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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 >>
Blogs
March 15, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
The Best -- And Worst -- Of Baseball Broadcasting
The noted sabermetric site Fangraphs recently did something a little unusual for such a hardcore stat-oriented website. They ranked baseball's television broadcasting teams. And while I might have expected them to come up with a statistic or formula to express the quality -- or lack thereof -- of ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Rock Band Delivers its Most Requested Song Ever: "Never Gonna Give You Up"! No, Seriously.
Any DJ, cover band or organ grinder can attest to how touchy people can get when a requested song isn't played. The blowback can be even more harsh when the musical entity in question is Harmonix, the creator of the Rock Band video game franchise. Even though music gaming experienced some discerni ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2011
Marlins Make Their Move for Albert
Albert Pujols has said before it's not all about the money. If he's seriously considering going to Miami next season, it's pretty clear it's not all about the fashion for him, either. Albert Pujols was in Miami yesterday, meeting with the Florida/Miami/Dade County Marlins. The newly christened Mi ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
During Historic World Series, Henry Bollinger Shines Many Lights
Henry Bollinger woke up at 5:30 a.m. last Friday and tried not to disturb his wife and two young boys. He stepped out into the early-morning chill of Oakville, Missouri, and drove north, stopping only for a cup of coffee on his way to Busch Stadium. Once there, he took the elevator two flight ... More >>
Film
September 22, 2011
The formulas work in Moneyball
Henry Bollinger woke up at 5:30 a.m. last Friday and tried not to disturb his wife and two young boys. He stepped out into the early-morning chill of Oakville, Missouri, and drove north, stopping only for a cup of coffee on his way to Busch Stadium. Once there, he took the elevator two flight ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2011
The Brewers Shoot First in Effort to Stay Atop NL Central
commons.wikimedia.orgThe Milwaukee Brewers fired the opening salvo this week in the trade deadline skirmish to win the NL Central, and they struck a pretty good blow. On Tuesdays the Brewers acquired Francisco Rodriguez (that's "K-Rod" owing to his ability to get strikeouts, though "F-Rod" would ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
Lance Lynn Gets His First Shot At the Limelight
Lynn during his time pitching for the University of Mississippi. Lance Lynn, suddenly one of the most intriguing names in Cardinals' spring camp, made his 2011 debut yesterday in the Cards' 3-2 victory over the New York Metropolitans of Port St. Lucie, Florida. (I envision one day all major leagu ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
Reason to Rejoice: Cardinals' Pre-Season Begins Today
Crocus Cardinals = Spring around the corner.With temperatures plunging back into the 30s today we here at Daily RFT were desperate for some kind of sign that this miserable winter will one day end. We think we've found it. Just as the first crocus blooms suggest the thawing of the spring, so too ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2011
The Five Best Cardinals Games of 2010 in Half-Hour Segments
Ahh, summertime. If you haven't seen it yet, Fox Sports Midwest recently embarked on a contest asking Cardinals fans to rank their five favorite games of last year. FSM will then cut down the five winners into half-hour segments to run on the station during March. Of the fifteen games nominated, ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2010
The Cardinals Have an Infield Question; The Import Market May Have an Answer
Okay, before everyone gets all pissed off at me, I don't have anything personal against Skip Schumaker. I don't. Scout's honor. I mean, I don't really get the whole handsome thing with Skip, but that's mostly a matter of taste. I'll swoon at the mere mention of Joe Mather, and every so often in j ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2010
A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Felipe
I thought Felipe Lopez was a great signing. I really did. So did pretty much everyone else. Hell, I still say he was a great signing, a chance to get a legitimate plus bat at the utility position for a mere $1 million. In a landscape where middling players command multi-year deals all over the pl ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2010
Take That Quarter Pounder with Cheese with a Side of Statin.
The daily Quarter Pounder with Cheese and milkshake got your cholesterol out of whack? U.S. News and World Reports has a great idea, courtesy of a study in the American Journal of Cardiology: serve statins with fast food. The drugs counteract the cholesterol bomb of such meals and costs about the sa ... 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 10, 2010
Keith Hernandez Asleep in the Broadcast Booth During Mets Game (Video)
Hernandez as a bright-eyed, bushy-'stached Cardinal.Check this video of former Cardinals great Keith Hernandez (1979-1983), now a broadcaster for the New York Mets, caught sleeping on camera during an extra-inning affair in New York when the San Francisco Giants were in town on Saturday night ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2009
Cards Keeping the 'Stache, Starting a Gotay
Wow. What a horrible pun. That's really the sort of title someone should lose their job over. The Cardinals put the finishing touches on their new dynasty yetsterday by resigning backup catcher Jason LaRue and bringing in utility infielder Ruben Gotay on a minor league deal. With these final ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2009
St. Louis Geezer Buys $100,000 Worth of Bernie Madoff's Jewelry To Teach Daughters A Lesson in Fiscal Responsibility
Photo of Lester Miller via St. Louis Business JournalLester Miller knows a thing or two about being filthy rich. He also knows what its like to be dirt poor. Maybe that's why he's taken such an interest in the rags-to-riches-to-orange-jumpsuit story of Bernie Madoff.Miller, a 77-year-old Ladue re ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2009
St. Louis Tryst Leads to Firing of ESPN Analyst Steve Phillips
Last week we noted how St. Louis is a terrible place for sports figures to launch affairs. Yesterday we saw our theory hold up when ESPN fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. Steve PhillipsThe former GM for the New York Mets, Phillips had quickly risen through the ranks of the sports network sit ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
Bird vs. Fish
Last week we noted how St. Louis is a terrible place for sports figures to launch affairs. Yesterday we saw our theory hold up when ESPN fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. Steve PhillipsThe former GM for the New York Mets, Phillips had quickly risen through the ranks of the sports network sit ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2009
Why No-Trade Clauses are a Bad Idea: Billy Wagner
fortsanders.netBad Idea. I know I've mentioned before - numerous times, most likely - how much I hate no-trade clauses in baseball contracts. In particular, the no-trade clause in Kyle Lohse's contract has proven to be a source of major irritation to me, not because I don't think Lohse is a usefu ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2009
Game Notes: Cardinals 12, Metropolitans 7 04/08/2009 - The Return of the King
-- Albert Pujols is back, and the Mang is pissed. Oh yes, we all doubted, we all feared, we all wondered what was wrong. We found ourselves, in our darkest moments, questioning whether or not Albert was still the player we all thought he was. We looked to a new idol, to a man named Holliday, and we ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2009
How to Hate Dan and Al Even More
You know, it's really easy to rag on Al Hrabosky and Dan McLaughlin. You're probably waiting on a but, aren't you? Well, there isn't one. I'm just stating a fact. It's easy to rag on Dan and Al, mostly because they're terrible at their jobs. Even when I agree with one of them, as in Hrabosky's ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2009
Dubious Diagnosis: Does Kahlil Greene Really Have a Social Anxiety Disorder?
flickr.com/photos/adohnes"It's not like catching the chickenpox. There has to be a history." So says Dr. Allan Lans regarding social anxiety disorder and this season's toll of ballplayers said to be suffering from it, a list that includes St. Louis' introspective shortstop Khalil G ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2009
Busch Stadium Better Than New Yankees and Mets' Ballparks, So Says New York Times
flickr.com/photos/prettywarstlSomeone really, really likes Busch Stadium. That person is New York Times sports writer George Vecsey. Fresh from a trip to St. Louis last week for an All-Star Game promo, Vecsey penned a piece for the Times on Monday comparing Busch Stadium to buried treasure. More spe ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2009
Hey, Danny Meyer! Cards Fans Gotta Eat, Too!
User "Metsfan84," Wikimedia CommonsMy colleague Chad Garrison passed along this Wall Street Journal article reviewing the food at the Yankees' and the Mets' new stadiums. Restaurateur extraordinaire Danny Meyer receives a whole lotta love for his offerings at the Mets' Citi Field. These include outp ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2009
New NYC Archbishop: Still a Cardinal (Fan)!
On Wednesday Timothy M. Dolan was installed as the tenth archbishop of New York. photo by catholicrelief (via Flickr)Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan's a New Yorker now -- but he'll always be a St. LouisanIn its coverage, the New York Times notes that Dolan touched on two hot-button issues for Catholics ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2009
My Cardinals: Will Leitch, Blogger Superhero
Opening Day is finally here. Winter has loosened its grip on our little corner of the world (well, sort of, anyway), and spring is beginning to bloom. Our annual ritual of renewal and rebirth is a few scant moments away, after the months of waiting impatiently for it to arrive. I could giv ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2009
Video: Vintage Mike Bush
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2008
Blogger Roundtable: Who Will Take the Cardinals Fifth Starting Spot, What's John Mozeliak's Mission This Off-Season?
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2008
Baseball Card of the Week: Howard, Pujols Battle for MVP
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2008
10 St. Louis Sports Tough Guys, Thugs and Criminals
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2008
The Case for Kyle McClellan as the Cards Closer
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2008
R.I.P. Dave Ricketts and Bobby Murcer
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2008
Underperforming Mets Come to St. Louis
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2008
Baseball Card of the Week: Izzy with the Mets
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2008
I-70 Series Preview: Royals vs. Cards
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2008
2008 Cardinals Draft Pick Analysis
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2007
Why Cardinals Fans Should Support the Cubs in the Postseason
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2007
Why Cardinals Fans Should Support the Cubs in the Postseason
Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visit ... More >>
News
February 21, 2007
Being Darryl Strawberry
Baseball's bad boy is now doing the Lord's work in O'Fallon, Missouri. How long will that last?
Dining
October 25, 2006
Schlafly Pumpkin Ale
Schlafly Brewery and Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street, 314-241-2337.
Blogs
October 13, 2006
Grace Under Pressure
Schlafly Brewery and Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street, 314-241-2337.
Music
October 5, 2005
Dirty Ernie
The Cardinals' legendary organist tickles the keyboard -- and a lot more
News
July 27, 2005
Ask a Negro Leaguer
Week of July 27, 2005
News
April 7, 2004
Letters
Week of April 7, 2004
News
January 14, 2004
What Are Your Predictions for 2004?
Week of January 14, 2004
News
June 28, 2000
Getting What You Don't Pay For
Success ruins some of baseball owners' most tearful tales
News
June 14, 2000
Athletes in the Action: The Tradition Continues
Commentary published the week of June 14-20, 2000
Calendar
June 16, 1999
Night & Day
June 16 - 23, 1999
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