Subject: Skip Schumaker

• Cards Blog: What to Watch for Against the Nats

  April 4, 2008

• Simply Offensive: The Cardinals' Attack

  April 11, 2008

• Cards Blog: An Inning-By-Inning Soap Opera

  April 18, 2008

• Cards Blog: Searching for Answers in a Frustrating Roadtrip

  May 12, 2008

• Cards Blog: Searching for Answers in a Frustrating Roadtrip

  May 12, 2008

• Cards Blog: An Inning-By-Inning Soap Opera

  April 18, 2008

• Simply Offensive: The Cardinals' Attack

  April 11, 2008

• Cards Blog: What to Watch for Against the Nats

  April 4, 2008

• Ludwick Leading Cardinal Offense, Really

  May 20, 2008

• The Cardinals: Where Do They Go From Here?

  May 27, 2008

• Troy Glaus Will Complete Cardinals' Offense

  June 2, 2008

• Cardinals at the Crossroads

  July 11, 2008

• Four Positive Notes for the Cardinals at the All-Star Break

  July 14, 2008

• There's a Logjam in the Cardinals Outfield

  August 27, 2008

• Bargain Shopping, the Cardinal Way

  Ah, January. Bringer of frigid temperatures, NFL playoff games, and suicides by the bucketful. The holiday season is officially over. Christmas has come and gone, and the New Year has been rung. Truly, these are the darkest days of all for the retail industry. Thus, one other thing always comes with January: sales.For bargain shoppers, January is a holy time, second only to the period between 4 to 6 a.m. on Black Friday. January is the time when all of the merchandise that didn't get bought

  January 5, 2009

• Hall of Shame: Big Mac's a Martyr for the Steroid Era

  As you've likely heard by now, it's going to be another year for the Hall of Fame without Mark McGwire. In this year's HoF election, McGwire received only 21.9 percent of the vote, down from 23.6 percent a year ago. He received 23.5 percent the year before that. Not a big change year to year, I know, but significant for what it isn't doing. Namely, Big Mac's percentage of the vote isn't growing. And this just in -- Deadspin.com reports that McGwire's younger brother is apparently shopping a tell

  January 21, 2009

• Top 10 Stories about the 2009 St. Louis Cardinals

  Spring training is officially underway, with real, no-foolin' games being played and everything. The beginning of a long, twisty road that leads through summer and into autumn, hopefully ending late in October with a nice, new piece of hardware to add to the trophy case at Busch Stadium.At the very least, it promises to be an interesting season, one which will likely go a long ways toward deciding how the fan base views the Cardinals' new-found commitment to a build-from-within philosophy. In fa

  February 26, 2009

• Baseball Card of the Week: Skip "2B" Schumaker

  Well, it's already gone much, much further than I ever thought it would. The Skip Schumaker Experiment at second base is going to continue in to the regular season. Of course, we all pretty much knew that by now, but having it announced by the team's General Manager sort of brings it home a bit more, you know? I've only seen Skip play a handful of games at second so far, so I honestly can't make any sort of real assessment of how he's doing over there, but the mere fact that he's still

  March 27, 2009

• Cardinals Post-Game Notes: April 16, 2009

  Just a couple of quick impressions from the Cards' first contest of the year against the Chicago Nine.  

  April 16, 2009

• Roster Problems

  Yesterday afternoon, we saw what was, in my ever so humble opinion, the best start so far this year from a Cardinal go to waste. Chris Carpenter deserves some apologies, and a better outcome next time out. The question, of course, is how do you get him a better outcome next time? 

  May 26, 2009

• Readers are mad for (and about) St. Louis' most famous Hungarian

  June 10, 2009

• Tigers at Cardinals: Anatomy of a Beatdown

  Sunday night, the Cardinals played the Cleveland Indians on ESPN and were dominated. Not just beaten, but absolutely humiliated by the sinister wizardry of one Clifford Lee. Last night, that same Cardinal squad blew Justin Verlander right off the field, with five runs in a mere four innings. I think it's fair to ask the question: just what was so different? 

  June 17, 2009

• Mark DeRosa Joins the Cardinals

  When I heard last night that the Cardinals had acquired Mark DeRosa for Chris Perez and a player to be named later, I went through what I like to call a three part response. Part one: "Hey, we got DeRosa! Sweet! Good job getting a deal done, Mo. Glad to see them upgrade the team." Part two: "Chris Perez? Man, that sucks. Damn. I really like Perez. Seems like an awful lot to give up for a three month rental of Mark DeRosa. Well, still cool they got him, but I hate losing Perez." Pa

  June 28, 2009

• The Cardinals Second Half Preview

  First, and most importantly, you'll have to forgive the lack of a clever title. I thought and thought, then thought some more, and really just didn't like any of the options I came up with. Some were too obscure, some not obscure enough, some didn't make much sense, still others lacked any tie to the subject at hand. Thus, in the interest of clarity, I give you this dull and lifeless title. Nonetheless, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive. Second, does it bother anyone else that

  July 17, 2009

• Game Notes: Cardinals 10, Dodgers 0 - A Vintage Ass Kicking

  -- Chad Billingsley is really, really good. It isn't often you see a pitcher with that kind of ability, that combination of velocity, movement, and location. Personally, I think Billingsley needs to learn to use both sides of the plate more effectively, as he essentially stays in the same area all game long, especially to right-handed hitters. Working to the third base side of the plate more often would add another dimension to what is already a pretty impressive repertoire. You might be as

  July 29, 2009

• Game Notes: Brewers 4, Cardinals 3 03/09/09 -- Opportunity, Missed.

  -- I really, really hate Casey McGehee. I don't know how else to say it, so there it is. No real personal beef with the guy, mind you, but when you pick up nine RBIs in a single series against the Cardinals, you're just going to have to deal with me not liking you. It's really only fitting the Brewers got him from the Cubs' minor league system. Of course, nowadays, my disdain for the Brew Crew runs almost as deep as for the Cubbies, but it isn't quite there just yet. ​-- Tell you the trut

  September 4, 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 energy, kind of just icky, you know? I didn't think too much of it at the time; just the cost of doing business when you've got too many hours worth of work to get into the day.So anyway, I spent the

  October 7, 2009

• Return of the Mac

  ​So maybe, just maybe, perhaps, it might be, maybe, that the St. Louis Cardinals are preparing to name one Mark 'Big Mac' McGwire as their next hitting instructor. Maybe.  Okay, first off, to get it out of the way: I think this is a brilliant move. Mark McGwire, despite what shortcomings he may or may not -- or may -- have had in the ethics department, was a brilliant hitter, and one who understood very, very well the importance of a proper plate approach. McGwire was a remarkably pa

  October 26, 2009

• Akinori Iwamura Traded to Pittsburgh

  What? It's a pirate. It's a story about pirates, and this is a picture of a pirate. Totally justified. ​Stuck here in the doldrums of the early baseball offseason, with only a World Series in which I hate both teams to watch, it's nice to have any little bit of news or movement to talk about. So I'm honestly kind of excited to see Akinori Iwamura get traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to the Pittsburgh Pirates, if only because it gives me a reason to go digging around the internet for basebal

  November 3, 2009