They have six games with the Astros and Dbacks starting tonight and they will not have to face Brandon Webb, Dan Haren, or Roy Oswalt in any of those six games. Yeah, I know that favorable pitching matchups don't necessarily guarantee you wins or anything, but it sure makes that road trip for the Cards just a little easier not having to face those guys. I really want to beat out the Cardinals for that WC right now. I dislike the Cardinals team more than anyone now.

I've hated the Cards way before this.  I think LaRussa has actually exploited performance enhancing drugs for his advantage.  From Oakland right up until now (see Ankiel).  I actually think they promote the use from the minor leagues on up.  Plus I think he is a dispicable human being.  How many DUI's (including himself) does his team have not to mention his notorious actions on the field.  Luckily he manages in St Louis where they have the biggest dumbass loyal fanbase ever with the media in their back pocket.  How many stuffed animals and crap was there when Darryl Kile died (suspiciously?)  There really is nothing to like about St Louis including the ridiculously humid weather.   I know this is taboo on this board but I like the Cubs way more than the hypocritical Cards.

willie key:

I've hated the Cards way before this.  I think LaRussa has actually exploited performance enhancing drugs for his advantage.  From Oakland right up until now (see Ankiel).  I actually think they promote the use from the minor leagues on up.  Plus I think he is a dispicable human being.  How many DUI's (including himself) does his team have not to mention his notorious actions on the field.  Luckily he manages in St Louis where they have the biggest dumbass loyal fanbase ever with the media in their back pocket.  How many stuffed animals and crap was there when Darryl Kile died (suspiciously?)  There really is nothing to like about St Louis including the ridiculously humid weather.   I know this is taboo on this board but I like the Cubs way more than the hypocritical Cards.

I second everything you said there, especially regarding LaRussa promoting PEDs over his time spent as a manager.  It's disgusting. Their fans act like the deaths of Darryl Kile and Josh Hancock were horrific events when their own personal choices were too blame... terrible ones at that.  They hold themselves up as this organization that has the most class in baseball but it's anything BUT that.  I hate them more than any other team and I wish we were done with LaRussa's b.s. for the year but we have 6 more games with them.  He'll be throwing at guy's heads I'm sure.  Soriano will probably get his wrist broken again.

U Dub Dub:

I second everything you said there, especially regarding LaRussa promoting PEDs over his time spent as a manager.  It's disgusting. Their fans act like the deaths of Darryl Kile and Josh Hancock were horrific events when their own personal choices were too blame... terrible ones at that.  They hold themselves up as this organization that has the most class in baseball but it's anything BUT that.  I hate them more than any other team and I wish we were done with LaRussa's b.s. for the year but we have 6 more games with them.  He'll be throwing at guy's heads I'm sure.  Soriano will probably get his wrist broken again.

U Dub Dub:

willie key:

I've hated the Cards way before this.  I think LaRussa has actually exploited performance enhancing drugs for his advantage.  From Oakland right up until now (see Ankiel).  I actually think they promote the use from the minor leagues on up.  Plus I think he is a dispicable human being.  How many DUI's (including himself) does his team have not to mention his notorious actions on the field.  Luckily he manages in St Louis where they have the biggest dumbass loyal fanbase ever with the media in their back pocket.  How many stuffed animals and crap was there when Darryl Kile died (suspiciously?)  There really is nothing to like about St Louis including the ridiculously humid weather.   I know this is taboo on this board but I like the Cubs way more than the hypocritical Cards.

I second everything you said there, especially regarding LaRussa promoting PEDs over his time spent as a manager.  It's disgusting. Their fans act like the deaths of Darryl Kile and Josh Hancock were horrific events when their own personal choices were too blame... terrible ones at that.  They hold themselves up as this organization that has the most class in baseball but it's anything BUT that.  I hate them more than any other team and I wish we were done with LaRussa's b.s. for the year but we have 6 more games with them.  He'll be throwing at guy's heads I'm sure.  Soriano will probably get his wrist broken again.

U Dub,

Isnt it great that Cubs and Brewer fans can agree on this.  All I want is for the Cubs to beat them to a pulp

U Dub Dub:

I hate them more than any other team and I wish we were done with LaRussa's b.s. for the year but we have 6 more games with them.  He'll be throwing at guy's heads I'm sure.  Soriano will probably get his wrist broken again.

I missed the games the two teams played this year...all I saw were some highlights. Didn't hear about any TLR shenanigans- I thought for sure there would be some with Edmonds having switched sides. Do you think he'll be throwing at Soriano?

I believe the 'Doorman' said of all the teams to come to Miller Park, the Cards are wound the tightest by far, from players down to the coaches.. Pretty interesting.

well big head will get plunked for sure, since he posed over his grand slam last night.   So you know commissioner of etiquette pujols will order that punishment.  i bet edmonds goes down  and probably zambrano too.

People, listen to yourselves. You can't possibly hate the Cards more than the Cubs. The Cubs have the most dislikeable players (Zambrano, Soriano, Assram, Dempster, Marmol), are the media darlings, and of course have the most wretched fans known to man.

 My disdain for the Cards grew exponentially during that past series too, but they are still nowhere near the Cubs in that department.

StallisTim:

People, listen to yourselves. You can't possibly hate the Cards more than the Cubs. The Cubs have the most dislikeable players (Zambrano, Soriano, Assram, Dempster, Marmol), are the media darlings, and of course have the most wretched fans known to man.

 My disdain for the Cards grew exponentially during that past series too, but they are still nowhere near the Cubs in that department.

Dempster in unlikeable? He's fun to call Dumpster and all, but unlikeable?

I can't stand the Cards. That said, I'd rather watch the Cards win 25 straight World Series than watch the Cubs win ONE regular season game.

That's how much I hate the Cubs and their sanctimonious fans and how they think everybody loves them and they're entitled for everyone to love them because they haven't won it all in 100 years and how everything about the Cubs is crammed down everyone's throats until you want to puke and how their fans constantly go into visitors' ballparks and act like boorish, rude dinner guests who think they can act and do as they please no matter where they are and their incompetent jack*** of a radio analyst who anlayzes things with phrases such as "Aww, Geez" and "Holy macaroni" (I'm talking to you, Santo) and their TV play-by-play guy who goes into an orgasmic, non-sensical, banshee-screaming frenzy every time the Cubs ground a single up the middle (I'm talking to you, Kasper) and the horribly annoying "Go Cubs Go" song and how everyone from Chicago thinks everything in Milwaukee is second-rate and how Wrigley Field is the biggest eroding dump of a stadium in sports yet somehow people think it's the best stadium in baseball and how every time you go to a Cubs game the people in front of you have their backs turned to the field the whole game but when the Cubs do something good they turn around, start cheering and immediately cursing at other teams' fans with rude, foul language and how the most prolific player in franchise history was a steroid-gobbling ego-manic but Cubs fans still come down on other players for doing steroids and the fact that you can never get a beer that's even mildly f***ing cold at Wrigley and all the stupid girls in their tight Cubs shirts and hats who provide good scenery but are generally just b****es who ruin the game if you have to sit by them because they're all so stupid and just generally everything about the Cubs and Wrigley Field and their whole annoying, stinking fanbase (apologies to the numerous friends of mine and good people I know, including some of those who post on this message board, that happen to be Cubs fans).

Had to get that off my chest. Now I feel better.

stix:

I can't stand the Cards. That said, I'd rather watch the Cards win 25 straight World Series than watch the Cubs win ONE regular season game.

That's how much I hate the Cubs and their sanctimonious fans and how they think everybody loves them and they're entitled for everyone to love them because they haven't won it all in 100 years and how everything about the Cubs is crammed down everyone's throats until you want to puke and how their fans constantly go into visitors' ballparks and act like boorish, rude dinner guests who think they can act and do as they please no matter where they are and their incompetent jack*** of a radio analyst who anlayzes things with phrases such as "Aww, Geez" and "Holy macaroni" (I'm talking to you, Santo) and their TV play-by-play guy who goes into an orgasmic, non-sensical, banshee-screaming frenzy every time the Cubs ground a single up the middle (I'm talking to you, Kasper) and the horribly annoying "Go Cubs Go" song and how everyone from Chicago thinks everything in Milwaukee is second-rate and how Wrigley Field is the biggest eroding dump of a stadium in sports yet somehow people think it's the best stadium in baseball and how every time you go to a Cubs game the people in front of you have their backs turned to the field the whole game but when the Cubs do something good they turn around, start cheering and immediately cursing at other teams' fans with rude, foul language and how the most prolific player in franchise history was a steroid-gobbling ego-manic but Cubs fans still come down on other players for doing steroids and the fact that you can never get a beer that's even mildly f***ing cold at Wrigley and all the stupid girls in their tight Cubs shirts and hats who provide good scenery but are generally just b****es who ruin the game if you have to sit by them because they're all so stupid and just generally everything about the Cubs and Wrigley Field and their whole annoying, stinking fanbase (apologies to the numerous friends of mine and good people I know, including some of those who post on this message board, that happen to be Cubs fans).

Had to get that off my chest. Now I feel better.

Tell us how you really feel, Stix. ;) Thanks for the good chuckle right before Labor Day Weekend untuck'em time.

Base Knox:

stix:

I can't stand the Cards. That said, I'd rather watch the Cards win 25 straight World Series than watch the Cubs win ONE regular season game.

That's how much I hate the Cubs and their sanctimonious fans and how they think everybody loves them and they're entitled for everyone to love them because they haven't won it all in 100 years and how everything about the Cubs is crammed down everyone's throats until you want to puke and how their fans constantly go into visitors' ballparks and act like boorish, rude dinner guests who think they can act and do as they please no matter where they are and their incompetent jack*** of a radio analyst who anlayzes things with phrases such as "Aww, Geez" and "Holy macaroni" (I'm talking to you, Santo) and their TV play-by-play guy who goes into an orgasmic, non-sensical, banshee-screaming frenzy every time the Cubs ground a single up the middle (I'm talking to you, Kasper) and the horribly annoying "Go Cubs Go" song and how everyone from Chicago thinks everything in Milwaukee is second-rate and how Wrigley Field is the biggest eroding dump of a stadium in sports yet somehow people think it's the best stadium in baseball and how every time you go to a Cubs game the people in front of you have their backs turned to the field the whole game but when the Cubs do something good they turn around, start cheering and immediately cursing at other teams' fans with rude, foul language and how the most prolific player in franchise history was a steroid-gobbling ego-manic but Cubs fans still come down on other players for doing steroids and the fact that you can never get a beer that's even mildly f***ing cold at Wrigley and all the stupid girls in their tight Cubs shirts and hats who provide good scenery but are generally just b****es who ruin the game if you have to sit by them because they're all so stupid and just generally everything about the Cubs and Wrigley Field and their whole annoying, stinking fanbase (apologies to the numerous friends of mine and good people I know, including some of those who post on this message board, that happen to be Cubs fans).

Had to get that off my chest. Now I feel better.

Tell us how you really feel, Stix. ;) Thanks for the good chuckle right before Labor Day Weekend untuck'em time.

U bet, my friend;)

StallisTim:

People, listen to yourselves. You can't possibly hate the Cards more than the Cubs. The Cubs have the most dislikeable players (Zambrano, Soriano, Assram, Dempster, Marmol), are the media darlings, and of course have the most wretched fans known to man.

 My disdain for the Cards grew exponentially during that past series too, but they are still nowhere near the Cubs in that department.

I used to hate the Cubs more, now I hate the Cards more. Yes, I do hate Zambrano and Soriano. I mean, I really dislike Soriano. But I hate the Cards more. Those guys are c0cky as hell, but their play back it up. The Cubs are outstanding. But the Cards talk trash and this and that and they're 3.5 out of the playoffs. Who are they to be talking trash. 

StallisTim:

People, listen to yourselves. You can't possibly hate the Cards more than the Cubs. The Cubs have the most dislikeable players (Zambrano, Soriano, Assram, Dempster, Marmol), are the media darlings, and of course have the most wretched fans known to man.

 My disdain for the Cards grew exponentially during that past series too, but they are still nowhere near the Cubs in that department.

sticking it to you will such fun in days to come. 

stix:

I can't stand the Cards. That said, I'd rather watch the Cards win 25 straight World Series than watch the Cubs win ONE regular season game.

That's how much I hate the Cubs and their sanctimonious fans and how they think everybody loves them and they're entitled for everyone to love them because they haven't won it all in 100 years and how everything about the Cubs is crammed down everyone's throats until you want to puke and how their fans constantly go into visitors' ballparks and act like boorish, rude dinner guests who think they can act and do as they please no matter where they are and their incompetent jack*** of a radio analyst who anlayzes things with phrases such as "Aww, Geez" and "Holy macaroni" (I'm talking to you, Santo) and their TV play-by-play guy who goes into an orgasmic, non-sensical, banshee-screaming frenzy every time the Cubs ground a single up the middle (I'm talking to you, Kasper) and the horribly annoying "Go Cubs Go" song and how everyone from Chicago thinks everything in Milwaukee is second-rate and how Wrigley Field is the biggest eroding dump of a stadium in sports yet somehow people think it's the best stadium in baseball and how every time you go to a Cubs game the people in front of you have their backs turned to the field the whole game but when the Cubs do something good they turn around, start cheering and immediately cursing at other teams' fans with rude, foul language and how the most prolific player in franchise history was a steroid-gobbling ego-manic but Cubs fans still come down on other players for doing steroids and the fact that you can never get a beer that's even mildly f***ing cold at Wrigley and all the stupid girls in their tight Cubs shirts and hats who provide good scenery but are generally just b****es who ruin the game if you have to sit by them because they're all so stupid and just generally everything about the Cubs and Wrigley Field and their whole annoying, stinking fanbase (apologies to the numerous friends of mine and good people I know, including some of those who post on this message board, that happen to be Cubs fans).

Had to get that off my chest. Now I feel better.

There's that inferiority complex seeping out again.  I would go on a rant about the Brewers, but meh, I'm kinda indifferent about them.