Locker Talk - Clubhouse Confidential
Chuck Rowan dishes on the Cards’ new digs By Jennifer Dulin While Albert, Yadier and the rest of the Cardinals are learning the soft spots and hidden hops of the field at the new Busch Stadium, Ch...
View ArticleBirding at Busch Stadium
Home runs aren’t the only things to fly out of Busch Stadium. Look up and you’re likely to see nighthawks, chimney swifts and mourning doves and maybe even a flock of white pelicans. But will you ever...
View ArticleOur Congrats to Yadier
Official Cardinals Site: " Molina honored with first Gold Glove "
View ArticleA Cardinals Fan in Cubs Land
Contemplating rivalry—and envy and schadenfreude and life itself—amid the world's worst singalong
View Article5 Reasons We Love Stan the Man
For a certain generation of Cardinals fans, Stan Musial is synonymous with the oddly proportioned statue outside Busch Stadium. But in the recently published Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan ...
View ArticleTrading Brendan Ryan
Yesterday, after a long and depressing build-up, the Cardinals traded fan-favorite shortstop Brendan Ryan to the Seattle Mariners for Maikel Cleto, a pitching prospect with a high-90s-mph fastball and...
View ArticleLife Without Albert Pujols
Albert Pujols has reached a strange crossroads in his career as a Cardinal—in January of 2011 it’s hard to believe he’s played ten full seasons since joining the club by surprise in 2001, and it’s ...
View ArticleThe Cardinals' Winter Warm-Up Round-Up
I've been to the Cardinals' annual Winter Warm-Up exactly once in my life, but even if I'd been every year since it started it would be difficult to quite explain the atmosphere there. A recent twe...
View ArticleBallpark Village Idiocy
The worst idea ever in St. Louis refuses to go away. In an article in today’s Post-Dispatch —which appears to have graciously allowed the Cardinals’ PR staff to contribute to the lead paragra...
View ArticleNick Punto, the Cardinals' Latest Addition, and Tony La Russa's Brand-Name...
Every so often, if you read a lot about the auto industry, you’ll hear about the studies car companies—mostly the domestics—frequently do when they get depressed and the grocery store is all out of...
View ArticlePujols: God's in the Details
The bewitching hour is 11 a.m. Wednesday: A-Day. St. Louis Cardinals GM John Mozeliak confirmed Monday that the team and Albert Pujols have set that deadline for reaching a contract agreement, or the ...
View ArticleWhat We Learned about the Cardinals and the Reds Over the Weekend
The Cardinals couldn't quite pull off another sweep of the Cincinnati Reds over the weekend, but taking two out of three was enough for them to go into their off-day with sole possession of first plac...
View ArticleSt. Louis Cardinals Pitching Prospects
It's been a while since Cardinals fans have had a chance to be excited about a pitching prospect on his way up. Adam Wainwright and Jaime Garcia sneaked up on the Major Leagues, arriving as a reliever...
View ArticleFernando Salas Gets Extended Stint On The Closer-By-Committee Carousel
Five St. Louis Cardinals relief pitchers have combined for 15 saves, but now it looks like one of them might get an extended trip in the closer's role, and it's not the rookie you might have expected....
View ArticleHow Jaime Garcia and the St. Louis Cardinals Bounce Back
On Saturday, Jaime Garcia took the worst beating of his life. (I say this, in all honestly, not knowing whether he's ever joined—presumably under a pseudonym—a nihilistic underground fight club design...
View ArticleCost of Change Being Overlooked By Cardinals
This story is a follow-up to Alvin Reid's May 31 blog post "What's Hurting Baseball?: Attendance Records on Memorial Day." By the time Albert Pujols hit his second walk-off home run in two day...
View ArticleWhy Colby Rasmus Should Never be Traded
Colby Rasmus is not extremely popular in St. Louis, but he's a kind of unpopular peculiar to great players. He's unpopular because he's good, but he looks like he's good. The Cardinals have deve...
View ArticleFour Things David Freese's Return To The Cardinals Won't Be Able To Fix—And...
David Freese's imminent return to the St. Louis Cardinals after his most recent season-scarring injury is not going to turn this team's awful June around. Coming as it does after all of these lost ...
View ArticleThe SLM St. Louis Cardinals Poll
Love the Cardinals? If you live in St. Louis, summer and a trip to the ballpark go hand-in-hand. From watching Pujols hit a home run to the atmosphere at Busch Stadium, it's no wonder the Cardinals ha...
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