We’re down to the Elite 8! Before we look at the matchups, an update on those competing in the Favorite Living Cardinal bracket challenge: Eugene Tierney 82 Jacqueline Conrad 81 Ross Willimann 73 Matt Rath #1 70 Joe Schwarz 69 Matt Rath #2 60 Mary Rath 57 My personal picks score a 67. Looking forward, [...]
Since 2009, one of the traditions of the spring has been the Playing Pepper series. I ask a number of questions of blogs–some in the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, some not–that cover the other 29 teams in Major League Baseball. This year, not only is my son involved–he and I came up with the last question together–but [...]
We took our glance at the American League last year as part of March’s United Cardinal Bloggers project, but now we turn our attention to the league that matters the most. We’ll start out East, because that’s just the way things tend to work. It’s a division that has a lot of question marks and [...]
Another day, more moves that clarify the picture for the 2014 Cardinals. Given that we now have less than a week until Opening Day (everyone party!), this clarity should be coming fast and furious over the next few days. The biggest news of the day was that Michael Wacha would be starting the home opener [...]
The Cardinals keep working toward that 25-man limit, sending Randal Grichuk to Memphis today. 34 are left in camp. We’ll talk about this more in the morning.
The last of our regional semifinals is below, the only one with the top four seeds still live. Remember that all of these polls are open until noon tomorrow, so be sure to get your vote in and make it count! 1) Bruce Sutter vs. 4) Adam Wainwright How they got here: Sutter struck out [...]
Since 2009, one of the traditions of the spring has been the Playing Pepper series. I ask a number of questions of blogs–some in the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, some not–that cover the other 29 teams in Major League Baseball. This year, not only is my son involved–he and I came up with the last question together–but [...]
We’re halfway through the Sweet 16. Now it’s time for the least-chalk region of them all, though that’s not exactly saying just a ton. 1) Lou Brock vs. 5) Mike Shannon How they got here: Brock ran by Dal Maxvill 28-1 and Steve Kline 20-1; Shannon sneaked past J.D. Drew 20-10 and Steve Carlton 16-5. [...]
Every March, the United Cardinal Bloggers take the time to make predictions about the season to come. Then we promptly forget about them because people hate to be told they were wrong. It reminds me very much of Captain Renault in Casablanca: “It’s a little game we play. They put it on the bill, I [...]
In a division that was just pitchers and catchers, the folks wearing the tools of ignorance seem to be the most popular. Three of the four surviving made their mark behind the plate, but they still face long odds to be the one heading to the Final Four. 1) Bob Gibson vs. 5) Yadier Molina [...]
We’ve reached the Sweet 16. No huge surprises thus far, with all of the ones and twos and three of the threes advancing. Scott Rolen is the biggest “Cinderella” and he’s a six seed over in the Champions Region. Which means that there are a lot of big names and the decisions start to get [...]
Sometimes you’ll hear sculptors talk about looking at a block of wood or marble or clay and try to “free the sculpture within.” They insist it’s not what they want, necessarily, but what is inside the material. Which, personally, sounds like a lot of artsy mumbo-jumbo to me, but whatever. It seems now that the [...]
