UCB Radio, Khalil Greene, Paul DePodesta, and Derrick Goold

by Nick December 5, 2008

It’s smorgasboard time at PH8. We made another appearance (albeit brief, at the end of the show) on UCB Radio on Wednesday night.  Chet from 4thebirds did the hosting, and he did a wonderful job at that.  It’s a great listen, you can check it out in the little box at the top right up [...]

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Some small site updates

by Nick December 2, 2008

In my infinite boredom with the current state of the free agent market and the Cardinals’ participation in it, I have taken it upon myself to make some updates to the site here. First, I have ditched the plugin I was using before to keep my Twitter posts on the sidebar.  I’ve changed to a [...]

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No arbitration for Springer, Looper, Isringhausen

by Nick December 1, 2008

Well, I must say that at least one of these decisions by GM John Mozeliak and his front office counterparts with the Cardinals was a surprise. The Cards elected to decline to offer arbitration to any of their three “compensatory” free agents – Russ Springer, Braden Looper, and Jason Isringhausen.  They also did not offer [...]

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Why I love Mike Leach, Graham Harrell, and Texas Tech

by Nick December 1, 2008

So, it occurred to me that I own this place and can pretty much write about whatever I like (with all due respect and apologies to my loyal readers – all three of you). With that said, I have to make a shout-out to my favorite ‘underdog,’ my favorite ‘freak show,’ my favorite college football [...]

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UCB: Second Annual St Louis Cardinals Blogger Awards

by Nick November 21, 2008

First, thanks as always to Daniel over at C70 for setting this up, be sure to check in with his Awards post for links to the other tallies. Without further ado, my ballot for this year’s Cardinals Blogger Awards: 1) Player of the Year Ryan Ludwick Yadier Molina Albert Pujols Sure, I could make arguments [...]

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Catching up with the Cardinals’ off-season

by Nick November 19, 2008

So I’ve been biding my time, waiting, watching, allowing the news to come to me. As I’m sure my loyal readers know (all three of you), it’s been eerily quiet. Let’s catch up with the goings on… First, I wanted to take another opportunity to publicize the debut and continuing development of United Cardinal Bloggers’ [...]

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MVP(ujols)

by StLCards November 17, 2008

The announcements are in and Sir Albert has brought home another well deserved MVP Award. You can listen to the conference call, watch video, etc from the link above. Highlights : Elbow is doing good   Will be cleared to do weight lifting soon, but can’t push too much. Other questions surrounded the fact that the [...]

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This week’s Redbird Tweets – 2008-11-15

by Nick November 15, 2008

I think Mo has something up his sleeve no one knows about… you know, all this smoke about Peavy and Holliday – I bet there’s a dark horse # Let the free agency games begin… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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PHE on Blog Talk Radio Tonight!

by Nick November 12, 2008

I will be making my first radio/podcast appearance tonight as a call-in guest on the United Cardinal Bloggers’ internet radio show, hosted by CardinalsGM! Here is the link to the show, it will be broadcast live at 9pm CT tonight. An archive will remain up after the show for you to listen if you can’t [...]

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Cardinals need a Holliday

by StLCards November 10, 2008

Ed. Note: My apologies to PH8 contributor StLCards, who put this post up a few days ago, and I didn’t even realize it was here.  Please read below. —– Last week amidst all the Jake Peavy rumblings I came across a headline that basically indicated the Rockies were now ready to accept less for Holliday. [...]

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