Comments on: What They Need: St. Louis Cardinals – Bullpen help, maybe a bat

By: the little bro

the little bro — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:50:34 +0000

Hey Shawn, talk about fact checking, a team will do what they deem necessary will ultimately help them out this season. In case you don’t recall, these same cardinals two years ago placed a pitcher that was seen as a starter in the bullpen and BAM, what happened they won the WS, oh yeah this pitcher was Adam W. He was ultimately became a stud in the rotation, and if the cardinals see it necessary to place boggs in the bullpen as opposed to going out and sacrificing some prospects to rent out a player for the rest of the year, then they most certainly will do so.
It just sounds like you are a frustrated blogger that isnt very good at what he does, and has to take it out on comments.
STAY CLASSY SAN DIAGO

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By: Alejandro Leal

Alejandro Leal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:53:08 +0000

Hey Shawn, thanks for the classy feedback, I wasn’t aware that the Cards had hired you as their pitching consultant, maybe I should run posts by you for approval.

I dunno if Boggs is going to the bullpen, but if you or I knew we wouldn’t be posting on this forum. Stay classy…

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:52:06 +0000

Hey Shawn, your concerns are duly noted. We actually do have an editorial process on UmpBump—because spelling is hard, and stuff—usually what we do is just proof each other’s posts right after they’ve been posted. But since you apparently get up very early (at least as far as our time zone is concerned) you just beat us to the punch this time. And let’s not turn this into an MSM-vs-Bloggers thing—I’ve yet to read a newspaper without a lush “corrections” column. Anyway, we’ll fix the errors. Thanks for the heads-up.

About moving young starters to the bullpen….I am leery of this, in general, but the Red Sox have been playing around with it for the past year or so (with Lester last year, and now with Masterson) and it seems to be working so far. Better than overpaying for bullpen help, anyway. Maybe other teams should be more willing to try it.

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By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:40:18 +0000

Part of me wonders why bloggers get such a bad reputation. Then I remember that in the real world there are these things called editors that make the god-awful shit you write readable. Maybe your “die-hard” brother can tell you that it’s Braden Looper, not “Brendan,” and Glaus, not “Glauss.” Too, in the biz, is there such a thing as a fact-checker, who might remind you that Braun’s homerun was not a “walk off,” but in fact a go-ahead shot in a visitor’s stadium. Not to mention the fact that a return of Carpenter and/or Wainright would certainly lead to a demotion of Boggs, who is seen as a starter not as a reliever. You should be absolutely embarrassed by this post. And to think, I was actually looking forward to what you guys had to say about the Cards.

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