Absence is supposed to make the heart grow fonder. Tell that to some Cardinal fans. When the news was released that Tony La Russa would forgo a logo on his cap for his Hall of Fame plaque, certain sections of the fan base were irate. Honestly, irate might be underselling it. Suddenly, everything TLR had [...]
Most of the time, I write posts in this space for the enjoyment and supposed edification of others. If you read here regularly, you would seem to come for a little bit of knowledge or looking at some of the news of the day in perhaps a slightly different light. That’s not this post. This [...]
It’s that time of year when the rosters for spring training are being set and we find out just which players get to go play with the big boys this spring. The prospect watchers especially get excited to know who they will be able to see wearing the high numbers and getting some time in [...]
All right, where were we? We discussed the arbitration guys, Chris Carpenter‘s move to the front office, and the new Cardinal Hall of Fame. However, there was much, much more coming out of this weekend in St. Louis. Let’s touch on a couple of other things. This time last year, Lance Lynn was ruffling some [...]
Winter Warm-Up Weekend. That wonderful time in the midst of the bleak winter when players, media, fans, and team officials gather in one place. After weeks of scrapingi any outlet you can find for some new Cardinal news, there’s a smorgasbord of delicious items just waiting for you in downtown St. Louis. Before I go [...]
We interrupt this fine Winter Warmup coverage to bring you the first Conversation with C70 of the 2014 calendar year. This time Jeff Polman returns to the hot seat, talking about his newest book and his other Strat-O-Matic projects. Fair warning: we also discuss the 2013 World Series, as Jeff is misguided enough to cheer [...]
Joel Sherman is on fire today when it relates to the Cards and arbitration. Peter Bourjos has agreed to a $1.2 million deal with the club, with some incentives based on plate appearances.
Per Joel Sherman, Jon Jay and the Cardinals have agreed on a $3.25 million contract for next season, avoiding arbitration. That leaves Peter Bourjos and Daniel Descalso as the only outstanding arb cases.
Per Jenifer Langosch, Mike Shannon will be the voice of the Cards for a while, signing a multi-year deal to do home games and a handful (30 or so) road tilts.
In the spring of 2010, after being inspired by Pitchers Hit Eighth and their work on coming up with a central listing of Twitter accounts, I tackled the same for blogs that covered Cardinal baseball. It was a fairly daunting task (I still remember all the notes I jotted on a legal pad as I [...]
A few days ago, a conversation in one of our Bonfyres made me ponder something. Say it was possible to have a window into another world, a parallel universe that was extremely similar to ours but had some key differences. Assuming those differences related to Cardinal baseball, which ones would you want to see? I’m [...]
First off, since we’ve not gotten together since the calendar flipped, I hope you and yours had an enjoyable time ringing in the new year. 2014 is well and fully started now, with the 12 days of Christmas ending today and nothing to obscure our focus from baseball. And when I mean nothing (save for [...]
