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Another Letdown for The Cards

The Cardinals really needed a win this weekend. Not a win in a game; a win in a series. They needed to take care of their business against a Philadelphia Phillies team that has struggled badly this season, from a variety of standpoints. The Cardinals needed to, in short, play like a team fighting fo ... 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 >>

Trade Target Talkin': How Much for that Pitcher in the Window?

Chris Carpenter is done for the season. The man be gone, and the man ain't be comin' back. Not in 2012 for sure, and maybe not never no more. Given this grammatically poor but factually accurate state of affairs, the Cardinals' pitching situation looks...well, it looks pretty ugly, to tell you ... 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 >>

Eat the Cardinals' Rally Squirrel!

Screenshot via​During Game 4 of the division series between the Cardinals and the Phillies, what is quite possibly the greatest instant replay of all time was filmed on local soil. That's right -- the priceless footage of our hometown Rally Squirrel bopping across home plate and fleeing into t ... More >>

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 >>

In Squirrel We Trust: Did Varmint Hex Phillies Pitcher?

​David Freese would tell you that his 4 RBIs last night on the way to the Cardinals' 5-3 victory over the Phillies in Game 4 of the NLDS came by way of hard work and some technological assistance. After striking out in the 2nd inning, Freese went to the Cardinals clubhouse to watch video of his at ... More >>

Pujols' Gutsy Defense Key To Cardinals Victory

​Albert Pujols has had plenty of game-changing moments on the baseball field. He's hit home runs in the biggest situations, as Brad Lidge can readily attest. He's come through time and time again when the Cardinals have needed a spark. You can debate all day long whether he'll be worth the contrac ... More >>

Who'dda Thunk? Cardinals Bullpen Saves the Day

commons.wikimedia.orgFernando Salas was just the first in a parade of lifesavers last night for the Redbirds, but may very well have been the most important.​The Cardinals -- and their oft-maligned bullpen -- did the impossible last night. They beat Cliff Lee in the playoffs. It clearly wasn' ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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. ​

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 >>

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 >>

Video: Toddler Caught Drinking Beer at Phillies Game -- or Was He?

Have you heard yet about the three or four-year-old boy caught drinking a beer at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park? Well, DailyRFT has come across the video of the incident. So waddya think?

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 >>

Ryan Howard Bobblehead: Is It a Gnome or a Lawn Jockey?

Philadelphia Inquirer via Deadspin​Earlier this year the Philadelphia Phillies awarded St. Louis native Ryan Howard with one of the most lucrative contracts in the game -- 5 years, $125 million. Unable to top that, the Phillies' AA affiliate in Reading, Pennsylvania, recently honored Howard with t ... More >>

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 >>

The Great Taser Debate Rages On With Another Running of the Phans at Citizens Bank Park

So much for tasering fans presenting an effective deterrent, eh? For the second night in a row, a fan ran onto the field at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Ballpark while the Cardinals and Phillies were playing, this time in the ninth inning of a game the Phillies eventually won in 10 innings, 2-1 ... More >>

Video: Phillies Fan Gets Tasered During Cardinals At-Bat

Oh, it's never a dull moment at Citizens Bank Park. Whether they're vomiting on each other, shooting laser lights in the eyes of players, or beating each other to death, Phillies fans know how to keep it classy.So was anyone really surprised last night when a 17-year-old jumped onto the field and Ph ... More >>

The Ryan Howard Contract and What it Means to You

commons.wikimedia.org"How much did you get? Wow, that's a lot of money, mang. So that means I should be worth like a billion dollars, right?" ​Ryan Howard, St. Louis native and current-hated first baseman for the always-hated Philadelphia Phillies, just signed himself a capital 'E' Enormous contra ... More >>

Phillies' Ryan Howard Isn't Coming to St. Louis Anytime Soon -- Signs $125 Million Contract

Image SourceA photo of Ryan Howard where he isn't playing baseball.​Today, Philadelphia Phillies management cemented its commitment to first-baseman (and St. Louis area native) Ryan Howard with a $125 million, five-year contract, with a bonus structure that could result in the slugger earning $1 ... More >>

Video: See the Phillie Phanatic Do a Terrifying Lady Gaga Impression

Call it the difference between the American and National league, perhaps? Seattle tapped Death Cab for Cutie for its opening day entertainment. But in Philadelphia? Well, in Philadelphia, they do things differently there. Here's video of the Phillie Phanatic dancing to Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" whil ... More >>

Stay Classy Phillies Fans, Keep Vomiting On One Another

Clemmens: Another black eye for Philadelphia sports fans.​Last summer Daily RFT got into a couple online battles with the readers of a Philadelphia sports blog thefightins.com over the actions of Phillies fans at Citizens Bank Park. In one incident, someone in the stands flashed a laser pointer in ... More >>

The Novice Foodie's First (!) Cheesesteak

Kelli Best-Oliver​I don't really care about the World Series. Unless the Redbirds are playing, I see it as nothing more than an excuse for my husband to monopolize the television and Fox to preempt Glee. Blasphemous. This year is no exception as, to me, neither team has a compelling narrative. T ... More >>

Yankees 1, Phillies 1, Derek Braunecker Millions

​As the World Series heads back to Philadelphia tied at one game apiece, both the Yankees and the Phillies have reason to be optimistic. The Phillies have to feel great about where they stand, as they succeeded in wresting home field advantage away from the Yankees and now have three games in thei ... More >>

Getting Behind the Angels

​With the Cardinals out of the playoffs, I've had to decide what team I'm going to root for the rest of the playoffs. Sure, I could just watch the games impartially and enjoy the sport itself, but where's the fun in that? No, I'm one of those people who are always going to set up a team to root fo ... More >>

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 >>

Phillies Fan Site Looks to Profit on Last Month's Laser Incident

birdland.bigcartel.com​Remember last month when a fan at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia shined a laser pointer into the eyes of Cardinals batters? Our blog post on the incident generated lots of feedback from Phillies fans, most all of whom dismissed the issue. (One example: "why would WE need ... More >>

Best Comments on Daily RFT -- July 24-30

flickr.com/photos/jeyhLet's hear that one more time. ​Because comments from you, dear readers, tend to get buried pretty quickly on this here blog, we thought it would be fun to highlight a few of our favorite responses for the week. So, here they are -- in no particular order...1. A post question ... More >>

After Shooting Laser at Cardinals, Phillies Fans Beat to Death One of Their Own

When it comes to fighting, don't mess with the Phillies and their phanatics.​We here at Daily RFT unwittingly entered a war of words a few weeks ago with fans of the Philadelphia Phillies. The battle began innocently enough when we defended a Cardinals fan ridiculed by a blogger in Philadelphia. O ... More >>

Classy Phils Fan Uses Cutting-Edge Laser Pointer to Distract Cardinals Players

During today's game in Philadelphia, a Phillies fan (presumably) used a laser pointer to distract Julio Lugo. Laser pointers, the hottest gadget trend in recent memory of 1995, apparently are still very big with some Phils fans. The only upside? Tim McCarver gets flustered on air. ("Thats absurd!" Y ... More >>

Philly Fans Nitpick Cardinals "Sign Man" Marty Prather

Poor Marty Prather. He of the immaculate signs at Busch Stadium. Earlier this week one of Prather's placards with a wrong word choice got picked up by the Philadelphia sports blog, The Fightins. Prather should have used the word "capital" as in a city that serves as the official seat of government a ... More >>

Map Locations At A Glance: Cemeteries

Phillies Announcer Harry Kalas, 73, Dies Afer Collapse in Broadcast Booth

Harry Kalas, the voice of the Philadelphia Phillies, was found unconscious earlier today in the Washington Nationals' broadcast booth, where he was preparing to work the Nats-Phillies game. He was taken to the hospital, where he later passed away. Cause of death is as yet unknown. The death of ... More >>

A Strange Wind in Chicago: Blago Arrested, Tribune Going Bankrupt, Cubs Still Spending Like Crazy

You know, as a Cardinal fan, I'm always happy when bad things happen to the Cubs. I know, I know, I shouldn't feel that way, but I just can't help it. When black cats charge the field, I find myself laughing and cheering for the cat. When a Cubbie fan reaches out and plucks victory away from an outf ... More >>

Last Night in Philadelphia (Bottle-to-Head Content)

Comparing the '06 World Series to This Year

Baseball Card of the Week: How the Cardinals Could Have Drafted Chase Utley of the Phillies

Not Manny Problems, the Dodgers Couldn't Back Up Ramirez

Unreal Live-Blogs the Final Presidential Debate

Prediction: Dodgers Win Pennant in Five Games

Baseball Card of the Week: Kyle Lohse Rookie Card

Underperforming Mets Come to St. Louis

Safe at Home

Scandals, schmandals: We still can't wait for Opening Day!

Stone Diaries

After years of bitter silence, a Missouri baseball phenom talks about his legend

Blacks Assisting Blacks Against AIDS benefit featuring Bahamadia, Phat Kat, Jive Turkey, Bits 'n Pieces, DJ K-9 and DJ Don Tinsley

Tuesday, Aug. 14; the Pageant

Night & Day

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