Enough talk already, let’s get to the baseball! Boston hosts this year’s opener of the Fall Classic with thoughts of ’04 still rolling around in my head. Tonight will finally be the time to put to rest the Red Sox domination and get back to the good ol’ days of 1967. Enjoy your evening St. [...]
Two years ago it paid off to host an event to pair up with Game 1 and 2013 will be no different. Join me and hopefully a few special guests as we cheer on the Cards in Boston! Live blog starts at 7PM and will go as long as my CIL account will allow! Click [...]
In advance of tonight’s National League Division Series Game 5 between your St. Louis Cardinals and those dastardly Pirates from Pittsburgh, I present to you, loyal fans of the Birds on the Bat, a conclusive analysis of tonight’s managers. This is highly scientific, you guys. Mike Matheny > Clint Hurdle. Please see below. Mike Matheny’s [...]
If you’ve been to Busch III recently (I was there last Saturday, not sure how long prior to then these have been showing) you’ve seen the video below of children re-enacting notable Cardinal home runs, most from playoff games. There is also a shorter commercial version that I’ve been told has been running on television [...]
I know it’s been about a week ago now, but I am still marveling at Michael Wacha‘s last outing for the Cardinals. Eight-and-two-thirds of no-hit ball, and a dramatic ending. You’ve probably played and replayed all of the video of that ending, but here’s another for you. Sent in by friend of PH8 and avid [...]
Maybe it was due to the fact that my now 16-year old daughter was watching Happy Gilmore on Sunday. Or it could have been my previous man-crush with David Price, knowing that the Cards are one of the few teams that could realistically trade for him. Whatever the reason tonight’s showing on the biggest stage [...]
By far the project that gets nearly as much attention as our yearly awards, the United Cardinal Bloggers enjoy October baseball (most seasons) and use September to take a look at the future. This year the assignment is even more interesting given the number of rookies who helped propel St. Louis to the National League [...]
For once the schedule may have finally allowed the St. Louis faithful to take a breath as long as you have trust in the newly-rediscovered Lance Lynn. As C70 put it better than I could, this is the kind of game the Cardinals should win if they want to be divisional champs. Two things favor [...]
Instead of survey says (how can you not like that show or their outfits!), it does appear the powers that be have a sense of humor when making out the schedule. All of the talk now is about how the St. Louis pitching staff gets to recover after a brutal stretch and destroy inferior competition [...]
What a difference a couple of weeks can make as the cardiac Cardinals threaten to send more than just Jake Westbrook to the hospital. After dropping consecutive series to the Dodgers and Cubs, St. Louis rebounded in a huge way to reel off four straight series wins before closing out August the same way it [...]
A recent post by Phil Kurz at Broadcast Engineering outlines the fancy new technology that has been acquired and installed at Busch III since last season’s unspeakable exit from the Major League Baseball Wild Card and Other Winners Tournament. Despite some issues with reading comprehension (and/or writing comprehension – yeah, think about it) on Kurz’ post [...]
The Dodgers had won fifteen straight road games coming into Busch III last night, while Joe Kelly had pitched almost fifteen scoreless innings since re-joining the starting rotation. Immovable object, meet unstoppable force. Especially with Clayton Kershaw taking the ball for Los Angeles, Kelly would have to be great. The Cardinal offense would have to [...]
