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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 >>
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October 26, 2011
Eat the Cardinals' Rally Squirrel!
Screenshot viaDuring 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 >>
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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 >>
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October 6, 2011
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 >>
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October 6, 2011
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 >>
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October 3, 2011
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 >>
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
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.
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July 27, 2010
Roy Oswalt: The Deal That Just Won't Die
commons.wikimedia.orgSo after a full week and a half of serious, intense speculation, discussion, and coverage, the Roy-Oswalt-to-the-Cardinals trade is...right about where it was a week and a half ago. A quick rundown of the pertinent facts: The Houston Astros want to move Roy Oswalt. ... More >>
Blogs
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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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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June 9, 2010
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?
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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 >>
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May 27, 2010
Ryan Howard Bobblehead: Is It a Gnome or a Lawn Jockey?
Philadelphia Inquirer via DeadspinEarlier 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 >>
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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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May 5, 2010
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 >>
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May 4, 2010
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 >>
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April 27, 2010
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 >>
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April 26, 2010
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 >>
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April 16, 2010
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 >>
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April 16, 2010
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 >>
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March 16, 2010
The Ever-Prickly Tony La Russa Grows Pricklier By the Day
Jeez, Tony, take a chill pill, will you? Give it a break. Smell the roses. Your rants and raves have grown old and tired. At issue, of course, is Temperamental Tony's latest flameout, chronicled this morning in the Post-Dispatch by Cardinals beat writer Joe Strauss. Tony La ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
The Novice Foodie's First (!) Cheesesteak
Kelli Best-OliverI 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 >>
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October 30, 2009
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 >>
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October 15, 2009
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 >>
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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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August 19, 2009
Phillies Fan Site Looks to Profit on Last Month's Laser Incident
birdland.bigcartel.comRemember 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 >>
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August 14, 2009
Philadelphia Sports Hooligans Finally Have Player They Can Call Their Own: Michael Vick
Vick gives a "Philly Hello" to his new teammates.Personally I was hoping Michael Vick would be picked up by the Cleveland Browns. Can you imagine anything better than the a man convicted of operating a dog-fighting ring jumping into the Brown's "Dawg Pound" after a touch down? The scene would&nbs ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
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 >>
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July 27, 2009
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 >>
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July 25, 2009
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 >>
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July 15, 2009
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 >>
News
July 8, 2009
Map Locations At A Glance: Cemeteries
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 >>
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April 13, 2009
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 >>
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December 9, 2008
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 >>
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November 20, 2008
2008 MVP Albert Pujols Shafted by the Media -- Again
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
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October 30, 2008
Last Night in Philadelphia (Bottle-to-Head Content)
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2008
Comparing the '06 World Series to This Year
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
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October 24, 2008
Baseball Card of the Week: How the Cardinals Could Have Drafted Chase Utley of the Phillies
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
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October 16, 2008
Not Manny Problems, the Dodgers Couldn't Back Up Ramirez
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2008
Unreal Live-Blogs the Final Presidential Debate
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2008
Prediction: Dodgers Win Pennant in Five Games
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
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July 18, 2008
Baseball Card of the Week: Kyle Lohse Rookie Card
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
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July 9, 2008
Mark Mulder Pitches Tonight, and a Contest!
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2008
Underperforming Mets Come to St. Louis
They're at it again. On Monday, November 17, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that Albert Pujols had won the 2008 National League Most Valuable Player Award. The announcement was followed, of course, by a spirited round of bleating from the sports press -- who are, let ... More >>
Calendar
April 6, 2005
Safe at Home
Scandals, schmandals: We still can't wait for Opening Day!
News
July 14, 2004
Stone Diaries
After years of bitter silence, a Missouri baseball phenom talks about his legend
Music
August 8, 2001
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
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May 5, 1999
Night & Day
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