2012-04-06 Cardinals (Garcia) at Brewers (Gallardo), 3:10 PM CDT (OPENING DAY)

[Matt Breen]

I have presented my sacrifice of assorted sausages and beef patties to the baseball gods. May their judgement on the Cardinals be terrible and swift.

Let's hope the baseball gods aren't catholic.

 

No kidding. We might win today, but the Crew would take one heckuva beating on Sunday.

All that meat on Good Friday ... I bet brat sales are down at the park.

[ELCABALLO45]

Beltran crushed that.

[ELCABALLO45]

Gallardo throwing meatballs today.

[cragi]

looking on gamecast, all 3 balls to molina were well in the strike zone, same with the "balls" to Holliday.

[MVP2110]

cmon Gallardo.

[chadomac]

geez.

[cnycerveceros]

What's that,the Cards won the WS? Thanks for the run down...

[Mr QL]

time for Yo to sit.

 

getting crushed

[Matt Breen]

Man. Just frustrating.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Nice to see the #1 pitcher throwing batting practice in the opener. Get 'em out of the system early in the year, I guess.

[cnycerveceros]

I've decided on a Zen approach this year. It's already helping!

[ELCABALLO45]

Gallardo gave up 10 homers last year at home. He already has 4 on opening day.

[dlk9s]

Ax blew a save in the opener last year. Thus, this will be the only bad game for Yo all season.

[BradWI]

Kinda glad I sold my ticket...

[ELCABALLO45]

5 runs does not win this game. Lot of ball game left.

[MVP2110]

positives people! were guna win! lol

[cnycerveceros]

BA recaps too often. I really notice it during games like this, but he does it all the time.

[stoutdude04]

Yo wasnt getting that pitch early...so thats kind of a bummer to take a strike out on that pitch.

[B2k1121]

Would be nice if Gallardo was also getting that strike.

[chadomac]

Yeah, strike zone isn't too consistent today so far.

[ELCABALLO45]

Braun should be 2-2 right now. So frustrating.

[xisxisxis]

This is my fault. I picked Gallardo on several of my fantasy teams and he is rewarding me with a great big pile of...... Thankfully I also have Molina and Beltran on several teams...

 

The shadows were still favoring the pitcher in the top of the 3rd and still we had fireworks. I can honestly say this is the worst I have ever seen him pitch.

 

Interesting factoid from the TV broadcast.... Gallardo has not won an opening day start!

[Glennron]

Got home five minutes ago and turned on the game to hear my first "too close to take" from Bill within 30 seconds. There's one thing I didn't miss during the offseason.

[3and2Fastball]

Still plenty of baseball to go in this game...

[brains and braun]

Man, what an ugly start.