The Saga of Brad Lidge

[Hollywood]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFHnAffr0I&feature=related

[Dr.Gonzo]

Excellent

[ElviswasaBluesFan]

Never the same? I'd take these numbers right now for my closer:

W-L 1-0
ERA 0.82
K 44
Walks 15
Saves 19

[kah]

Never the same? I'd take these numbers right now for my closer:

W-L 1-0
ERA 0.82
K 44
Walks 15
Saves 19

Yeah, he sure did get over it. Took three years, but he got over it. One more reason for Sheriff Blaylock to hate life.

[Sheriff Blaylock]

Yeah, he sure did get over it. Took three years, but he got over it. One more reason for Sheriff Blaylock to hate life.

He could have those same numbers for Houston and it wouldn't matter with this current team.

I've said it before and I'll say it again...there is no non-Astro player I'm pulling for more than Lidge. He answered the same freaking question 3 years straight and did it as professional as one could be.

I'd love for the Phillies to make the playoffs and Brad put up 2004 level numbers and win World Series MVP.

[MsFunkay]

lidge had been falling apart before that pitch.

[Sheriff Blaylock]

lidge had been falling apart before that pitch.

Don't say that too loud or you might not be allowed to post over at the new place.

It is a much better Paul Bunyon tale to say Pujols broke Lidge. It adds to the god-like worship. If you don't believe that then you will have some stats thrown in your face even if there were some chinks in the armor before the homer. But that is the before, the after is a different story.

(oh...and the Astros still won the series)

(fudge...my 5,000th post has to be about fucking lidge and that fucking homer.)

[MsFunkay]

Don't say that too loud or you might not be allowed to post over at the new place.

It is a much better Paul Bunyon tale to say Pujols broke Lidge. It adds to the god-like worship. If you don't believe that then you will have some stats thrown in your face even if there were some chinks in the armor before the homer. But that is the before, the after is a different story.

(oh...and the Astros still won the series)

(fudge...my 5,000th post has to be about fucking lidge and that fucking homer.)

i'll risk it since i've said it all along. lidge was messed up from pneumonia + and i'm shocked it took anyone that long to hit that kind of HR off of him. my brother had said he knew how lidge was gonna pitch and he'd hit a monster HR off of him months before pujols did.

and i guess people look at that HR in a god like gleam cause they still lost the series.

[kah]

Don't say that too loud or you might not be allowed to post over at the new place.

It is a much better Paul Bunyon tale to say Pujols broke Lidge. It adds to the god-like worship. If you don't believe that then you will have some stats thrown in your face even if there were some chinks in the armor before the homer.

Yes, the stats that say he had, in fact, been pitching well before the Pujols home run. 2.08 ERA between Sept. 1 and the end of the 2005 regular season, a 0.00 ERA against the Braves in the first round, and three saves in three appearances with one run allowed in the first five games of the NLCS.

[kah]

And by the way, it grows very, very tiresome to hear people tell us we can't talk about Albert Pujols' home run.

Here is why we talk about Albert Pujols' home run:

1) It was a dramatic home run in a dramatic moment. I know of no rule that says you are only able to remember postseason home runs in series that you win. I guess that under this logic we would not be allowed to remember that home run Tom Lawless hit in the 1987 World Series.

2) It did, in fact, break Brad Lidge, revisionist history above notwithstanding, broke him to the extent that he got traded.

3) It was quite possibly the hardest ball Albert Pujols has hit in his entire big-league career.

[Jeffro]

And by the way, it grows very, very tiresome to hear people tell us we can't talk about Albert Pujols' home run.

Here is why we talk about Albert Pujols' home run:

1) It was a dramatic home run in a dramatic moment. I know of no rule that says you are only able to remember postseason home runs in series that you win. I guess that under this logic we would not be allowed to remember that home run Tom Lawless hit in the 1987 World Series.

2) It did, in fact, break Brad Lidge, revisionist history above notwithstanding, broke him to the extent that he got traded.

3) It was quite possibly the hardest ball Albert Pujols has hit in his entire big-league career.

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Third coolest Cardinal HR I can remember being hit. Yadi and Jimmy are 1 and 2, So is a close 4.

[kah]

Under the Brad Lidge Home Runs You Can Remember Rule, the Red Sox would not have been able to yammer for 29 years about that home run Carlton Fisk hit. Surely that's not a world we want to live in.

[Bleacher Creature]

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Third coolest Cardinal HR I can remember being hit. Yadi and Jimmy are 1 and 2, So is a close 4.

I guess you're not old enough to remember Jack Clark and Ozzie.

[Sheriff Blaylock]

And by the way, it grows very, very tiresome to hear people tell us we can't talk about Albert Pujols' home run.

Here is why we talk about Albert Pujols' home run:

1) It was a dramatic home run in a dramatic moment. I know of no rule that says you are only able to remember postseason home runs in series that you win. I guess that under this logic we would not be allowed to remember that home run Tom Lawless hit in the 1987 World Series.

2) It did, in fact, break Brad Lidge, revisionist history above notwithstanding, broke him to the extent that he got traded.

3) It was quite possibly the hardest ball Albert Pujols has hit in his entire big-league career.

Who are these people? Myself? Funkay? The hundreds of other Astro or even non-Cardinal fans around here. You are free to talk about whatever you want until your fingers bleed. Lord knows you will be the last person to have your opinion swayed on any topic.

Shit, if I didn't want to hear about it I wouldn't spend so much time on a St. Louis message board.

For the record it was a dramatic moment and if it wasn't against my team I'd thought it would have been pretty damn cool.

[hansolo]

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Third coolest Cardinal HR I can remember being hit. Yadi and Jimmy are 1 and 2, So is a close 4.

Ozzie #1 all time best home run ever hit for Cards.

At least for me although Boyer's GS and his other HR might rank up there as well.