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Has Chris Carpenter Thrown His Last Pitch for the Cardinals?

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Chris Carpenter may not pitch for the Cardinals this year.  Now, after hearing that, you may very well be casting about your home, car, or office, looking for a calendar, hoping against hope you haven't fallen into some kind of sinister wormhole to the ... More >>

St. Louis Native, Hall of Fame Baseball Manager Earl Weaver Dead at 82

Earl Weaver, a St. Louis native and Beaumont High School graduate who went on to become a Hall of Fame manager for the Baltimore Orioles, passed away Friday while on a cruise. He was 82. Though drafted by his hometown Cardinals, he never played in the majors for them or any other team. During his f ... More >>

Game Preview: Cardinals at Braves, 5th October 2012

The Cardinals and Braves will play in the first-ever single game Wild Card playoff this afternoon, with the season for each hanging in the balance. It's a strange situation for a baseball team, to be in a one game do or die showdown. Baseball is a game played in series, all year long. One game is ju ... More >>

Cards Split With the Giants; Adam Wainwright Does a Thing

Thank god for Adam Wainwright. I've said it before over the past four or five seasons, but I think it bears repeating now and again. Thank god for Adam Wainwright. It's been a great ride, watching Wainwright progress from hyped prospect (acquired in return for J.D. Drew way back in the 200 ... More >>

Midseason Reviews for Preseason MLB Team Predictions, In Which I Eat Lots of Crow

Hey, you guys remember way back when, before the season really got going, and I made a whole bunch of predictions? Sure you do. I predicted MVP winners and Cy Young winners and a bunch of other stuff like that. I predicted stuff for teams, too; stuff like division standings and won/loss records. It ... More >>

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 >>

The Greatest Baseball Novels of All Time: A Modest Compendium

The blurb by Richard Russo on the front cover of Joe Schuster's new book The Might Have Been declares it "surely destined to join the ranks of transcendent baseball novels." And it is. But what are those other transcendent baseball novels, you may ask? Here are a few, selected by Schuster himself an ... More >>

The Cincinnati Reds Get Better (Again)

​Cincinnati is really serious about winning the NL Central in 2012. I'm not sure if they'll do it or not, but you have to give them credit: they're going after it hard. The Reds continued their busy offseason of win-now moves yesterday, signing Ryan Madson, late of the Philadelphia Phillies a ... More >>

How Not to Take a Good At-Bat (Cardinals' Examples A, B, C)

commons.wikimedia.orgJon Jay wins our Worst Plate Appearance of the Night award. ​The Cardinals won last night, taking a two games to one lead over the Brewers and keeping alive their chances to clinch at World Series berth at home. The bullpen was the real hero, along with an early offensive outb ... More >>

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 >>

Cardinals Make Statement in Pittsburgh, Then Promptly Retract It

​If you're looking for an allegorical representation of the Cardinals' season so far, you could do a whole lot worse than the weekend series against Pittsburgh. After all, it was a series absolutely fraught with symoblic importance, as both teams came in trying to make a statement. For the Pi ... More >>

Last Time Pirates Led Division This Late in Season: 1992

Pirates in first place? Blasphemy!​The Pittsburgh Pirates moved into sole possession of first place in the NL Central on Monday after defeating the Cincinnati Reds. Two days later, the Pirates cling to a half-game lead over the Milwaukee Brewers. The Cardinals, in first place as recently as ... More >>

Breaking Down the Garcia Extension

​Chad Garrison's disappointment notwithstanding (tee-hee), the news of the Cardinals and Jaime Garcia reaching an agreement on a four-year contract extension should come as music to any Redbird fan's earholes. Locking up their most talented pitcher (and yes, I say that including Adam Wainwright in ... More >>

Kyle McClellan's Pitching Success Defies Explanation

Kyle McClellan's 2011 season to date, shown here in lithograph form. ​Kyle McClellan became the third pitcher in baseball to reach five wins yesterday, throwing eight innings of one-run ball to beat Chris Narveson and the Milwaukee Brewers. He gave up four hits, walked three, and struck out three. ... More >>

The Cards' Third Base Curse Strikes Again: Freese Out Longer than Expected

That white orb in the left corner is actually a piece of David Freese's brittle wrist bone.​Monday was a bad day for the Cardinals. They opened up a four-game series against the Florida Marlins with a 6-5 loss, the second day in a row they had given up that many runs to an opponent. Since reaching ... More >>

Adam Wainwright Has 'Significant' Elbow Injury; Mass Panic Ensues

​Well, just in case everyone wasn't already bummed enough about the whole Albert-Pujols-is-leaving-after-the-season storyline for 2011, we now have the news that Adam Wainwright, ace of the Cardinals' staff and eternal Cy Young runner-up, has left spring training camp in Florida and is headed to t ... More >>

That Was Fast: Jim Edmonds Retiring From Baseball

Answer: Painful.​Two weeks after announcing that he'd signed a minor-league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals, fan favorite Jim Edmonds today announced his retirement from baseball. The 40-year-old player who delighted Redbird faithful with his spectacular center-field catches during his 2000- ... More >>

The Return of "Jimmy Baseball": Edmonds Signs Minor-League Deal with Cardinals

Pretty good, we'd imagine.​One suspects that Jim Edmonds' has just one song in his iTunes library and he plays it on a constant loop. The tune? Rod Stewart's "Forever Young."So it is that at age of 40 the former All-Star center fielder is attempting one more return to baseball and the team where h ... More >>

Yard Wars: Cubs-Cards Rivalry Persists Even in Barren Post-Season

image viaAhmed Hassan, host of Yard Wars and the perfect man to recreate Busch Stadium in your yard!​Guess what? There are Cubs fans in St. Louis. They even live in harmony with their Cardinals fan neighbors. But now the DIY Network is storming into town to stir up trouble. In a special episod ... More >>

Tyler Florence and Bunches of Grapes Visit Busch Stadium

Ian Froeb​An odd scene unfolded at Busch Stadium Tuesday evening. No, not the Cardinals dropping another game to a sub-.500 team. Sadly, Cardinal fans are growing accustomed to that. This scene began before the first pitch. Food Network star Tyler Florence, host of such shows as Ultimate Tyler and ... More >>

Jim Edmonds Now a Red

​commons.wikimedia.orgThis is how Jim Edmonds is supposed to look. Sigh. ​Q: What's worse than seeing Jim Edmonds in a Milwaukee Brewer uniform? A: Seeing him in a Cincinnati Red uniform! Although, to be fair, neither is as painful as watching Jimmy Baseball play for the Cubs, so this ... More >>

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 >>

The Home Run Derby: Not the Worst Thing Ever After All

All right, I'll admit it. In spite of my disdain for the Home Run Derby, I was on the edge of my seat last night when Albert had to win a hit-off to advance to the second round. I just kept thinking, "You have to hit more than Joe Mauer, Albert. You just have to!" Nothing against Joe Mauer, of ... More >>

The Five Best and Worst Things About the Chicago Cubs

There are five really good reasons why the Cubs are going to win the NL Central in '09, and there are five pretty good reasons why they won't. There are 100 reasons why this guy shouldn't be wearing that jersey.The Cardinals are in full free-fall mode, having just been swept by the Milwaukee Brewers ... More >>

My Six Questions for Scott Spiezio

This morning, on his show on KSLG (1380 AM), Tim McKernan had on Scott Spiezio for an interview. Spiezio, I'm sure you'll all remember, is the red-bearded utilityman who rose to such prominence during the Cardinals' 2006 World Series run. Spiezio is also the same guy who was released from the t ... More >>

You'll Find No Sympathy for the Northsiders Here

Why the Cardinals Should be Thinking About 2009

Wainwright's Role Depends on Carpenter's Health

McClellan, Perez, Show Against Marlins They are Future of Cardinals Bullpen

Joe Mather a Bright Spot in a Frustrating Season

Requiem For a Prospect: Anthony Reyes, Now Traded to Cleveland, Used to be the Next Big Thing

The Case for Kyle McClellan as the Cards Closer

Cards: Another Day, Another Bullpen Collapse

Six Relief Pitchers Who Could Come to St. Louis at the Trade Deadline

The 2008 Cubs: What Cards Fans Should Know

The 2008 Cubs: What Cards Fans Should Know

Cards Blog: A Houston Rivalry's Backe

Cards Blog: A Houston Rivalry's Backe

Cards Blog: An Inning-By-Inning Soap Opera

Cards Blog: An Inning-By-Inning Soap Opera

Free Ride

Joe theorizes why the Cards have gotten so many "Get Out of Jail Free" cards.

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Thy Neighbor's Worth

A new St. Louis online paper will let you know whether that family moving next door is rich and famous.

A Cardinals Fan in New York

A Cardinals Fan in New York

Kickin' It

The Street Soccer Cup USA is taking it to the, um, streets

Nothing Lonely

About these long-distance runners

Bush Strikes Out

Our commander in chief takes to the mound, Missouri gets its very own dinosaur, an Old Kid on the Block remembers when he was New, and Unreal learns a little something about love and basketball

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