June 22, 2005
Unfortunate Hair Embarasses Cardinals
By
Amanda
Posted at 9:06 am
CINCINNATI, OH -- After a blow-out at the hands of the division's last-place Reds, several Cardinals tried to show their solidarity with a gesture that turned out to be as embarassing as the loss.
Larry Walker, Abraham Nuñez, Mark Grudzielanek, Einar Diaz, Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen, and Scott Seabol all visited a local barber shop to get matching haircuts. Each player had his hair cut close, with the first letter of his first name shaved into the back. However, when the players arrived at the ballpark this morning to show off their new do's, the media was quick to point out that the letters spelled out “LAME ASS.”
“That describes their game pretty well,” said Reds catcher Javier Valentín.
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With all due respect and sorrow for your loss, you’re going down.
We’ve got Jimmy and Larry today. Both played with Kile. They know what today is.
*Another* fast top of the first. This is becoming a pattern!
Albert, too. Who has been easier to strike out than in years past.
Yeah, two whole days in a row!
Oooh, did you take off the delay? Nice!
Yeah, sorry about that. I didn’t know it was on there. I didn’t mean to impede rapid-fire consession of how awesome the Reds are.
You mean how awesomely far out of first place the Reds are?
You wouldn’t know it to see them last night. Or so far today. "Randy" Joe Randa strikes again!
Moral victory from the first inning: Mulder struck out the side.
Whew, double play to end the top of the second. I was almost thinking about maybe getting a little concerned there for a minute.
You’re lucky Grudz is in a little slump.
Oh, hell Mulder.
I love it when the catcher goes to the mound to discuss the strategy for pitching to the opposing pitcher.
At least it was an out.
Yeah, Mulder’s getting beat around a bit, huh? Sucks to pitch to such a newly inspired team, I reckon.
Mostly, I’m glad I don’t have him on my fantasy team. I’m down 11-1 this week thanks to Marquis’ performance last night, btw.
I don’t even know what to think about Mulder. I’m getting very mad at him.
Looks like the key for your pitcher today is going to be striking out Peña. At least that shouldn’t be too difficult.
Unlike trying to do this smack talking when your team is up. I have a whole new appreciation for your performace to this point. Good on ya.
Yeah, it’s hard to do. And I’ve got nothing to say really. Mark Mulder is driving me up the wall his past few starts, and the Cardinals can make even the worst pitcher look like Cy Young some days.
Excuse me, but I take offense at you implying that Ortíz is the "worst pitcher." Haven’t you seen Milton?
Dunn again. And you wonder why his head is so big!
No, there have been much worse pitchers that have owned the Cardinals.
The wheels have fallen off. Too bad our pen was used so much last night.
Yeah, that’s one good thing about having awful starters: your awful bullpen builds up its stamina.
So how is it that you can get away with listening to a game over the Internet and updating your blog during the working hours? Are you the boss?
For right now, I’m my own boss.
Marquis and Mulder completely spit the bit.
That’s a good gig. Plenty of people in my field do it; maybe I ought to give it a try.
I have never heard the phrase "spit the bit" and google isn’t helping me, but I think I’ve got the sense of it.
I’m surfing the Reds blogdom in the meantime and I can’t believe the level of rage over Dunn hitting seventh. You’d think they’d sent him down or something. Anything interesting going on in the Card fan world?
Ah, so your offense decided to come to the game after all. That ought to make things, if not actually difficult, at least less embarassing.
I don’t know why my comment didn’t show up. Oh, well.
GRUDZ!! Bye-bye, no-hitter AND shut-out!
I’ve only looked at a couple blogs, so far. Recaps and DK memories. Haven’t checked any message boards, but I’m sure they’re all calling for Mulder’s head.
Spit the bit is a horse thing.
Anytime your starter only goes 4 innings and gives up 7 runs, it’s embarassing.
How well I know.
Three run inning. Your guys do that several more times, and this could be a contest!
Yeah, we totally failed to completely suck. That’s nice.
Do you have mlb radio? You should listen to KMOX and the joy that is Mike Shannon.
Dunn is really Mr. Three True Outcomes, isn’t he?
I’m actually listening on 700 WLW out of Cincinnati. It has a remarkable reach, especially after dark. We listened to it most of the drive home from our spring training vacation in Florida.
If nothing else, Dunn is consistent.
Whew, 1-2-3 sixth. I was a little worried that the fifth might have been the start of something.
Nah, the way last night and today are going, the fifth was a fluke.
Oooh, hard luck for that Kelly kid, surgury tomorrow.
Yeah, poor kid. At least that particular surgery isn’t so severe.
The question is: who will they bring up in his place? I’m afraid it’ll be Kearns, and I was really looking forward to spending the entire 4th of July weekend watching him play with Louisville in their series in Indianapolis.
It’s probably good for the team that I’m not the one in charge of roster decisions.
Hit in the seventh. This could get bad. Seems like Ortíz hasn’t pitched this many innings in a long time.
Well, it’s not like Ortiz is throwing "stressful" innings.
It’s nice for your guys to give him such a confidence boost today. He seemed to be getting down on himself for a while there.
Yeah. Well, it was a team effort today. No bats, horrific starter.
Ouch. You’ve just gotta strike out Wily Mo there. I’m pretty sure *I* could strikeout Wily Mo, and I pitch underhand.
Oh, Ray King. Don’t you get hurt.
HEY!
I remember when Ryan Wagner was a bad-ass. I hope he didn’t hurt your little guy.
Nothing scoring won’t cure.
Apparently Weathers felt so bad about it that he felt the need to let a few runs score. I hope everyone’s guilt is fully asuaged now.
Wow. We made a game of it.
I can tell that you don’t have much experience being down early lately; you lack that naive confidence that your team will come back against impossible odds.
Don’t worry; you’ll have plenty of chances the rest of this season.
It’s not nice to hit Cruz. Not smart, either.
I’m just terribly dissapointed Marquis and Mulder’s recent efforts. It’s one thing to be down 4-0 in the third inning — 7-0 is entirely different.
Well, in their defense, they were facing the most impressive, powerful, and good-looking line-up in the majors. They were bound to get touched now and then.
Apparently Aurilia and Casey still felt a little guilty about taking any more runs. They’re just too sweet for their own good.
Yay! Go Reds!
And your guys got a series taken from them in grand form, so if anything shakes them up, it ought to be that. A win-win.
See you next week?
Well, now I have to go do something more painful than listening to that game-buy a swim suit.
Congratulations. That’s the first time the Cardinals have lost two games in a row for a very long time.