2018 was a mediocre year for my sporting interests. The St. Louis Cardinals finished on a relatively high note, including a memorable surge for August and Matt Carpenter, but ultimately, they still missed the postseason for the third consecutive season. My college basketball allegiance, the Missouri Tigers, made the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball tournament…
The St. Louis Bullpen Show: The Best of St. Louis sports in the 2010s Draft
https://anchor.fm/the-st-louis-bullpen-show/episodes/The-St--Louis-Bullpen-Show-The-Best-of-St--Louis-sports-in-the-2010s-Draft-e9opc8 You can listen to Mike Bauer, John Fleming, Alex Turpin, and Josh Matejka rank their favorite St. Louis sports moments of the decade above, or check out the podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, or Radio Public.
The Kwang-Hyun Kim signing is a start. It isn’t enough.
An inherent problem with being an armchair MLB general manager is that the sport doesn’t have a hard salary cap, and thus the smart move if your sole motivation is winning is to just sign everybody. If you are a fan and thus have no connection with the actual front office, you don’t have to…
The MLB All-Decade Team (Part 2)
On Friday, I introduced the All-MLB batters of the 2010s. Today, it's time for the pitchers. You should know the drill by now. Starting rotation 1. Clayton Kershaw One of the best ways to evaluate a baseball player is not how well he plays at his best, but at how well he plays at his…
The MLB All-Decade Team (Part 1)
On Monday, I posted an NL Central All-Decade team, which is inherently arbitrary and pointless and rewards players for spending time in the MLB division which generally spends the second-least in the sport on player salaries. I had fun, and I hope you did, but it was inherently an exercise in provincialism. Here's the real…
The St. Louis Bullpen Show: Setting Fox Sports Midwest’s Christmas Day lineup
The National League Central All-Decade Team
Some people like end-of-decade lists. Some people hate them, or argue that ACTUALLY the decade began in 2011 because there was no Year Zero (you know, before written history--this is why we frequently declare things like that the 1970 Baltimore Orioles were the best baseball team of the 1960s and that Goodfellas was the greatest film of…
The 10 Greatest Ozzie Smith Baseball Cards of All-Time, Part 2
On Wednesday I posted Part 1, numbers 6 through 10, of what I believe are the ten greatest Ozzie Smith baseball cards of all-time. The wordy intro was a nostalgic trip you're probably familiar with, that collecting baseball cards was once an almost rite of passage for any adolescent discovering the sport itself, only to…
The 10 Greatest Ozzie Smith Baseball Cards of All-Time, Part 1
"I was there when it was fun; I was there when it all collapsed." - Me Ozzie Smith will turn 65 at the end of this month which means he has not played professional baseball for a very long time. It's not easy, I suppose, watching your first sports hero grow old because there stands…
What if Major League Baseball had a selection committee?
In just under a week, a panel will decide the four teams that will participate in the creatively-titled College Football Playoff. Will the committee tasked with doing so pick the correct teams? Subjective, but they'll probably come pretty close. Is there anything stopping them from making hilariously bad picks for the sake of hilarity? Nope!…
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