Just about everyone in Cardinal Nation has had plenty of time to become acquainted with the latest flapdoodle involving Skip Schumaker’s latest baseball card from Topps. It features the now famous Busch Squirrel (aka Rally Squirrel), and it really is an actual card with Skip’s name on it. Yep. That’s it. A squirrel running across [...]
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Last week I asked the question, “If the Cardinals could add anyone, whom should they add?” I was curious to see which active player — with accompanying contract — Cards fans desire the most. Big thanks to all of you who participated in the poll. We got more than 150 votes, and they were quite [...]
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If longtime Cardinals nemesis Roy Oswalt is in fact headed to St. Louis on a modest one-year deal, it not only gives the Cards three of the best players from the 2004 Astros team it beat in the NLCS, but also provides the team with a low-risk, high-reward bet. If Oswalt gets hurt or flames [...]
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Here at PH8, we pride ourselves on bringing you the latest and greatest news about baseball (even if it is fake news). The latest tidbit floating around the interwebz is an image of the Topps baseball card for one Albert Pujols. Now, some people are already claiming that this is a fake, but I have [...]
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During his media session today at the Winter Warm-Up, Chris Carpenter told his version of the Carpenter, Roy Halladay, Skeet Reese fishing trip/anaconda wrestling story. Here’s the audio: Podcast: Play in new window | Download (922.0KB)
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I am spending today and tomorrow at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Cardinals’ Winter Warm-Up. I hope to bring you as much information as you can handle from player interviews, the various workshops presented, and any other various stories I happen upon. If you are interested in hearing about anything in particular, I’ll [...]
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Needing a good lift to get out of the cold-weather blues, I am looking forward to many things in the coming months. The crazy whirlwind of events since October has left many question marks, as yesterday’s great post here stated perfectly. The first and only good part of being stuck in a hotel away from [...]
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Over at Baseball Think Factory, my ESPN Insider colleague Dan Szymborski has been dutifully unfurling his most wonderful ZiPS projections for the upcoming season. Forecasts for our Cardinals, beloved possessors of belt and title, can be found here. So let’s talk about the hitters, shall we? Click to enlarge and regard: ZiPS, to my mind, [...]
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New Year’s resolutions typically fall into the same category as making your bed every morning – tremendous wastes of time. By the time December 31st rolls around, how many people even can recall all the resolutions they made? Instead of focusing on that marathon you never really intend to run, the 20 pounds you won’t make [...]
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If you haven’t already seen the movie “The Bucket List”, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, then I highly recommend that you do so. In short, the movie is about the adventures of two men who believe that they are terminally ill and have decided to write out a “bucket list” of things they want [...]
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