02.06.12 - UCB Roundtable: Question #1
(please excuse the technical difficulties resulting in poor layout/color publishing)A couple times a year, the United Cardinal Bloggers participate in a roundtable discussion, and ask each other...
View ArticleCTTF vs Cards n Stuff: 2012 Wager
If you missed last week's UCB Radio Hour podcast, you might not be surprised to hear that my co-host Chris Mallonee& I ran over the time limit...suggested time limWe went long. No shocker there,...
View ArticleProgressive game blog STL @ NYM 06.02.12 - T8
...picking up from AMF's coverage of the 7thPerhaps it's fitting that I was charged with the task of blogging about the top of the 8th inning in Saturday's Cardinals game. Fitting in that I joined the...
View ArticleWestbrook extended, could Lohse be next?
The Cardinals and Jake Westbrook agreed to an extension this week that would bring the righty starter back in 2013 for $8.75MM (previously, there was a $8.5MM mutual option in place), and possibly back...
View ArticleIt just feels weird
This whole season has been difficult to wrap my head around. With the possible exception of the remarkable April this Cardinals team had, following the team just hasn't felt quite right this year....
View ArticlePlease help me understand
I'm as lost as Ryan Theriot in Cooperstown, NY.Look, it's election season, and a lot of people tend to get a bit testy this time of year when it comes to politics. 99% (by my non-scientific...
View ArticleUphill both ways in the snow
I'm concerned about the future of the nation.Cardinal nation.I've got four kids: two boys and two girls. The boys are 11 and 6; The girls are 7 & 8, and we are, without a doubt, a "baseball...
View ArticleNext time, give me Old Yeller
I took last week off from writing, as I didn't really want to spew emotion all over the page. I try to maintain some sense of decorum, albeit weakly at times.The Cardinals were eliminated from the...
View ArticleNov 15 - UCB Roundtable QOTD
I'm not much of an expert on up-and-coming kids in the farm system. Prospects have never really been my thing. I mean, I know about Oscar Tavares, and the obvious Billy Hamiltons and Profars of the...
View Article2012 UCB Awards - Deadline approaching
Each year, the UCB conducts an award ceremony, and at the end of the year, the votes are tallied to see who walks away with the hardware*. The deadline for vote submission is fast approaching...
View ArticleAlphabet soup: UCB CBA
In my last post, I mentioned the UCB Cardinal Blogger Awards (CBA), and how you were invited to participate by casting your vote in the categories on the ballot. What I failed to disclose what the way...
View ArticleMo knows: Qualifying offers
It's still premature, given that we're only a week into January, and as I mentioned before, we are talking about Scott Boras, when we talk about Kyle Lohse.Back in August, once Jake Westbrook signed...
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Stan Musial 1920 - 2013
There's really nothing that I could write about Stan that hasn't already been written, spoken or otherwise conveyed by others. In fact, all any of us really have are our first-hand accounts and...
View ArticleFree sample: UCB Annual Publication
Each year, the United Cardinal Bloggers publishes a collection of stories, perspectives, and commentary looking back on the previous season. This year, the publication is available in ebook format via...
View ArticleUCB Roundtable: Day 4 - Stan the man
I've mentioned it before, but the UCB Roundtable is a discussion held twice a year, and the group responds to a new question each day for a few weeks. This time around, my question revolved around the...
View ArticlePutting the F-U in Furcal
You know what really grinds my gears? The way this whole Furcal thing went down. Not the Furcal thing itself, but the way it all happened.For the record, the "Furcal thing" I'm talking about is the...
View ArticleWaino extended: I like/love/hate it
I like the Wainwright extension. I love what it means. I also hate what it means.When Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals agreed to terms on a 5-year, $97,500,000 extension this week, there...
View ArticleCards rattled by snakes, lose opening series
As I'm sitting down to write this, I can almost audibly hear Beavis in my ear John Kerry-ing back and forth about the series the Cards just wrapped up with the DBacks. "That was cool. No, no, wait, it...
View ArticleNobody call 9-1-1 (or 9-1-2)
So. Nine runs.Nine.In one inning.It's SO MUCH more fun when the Cardinals are the ones scoring those 9 in one inning, like in the 4th on Sunday in SF, than when they're being scored on them...like in...
View ArticleHe who shall remain [nick]nameless
Maybe it's just me. Plenty of the things I write about here are, and maybe it's just because of all the youth coming up to the major-league level in such a short span that has taken things over the...
View ArticleComing soon: A 26th man on the Cards' roster
Jake Westbrook's less-than-stellar outing was washed away along with the rest of the game when the rains came down in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. The makeup date hasn't been officially scheduled yet,...
View ArticleMitchell Boggs does not suck
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it's stupid." - Albert EinsteinMitchell Boggs may not be much of a...
View ArticleBloggers at the ballpark
Bloggers at the Ballpark - part IOnce again this year, the St. Louis Cardinals have been gracious enough to invite some of us blogger types to join them for an afternoon. Honestly, "gracious" isn't...
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UCB PGB: 5.4.13 @ MIL - 9th
As the 8th inning brought to you by ManFridge came to an end...The game entered the ninth, the score was tied 6 - 6. Ron Roenicke had made a couple of defensive changes, moving Yuniesky Betancourt to...
View ArticleCards/cubs & Wrigley wrenovations
The Cards are stopping for a cup of coffee (and perhaps other beverages near Rush & Division), and two games in less than 24 hours at Wrigley field. The Cardinals dropped the first game on Tuesday...
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