The Cardinals

[NewUserName]

Mark Prior syndrome is my diagnosis. He'll be doing the towel drill by the end of ST.

the Cardinals of the last few years remind me some of the 04-07 Cubs

[Brian]

The Cardinals brought in Goldschmidt and Dexter in the 8th inning of spring training game to try to not get no-hit. Is that the most meatball thing that has happened in a spring training game?

[NonProfitCow]

The Cardinals brought in Goldschmidt and Dexter in the 8th inning of spring training game to try to not get no-hit. Is that the most meatball thing that has happened in a spring training game?

It's almost as meatballish as a fan of a rival team saying they were "brought in" when they actually started the game.

[Brian]

Poor wording or poor reading on my part(or both), but I took this tweet to mean they hadn't been in the game.

I apologize to the entire Cardinals organization.

[Regular Show]

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[Thed Hoyerstein]

cubs are exploiting a new market inefficiency in not signing any good players or extending your good players

[Transmogrified Tiger]

extending a 32 year old first baseman what could go wrong

[The_Achiever]

extending a 32 year old first baseman what could go wrong

Eh, 31.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

extending a 32 year old first baseman what could go wrong

Eh, 31.

He was already under control for his age 31 season.

[The_Achiever]

Well whatever. If I was a cardinals fan this news would have me very happy. Sure beats our big twin offseason moves of becoming the official MAGA MLB club and signing Daniel Desalsaco.

[big ball chunky time]

extending a 32 year old first baseman what could go wrong

i wouldnt do it on OOTP but this is the real world where our biggest offseason waves were made by signing a ... 38 year old dude who rick ankieled himself out of the minors 16 years ago so probably not gonna dunk on the cardinals in this case, thank you

[David]

i get lamenting our horsefeathers owners and boring ass offseason completely.

what i don't get is all the pining for/props to even horsefeathers organizations who spend even less (and cry poor much more loudly) and are just happening to do things right now.

[17 Seconds]

the cardinals have been a horsefeathers the last 2 years and somehow they like already caught back up to us

[jersey cubs fan]

i get lamenting our horsefeathers owners and boring ass offseason completely.

what i don't get is all the pining for/props to even horsefeathers organizations who spend even less (and cry poor much more loudly) and are just happening to do things right now.

What you are for some reason imagining as pining/props is very much a lamenting of what little the Cubs have done in comparison to other teams.

[Derwood]

extending a 32 year old first baseman what could go wrong

It’s what a billion Cubs fans want to do with Rizzo, so.....

[Bertz]

I'm positive that we're all going to hate Goldschmidt and he's going to absolutely wreck our lefty heavy rotation, but...this seems like a pretty player friendly deal? Like, would he even have gotten $130m this winter? I doubt it, and now the Cards are committing to that a year out. Also, if they were willing to do this, why not just sign Machado and slide Carpenter over to first?

[NonProfitCow]

I'm positive that we're all going to hate Goldschmidt and he's going to absolutely wreck our lefty heavy rotation, but...this seems like a pretty player friendly deal? Like, would he even have gotten $130m this winter? I doubt it, and now the Cards are committing to that a year out. Also, if they were willing to do this, why not just sign Machado and slide Carpenter over to first?

5 years and 170 mil, and the top 2 position prospects in the system are 3B.

He's also really good at baseball and it's just money.

[Bryant's Disco Ball]

For the Cubs fans here who are cheering against the Cubs now, are you happy about this deal or upset by it?

[The Logan]

For the Cubs fans here who are cheering against the Cubs now, are you happy about this deal or upset by it?

Paul Goldschmidt does not strike me as the type of player who loses all baseball talent in his early thirties. There are some players who baffle me. Guys who seemingly fall off a cliff in the middle of their prime years. Goldschmidt has always been great. A good batting eye doesn't go away with age and he seems like he's got the physicality to maintain his strengths without losing a step well into his mid 30's. He's also extremely durable. I think he remains his usual productive self for the majority of this contract. Because of this, I'm upset he's on the Cardinals.

[Bryant's Disco Ball]

For the Cubs fans here who are cheering against the Cubs now, are you happy about this deal or upset by it?

Paul Goldschmidt does not strike me as the type of player who loses all baseball talent in his early thirties. There are some players who baffle me. Guys who seemingly fall off a cliff in the middle of their prime years. Goldschmidt has always been great. A good batting eye doesn't go away with age and he seems like he's got the physicality to maintain his strengths without losing a step well into his mid 30's. I think he remains his usual productive self for the majority of this contract. Because of this, I'm upset he's on the Cardinals.

If what you say is true, the answer is it makes them happy then.

ETA: Although Cubs fans who now are cheering against the Cubs probably still hate the Cardinals, too.

[Bull]

For the Cubs fans here who are cheering against the Cubs now, are you happy about this deal or upset by it?

Paul Goldschmidt does not strike me as the type of player who loses all baseball talent in his early thirties. There are some players who baffle me. Guys who seemingly fall off a cliff in the middle of their prime years. Goldschmidt has always been great. A good batting eye doesn't go away with age and he seems like he's got the physicality to maintain his strengths without losing a step well into his mid 30's. I think he remains his usual productive self for the majority of this contract. Because of this, I'm upset he's on the Cardinals.

If what you say is true, the answer is it makes them happy then.

ETA: Although Cubs fans who now are cheering against the Cubs probably still hate the Cardinals, too.

Hating the current state of the cubs, the pathetic offseason and the shortcomings of management, and recognizing that Cardinals are dirty birds that defecate in their children’s mouths and are awful, are not mutually exclusive.

[d_money]

I’m looking forward to Yadi’s first AB at Wrigley this year - with the fans chanting “bor-ring! bor-ring!”

What a turd.

[Banedon]

the cardinals have been a horsefeathers the last 2 years and somehow they like already caught back up to us

That's a bit of an assumption. But I guess time will tell.

[Backtobanks]

the cardinals have been a horsefeathers the last 2 years and somehow they like already caught back up to us

That's what happens when you take a rest in the middle of a race while the other runners keep running.