Dennis
The Cardinals won the 2011 World Series and sit at 10 games above the .500 mark, but Olympic Gold Medalist McKayla Maroney is not the least bit impressed. The “McKayla is not impressed” meme was started shortly after Maroney showed a visible sign of annoyance/displeasure at the XXX Olympics in London. Since most people expect […]
With the trade of Tyler Greene to the Houston Astros, the list of ex-Cardinals grew just a bit. As a matter of fact, he might be the final piece to the most epic NotCardinals team ever. Consider the potential NotCardinals 25-man roster. Note that several ex-Redbirds have been excluded, but many belong on the 40-man […]
It takes a lot for baseball fans in St. Louis to boo one of its own. Maybe the final straw came when Tyler Greene watched a ball go through his legs last night during the 6th inning. Maybe. The E4 allowed 2 runs to score, although the situation likely dictated that at least 1 would […]
You’ve been given control of the decision-making process for the Cardinals just this once. After you have bounced around in John Mozeliak’s office and called in Mike Matheny for a discussion about banning the bunt, you have to call Scott Boras and invite him in for a chat. Would you rather extend Kyle Lohse’s stay […]
Whenever someone familiar with the Cardinals goes on a diatribe about the great lopsided trades that have worked in favor of the team, the Ernie Broglio for Lou Brock deal nearly always gets mentioned. What about the trades that didn’t work out so well for the Redbirds? Do people find no value in evaluating such […]
Posted in: Cardinals Front Office,Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals
Tagged with: Andy Van Slyke, Brendan Ryan, Bud Smith, Cardinal, Chris Perez, Dan Haren, Daric Barton, Doug Nickle, Ernie Broglio, Jess Todd, John Morris, John-Paul Davis, Keith Hernandez, Khalil Greene, Kiko Calero, Lonnie Smith, Lou Brock, Luke Gregerson, Maikel Cleto, Mark DeRosa, Mark Mulder, Mark Worrell, Mike Dunne, Mike LaValliere, Mike Timlin, Neil Allen, placido polanco, Rick Ownbey, Scott Rolen, St Louis, Tino Martinez, Troy Glaus
Set aside all concerns about the relative importance of FIP, xFIP, and quality starts. Free your mind of the shackles that ERA and ERA+ seek to limit your perspective by using. Understand that wherever you go, there you are. Once you have done all that, only then can you see the truth that has been […]
Beyond the Pythagorean win/loss method of calculating what a team’s record should be based on a number of factors, even advanced statistics provides few tools for truly explaining team performance. In fact, there currently exists no really useful or practical mathematical model that helps explain team performance while also including factors such as age, payroll, […]
The Cardinals just traded Zach Cox for Edward Mujica which naturally produced a “They did what to whom for how many cows?” response. Obviously, this was not the megadeal many in Cardinal Nation were looking for, but it certainly has potential to be significantly better than nothing. For the record, Cox was not exactly tearing […]
Be realistic, and please admit that you have certain players you do not wish to see leave the Cardinals or the farm system. For whatever your reasons, you have grown emotionally attached to 1 or more, and the thought of them in another team’s uniform amounts to baseball sacrilege. Well, try setting aside those thoughts […]
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Tagged with: Cardinal, Chris Carpenter, Daniel Descalso, Fernando Salas, Jaime Garcia, Jake Westbrook, James Shields, Jason Motte, Joe Kelly, Lance Lynn, Marc Rzepczynski, Mitchell Boggs, Trevor Rosenthal, Tyler Greene
The International Olympic Committee possesses pretty much absolute power to run the Olympics any way the committee members see fit. Of course, power corrupts, and absolute power potentially corrupts absolutely. Such philosophical generalities and supposition mean nothing without legitimate issue worth debating. Unfortunately for baseball and softball fans, the IOC has provided exactly the issue […]
Posted in: General PH8 Stuff,General Sports
Tagged with: International Olympic Committee, IOC, Jacques Rogge, Kerri Walsh, Misty May, Olympic, Olympic Games, Olympic sports, United States, WADA, World Anti-Doping Agency