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April 5, 2012
The Cards Open the Season in Style
The Cardinals opened the 2012 season last night, playing -- and winning -- the first official game in the Miami Marlins' brand new ballpark. It was a night of firsts, really. It was the first win for manager Mike Matheny. The first hit for Carlos Beltran in a Cardinal uniform. The first time a ... More >>
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April 3, 2012
Cy Young, MVP Predictions for 2012 MLB
You know, as a semi-professional sportswriter there are a few things toward which I am genetically predisposed. (Why semi-professional? Because I do get paid, but my talent and behavior are both, well, somewhat short of what is usually termed professionalism.) I love to hear myself talk, for one thi ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Game 5: Mid-Season Cardinals Come Home to Roost
No! Not now. Not the 10-15 June Cardinals.Remember mid-season when the sputtering St. Louis Cardinals took two steps backward for every one step forward? Remember, particularly, that week-long stretch in June when the Redbirds dropped seven in a row? Well, sports fans, that team has returned to t ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
The Bullpen Phone, and Why It Doesn't Matter
So apparently the bullpen phone is a problem. Because, you know, the Cards can't seem to get the right reliever up at kind of a big moment. As far as problems go, though, the bullpen phone isn't even close to the biggest one the Cardinals had last night. The fact the bullpen shenanigans of n ... More >>
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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 >>
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October 21, 2011
An Apology to Jaime Garcia, And Then a Bunch of Criticism
I'm sorry, Jaime. Really. Truly.Dear Jaime, I am very, very sorry for ever doubting you. I'm sorry for thinking you a head case, for calling you a blow-up waiting to happen. I'm sorry I thought you were probably worn down after throwing close to 50 more innings this season than you ever had ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
5 Keys to Cardinals' Game 3 Win in NLCS
The rally towels were out in force last night.Unlike Chris Carpenter's last start, when he carried the Cardinals in a 1-0 shutout over the Phillies to advance to the NLCS, the clubhouse ace would require a team effort last night. He got it in a big first inning of production from Redbird batters ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
Cardinals Pull Even with Brewers In a Blowout
Statue of Lance Lynn currently being proposed for addition to the collection outside Busch Stadium. It's probably going to be overlooked, considering the final score of the game last night, but I think Lance Lynn may very well have saved the Cards' collective bacon. He entered the game with the s ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
David Freese's Coming Out Party
Ha! I'll bet you were expecting me to go with the Schwarzenneger version of Mr. Freeze, but instead I threw you a curve and went old school! That's why I'M a very important internet columnist and you're, well, probably doing something better with your time. Sigh.I wrote earlier today about the pe ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Cardinals Earn Dubious Distinction: Hit Into Most Double Plays in NL History
Well, folks, it finally happened. The Cardinals last night wrote themselves into the record books. Regardless of whether the Redbirds squeak out a wild-card birth over the next two days, the 2011 season will live in infamy. Last night, en route to a soul-crushing 5-4 extra innings loss to th ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Tonight: The Cardinals' Last Stand
General George Custer, moments before telling one of his men, a Lieutenant Patterson, he had, "Complete faith you can lead us to victory over these Algonquin sunsabitches."Things have not been going all that well for the Cardinals lately. What's that, you say? You expected an expletive-laced ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Pujols in Splint with Fractured Forearm; Won't Play For 4 to 6 Weeks
In this advertisement photo, Pujols shows off his healthy left forearm.Damn! Right after the Cardinals ended a seven-game slide by winning two in a row, the team announced today that Albert Pujols will miss four to six weeks with a fractured forearm. The first baseman suffered the injury to his l ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Cards Are Swept Out of First Place by The Brewers -- So What Now?
The Cards ran into one of these over the weekend. There were no survivors. It was, to put it lightly, a bad weekend to be a Cardinals fan. The Redbirds headed into Milwaukee up 2.5 games in the divisional race after taking 2 of 3 from the Astros. Three days later, the Cards limped out of Miller P ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Reviewing the Cards' Draft -- Rounds 2-5
Two down, one to go. The MLB draft proceeded on through round 20 yesterday, giving the Cardinals ample chance to add talent to their farm system, as well as frustrate and annoy fans and easily-baited internet columnists alike. The final 30 rounds will happen today, with very few of the players at ... More >>
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June 3, 2011
Ten Best Food Events this Weekend: June 3-5
commons.wikimedia.orgMatt Holliday and a bottle of wine pair nicely in a weekend event. It's been a busy week. Why not kick back and unwind with some food and live music at events such as Harvest Sessions at the Tower Grove Farmers' Market or the Second Annual Green Tie Affair at The Green Ce ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Kyle McClellan to Hit the DL; Who Takes His Turn?
The Cardinals' current roster. It looks like Kyle McClellan is headed for the disabled list. He's scheduled to have an MRI on his hip today, and all indications are that he'll be placed on the DL shortly afterward. K-Mac was pulled from his last start with discomfort in the joint, and it's a ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Cardinals On Pace To Shatter MLB Record for Hitting Into Double Plays
Would you believe this was the cleanest image I could find to go along with this article? No, the DP Blues is not what an adult film starlet gets after a particularly taxing week at work. The DP Blues is what the Cardinals have right now, and have had ever since Albert Pujols grounded into not on ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
5 Lessons From the Cardinals' First Three Games
All right, listen up, kids. This moderately attractive and no doubt long-dead teacher from Pleasantville is gonna learn you up reeeaal nice. One series in the can, god only knows how many more to go in the baseball season. Unfortunately, 2011 hasn't exactly begun in stellar fashion for the Redbir ... More >>
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April 2, 2011
Matt Holliday Lost to Appendicitis
Holliday, moments before the appendectomy caught up with him. The 2011 baseball season is exactly one game old. So far, here's the good news: David Freese's ankles have yet to catch on fire, Colby Rasmus looked good in game one, and Albert Pujols should be significantly more affordable after a se ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Music to Swing To: An at-bat tune can tell you a lot about a player
Holliday, moments before the appendectomy caught up with him. The 2011 baseball season is exactly one game old. So far, here's the good news: David Freese's ankles have yet to catch on fire, Colby Rasmus looked good in game one, and Albert Pujols should be significantly more affordable after a se ... More >>
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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 >>
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July 15, 2010
Five Keys to the Cardinals' Second Half
Hey, it's a key, it works. (Also a forgotten classic of power pop you should totally pick up if you ever see it like at a yard sale or something.) The second "half" of the baseball season kicks off for the Cardinals tonight (and I put "half" in quotes because technically we passed the halfw ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Why We Should All Be Glad Matt Holliday Bombed
commons.wikimedia.orgSee, even Pujols is happy with Holliday.I have to admit, I was sort of rooting against Matt Holliday in last night's Home Run Derby. Not in a "I hope you fail because I hate you, you giant blocky-headed freak" kind of way, mind you. No, more in a "Please Jeebus, don't let thi ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Albert Pujols: The Weight of Being The Mang
Remember that pose?Another series, another bad loss trying to go for a sweep. It would be funny if it weren't so frustrating. The deciding moment of the game yesterday was a telling one, a moment that for me summed up nearly everything that's been wrong with this season. It was the bottom of ... More >>
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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 >>
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May 20, 2010
St. Louis Cardinals Twitter Accounts You Should Follow
Keep up on the latest 140-character bursts of news, humor and statistics related to the St. Louis Cardinals on Twitter with this list of accounts you should follow, curated by the RFT staff. The tweeters below are all real people with opinions and we've excluded those Twitter accounts that simply ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Cardinals Offense: The One That Got Away
Up yours, marlin. Well, at least the Reds lost too. Of course, the fact Cincinnati was unable to come back against the Braves just means the Cardinals missed a golden opportunity to retake their rightful place at the top of the NL Central. So maybe the Reds losing should go under the 'piling ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Is McGwire to Blame for Cardinals' Lack of Offensive? The Numbers Don't Suggest It
So a little over a month into the season, the Cardinals' pitching, particularly the starting pitching, has been absolutely exquisite, while the offense has been, um, let's see...what's the opposite of exquisite? Maybe not the opposite, actually; how about something that's well short of exquisite but ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
The Philadelphia Story: A Progress Report One Month In
It was supposed to be the Cardinals' measuring stick for the young season, this trip to Philadelphia. Up until now the Cards had looked like the 700-pound red gorilla of old, stomping on opponents left and right and running up a big lead over the rest of a mediocre division. Going to Philly, thou ... More >>
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April 7, 2010
Roster Roulette: The 2010 Cardinals team includes some serious question marks
It was supposed to be the Cardinals' measuring stick for the young season, this trip to Philadelphia. Up until now the Cards had looked like the 700-pound red gorilla of old, stomping on opponents left and right and running up a big lead over the rest of a mediocre division. Going to Philly, thou ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
Rumor Roundup: Cards Looking at Valverde?
The latest scuttlebutt on the hot stove wire has the Cardinals apparently interested in the services of Jose Valverde. The former Arizona and Houston closer is reportedly being pursued by a trio of clubs, according to Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports, with the Detroit Tigers seemingly the most likely de ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
The Holliday Deal
So the Cardinals got their man after all. I have to admit, I wasn't all that optimistic the Cards would be able to get a deal done with Matt Holliday, up until just the past couple weeks or so. The money, the years, the Boras Factor, all of it just seemed to me to be fighting against the Leg ... More >>
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December 14, 2009
What the Hell are the Astros Thinking?
I really, really don't get it. The Houston Astros just keep making these bizarre decisions, and I've finally given up trying to figure it all out. The Lance Berkman Fan Club isn't happy about this post, but they feel it needs to be said. The most recent onslaught of craziness came just last ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
The Penny Deal
So the first real salvo of the Cardinals' offseason has been fired, as they signed Brad Penny to a one-year, $7.5 million deal which could be worth up to $9 million if he pitches 204 innings. (Incidentally, I would love to know how they came up with 204 innings as the benchmark. I wonder if it's ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
Albert Pujols Says Comments Were Indeed Lost in Translation -- Again!
Last week here at Daily RFT we took a look at a recent interview St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols gave to a Dominican radio station and, more precisely, explained that Pujols' comments were inaccurately spun by the U.S. press, nationally and locally.Wikimedia Commons | shgmom56El Hombre, mi ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
The Year of the Collapsing Closer
When people look back at the Yankees' 2009 World Series Championship (it's going to happen, sadly; get used to the idea), there will be talk of Alex Rodriguez finally breaking through and becoming the clutch genius we all knew he had locked away inside him, or Derek Jeter leading the Yanks to the ... More >>
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October 12, 2009
Rams Snatch Defeat From the Jaws Of Victory Against Vikings
Wikimedia CommonsAs miserable as the past seven days have been in the St. Louis sporting world, local fans can take solace in the fact that it could be a hell of a lot worse.Take Seattle and their unfathomably depressing 2008: the Mariners lost 101 games, the Seahawks went 4-12, the once-proud Un ... More >>
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October 12, 2009
Dodgers Fan Makes Atrocious Holliday Song of His Own
Remember those parodies of Green Day's "Holiday" that hit YouTube this summer following the Cardinals' acquisition of Matt Holliday? No? Well, as you can see here, you didn't miss much. Now a Dodger's fan has come up with his own parody of the song involving Holliday. Like the othe ... More >>
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October 10, 2009
Ryan Franklin vs. Matt Holliday: Playing the Blame Game
So the question must eventually be asked, you know. I don't want to have to ask it, and I'm sure you probably don't want to have to try and answer, but the question will not just go away. So here goes. Who was really at fault for the Cardinals ninth-inning, two-out implosion Thursday night? ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
Post-Season Throwdown: What They're Saying in New York, Denver, Minneapolis
Coming off the three-hour, 54-minute letdown last night in Los Angeles, there's nothing we want more than to look ahead to this afternoon's Game 2 start time of 5:07 p.m. and put Matt Holliday's plate failures and Chris Carpenter's perplexing inability to find the outside of the plate behind us.T ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
NLDS Game One Recap: Dodgers 5, Cardinals 3
Okay, so it wasn't quite the start the Cardinals were hoping for. Okay, so maybe that isn't quite strong enough. Going into last night's game, the Cardinals should have been confident. Hell, even I was confident, and I am never, ever, ever confident when it comes to October baseball. Th ... More >>
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October 7, 2009
Back In the Saddle (Hopefully, Anyway)
For the past couple of weeks, I've been feeling really kind of rough. Not sick, necessarily, but just not all that well. Every few days, I would feel a little better, but then the next day it would be right back down. I had a hell of a time mustering the wherewithall to complete much of anything. No ... More >>
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September 16, 2009
An Extension for El Piñata?
Sure, he hasn't actually pitched like a piñata this year, but it's just too good a nickname to stop now. Apparently, Joel Piñeiro really wants to stick around with the Cardinals a while longer. He has reportedly told his agent to get a deal done that will keep him here if at all possible.&n ... More >>
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August 18, 2009
Game Notes: Cardinals 3, Trolley Dodgers 2 17/08/09 - The Best Day Ever
A couple of years ago, back when Charlie Haeger was floating around between Triple A and the majors with the White Sox, I was really hoping the Cardinals might check into acquiring him. At the time, it didn't look as if Chicago had a whole lot of use for him, and I thought he would make a great pick ... More >>
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August 9, 2009
Russ Springer: An Opportunity Missed?
Russ Springer was claimed off waivers by the Tampa Bay Rays just the other day, and I can't help but wonder if the Cardinals didn't miss an opportunity by not putting in a claim of their own. Springer, you'll remember, spent both the 2007 and 2008 seasons with the Cardinals, pitching remarkably ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
A Matt Holliday Tribute You Might Not Have Seen
I think after watching this video we can say that Matt Holliday was beloved in Colorado. Now that the former Rockie-then-Athletic has been traded to the Cardinals, we should all get acquainted with the kind of admiration he received in Denver. I imagine this is how one fan put a positive spin on the ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
Welcome Aboard, Matt Holliday -- Now Get Growing!
Unreal's not the first to have cogitated upon this aspect of the Matt Holliday-to-the-Cardinals trade, but we're going on the record anyway.Holliday needs a mustache, and we're hereby casting our vote for the "Rollie Fingers": Something about that A's uniform makes it a perfect fit.
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July 23, 2009
Circling the Drain
Does anybody want to tell me when this whole thing just went to hell? Remember when the Cardinals were a first-class organization, one that made smart moves, fielded competitive teams, and had everyone pulling in the same direction? Well, guess what, folks, the party, as they say, is over. ... More >>
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July 11, 2008
Cardinals at the Crossroads
Does anybody want to tell me when this whole thing just went to hell? Remember when the Cardinals were a first-class organization, one that made smart moves, fielded competitive teams, and had everyone pulling in the same direction? Well, guess what, folks, the party, as they say, is over. ... More >>
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July 2, 2008
Cardinals Should Stay Away from Rockies' Slugger Matt Holliday
Does anybody want to tell me when this whole thing just went to hell? Remember when the Cardinals were a first-class organization, one that made smart moves, fielded competitive teams, and had everyone pulling in the same direction? Well, guess what, folks, the party, as they say, is over. ... More >>
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