Rachel Crader is the editor of semoball.com. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in May of 2009 before spending the summer covering the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Highlights from Rachel's days in college include having a class down the hall from Chase Daniel and having NCAA wrestling champion Ben Askren hold the door open for her at Brady Commons, Mizzou's student center. She spent time covering Mizzou basketball, softball and baseball while working for the Columbia Missourian and is excited to return home to Southeast Missouri to cover local sports for semoball.com.

Rachel has covered three Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournaments for the Southeast Missourian and semoball.com, and she'll see you courtside again this year.

Cardinals postseason on semoball

Posted Wednesday, October 7, 2009, at 3:37 PM

The traditional lead here is to say that the St. Louis Cardinals start postseason play tonight against the Los Angeles Dodgers at 8:37, but since you all already know that I'll get to the point.

Whenever there is a Cardinals playoff game going on, I'll be here on semoball watching with you. I will be live-blogging during each game and there will be an in-game thread in the forums. (If you want to talk about the playoffs in general drawmules has started a thread here: http://semoball.com/forums/cardinals/thread/459 )

Way back in the day I had a Cardinal blog on the MLB network and I did several live blogs during games. My favorite thing to do was point out a couple Al Hrabosky overstatements and a couple of his most obvious statements (E.g. "When you walk a batter to lead off an inning, that's not good." Thanks, Al. Good point!).

Naturally, I'm a little sad that won't be an option tonight (Although I can't who will be in the booth tonight, anybody know?), but I'll try to keep you entertained and informed as the game goes along anyway.

I'll also be pulling in comments from the blog as well as the in-game thread that I find particularly entertaining or pertinent into my blog, and I'll be posting in the forums and comments as well.

So, please join us tonight and every day/night the Cardinals are playing this postseason. It's a great way to watch the game because you can scream at the TV in the privacy of your own living room while also calmly discussing the game with other fans!

If any of you are lucky enough to be heading up to the games over the weekend, please come back and share your experience and your pictures on semoball.

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Bob Breenly who is a cubs announcer will be one of the announcers for the cards division series.

-- Posted by buck on Wed, Oct 7, 2009, at 6:27 PM
Do you have a copy of the Cardinals postseason roster? I am curious which players made the team.

-- Posted by drawmules on Wed, Oct 7, 2009, at 6:30 PM
No but I just seen it on the cards website. Wellemeyer, Thompson, and K. Green were left off. Glaus was on it.

-- Posted by buck on Wed, Oct 7, 2009, at 6:46 PM
Postseason roster:

Pitchers

41 Mitchell Boggs R/R 6-4 215 02/15/84

29 Chris Carpenter R/R 6-6 230 04/27/75

31 Ryan Franklin R/R 6-3 190 03/05/73

53 Blake Hawksworth R/R 6-3 195 03/01/83

26 Kyle Lohse R/R 6-2 210 10/04/78

46 Kyle McClellan R/R 6-2 215 06/12/84

43 Trever Miller R/L 6-3 200 05/29/73

60 Jason Motte R/R 6-0 195 06/22/82

35 Joel Pineiro R/R 6-1 200 09/25/78

36 Dennys Reyes R/L 6-3 250 04/19/77

30 John Smoltz R/R 6-3 220 05/15/67

50 Adam Wainwright R/R 6-7 230 08/30/81

Catchers B/T Ht Wt DOB

21 Jason LaRue R/R 5-11 205 03/19/74

4 Yadier Molina R/R 5-11 230 07/13/82

Infielders B/T Ht Wt DOB

7 Mark DeRosa R/R 6-1 205 02/26/75

8 Troy Glaus R/R 6-5 240 08/03/76

12 Julio Lugo R/R 6-1 175 11/16/75

5 Albert Pujols R/R 6-3 230 01/16/80

13 Brendan Ryan R/R 6-2 195 03/26/82

55 Skip Schumaker L/R 5-10 195 02/03/80

22 Joe Thurston L/R 5-11 210 09/29/79

Outfielders B/T Ht Wt DOB

24 Rick Ankiel L/L 6-1 210 07/19/79

15 Matt Holliday R/R 6-4 235 01/15/80

47 Ryan Ludwick R/L 6-3 220 07/13/78

28 Colby Rasmus L/L 6

-- Posted by Rachel Crader on Wed, Oct 7, 2009, at 6:58 PM
LOL it looks like the in-game thread in the forums could get boring really fast. We need more people. People are just not responding to the professional sports forums. There are many responses to the high school sports forums, especially high school football. But why is nobody interested in the Cardinals? Cardinal fans do exist in Southeast Missouri. Where are they?

-- Posted by drawmules on Wed, Oct 7, 2009, at 7:28 PM
We'll see once the game gets going. And hopefully it'll pick up once we get a few games in. I haven't really started yet since I'm currently enjoyed Taco Bell for dinner. :)

-- Posted by Rachel Crader on Wed, Oct 7, 2009, at 7:34 PM
Make that "enjoying."

-- Posted by Rachel Crader on Wed, Oct 7, 2009, at 7:44 PM
It has been the home teams nite so far. Time for the Cardinals to break that trend!

-- Posted by buck on Wed, Oct 7, 2009, at 8:14 PM

Rachel Crader's response:
I like where your head is, buck.

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