The thing I liked most about the NLCS match-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants was that it was a duel between the two previous World Series winners. To win a championship is hard. To defend that championship is even harder. You want to raise the level of difficulty? How about doing so with several injuries to key players? How about doing so by losing your best player to free agency? The Cardinals should be commended […]
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Sweet Chin Muzak – #RallyZito
After I wrote many words about Tim Lincecum and his alarming regression in 2012, I added a couple paragraphs about #RallyZito . At the time of my writing, it was a fun little Twitter meme that Giants fans were using to try to stay positive about their chances in the NLCS. Game four was a chore to sit through and it didn’t even look like the Giants were supposed to be on the same field as the Cardinals. Giants fans were upset, but some creative fans decided […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – On Tim Lincecum And #RallyZito
Before I mention the Giants loss on Thursday night, I wanted to tell a story. It’s about a man named Tim Lincecum. After blazing through Pac 10 hitters at the University of Washington, this man named Tim Lincecum was the 10th pick of the Giants in the first round of the 2006 Amateur draft. He made minor leaguers look like little leaguers for a short while before being fast tracked to the major leagues. He was a 150-pound fire breathing […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – 7 Hours Later, The Cards Upend The Giants In Game 3
Game three of the NLCS between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals started at 1PM Pacific time and ended a bit before 8PM Pacific time. No, it wasn’t a seven hour game. There was a three and a half hour rain delay in the middle. October baseball! Before the rain delay, the Cardinals took advantage of a Matt Cain mistake and the Giants couldn’t take advantage of any Kyle Lohse mistakes, or Cardinals’ unlucky breaks. Cards’ slugger Carlos […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Giants Get Even In Game 2
If you want to find a turning point in game two of the NLCS, look no further than the top of the first inning. Maybe it wasn’t really a turning point. Maybe it was a starting point. With Matt Holliday on first and one out, Allen Craig hit a slow chopper to Brandon Crawford. Crawford fielded it and quickly threw to second to get the force. Holliday waited to start his slide until he was on top of the bag, […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Cards Hold Off Giants In Game 1
The Cardinals and Giants have played in the NLCS twice before. Giants fans remember the team being up 3-2 in 1987, only to lose the next two games in St. Louis. There was the 1-0 John Tudor vs. Dave Dravecky masterpiece and the Atlee Hammaker implosion . The Giants got payback in 2002, beating the Cardinals in five games. The last three games in that series were all determined by one run. This year’s Cardinals weren’t supposed to be back in the playoffs. They lost franchise player Albert Pujols to […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Interview With Cardinals Blogger, Daniel Shoptaw (Part 2)
Make sure you click here to check out Part 1 of GG’s interview. In Part 2, Daniel Shoptaw shares who his favorite Cardinals fantasy sleepers are, who would be perfect next to Albert Pujols on the right side of the infield, what he expects out of the club in 2011, and where he thinks Pujols ends up. GG: The Cardinals have had quite the 2000s so far. There have been seasons where they totally dominated the regular season, only to fall […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Interview With Cardinals Blogger, Daniel Shoptaw (Part 1)
I had an e-mail chat with Daniel Shoptaw last weekend, someone I met when I was looking for really good baseball bloggers a couple of years ago. His blog, C70 At The Bat , follows the daily ongoings of his favorite baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals. You can also find him on Twitter at @C70 . We started by chatting about Albert Pujols and ended up talking about Pujols (in part two). It should give you a pretty good inside look at the Cardinals […]