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It was not a real tough decision for me to skip the Cardinals’ first weekday afternoon home game on Tuesday. I did have to be at the office, though since I work downtown I can usually manipulate my schedule as needed. But I did not really have the time to spare and am thankful I did not have to endure one of the worst games imaginable – good weather aside. From the two errors in the top of the first to the final offensive whimper in the ninth, this was awful. It does not take much complex analysis to see what the problem is. St. Louis is last in the NL with its 29 extra base hits and .650 team OPS. Of course, an entire team cannot stay cold so we’ll have to wait another month before extrapolating too much. Cardinals starter Anthony Reyes really frustrated folks with his 50-pitch first inning on Monday, but he got through the next 4 innings in fewer than 50 pitches. Makes me think his 8-day layoff was an issue, along with his inexperience. Again, no need to overanalyze just yet.

A nice fact from today’s radio broadcast: Jimmy Edmonds’ Tuesday start was his 1,000th game as a Cardinal, making Jedmonds just the 28th player to play 1,000 games for St. Louis.

Brad’s latest Stat Guy reminded me of something. The local Golden State Warriors broadcasts have been using a running Win Expectancy graphic. It is the same concept as baseball, though its applicability remains in question. But I like their idea. They do not reference it until the final quarter, but will then say something like “When an NBA team is ahead by 5 points at home with 3 minutes left they win 83 percent of the time.”

I can’t wait to watch tonight’s Warriors game! I already know the Clippers result, but have Golden State-Dallas safely nestled on my DVR. First, I need to get through the Cavs-76ers. Philly has been using an assortment of obscure players, one of which is named Bobby Jones. I’m hopeful we’ll see Caldwell Jones and maybe even Clint Richardson, or Marc Iavoroni.

Brad’s edit

Just wanted to add the full list of 1000-game Redbirds, courtesy of Lee Sinins’ Complete Baseball Encyclopedia:

GAMES                            G
1    Stan Musial                3026
2    Lou Brock                  2289
3    Ozzie Smith                1990
4    Enos Slaughter             1820
5    Red Schoendienst           1795
6    Curt Flood                 1738
7    Ken Boyer                  1667
8    Willie McGee               1661
T9   Rogers Hornsby             1580
T9   Ray Lankford               1580
11   Julian Javier              1578
12   Ted Simmons                1564
13   Marty Marion               1502
14   Jim Bottomley              1392
15   Frankie Frisch             1311
16   Terry Moore                1298
17   Joe Medwick                1216
18   Dal Maxvill                1205
19   Pepper Martin              1189
20   Tim McCarver               1181
21   Keith Hernandez            1165
22   Bill White                 1113
23   Jack Smith                 1111
24   Ken Reitz                  1100
25   Del Rice                   1038
26   Charles Comiskey           1036
27   Tom Herr                   1029

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