AL West

Related Search

News Home News Blog Ask a Mexican Archives Search RFT Flipbook Weekly Newsletter Get Mobile

Calendar Home Top Picks Submit an Event Events Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Music Home Music Blog Concert Calendar Bars and Clubs Submit an Event Music Newsletter Get Mobile Music Ads

Restaurants Home Food Blog Find a Restaurant Menus Happy Hours Deals Dining Newsletter Get Mobile Restaurant Ads

Arts Home Theater Arts Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Film Home Showtimes Film Poll 2011 Film Festivals Film Newsletter Get Mobile Free Stuff

Best Of Home 2011 2010 2009 2008 Best Of Newsletter Get Mobile Best Of Ads

Promotions Home Promotional Events Street Team Free Stuff Promotions Newsletter Get Mobile Deals

Post an Ad Jobs Real Estate Advertiser Index Deals Deals Newsletter Virtual Career Fair

Blogs
May 22, 2012
Chris Perez Tells Off Cleveland -- Twice
You might remember Chris Perez from his time here in St. Louis as a young fireballing reliever with shaky-at-best control. Or, you might remember him as the guy who was traded away for Mark DeRosa. (An ill-fated deal if ever there has been one; DeRosa got hurt and contributed virtually nothing for t ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2012
Albert Pujols Gets Post-Game Hit, Which Sadly Won't Improve his Average
Albert Pujols went 2-for-5 last night for the Angels and picked up two RBI, bringing up his average to .198. He might have broken .200 if his post-game hit on Erick Aybar counted.
Blogs
May 9, 2012
Walt Jocketty's Two Worst Trades, And Why Cardinals Fans Should Still Feel Worse
You may or may not have heard yet, but Josh Hamilton had himself quite a game last night. The Texas Rangers outfielder became just the 16th player in major league history to hit four home runs in a single game as part of a 5-for-5 night that saw him collect 8 RBI and 18 total bases. Bizarrely e ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2012
Albert Pujols' Cars Well-Suited for Southern California, Even If Slugger Is Not
A lot has been made about Albert Pujols' struggles at the plate this year. After 28 games as a member of the Los Angeles Angels, Pujols is hitting just .196 with seven RBI's. (He did hit a home run yesterday, ending his longest drought without a homer.)Still the questions persist: Is Pujols putting ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2012
Albert Pujols: Still Great, But Not the Same Guy
There's a really interesting article up right now over at Baseball Prospectus, the venerable analysis site, regarding a subject very near and dear to Cardinals' fans' hearts. What makes it extra nice is the folks at BP have made the full thing available free right out front, rather than sticking it ... More >>
News
April 5, 2012
The St. Louis Cardinals' Managerial Mount Rushmore
There's a really interesting article up right now over at Baseball Prospectus, the venerable analysis site, regarding a subject very near and dear to Cardinals' fans' hearts. What makes it extra nice is the folks at BP have made the full thing available free right out front, rather than sticking it ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2012
Team-by-Team Preseason Predictions: The Cardinals Are Good, But Not Good Enough
Yesterday I gave my predictions for individual award in the upcoming season. Today we turn our attention to larger matters. Team matters. This season actually promises an entirely new level of intrigue, due to the presence of an extra wild card team from each league. Whether you like the new de ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Texas Rangers Introduce Alternate Universe "Champion" Hot Dog
You might remember what happened last October: The St. Louis Cardinals, down to their last strike, staged an improbable comeback to win game six of the World Series. The next night, they won game seven and their eleventh championship. So it was with equal parts confusion and bemusement that Gut Che ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2012
Sports Illustrated Picks Reds to Win NL Central; And Guess Who's on the Cover?
Sports Illustrated is out with its annual baseball preview. And surprise, surprise the cover fronts Albert Pujols and fold outs with comparisons ranking him among baseball greats DiMaggio, Williams and Aaron. SI also picks Pujol's new team, the Los Angeles Angels, to win the World Series.As for t ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2012
Cards to Hold Afternoon Press Conference to Announce Yadier Molina Contract Extension, Reportedly Worth $75 Million
He may be Albert Pujols's good friend and hitting disciple, but it appears that he won't follow Pujols's lead when it comes to delaying contract negotiations. The Cardinals will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. (CST) this afternoon from thier Spring Training complex in Jupiter, Fla., to announce ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2012
High Drama as Pujols Arrives at Spring Training
We journalists pride ourselves on our skill at descriptive writing. It shows that we are poets, not mere hacks. Sometimes we do a pretty good job. Sometimes we get carried away. A fine example of the latter is a very brief story from the Associated Press (239 words total) about Albert Pujols' early ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Albert Pujols Plans to Report to Camp Early
(c) Topps IncThe presumptive Anaheim Angels first baseman told ESPNDeportes.com that he intends to report to spring training a week earlier than position players are scheduled, because "For the last 12 years I've lived in the city of St. Louis, where it's cold ... I'm going to try to get there (T ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2011
Albert Pujols Can Buy a Lot of Wheaties for $254 Million
St. Louis Cardinals fans might still be coming to terms with Albert Pujols' departure for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The marketplace, however, has already responded. Seen today at Schnucks:(Of course, since this commemorative box of Wheaties Fuel features Albert's handsome mug but no St. ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Pujols Thanks Fans In Newspaper Ad
In conclusion: Thanks, mang.Albert Pujols has a message to Cardinal Nation -- if anyone happens to stumble across it.The words from the newest member of the Los Angeles Angels can be found buried waaaay back on page C10 of the sport section in today's Post-Dispatch. In a full-page, paid advertise ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Cardinals Finalize Coaching Staff for 2012
commons.wikimedia.orgMark McGwire is one of five coaches from Tony La Russa's 2011 staff who will return next season under new manager Mike Matheny.The Cardinals announced their full coaching staff for next season yesterday, putting to paper the group who will support Mike Matheny as he takes ove ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
The Best of Ron Washington's Foul-Mouthed Pep Talk
Motherfucker loves saying motherfucker.Today JoeSportsFan.com released the locker room pep talk Texas Rangers' manager Ron Washington gave his team prior to Game 7 of the World Series. Washington may not be much of a motivational speaker (the Rangers went on to easily fold by a score of 2-6 and l ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2011
World Series Collectible Says Pujols Won MVP, Series Lasted 6 Games
Click image for larger view.Anyone else out there confused by the television commercials this week from BigTimeBats.com? The company is blanketing the St. Louis airwaves with ads for its 2011 World Series collectible (right) that includes a ball and a plaque commemorating the Cardinals' eleventh ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
Can the Cards Survive the Deadly Ex-Cubs Factor? [UPDATED]
Do the Cardinals need one of these?Update October 31: It turns out they can! (It was proven in 2008 when the Rays lost to the Phillies that minor-leaguers do count as ex-Cubs.) Which means...if the Ex-Cubs curse has been broken, is the Curse of the Goat far behind? Dare we say -- Cubs in 2012 ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
Miracle Weekend for Missouri Sports: Is God to Thank?
The gift of life and the gift of winning.October 28-30, 2011, may just go down as the greatest weekend for Missouri sports ever. On Friday the Cardinals won their 11th World Series title in one of the greatest come-from-behind stories ever in sports. On Saturday the struggling Missouri Tigers tra ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2011
A Brief History of the Game Six Miracle
Edmonds, the man who brought us a miracle in 2004, then gave us David Freese on his way out the door. On the 20th of October, 2004, Jim Edmonds hit a walkoff home run in game six of the National League Championship Series against the Houston Astros. Bottom of the twelfth, Albert Pujols stand ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2011
3 Ways Cardinals Benefit from Rain Rescheduling
Purple Rain: still better than a rainout. But it's actually kind of close this time. It was disappointing to see the game rained out last night. You get all geared up for a do-or-die game, and then down comes the rain, washing the spider out and pushing all that pent-up energy off for another nig ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
Bush League Fan Songs: Because There Just Aren't Enough Croon-Rap Songs In The World
With a return trip to St. Louis now a sure thing, the Cardinals are proving more equal to this challenge than some people thought they were. Last week, we brought you a few homegrown theme songs, and today we have the latest installment in our continuing series of Rangers musical face plants ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
Four Cardinals Starters Batting Sub-200 Through Series
If this image looks like it came from an E-D website, there's good reason for that.First of all, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, yesterday was not the colossal St. Louis sports failure that you made it out to be during last night's World Series broadcast. No one in their right mind here in St. Louis t ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2011
World Series: Game 1 Observations From an Idiot Sports Reporter
Observation 1: That was a friggin' big flag they unfurled at the start of the game.Major League Baseball was nice enough to extend media credentials to Riverfront Times for the fall classic. Why? We're not sure. But believe us, we tried our best to look like legitimate sports reporters last nigh ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Three Things to Be Happy About From Game One (Well, Besides Winning)
What? No, I haven't seen this movie. But, you know, it's called Happiness. I'm sure it's an uplifting, inspirational kind of story. Why are you looking at me like that? Good time to be a Cardinal fan, right? I mean, the Redbirds just took care of business last night in game one of the World Se ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2011
The Single Biggest Key to the Cardinals Defeating the Rangers
Now that's a really big key. World Series starts tonight, kids. Exciting stuff, any time you can watch your team playing for the title. Plenty of ink has been spilled analyzing the two sides nearly to death, and plenty more will be spilled between now and the day the series ends. Let me boil ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2011
The Texas Rangers' Bush League Fan Songs: Volume One
The World Series starts tonight. The Cardinals, who have been defying expectations for the better part of two months now, have only four wins and one team standing in the way of an eleventh World Championship. That team, of course, is the Texas Rangers, and this is their second straight trip ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2011
World Series Starts Wednesday at Busch Stadium
The Cardinals are four games away from picking up their 11th one of these.Wow! What a dizzying game last night. Six home runs in the first three innings?! You gotta be kidding me. And you got to feel bad -- almost -- for the hapless Brewers who committed another four errors last night in Milwauke ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2011
The Starters Still Suck, But the Cardinals are Moving On
This was the Mariners' bullpen car in 1982, back when baseball still had cool things like bullpen cars. No, this isn't really related to the Cards' current bullpen, but I've been waiting to use this picture forever. The most improbable postseason run I can ever recall isn't ready to end just y ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2011
Moneyball and an All-American Snack Banquet
Walking into Moneyball, it's hard not to anticipate the stereotypical baseball movie: chewing tobacco, player enlightenment, inspirational pep talks from the coach before the big game, maybe even some angels in the outfield. But above all, you expect a show, a tense series of games that eventually r ... More >>
Film
September 22, 2011
The formulas work in Moneyball
Walking into Moneyball, it's hard not to anticipate the stereotypical baseball movie: chewing tobacco, player enlightenment, inspirational pep talks from the coach before the big game, maybe even some angels in the outfield. But above all, you expect a show, a tense series of games that eventually r ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2011
Arthur Rhodes: Cardinals Throw More Crap At the Wall
Now tell me that's not a face that inspires confidence. The Cardinals yesterday came to terms with the latest in a long, long line of reclamation projects, signing 41-year-old Arthur Rhodes to a contract which will make him the club's new LOOGY. (Left-handed One Out GuY.) The Cards have been dang ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2011
The Opening Day Crystal Ball: 2011 MLB Predictions
I actually dressed up like this to write this post. I predict the itching of this beard will soon drive me to madness. Just a bare handful of hours, now, until the Cardinals' 2011 season gets underway. Plenty of ink and bytes have been spilled talking about what the season may bring, lots of it r ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
Cliff Lee: The Sound of a Paradigm Shifting Without a Clutch
commons.wikimedia.orgLee in his first go-round as a Phillie. In what can only be described as a rather surprising move, Cliff Lee, aka the "Best Left-Handed Pitcher in Baseball At the Moment," spurned the Yankees' big dollars, as well as those of the Texas Rangers, in order to return to the Phila ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
Five Picks for Cardinals' Rule 5 Draft
Players line up to be fawned over and poked at in preparation for the Rule 5 draft. Baseball's Winter Meetings will come to an end today, with the annual Rule 5 draft one of the final items on the itinerary. In case you aren't familiar with the Rule 5 draft, here's a decent overview of how it all ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Baseball Loses Another Legend: Dave Niehaus Dead at 75
Niehaus. You remember several years back, when the whole satellite radio thing was just starting up? XM and Sirius were still separate companies and David Bowie fell out of the sky. It was a crazy time. Well, I happened to be one of the earliest adopters of satellite radio, but not because I ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
What Is Wrong with This Picture? Special World Series Edition!
Let's just say you don't turn to FOX -- or to Joe Buck, who recited this graphic word for word last night -- for the facts.
Blogs
August 30, 2010
Critiquing the Cards' Social Media Night
Just in case you hadn't heard (and it wouldn't much surprise me if you hadn't, to be honest), the Cardinals are holding a Social Media Night on the 18th of September. They're making kind of a production of it, too, with a big panel of experts who are going to discuss their own experiences with ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2010
Cardinal Trade Targets From the Department of Dumb Ideas
A bad idea, but way more fun than these others. Okay, so I know things aren't great around here in Cardinal country just right now. The team is scuffling, the injuries are piling up, and we're all still a little peeved over Ryan Ludwick being traded. And I also know, given the time of year, that ... More >>
Culture
July 14, 2010
Bronx Cheer: George Steinbrenner's dead, but Damn Yankees lives on
A bad idea, but way more fun than these others. Okay, so I know things aren't great around here in Cardinal country just right now. The team is scuffling, the injuries are piling up, and we're all still a little peeved over Ryan Ludwick being traded. And I also know, given the time of year, that ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2010
Some Jeff Suppan-Induced Thoughts on Trading for Cliff Lee
commons.wikimedia.orgSo I'm watching the Cardinals play, suffering through watching Jeff Suppan pitch, and it got me thinking about who the Cards might be able to get to replace him. Now, it's not that Suppan has actually been all that bad since returning to us; he's certainly been better th ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2010
Five Reasons The Cardinals Should Trade for Cliff Lee*
Image sourceWouldn't Cliff Lee look nice in Cardinal red?In case you haven't been paying attention these past three games, the Mariners stink.It's a special kind of stink too. They run into outs on the bases, commit costly errors, blow saves and generally suck at hitting. Just think of an ugly wa ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2010
2010 MLB Draft: A Mock Draft You Can Set Your Watch To
It's Christmas in June! Finally, Draft Day is here, and I'm as giddy as a small child the day before Christmas, shaking all the packages and trying to figure out what might be in that really big one with my name on it. Unfortunately, no amount of shaking or clever examination of the boxes is goin ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Kit Bond Falls Asleep During Intelligence Briefing
"Kit and I sometimes have trouble staying awake during those boring intelligence briefings."Seems everyone is asleep at the wheel these days. Oh well, these are troubled and tiring times, after all. We could all use a good nap. Take Ken Griffey Jr., for one. The Seattle Mariner's ce ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2010
Pining For Pineiro: Ex-Cardinal Off to a Brilliant Start This Season
commons.wikimedia.orgPlease come back to us, Jo-El! I don't know if anyone else has been following the performance of one Joel "El Pinata" Pineiro since he left the Cardinals this past offseason, but I have. Not out of some sort of masochistic impulse to see the Cards' moves turn out badly and se ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2010
Video: Death Cab for Cutie Rings in the Seattle Mariners' Season By Playing the Greatest Baseball Song Ever
This one's for Keegan: Courtesy of 5 Score Pachyderm, here's footage of Death Cab for Cutie at the Seattle Mariners' home opener playing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and -- awesomely -- John Fogerty's "Centerfield." (Except when the guitar goes off track. Oops.) Love the customized jerseys!
Blogs
April 13, 2010
MP3: Gotta Be Karim (Still) Rocks a Cardinals Hat on New Tune "Hello St. Louis"
Gotta Be Karim in a controversial fitted cap.The Mariners are my team. I grew up watching Ken Griffey Jr crash into walls at the Kingdome, I imitate Ichiro's batting stance at Tower Tee and, as much as it pains me to say it during the Cardinals' opening homestand, Seattle's Safeco Field is far an ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
Cardinals Ticket Prices Up 24 Percent in Secondary Market
According to SeatGeek.com, a website which compiles data on the costs of tickets for various sporting and music events in the secondary market, the St. Louis Cardinals' overall ticket prices are up 24 percent going into 2010 over the second-half of last year. This should come as no surprise, ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2009
Sammy Sosa Wants to Set the Record Straight
Sosa as a young shortstop for the Texas Rangers, left, and unholy creature of the night, right. Sammy Sosa wants everyone out there to know that, no matter what you may have heard, and despite seemingly incontrovertible photographic evidence to the contrary, he has not become a gay vampire. ... More >>
More >>

Browse Voice Nation

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

News

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Film

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Culture

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This