions for summoning Baphomet. We have to break this curse!
