jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) (10/28/85)
It's over. KC won it. I'm not looking for an excuse, because I'm not a Cardinal fan, but it seems like there's got to be an explanation of why the 101-61 Cardinals lost 4 of the last 5 to the Royals. Is it that the Royals had a great pitching staff that didn't completely gell until so late in the season so they showed only so-so to good stats? Could Coleman have meant that much to the St. Loius. Just a statistical anomally? Well, what ever the reason, it's over, and now its awards and trades time.
dcm@busch.UUCP (Craig Miller) (10/29/85)
In article <444@npois.UUCP> jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) writes: > >It's over. KC won it. I'm not looking for an excuse, because I'm not a >Cardinal fan, but it seems like there's got to be an explanation of why >the 101-61 Cardinals lost 4 of the last 5 to the Royals. Is it that the >Royals had a great pitching staff that didn't completely gell until >so late in the season so they showed only so-so to good stats? Could >Coleman have meant that much to the St. Loius. Just a statistical >anomally? > >Well, what ever the reason, it's over, and now its awards and trades time. (a short note from a depressed Cardinal fan...) I'm not actually sure what caused them to fall the way they did. But here are a few ideas: (1) K.C. just kept fighting back, and would never get down no matter what the odds were of them pulling it off. Plus the underdog syndrome... (2) either (a) the Cardinals offense died, or (b) the Royals pitching blew them away, or (c) all of the above. (didn't the Cards score something like 6 runs in the last 5 games: 6-1 KC, 3-1 Stl, 6-1 KC, 2-1 KC, 11-0 KC? not too awesome...) Anyway, there pitching was damn good. Saberhagen was awesome. (3) in all seriousness, I thought StL had the series wrapped up in game 6. *But* (a) they had a call go obviously against them, (b) they had Porter behind the plate, and (c) refer to ideas #1 and #2. These are my gut feelings. I don't feel Denkinger caused them to lose. I have a hard time believing that an ump could lose a game for anyone. If they had been playing the kind of ball that they were playing before the playoffs, we'd *probably* be talking about them winning it. But they picked a rotten time to go into a slump. If the call in game 6 had gone for the Cardinals, they might have pulled it off then. Oh well. Anyone want to trade for a very emotional pitcher and an incompetent catcher? We'll take a bat boy or two for them. :-) Craig p.s. anyone care to donate a fan to the Royals to replace the one Tudor broke. :-) -- Craig Miller {*}!ihnp4!we53!busch!dcm The Anheuser-Busch Companies; St. Louis, Mo. - Since I'm a consultant here and not an Anheuser-Busch employee, my views (or lack of) are strictly my own.