We’re just a couple of days from the calendar flipping over. Since the end of the season, I’ve written the Exit Interviews and done the Top Cards on Twitter. While, in all honesty, both are a good bit of work, I’ve not written anything else in part because the motivation has been severely lacking. It’s [...]
It was a winter extended by the cold realities of a lockout, but the 2022 baseball season is rapidly approaching. Given the vagaries of the scheduling and how rapidly everything has to happen, it would be easy to let some traditions go by the wayside. Not in this space! Playing Pepper returns for its 14th [...]
It was a winter extended by the cold realities of a lockout, but the 2022 baseball season is rapidly approaching. Given the vagaries of the scheduling and how rapidly everything has to happen, it would be easy to let some traditions go by the wayside. Not in this space! Playing Pepper returns for its 14th [...]
It was a winter extended by the cold realities of a lockout, but the 2022 baseball season is rapidly approaching. Given the vagaries of the scheduling and how rapidly everything has to happen, it would be easy to let some traditions go by the wayside. Not in this space! Playing Pepper returns for its 14th [...]
Let me start by saying that I do not have an answer to the question that I pose. Mostly, this is me calling out the continued failure of the Cardinals front office and the their affinity to sit on their hands. Specifically, their failure to address the desperate need for Major League starting pitching. I [...]
Opening Day is just around the corner (knock on wood after 2020, of course) and as such, that means it’s time for everyone’s favorite post series! OK, maybe second favorite after Top Cards on Twitter. It’s Playing Pepper! Year 13 of our intrepid series finds us, as always, asking questions of bloggers (both former and [...]
First off, I probably should wish you a happy new year and all that. After all, it’s been a little bit since we got together and talked. I mean, it was right before Christmas when we talked about Andrew Miller. While the stove is fairly cool and there’s not necessarily anything major to discuss, I [...]
“The actions we take The choices we make Moments, both big and small Shape us into forces of destiny.”–Maz Kanata For a number of reasons, I’ve not been able to sit down and do much writing over the last few days, days that have seen a lot of activity and things that need to be [...]
Back in 2009, I had the idea of doing a season preview of each team by asking bloggers that followed that club questions and posting the answers. We’re back for the ninth edition of Playing Pepper! We’ll cover one team a day from now right up until Opening Day (not counting weekends). This series is [...]
Back in 2009, I had the idea of doing a season preview of each team by asking bloggers that followed that club questions and posting the answers. We’re back for the ninth edition of Playing Pepper! We’ll cover one team a day from now right up until Opening Day (not counting weekends). This series is [...]
The next morning, Shildt comes into the clubhouse to find Bryan Eversgerd working with some other pitchers. SHILDT Where’s Luke? BRYAN EVERSGERD I don’t know. He said something about doing some extra workouts, maybe running a bit through town. SHILDT Well, as long as he’s back by first pitch. He take those new droids with [...]
This, this is….weird. For the first time since 2010, October 15 will come and the Cardinals won’t still be playing baseball. Even worse, the team that sent them packing resides on the north side of Chicago. While St. Louis has more postseason wins, many more titles, and all of that, the scorecard for the postseason [...]
