So I fell asleep last night... what happened? Just joking I watched every minuto of that beautiful game... well it was ugly but Weaver was fantastic.
Such a great series, for the cardinals. Sure it would have been good if the Cardinals just dominated on all sides of the game, but I feel like their pitching was great, fielding besides Duncan was good, and their hitting was somewhat to be expected. The Tigers just did them a few favors that we'll have to send them some fruit baskets in the offseason.
The whole game, actually the past few games, I've been fretting Duncan in the outfield, the guy is flat footed! He can't run, he looks like an oaf and his chaw makes him look like he's drooling motor oil. Sure enough he blew it twice, but thankfully, thankfully, so did Detroit.
Like I said earlier, Detroit was the cardinals of 2004, they were a deer in the headlights. Granted the Cardinals in 2004 were just outplayed and didn't have their ace. Detroit this WS played ok, but frankly it was their lack of fundamentals, lack of pitching experience, and their hitting was off. The fundamentals they have no excuse for, they make it this far, routine grounders and pick offs should be cake. Same goes for Duncan, routine popups man, you've been doing that since you were 5.
The pitching was just so young for Detroit:
Bonderman 24, Verlander 23, Zumaya 22, Robertson was older but still only 29 with little post season experience. The only one with lots of experience was the cheater, gambler, mucker baller, Rogers. Their pitching should improve, Verlander has good stuff just needs to buckledown. So if Leyland continues to run that ship well they'll be back with the same stuff, and now that they've tasted the WS they'll want to get the whole thing, like the cardinals of 2004.
That's the thing, there was so much desire on the cardinals part, Edmonds, Rolen, Eckstein, Pujols, Carp, Sup, Weaver... i mean these guys wanted this bad. Especially the big three of Pujols, Rolen and Edmonds. It was disappointing Pujols didn't play better, but he's got a lot of pressure on him to hit homeruns everytime.
Weaver, I told you people, he has good stuff, he just needs a good catcher and a good pitching coach to keep him in line.
So it was a great series, amazing, still hasn't sunk in. I'm disappointed I couldn't see a game this year, but that's ok, the baby will maybe get to go with me next year. Go see the bravos take on the WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!
Posted by holtonian at October 28, 2006 07:25 PM | TrackBack