For whom should you root in this year's World Series? What do I know, do whatever you feel like!
A Cardinals fan’s guide to the 2022 World Series
Do the Cardinals have a Jeff Albert problem?
In the third inning of Saturday afternoon's 5-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Cardinals scored three runs. In the forty-three innings since, the Cardinals have scored just one run, and even that run came via a throw hitting the scoring runner, who himself only reached base via the zombie runner, the automatic…
The 2022 St. Louis Cardinals Are Better Than You Think
With the Major League Baseball owners’ lockout officially in the rearview mirror of the baseball world, and Opening Day now just over a week away, the St. Louis Cardinals enter the 2022 season in a familiar place. Coming off of their third consecutive playoff appearance and second straight 90+ win campaign in seasons where Covid…
Tom Brady and the joy of arbitrary hate
You don't have to have a good reason to hate your favorite athletes. It's way more fun when you don't.
Which is the superior Rick Hummel Bit: Matt Cain or Trea Turner?
Sports media is an often far too self-serious business. While most other subsections of the media landscape view sports journalism as access-based propaganda (often true) and no more dignified than entertainment reporting (almost always true), its practitioners frequently treat what they are doing as though asking Giovanny Gallegos what he was thinking when Christian Yelich…
The ten greatest players in St. Louis Stars history
Yesterday, Baseball Reference rolled out arguably its most ambitious project since, well, the very first day the website included statistics for every player in the history of the National and American Leagues. It was a project that at once feels long overdue but also like such a research challenge that demanding such a free and…
How the Cardinals can fill the Kolten Wong void
Maybe at some point in the near future, I will wax poetic about what Kolten Wong means in the story of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was, after all, on the Cardinals for parts of eight seasons, won a pair of Gold Gloves, and has a postseason walk-off home run to his name, so while…
When you stop believing the lie
Justin Turner has offered a spot-on metaphor for the lie Major League Baseball fed us in 2020.
St. Louis Bullpen is having a St. Louis-themed e-trivia night. Come play with us.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, at 7 p.m., the finest minds in the St. Louis area will be gathering to engage in a trivia contest to determine who has supreme knowledge of St. Louis sports. And those of us who weren't invited to that are gonna have a trivia night of our own. Sign up…
The New All-Century Team
In 1999, Major League Baseball unveiled its All-Century Team to commemorate the best players of the 20th century. This was a watershed moment in baseball analysis for me—in an era where balloting was done by paper and submitted via mail, my dad was insistent that the ballot be taken seriously, and thus I, a ten-year old,…
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