And we're back.
Get Up, Baby! proper is now back online. Thanks for your patience.
so here's the deal: comment-spam led to 1&1 randomly locking my site, which led to me yelling at people in india for four hours. o this modern age: previously, the media had to yell at people in india via telegraph. main site'll be back up later today, but until then... read this, ah, one post. and bookmark this in case 1&1 whacks out again.
I'd say this is an exception, mainly because that was the most cathartic victory all season. (I'd link to my rev. redbird-mandated Optimistic Post from a while back, but present facilities being as they are that's not so possible.) It's a talented team, as the mantra goes--but yesterday's win even had the, ah, unskilled laborers playing the most important roles of all. Sometimes things just work out like that; here are some things that don't happen when Team is mired in a losing streak:
There you go; clean win against a division rival, and then a gritty, hard-fought comeback won by The Albert and scrubbinis Dunc'n'Miles in equal parts. Is the late June bad taste in your mouth gone yet? I mean, give it time, but certainly the Cardinals couldn't have afforded to let their skid run through the all-star break--and guaranteeing a series split is as good a way as any to prevent that.
Strike% K:BB Groundout%
thru shutout 69% 7.00 36.2
post-shutout 56% 1.20 58.1
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Because I really do love you readers, I've provided a capsule recap, for use if your casual-sort-of-a-baseball-fan friends or relatives ask you how yesterday's game went. It goes as follows.