What SPORTS did you watch today?

tohostudios wrote:

So we DFA'd Eric Fryer who had done a fine job both offensively and defensively in favor of this Bryan Pena clown who has now had two passed balls in both of his starts.  Meanwhile Fryer has 3 hits for the Pirates tonight.

Merry Christmas Pittsburgh!

Thanks! Got him out of necessity but he's better than what we had to back up Vercelli.

Getting ready to watch St. Louis try to salvage a split out of this series starting tonight.  It's Locke vs. Garcia tonight and given the home/road splits of both pitchers this one should go in the Cardinals win column.  But you never know; St. Louis is pretty beat up right now with both Brandon Moss and Jhonny Peralta out.

I've been watching MLB Network's broadcast of the Orioles @ Dodgers this afternoon.  They're using the Dodgers feed.  I didn't realize Vin Scully called these games by himself.  You don't realize how much you need to hear someone with a different voice until you've listened to 12 innings of Vin Scully calling a game in a one-man booth.   And a lot of Scully's mannerisms and things he says are right out of the 50s.  I think he's wise to be hanging up the mic after this season.

Holy F'n S***!!!!   Are you F'n kiddin' me?????  So we hand division rival Pittsburgh a perfectly serviceable backup catcher who promptly turned around and kicked our asses last night and now this????

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinal-beat/peralta-to-sit-after-feeling-pain-in-thumb/article_68960808-8553-5868-9357-6d0874f2f688.html

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Last week the Cardinals had Eric Fryer as their reserve catcher. Now he's in the opposite dugout with the Pirates after being designated for assignment upon Pena's activation. Fryer had two hits and three RBIs in Pittsburgh's 5-2 win on Tuesday.
"That's the game. A guy's out of options, he's out of options," Matheny said. "I think he was a good fit here, but obviously things worked out for him and he may have an ever better fit over there."
Pena said he planned to do nothing for the next two weeks before having his knee re-examined to determine the next step. He was unsure whether he might need more time on the DL.
"Right now I really can't tell because it's one of those processes I don't know if I'm going to stay here or go to Jupiter," Pena said. "I have to be careful because I don't want to embarrass myself and don't want to embarrass my team."
Pena signed with the Cardinals for two years and $5 million as a free agent this past offseason.

I call "do-over".  Somebody on the Cardinals medical staff needs to be fired.

well that's just F'n great.  Matt Carpenter just left the game with what looks like some kind of oblique injury or something.  Can we just skip to the All Star break already?  The Cardinals have amassed major injuries in the last several days.  This is getting ridiculous.

Watched the Pirates come back from 4 down to take 7-5 win over the Cards for their 6th straight win.

Watched the Cardinals manage to salvage the final game against Pittsburgh thanks to Wainwright who looks like he's back to normal lately after a rough start to the season.

Flipping back and forth between the Cards/Brewers and Cubs/Pirates.

It looks like the Pirates are handling the Cubs and the Cards just tied the Brewers at 3-3 in the 8th.

Oh for crying out loud.

The Pirates beat the Cubs tonight and the Cardinals are tied with the Brewers 3-3 in the bottom of the 9th so STL must really want to win this game right????  Nope.  Who do they bring in to start the inning?  None other than Trevor "Blowsitall" who promptly walks the first batter he faces.

They need to trade this asshat now while they can still get a bag of baseballs for him.  Jeez, he sucks.


EDIT:  Well there's a surprise (not).  Cards lose 4-3.  Guess who the losing pitcher is?  Yep, my old pal Trevor.

OK, half a bag of baseballs...oh, and a rosin bag.  Anyone? Anyone?

Watching the Nationals and Mets.

Watched the Cards beat Milwaukee today 8-1.

Now I'm flipping back and forth between the Cubs/Pirates game and UFC on Fox.

UFC 200

Watching the Cards vs Milwaukee. 

5-1 Cards in the 9th.

I see the Cubs beat Pittsburgh today.  That's too bad.  I was hoping STL would be 6 games out with the Pirates 5.5 games out.  We need to put pressure on the Shlubs.

I also see Eric Fryer had another RBI for the Bucs.  That's 5 already and he's been with them for about a week.  And we got nothing for him.  I'm still pissed about how that worked out.

Hated to see the Pirates lose that game. The Pirates have been playing much better baseball as of late and a sweep of the Cubs would have been sweet. Now I hope the All Star Break isn't a momentum killer.

Watching the home run derby.

The All Star Game.

Even though I want the NL to win, I am really pleased that Johnny "Kick Like A Girl" Cueto has given up 3 run and 2 homers in less than two innings.   

I didnt see the All Star Game but i was routing for the NL too, Ive been following the cubs since spring training, theyre my team this season (but been a casual cubs fan for years)

I think its the first time in memory ive routed for the NL

As much as I enjoy watching sports, I could never bring myself to watch any of the various All Star games. They just don't interest me in the least.

I watched the All Star Game as well. I was hoping the NL would pull out a win.

Tonight I watched the Cardinals beat the Marlins.

What do you do when your bullpen keeps F'n up games? This:

Adam Wainwright - 9 IP, 3H, 0 runs

Final 5-0 Cardinals. First complete game shutout for Wainwright since 5/2014

Watched the Cardinals suffer their usual fate when facing a left-handed starter they've never seen before. They managed a whopping 3 hits off the guy and lost 6-3.

Watching the Red Sox and Yankees.

Caught the end of the Pirates-Nationals 18 inning marathon. At least the Pirates pulled it out after Melancon blew it for them in the bottom of the 9th.

Watching the Pirates play the Brewers.