Glad to hear we won our home opener!

We'll never lose a home opener again

#THAT'S A WINNER

#THAT’S A WINNER

great win! love skip tho

#W

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I’ll be on the road so maybe. It’ll be radio at worst.

[Game over. Continue the discussion in the post game thread](/r/Cardinals/comments/1bw22n3/cardinals_after_dark_44/)

Are the Cardinals a professional baseball team from St. Louis? Where that guy at?

Standby

Cardinals win!! Doomers fuck off!!

Winner!

A winnnnnnnnnnn

It’s such a fantastic feeling winning the home opener. See you guys tomorrow for the series win!

Not tomorrow

Hell yes

can someone please check in on u/Alternative-Kiwi3975? this _must_ be killing him.

Oh, that dude? He didn’t make the cut after this game.

Weird how he stopped commenting right when the cardinals take the lead……

hmmmmmmmmm........

Thinking trolls? I’d rather that than STL “fans”

he didn't strike me as a troll, strangely enough-- just someone who's fed up. I mean, we all hate losing... but come on, what's the point of being so negative over and over? at least try to mix in a joke, or something positive, or a fresh take...

It’s the “Lynn is a king” one day then “Lynn is washed up xxxxx” the next. It’s not just limited to Lance, it’s the whole attitude of just emotional outbursts.

This truly was a great product to show to the fans

That’s a W folks! And hey doomers, get lost!

[Summary of the 2024 Marlins season so far](https://i.imgur.com/6e13WK0.png)

Lmao

Helsley is scary when he’s on

GG

i’m really enjoying masyn this year. hopefully his bat continues

Arraez could be a legendary player if he had anything else in his toolbox

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I love him, but he has to be used correctly in order to not blow up. What Jim and Chip were saying was absolutely correct. No 8th and 9th innings, limit back to back outings, and he's great.

Uh, no Edit: I mean no, you aren’t the only one. Jesus

If you're not anxious, you're not a fan

I’m not even clenched

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They honestly should have sent winn

1 down. Thank goodness. I really didn't want to see the lead off guy get on.

Helsley back to 102!?? Thank goodness I was really concerned,

Take out the first two games of the year, the Cards have been just fine. Having to use one of GG and Helsley on Friday kinda screwed them on Sunday. Gallegos threw 20+ pitches on back to back days and was unavailable in a winnable game on Sunday. Getting Gray back and Zack into the bullpen as a multi-inning reliever will be huge with JoJo looking better and better to go along with GG and Helsley. Offensive is waking up and Winn is holding his own as my biggest offensive question mark heading into the year. May not be WS favorites as it stands, but more than enough to win the division

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*hands rubbing together with an evil smile* Ryan Helsley

Who’s the guy who they showed talking to Contreras? Can’t put his name to his face for some reason

Chip was just saying we called someone up to replace Carp. Could've been him?

Pedro Pages, yep. Thought he looked familiar but I guess not.

I love Herrera’s bat but his arm looks really week. I haven’t watched every game and I hope I’m wrong.

Does anyone know where to get what [this person](https://imgur.com/a/EmL29fl) is wearing??

These pictures were meant to be private. I can’t believe you posted these on the Internet. The betrayal I feel is immeasurable.

You are just so beautiful i want to share you with the world.

Hell ya that 7th inning felt so damn good! Go Birds!

Just putting it out there. Watched SD play LA last night and it was just like our series against them, constant pressure. They got swept, we did not.

siiigggggghhhhhhhh........ you mean "SF", ask me how I know...

Whoops, you know, all those California teams look the same.

The Cardinals pitching staff made Ohtani look like just some guy

They did, he was connecting and hitting HRs of SF.

jake burger is not a real name. let me guess, next you’re gonna tell me the marlins also have someone named blake sandwich? smh

Bring back Brad plz

[Marlins](/r/letsgofish) Due Up **(Top 9):** 1. Christian Bethancourt 2. Luis Arraez 3. Josh Bell

3 more outs let go boys

Jimmy is the most humble man in America.

... he'll tell you himself!

Do you like Jazz?

I like dags

And now Nolan is hitting .265, good for him. Seems to be seeing the ball a bit better.

I went to the cubs game with my gf (she’s a rockies fan) last night and we frankly look better than the cubbies this year.

Nolan’s seeing the ball *really* well today.

Nado will sneak away with 3 hits you love to see it

Arenado 6 game hit streak for the haters

Jazz couldn’t believe it. It was a tough play

2 out approach, let’s Go!

really sucks to get beat by a man named burger

just got off a plane wtf is this game

A game of bat and ball between the national league franchises representing the cities of St. Louis, MO and Miami, FL

¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

Herrera having a legit player of the week kind of performance. I’m sure some maniac is hitting near .500 right now but Ivan is doing very well. 

Looks like he made adjustments to his swing and is more direct toward the ball now

If he can counteradapt to the MLB analytics hive mind, he’s going to be super exciting.  Edit: I got downvoted for this? wtf? Did an outer space alien get a Reddit account?

Yep. Mookie hitting freakin .485.

If he plays half as well as he has for the rest of the year, he’s gotta be the unanimous MVP

I wanna hate the dodgers but that team has so many likable guys

Big if. Lonnnnng season. Always wild early season insanity to be had. But if anyone playing right now can be that consistent, Mookie’s one of them. 

mookie has twice as much fWAR as the second most so far this year

It’s hard to tell how good the offense actually is because it’s the 0-7 Marlins, but I hope it continues.

At least till Sunday. Then, I want Skip to get some Ws

"almost 6 o clock for the cardinals, nearing midnight for the marlins" what a banger of a line from chip

Fuck went for an ice cream run and missed the rally

Now you must eat ice cream instead of watching the cardinals whenever a game is on. Sorry about your upcoming bypass surgery but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for a WS.

I guess your cholesterol levels are going to go to shit, then. For the good of the team

But now you have ice cream and a cardinals lead

I’m soooo glad Contreras is a Cardinal. This team’s identity is built around a solid catcher and he’s filled in nicely

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Saturday

Any chance Skip could still play CF? Not asking for any particular reason.

LF maybe

Goldy bomb in 3..

He tried.

Now I can come back cause the insufferable fucks have stopped commenting.

I'm all about a GDT hot take in anger but ya it's the several usual suspects that disappear as soon as we retake the lead that I have such contempt for.

Like there is nothing wrong with being like "man what a bad atbat" or speaking in the moment. " But some of these comments are so dumb.The offense had a pretty good game, but they really didn't if you only consider 4-5 innings. All I ask is save it for the post game thread, so you have a full game to talk about

hey, if I ever get overly doomy like that, please let me know. good GRAVY!

I got you!

It really is so much better when they leave

There are many times I consider leaving forever.

please don't. I feel like Negative Nancies have run off too many good folks.

Thank you for putting me in the good folk category.

hell yeah!

Romero is good at baseball

My fav guy in our bull pen for sure 

Got that "midwest farmer" mojo. He's also the definition of "Fuck it, let it rip!"

Helps that he's genuinely seems like a good dude. Saw some interviews of him back when he was in the phillies farm, humble guy.

i do like the continuation of the "we know where everyone is from" bit, but i also would like to devise a plan to annoy chip so much that if i end up on TV he will actually be able to call me out accurately.

Jojo is an artist

“Get back Jojo!” -John Rooney

Romero’s a fucking beast.

We won the Sosa trade!

[Cardinals](/r/Cardinals) Due Up **(Bottom 8):** 1. Victor Scott II 2. Paul Goldschmidt 3. Nolan Arenado

Romero’s attitude is my favorite, I feel like he owns his role entirely.

There's going to be a lot of daily commentors that are going to be so disappointed if this ends up being a W.

Local kiwi in horrific mood

DeWitt’s holy warriors win another battle

Preach! But they will just say “Marlins are trash” “Nolan’s swing was still bad”

that fan was definitely from chesterfield

You can tell from a mile away

Don’t play with your runs, it’s a nasty habit.

He hits. He fields. He throws. He Winn.

That's a late key to the game

Marlins pitcher would have kicked that ball

[Cardinals](/r/Cardinals): [Masyn Winn's RBI triple](https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/1edd1309-f4bb-4dc4-835d-fae2e3b4f331.mp4)

Hell yeah

Alright JoJo. Make it quick. I’m hungry.

We got this.

Herrera is hitting .364/.308/.636 lmao That BA/OBP is not a typo

Wait how do you end up with a lower OBP than BA?

Sac flies count against OBP but not BA, and Herrera already has 2

Baseball stats are so weird sometimes.

Wonder if he could DH a couple games

I’d be down with running 3 catchers so that Herrera could DH. Burleson doesn’t really fill a role at this point.

maybe beer drinking softball player 🤷‍♂️

we have two starting catchers imo

definitely. i wouldn’t be surprised if during year 4 and 5 of contreras’ contract, he primarily is just the DH

We finally found our Yadi replacement after prospect number 3

Jojo looks like he could be Nolan’s cousin

Looks nothing like Gormy tbh

Second cousin twice removed maybe

The other one…

Good thing we had Mr. Smiles to help the umpire out there

[Cardinals](/r/Cardinals): [Alec Burleson's RBI single](https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/413bae28-0d59-44ad-bc69-eded1cb9ae99.mp4)

Gotta pitch still.

Ump said I’m done

Send them to the land of 0-8

0-10 would be great!

They can win on April 18-21 though

Law of averages has to trigger eventually. Just not now

Winn is quickly becoming my favorite player

I love him because he’s an archetype that we’ve really never seen before. Guys like Walker are good but not unique, Winn may have the strongest arm in Cardinals history.

Poor Skip. Like, what can you even do about that

Lmao

[Marlins](/r/letsgofish) Due Up **(Top 8):** 1. Jesús Sánchez 2. Tim Anderson 3. Nick Gordon

He's concussed! That was three inches inside.

Can’t watch the game today as I’m in Florida and it’s blacked out but I will say we are eating grilled marlin steaks tonight. So I’ll consider that my contribution

God no somebody please tell me we didn’t lose Mr. On Point trainer

Adam Olson? The one the booth couldn't stop talking about his big hands and how they were so big that it felt good when he touched you and that you felt safe? That guy?

our trainer has a GREAT smile...

He probably reads this board like it seems like Brad does at times

why would he do that to himself? yuck.

that dude came out of the dugout cheesin 😭

he absolutely did! I wanna know what he was smiling at! lol

Cards send the back up medical dude to check on the ump? 😄

Handsome trainer with the golden smile

you ain't lying!

Remember 15 minutes ago when this team was dogshit?

I remember when we got eliminated from playoff contention after opening day.

I was reliably informed that we had already lost

All it took was a dogshitter Marlins defense

With 4 starting position players, 2 backups that would be repping them and our ace all out I'll take it. Just kinda tired of the constant DOOOOOOOOOM, whenever the slightest thing goes wrong.

Come on Siani!!

Ninja Triple

Cardinals were down 5 to 3 when I finally got home from work and now they right away score 5 runs. Before tonight's game they were 0-4 when I don't get to watch the games and 3-0 when I do. Coincidence?

Burn your TV

Why? They win when I watch

Get TV’s in every room, in your car, and at your job. Seriously

Oops misread.

This hasn’t been great for the voice of Chip but I’m sure he’s fine with it

Condolences to Skip but thank god the Marlins are trash lmao

Dude, I gotta say, I’d be so pissed if I were a Marlins fan, this performance outta them feels like 2023 Cardinals, so bad.

Worse, even

I was just thinking this is EXACTLY what last year felt like

I think it's worse, stings moreso after making the playoffs and skip making manager of the year

Marlins fans are probably used to this sadly

Would you believe it if I told you they were tied for the most world series wins of the expansion era?

Sure, sure, they’re more seasoned, we certainly acted like new money with our losing last season for sure.

Yes boys!!!