John Mozeliak’s contract hits and misses
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Reading a couple of posts over at STLCardinalBaseball this weekend led me into a bit of a debate with Ray over whether the Cardinals routinely pay market value for...
View ArticleUCB Predictions – NL West
If you are going to prognosticate and likely do a poor job of it, you might as well start by shaking up your Magic 8 Ball and thinking about the National League West division first. It may very well...
View ArticleUCB Predictions – NL Central
Matt Carpenter as Jason Bourne Around this same time last year as part of the annual UCB project to make predictions for all 6 divisions, I not-so-boldly picked the top three as the Brewers, Cardinals,...
View Article[Redbird Reveille] Lance Lynn, converted reliever
Another series win (one game against the Marlins counts, right?) for the home team, and in-division against another predicted challenger for the division title, and the Cards leave Milwaukee at 3-1...
View Article[Redbird Reveille] Lohse to Boggs to Motte
Get used to that combination, in that order, Cards fans. Something tells me we may see plenty of wins from it this season. Remember when Mitchell Boggs said at the Winter Warm-Up that he “could compete...
View ArticleDuck and Cover: Cardinals Disaster Preparedness
In this crazy world of ours, where nuclear war could break out at any moment, one must be ready for the worst at all times. Baseball is no different, and if any team should be doing as many...
View ArticleWitness For The Defense
Have an opinion about a particular player, coach, manager, team, or franchise you wish to express? Try tossing stones 140 characters at a time on Twitter, and then wait for every keyboard jockey with...
View ArticleThe Cognitive Dissonance of Cardinal Nation
Evidence that many members of Cardinal Nation have already jumped the proverbial shark abounds, and the perception seems greatly deviated from the reality. The Cardinals remain a division leading...
View ArticleDefense? Definitely, Maybe.
Think the Cardinals have at least average to above average players at every position on the field? Think again. According to the metric “Team Runs Saved”, the Cardinals rank in a tie for 6th in the...
View ArticleNot The News – Volume XIII
ASG 2012 Cardinals attempt to rock the vote by swaying voters using rather old-fashioned tactics that involve sensory overload of some kind. In this case, they have started the “Vote to send Cardinals...
View ArticleRoyals 5, Cardinals 3: What I would’ve tweeted
Happy Father’s Day to all of you dads. I spent the mid-afternoon of my Father’s Day at the local swimming hole with the young boy PH8 and Wife PH8 – who, bless her heart, advised me to start the Cards...
View ArticleDown To Their Last Strike (Humpty remix ft Skrillex)
The moment Jayson Werth pulled an Adam Wainwright offering to left field for a double, it seemed like the Cardinals might be in for a long, long night. When Wainwright has it all going good, he does...
View Article2012 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 ArticleWill Leitch’s two month Twitter conversation AT the Cardinals: Part Two
Sometime in mid-August (ok, August 12 to be exact – it’s right there on the Tweeter box) Cardinal fan Will Leitch began a dialogue “with” the Cardinals. Er, maybe AT the Cardinals is more appropriate....
View Article2013 UCB Progressive Game Blog – Cards vs Brewers – Third Inning
Pitchers Hit Eighth has the distinct honor of calling the third inning action in the United Cardinal Bloggers’ 2013 Progressive Game Blog. If you’ve not seen one of these things before, here is the...
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