It’s been a terrible offseason. Not for the Cardinals, who for the second year in a row took care of their most pressing business before the turkey was placed on the Thanksgiving table. Not for baseball, with a flurry of moves that stoked the furnace warmer than Nebuchadnezzar on a bad day. Not even for [...]
After a quiet fall, the podcast fires back up as I chat with another member of The Conclave. Doug and I have a nice back-and-forth plus, as a bonus, I talk Star Wars. (I know, I know, but it’s at the end so you can skip it.)
Jon Heyman says the Cardinals have a deal with Mark Reynolds, pending physical. He brings power plus the potential of plenty of cool breezes during the hot summer days.
My friend William Tasker started it (via a conversation with Dathan), so blame him. He knew what he was getting you into. And best to Mr. Descalso–I do hope he lands in a good situation. Daniel (to the tune of Elton John’s “Daniel”, of course) Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane I can see [...]
Eight years. It’s so hard for me to believe that we’ve–and by we, of course, I mean the United Cardinal Bloggers–have been making our selections for these awards for eight straight years. In fact, it’s the first project the UCB took on in 2007, I think even before we had a formal name. It’s sort [...]
Every year, I bring up the rear when it comes to our regular United Cardinal Bloggers roundtable. Which does make it difficult, since there are always a ton of great questions that come before me by these talented writers. This time, I decided to leverage the calendar into my question: Thanksgiving is coming. As a [...]
As the season was winding down, I reached out to one of the folks in the Cardinal organization that’s always been so great to us bloggers (sorry, I know, that doesn’t narrow it down–they’ve ALL been awesome) and asked if I might have an email Q&A with General Manager John Mozeliak. Not only was Mo up [...]
Jim Bowden reports a team source has told him the Cards are now in the Jon Lester hunt. Take that with however many grains of salt you like, but it proves the stove isn’t cooling down.
Well, then. Never sleep on John Mozeliak. Last winter, we knew that Mo would have to deal a pitcher or clear up that first base/outfield logjam. Instead, he swapped David Freese and Fernando Salas for Peter Bourjos and Randal Grichuk. Coupled with signing Jhonny Peralta, Mo swooped in, got things done, and kept most of [...]
Every year about this time, the United Cardinal Bloggers do their year-end awards. We look at what happened on the field and in the blogosphere over the last season and vote on what we think was the best. You can see our ballot over here. The last few years, we’ve let the fans do a [...]
It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. However, we’ve finally come to the end of the Exit Interview series. I appreciate all that have commented either here or on Twitter that you’ve enjoyed them and I’ve found it instructive as always to revisit the players and see really how they did. If [...]
The last couple of years, I spent the time immediately after the season examining each player that had made an appearance in St. Louis during the season. This series was well received and so I’m bringing this idea back for the 2014 offseason. More summaries than anything, I imagine the player coming into Mike Matheny‘s–well, [...]
