Morning Roundup: Back-to-Back Braun

Shame on Izzy For Giving Up

DaveKingman posted 5/13/2008 from www.dugoutcentral.com

Harsh words for Izzy for volunteering out of the closer's job. If he can't do his job in the 9th, what makes the Cards think he can do it in the 7th or 8th?

Not So Fast Milwaukee: LaRussa’s Genius Still Revealing Itself

Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts found this 5/13/2008 on www.bugsandcranks.com

In what can only be described as his most brilliant regular season mind-trick ever, Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa exhibited uncanny genius by pulling Albert Pujols from the lineup, allowing his best starter to get torched by the Brewers, and ...

Senior Superlatives

Hugging Harold Reynolds posted 5/13/2008 from gemmintten.blogspot.com

As school children across the country are brushing up on a semester's-worth of learning for upcoming exams, and picking out what will soon be embarrassingly forgetful duds for the prom, GMT takes a look at high school yearbook shots that somehow seemed like a good idea to put on baseball cards.

Molina, La Russa ejected in Milwaukee

Babes Love Baseball found this 5/13/2008 on mlb.mlb.com

Home-plate umpire Paul Schrieber ejected Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina and manager Tony La Russa for arguing -- presumably about balls and strikes -- in the fifth inning of Monday night's game against the Brewers.

fuzzy math

C70 At The Bat found this 5/13/2008 on www.vivaelbirdos.com

if the cards had gotten competent bullpenning, some of you are saying, they’d be 5-2 on the current road trip and playing for a series win tonight, instead of 3-4 and needing a win to break even on the trip. that’s true as far as it ...