As many of you know, every spring I do a series called Playing Pepper where I talk with bloggers of other teams. It’s sort of a season preview from the point of view of those that know the team best. After the wild card matchup was set, Scott Andes, a long-time participant in Playing Pepper [...]
With the end of the regular season, we start thinking about the things of the fall. Playoff baseball is at the top of the list, of course, but here at the blog, we’ve got our own calendar. For instance, the Playing Pepper series will start getting worked on in January or February for a March [...]
Back in 2002, I was a big Scott Rolen fan. His offense for the Phillies was great, especially back in those days when I was playing fantasy baseball, but his defense is something that struck me. Which, when you think about it, isn’t surprising. After all, I came to baseball in the late ’80s in [...]
As this series proves daily, it’s been a long time since we last saw the Cardinals doing baseball things. (If you’ve read this series regularly, it probably feels even longer to you.) As my co-host Tara Wellman said as we were getting ready for this week’s Gateway to Baseball Heaven, “What were we even talking [...]
One hundred days. 100 days since we last saw baseball. And every day since then, there’s been a post on this site. It’s easily the longest series of posts I’ve ever done and the most consistent as well. So we know what and when, but let’s figure out another answer–why? There were a couple of [...]
I could have slept in. The Cardinal offense sure seemed to yesterday. With the games on the Jupiter schedule dwindling, more and more importance is placed on the results that get generated. Not that they mean more–after all, until a week from today the games are made up and the stats don’t matter–but you see [...]
We’ve just a week left of spring training and I’m still woefully unprepared. Sure, we’ve been having the Playing Pepper series run but I’ve not gotten back into the habit of writing most every day. Let’s see if we can’t change that and have some sort of post at least the rest of this week. [...]
We got fairly serious and contemplative this morning, so let’s break that up with something more in line with what this blog usually provides: questions and answers with other bloggers! Scott Andes from LAdodgerreport, a regular participant in the pre-season Playing Pepper series, contacted me since the Cardinals were heading into Chavez Ravine and asked [...]
Last month, the United Cardinal Bloggers did their annual preseason roundtable. There were lots of questions asked and, as is my tradition, I went last with the group, which meant that most of the good stuff was taken. I did get one out there though and the answers came in. Good answers. Solid answers. And [...]
Every fanbase has their underbelly, as it were. Those fans that root for the same team as you do, but do so in crude, entitled, arrogant, jerky fashion. Again, there is that segment in every fanbase, I believe. It’s just that the Cardinals segment tends to draw a bit more attention from the world at [...]
You might have figured out by now, if you’ve been around for any length of time, that I’m a person that likes his routine. Not only in my personal life, but most definitely when it comes to filling this site with content. Every off-season we do the Exit Interviews. Later this month, we’ll start Playing [...]
Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and old lang syne? I don’t have much to say here, but it seemed nice to end the year on a run of five straight days of posting, something that I don’t think this blog has seen since….well, all the [...]
