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It is time for the St. Louis Cardinals to part ways with John Mozeliak
John Mozeliak has been very successful as general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. He deserves a lot of credit for his past. This doesn't mean he should be a part of the organization's future.
The grift that keeps on taking
As hopelessly addicted to watching sports as I am, I can sometimes overlook the fact that there are thousands of people in St. Louis and the St. Louis area that do not care about sports or the local sports teams in particular. There are some exhausting types who might ask if there is a sportsball…
Whitey Herzog: A man of innovation, a man of his time
Whitey Herzog: 1931-2024
A Review: “Hey Y’all”, the debut album from Adam Wainwright
Yesterday, for the first time since 2005, Adam Wainwright was not donning a St. Louis Cardinals uniform at the Cardinals' home opener. After nearly two decades in St. Louis, the native Georgian has moved from his Hall of Very Good career as a Major League Baseball pitcher to new work, one a relatively conventional post-playing…
The most significant Cardinals season in generations
The day was September 27, 1959, and the St. Louis Cardinals finished their season with a doubleheader sweep of the San Francisco Giants. By this point, neither the Giants nor Cardinals, though armed with baseball legends like Willie Mays and Stan Musial, were contending for the National League pennant, but 19,477 fans flocked to what…
One overrated team and one underrated team for each division in baseball
Every year, I come up with a new construct for how to preview baseball at large, and this is my one for this year. The thing in the subject. Simple enough, I think. Note: For the purposes of this exercise, I'm determining how a team is rated by their current odds to win the division--I'm…
Four early takeaways from the Shohei Ohtani scandal
I can't say that I expected, three days away from the first game of the season for the St. Louis Cardinals, that I would be writing about something that has nothing, at least in terms of its literal nuts and bolts that have been reported so far, to do with the St. Louis Cardinals. But…
Can I name the entire St. Louis Cardinals expanded roster? A lesson in humility
The great thing about writing about the St. Louis Cardinals in the internet age is that any information I could reasonably need is at my fingertips. Writers may bemoan that they do not have access to all of MLB's proprietary statistical data, but one can simply sidestep that conversation. There is information which is fundamental…
it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that Victor Scott shouldn’t make the opening day roster
There is a relatively early episode of Family Guy (based on the fact that I have seen and remember it) where the Griffin family is offered one of two gifts (I think for sitting through a timeshare presentation? I promise I'm not trying to seem too cool for Family Guy, a show that had plenty…
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