Mark McGwire has ruined the Cardinals offense

[nickluva]

This team used to be money behind the bats now they're a shell of themselves. It's painful watching these guys trying to hit.

Jinx thread....Cards go off and score six runs within the next two innings

[Rixsaw]

Mark refuses to share his roids. That's the problem.

[saints7011]

McQuire has never coached , all his fame came during the roid era of baseball , st. louis should of seen this as a potential scenario when they decided to bring him in...now what do they do ???

[chaseman]

Just promote Pujols to batting coach while he plays. Simple.

[spippen]

Fire McGuire- make a statement while using him as the patsy for the poor play at the plate.

[spippen]

Or bettet yet, spell it McSterioder!

[spippen]

Or bettet yet, spell it McSteroider!

[bigsmitty]

McGuire is an embarassment to baseball, sports and humanity in general. If he had any style at all he would have at least done the Sosa thing and go off alone into the sunset (completely balanced mind you, lest his gargantuan bobblehead tilt and cause him to go ass over tea-kettle). God gave me my talent-what a total jerkoff. Cheers

[doublej95]

McGuire sucked as a hitter, lifetime batting average of .263, other than hitting juiced out home runs he couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat in his carrer. Never even got close to having 2000 hits in his 16 year carrer.

[The General]

Under 89 wins I hope. Keep losing St Louis. One of the most bet totals on the board this season.

[jjgold]

Tony cannot fire him

Hitting is natural you do not need a fukkin coach

[pavyracer]

Cardinals need to hire the Phillies hitting coach. You know the one who used binoculars to steal opposing catcher's signs.

[rk9]

I think LaRussa either felt bad for McGwire or actually has a man-crush on him. There is no way he is qualified to be a hitting coach. Hitting coaches are not swing out of your shoes/high k guys.

[Rookie-Capper]

the cards go into these droughts every year.this is nothing new

[masr]

The hitting will pick up, takes a while for steroids to work well

[orangeheaven]

Hitting is natural you do not need a fukkin coach

Guess all sports don't need coaches since all of them comes natural, basketball, football, etc.

[gryfyn1]

Really, were having this after 1 bad week by St Louis, after being the same team they were last year for the first month of the season ??

[Vesuvius]

Albert clean is better than Mark dirty any day. Well, maybe not any day...

[nickluva]

Really, were having this after 1 bad week by St Louis, after being the same team they were last year for the first month of the season ??

So far so bad breh. Cards and Giants have been pretty crappy for supposedly good batting teams.They're costing us gamblers a lot of money. You can't argue that

[stealthyburrito]

well, outside of pujols the cards were not an offensive juggernaut to begin with anyway, always been a team based around good pitching, solid D, and of course pujols. they'll be fine, just for some reason the astros own them this year, happens to all good teams.

[Cabo]

Larussa is the blame for this. He only hired him so he could try to improve his image.

[Sunde91]

I don't understand the purpose of a fukin hitting coach. The guys are pro hitters who wouldn't be here if they couldn't hit. Does he instruct them on the tendencies of the pitcher they're facing or specific pitches and scenarios or wtf.

[WeinketoWarrick]

cardinals always have shitty offense.

[pavyracer]

I don't understand the purpose of a fukin hitting coach. The guys are pro hitters who wouldn't be here if they couldn't hit. Does he instruct them on the tendencies of the pitcher they're facing or specific pitches and scenarios or wtf.

It's like golfing. You need a coach to tell you what you are doing wrong with your swing whether this is the angle of the bat, the lowering of your shoulders, your foot stance etc.

[jakeandba]

Guess all sports don't need coaches since all of them comes natural, basketball, football, etc.

Would agree that at lower levels coaches are needed. At the professional level, if a player really needs to have coaching through out the season, there is a problem. After all the player has been playing for some time. Believe the coach on pro level is just an administrator. His chief job is to design a scheme which allows all the talent to work as one.

[clonecat]

Pujols is in a funk and no one to help him get out. McGwire just swung for the fences, not surprised he is not a good hitting coach.

[Brock Landers]

I have a feeling there is some merit here, The Cardinals lineup can be shut down rather easy, and all too often

[gryfyn1]

Yes this offense has been scuffling the last two weeks - it happens to teams just like players, but there slash line of 258/334/404 is close to what they finished last year, 263/332/415. But they are having trouble scoring at just 4.27 r/g this year as opposed to 4.51 last year.

Like was also pointed out they weren't exactly on offesive juggernaut last year, they were shut out 10 times, and held to two of fewer runs 44 times. (the light hitting Padres were shut out 10 times and held to 2 or less 53 time)

[stealthyburrito]

well, outside of pujols the cards were not an offensive juggernaut to begin with anyway, always been a team based around good pitching, solid D, and of course pujols. they'll be fine, just for some reason the astros own them this year, happens to all good teams.

Yes this offense has been scuffling the last two weeks - it happens to teams just like players, but there slash line of 258/334/404 is close to what they finished last year, 263/332/415. But they are having trouble scoring at just 4.27 r/g this year as opposed to 4.51 last year. Like was also pointed out they weren't exactly on offesive juggernaut last year, they were shut out 10 times, and held to two of fewer runs 44 times. (the light hitting Padres were shut out 10 times and held to 2 or less 53 time)

[spippen]

He is proving it everyday day in day out.

[pavyracer]

They are leading the conference. Good job Mark McGuire.

[Darkside Magick]

two missed bunts in crucial situations today...bunting is a important aspect in nl.....look like they trying to swing for the fences on every pitch!!!!!