2013 NLCS: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. St. Louis Cardinals

YES

funny. still nothing near puig admiring a triple.

haha

well, there was a reason Mattingly was laughing grimly in his in-game interview.

Still I'll remember it, just as I've forgotten every single thing about, say, last year's Detroit-Oakland series.

when I saw that Carpenter triple that was my thought exactly, "the Cardinals probably would've complained about this"

You guys

no one ever complained about puig until now

except like his own team

A) Puig's triple was hilarious and unforgettable and awesome

B) his celebration in the batters box and then on the way to 3rd was way over the line by baseball standards, especially early on in a game. I'm not saying the standards are good or making some bullshit comparison to football or anything, I'm just saying it was noticeably more brash than the common sterilized baseball player celebration, and the fact that it drew comment is utterly predictable. It is no way comparable to other players pumping their fist after a strikeout or clapping their hands after scoring an important run. Pretending not to be able to see the difference is an insult (a baseball insult) to whoever is reading your words.

Still hilarious! But the fact that a few old stodgy baseball people got all traditional on his ass is not breaking news

Now get off of my goddamn lawn my show is coming on the tv

Do Cardinals fans understand the whole country hates their team, or are they in a bubble? (I don't mean this question as a value judgement; lots of sports fans are isolated from how their team is perceived away from home.)

Most don't

Are you serious, bnw?

since he remembers him gettin benched, yes I'd say he's serious

imagine Buck Showalter as Puig's mgr

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That's probably true of most teams, as you say, but I think maybe the ignorance is especially pronounced in cards fans because of the large geographic area that follows the team. You know those maps that show which parts of the country likes which teams? The cardinals share of that is a big chunk of the flyover states, and a lot of those people aren't exactly cosmopolitan. Lots of people on Missouri never go beyond Chicago. We know cubs fans hate us, for obvious reasons, but most don't realize that everyone east of Chicago and west of Kansas hates us as well! But most never travel to those places, so they have no idea. On top of that, a lot of the people in the vast swath of CARDINAL NATION (puke, I'm sorry. Fucking sports team nations) are big, big fans of the team.

I don't hate the Cardinals.

I just find them very blah.

i don't think the whole country hates the cardinals!

i mean the whole 'best fans in baseball' thing is punchably smug, but they're not the yankees, they're not boston fans, no one left a visiting cubs fan with brain damage, etc.

i can understand that when baseball is your career/life you get wrapped up in these judgment rituals that seem bizarre to outsiders -- like kevin towers last week, or puig, or mccann. but this whole surly complain-in-the-press thing is nagl -- if you're mad and want to drill someone, then do it, don't complain to the media because you feel disrespected.

i'm not a ballplayer so i don't have the correct pov, but i would make a big distinction between being happy at doing something well and being a dick to someone you've bested. carlos gomez was being a dick, i guess because he got plunked earlier in the season. jeffrey leonard's 'one flap down' was sublime dickery. puig just seems excitable.

i don't think the whole country hates the cardinals, in fact most of the country does not give a shit about the cardinals. and i'd bet the cards aren't even in the top 3 most hated among baseball fans. people who read blogs/tumblrs/whatever too much tend to think the whole world thinks just like their little echo chamber

i'm pretty much cheering for them at this point.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWpCsgVCIAAbDKH.png

lolololololol

i'm not good with my US geography. that Missouri and Alaska, correct?

Fun Police map

GA is just Brian McCann voting 5000 times

btw it really is gonna be Nolasco tnite, huh?

Orel H said at end of game last night he "had been told privately" Greinke wd go, so those are some unimpeachable sources.

drunk tommy lasorada is not a trusted source

I don't hate the Cardinals at all--admire them. Especially (hindsight is 20/20) for having the guts/business sense to let Pujols walk. I never would have done it, that's for sure.

they prob know his real age

25th anniv of Kirk G's HR

The thing about this game is, the series is as close as it could possibly be, 2-1

i would just like to state for the record that i hate the cardinals and the dodgers

more than the yankees?

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright wasn’t thrilled following Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, and it wasn’t just because he took the loss against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Wainwright didn’t pitch poorly by any stretch of the imagination — he gave up just two runs over seven innings — but the Cardinals couldn’t push any runs of their own across. So Wainwright took the loss, and the Dodgers are now back in the series after losing the first two games in St. Louis.

So Wainwright’s frustration is understandable, but he took issue with more than the way he pitched. The Cardinals pitcher was also a little upset by the way Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez acted.

After Gonzalez hit an RBI double in the fourth inning, he stood on second base and made some celebratory gestures. It was a big hit in a big spot for a player who doesn’t have a ton of playoff experience, let alone playoff success, and Gonzalez celebrated as such. Two batters later, Gonzalez scored on Yasiel Puig‘s triple. It was Puig’s celebration and actions that had everyone buzzing during the game, but Wainwright could only take issue with Gonzalez, as that was the celebration he saw.

“I didn’t see Puig’s reaction,” Wainwright said, according to USA Today. “I saw Adrian doing some Mickey Mouse stuff at second, but I didn’t see Puig.”

Gonzalez defended his actions by saying that’s his go-to move.

“I did what I always do, but we are in L.A., so Mickey Mouse is only an hour away,” he said.

the yankees are too lol to hate right now.

the cardinals are smug and gross, lad is full of rejected red sox.

More like taint sox

I spent all evening thinking of that

time well spent

yall are too focused on who to hate, u shd concern yrself with who to love

one thing i hate is pitchers batting, what a downer

I love ozzie smith

Even though he's kind of a dick off the field

the best is when he would do flips

He was a level 20 wizard

damn bomb

one thing i hate is pitchers batting, what a downer

u hate real baseball, big zurprize

hey theres this one position that doesnt try to be good at hitting, literally the players dont even bother, sometimes they wear jackets when they bat, it def makes the game better and more fun to have them hitting, because of the strategy of trying to prevent them from hitting

while we have lead I'll say I feel bad for Hanle y Ram.

gna be the worst world series ever

like sure, a pirates-rays WS might be terrible for baseball or w/e, but i think the 2013 WS will go down as "FOOTAGE MSSING" bc the idea of it was so boring no one taped it

boston and st louis are two of the most popular teams, so if it came to that the h8rs of ilb aside i doubt anyones losing the footage