A Childish Response to Brandon Phillips
Dear Brandon Phillips, I hold plenty of respect for your teammates, but you sir, have embarrassed yourself. You went two-for-fourteen against the Cardinals while on the losing end of a three-game...
View Article2010 BBA National League Stan Musial Award Ballot: Outstanding Player
I have had a hard enough time keeping up with with the Cardinals in late 2010 and into the off-season much less trying to watch much “other” baseball. Thankfully, the tools at the disposal of an...
View Article2010 NL Gold Glove Predictions
The Gold Glove which is technically the “Rawlings Gold Glove Award” is voted on by the managers and coaches of each league. Voters are not permitted to vote for players from their own team in an...
View ArticlePlay It Again, Walt
Same song, different verse, eh Walt? MVP-caliber first baseman with bright future? Check. Injury prone third baseman? Check. Potentially talented pitching staff led by innings eater who is signed...
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Not The News – Vol. I
SHOE ATTACKS MAN IN MOUTH. SHOE WINS 5-0 IN STUNNING ROUT! Man goes 0-5 with 4 strikeouts against shoe. Om nom nom nom.... I love a good mea culpa as much as the next guy, and I’d really like to...
View ArticleFollow The Money
By my rough estimate, the 6 teams in the NL Central are going to start the 2011 season with a combined $544M committed to team payrolls. Yikes. Check out the breakdown: Cubs ~ $133M Cardinals ~...
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Not The News – Vol V
Since this is the 5th installment, I was going to try and make this one really epic. It was going to be a truly monumental work of snark wrapped inside a thinly constructed flaky crust of sarcastic...
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UCB Project – Awards Predictions
I’m usually hesistant to predict individual awards, because there is about a 20% chance of getting any of them correct, and I’m all about hitting the 1/4 mark. Then again, this is for the UCB, and...
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Was Brandon Phillips right?
flickr // SD Dirk …about the 2010 Cardinals? “I’d play against these guys on one leg,” Phillips insisted before the game. “We have to beat these guys. All they do is b***h and moan about everything —...
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All-Star Voting Guide
I am declaring myself the Medium High Emperor of All-Star Game Voting. Why? Why not? Nobody else has declared themselves “Medium High Emperor”, have they? Besides, it sounds good, and I think it...
View ArticleThe people or things responsible for the Cardinals missing the playoffs
Let’s just dispense with the pleasantries and list them all here, shall we? This way, Cards fans have a repository to come back to game after game, without having to continue to come up with new...
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2011 Gold Glove Award Predictions
If you love baseball’s “silly season” during which baseball players routinely have the opportunity to injure themselves patting themselves and each other on the back, then the inaugural “Rawlings Gold...
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The Even More or Less Unofficial Twitter Guide to Reds and Brewers Fans – The...
In case you missed it, Bob Netherton over at the blog On the Outside Corner absolutely made every attempt to paint the black yesterday on a great hot button topic. It’s a must-read before you finish...
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2012 Gold Glove Award Predictions
Molina’s 2011 Gold Glove Award If nothing else, the annual Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners remind us that most voters probably don’t actually watch much baseball. If they did, Derek Jeter would not...
View ArticlePlease stop booing Brandon Phillips
Dearest Cardinals fans, I am before you today, a humble basement blogger, asking – nay, pleading – that you stop your incessant booing of Brandon Phillips when he plays at Busch III. Exhibit A: Split G...
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