10 Things You May Not Know About Dave Duncan

by Dennis January 6, 2012

Cardinals pitching coach and resident Jedi Master, Dave Duncan, has taken a leave of absence from the team due to “family reasons”.  As a fan of baseball, the Cardinals, and the man himself, I sincerely wish him and his family nothing but the best.  His wife, Jeanine, has been involved in a well-documented fight with […]

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We Are Doing the Hall of Fame Wrong

by Dennis January 5, 2012

By “We”, I am referring to many of us armchair voters who don’t actually have a say.  We tend to lack a set of criteria or have certain biases that cannot be suppressed when discussing Hall of Fame voting.  The collective “we” can do much better.  To aid the collective “we”, it is time to […]

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Redbird Resolutions for 2012

by Dennis January 3, 2012

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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Happy New Year

by Dayn Perry December 31, 2011

The worst of winter is yet to come. The world economy threatens to totter and fall. Albert is an Angel. All about us is football. But, lo, the past shall console us until a better future comes along! So as you reflect upon 2011 and its many afflictions, take time for this little moment …

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2012 BBA Baseball Hall of Fame ballot

by Nick December 31, 2011

Once again, as a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, Pitchers Hit Eighth is casting a ballot for that organization’s symbolic Baseball Hall of Fame voting. Four of us from the site got together on Episode 10 of the Pitchers Hit Eighth podcast this week to go through the ballot name-by-name to come up with […]

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Pitchers Hit Eighth Podcast – Episode 10.0: “The Hall of Nasty”

by Nick December 30, 2011

Dennis and Andrew join the show this week to almost make a Pitchers Hit Eighth clean sweep. We discussed EVERY PLAYER on the 2012 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, and whether or not we thought they should get in. Using the consensus opinion from the show as a site-wide vote for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance balloting, […]

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The Evolution of Yadi

by HitTheCutoff December 29, 2011

Adam Wainwright’s mesmerizing curveball that froze future teammate Carlos Beltran and ended Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS stands as the iconic image of the Cardinals’ stunning, logic-defying run to the World Series title that year. But if a play were chosen to represent the unlikely nature of that postseason journey, it might have been […]

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Not The News – Carlos Beltran Edition

by Dennis December 24, 2011

  Rumor has it that Carlos Beltran and Rafael Furcal have already made a determination about which player will wear the #15 jersey in 2012.  Technically, Beltran has the rightful claim as a function of his MLB tenure, but it is customary for the incoming player to come to some sort of sordid agreement with […]

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2011 Cardinals, in Chartball format

by Nick December 22, 2011

When the folks over at Chartball asked if I’d like to receive and take a look at their latest season history poster, for the World Champion 2011 St. Louis Cardinals, of course I was interested. The poster is an infographic-style presentation of the Cards’ 2011 season and various statistics and milestones from said season. Having […]

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Pitchers Hit Eighth Podcast – Episode 9.0: “We can go get hot new free agent Colby Rasmus!”

by Nick December 21, 2011

Will Leitch, life-long Cardinal fan (and also of New York Magazine, his book Are We Winning?, and Editor Emeritus of Deadspin) was our guest for the first post-Pujols recording. We discussed that subject at length, as well as what the future holds for the Cardinals sans Albert Pujols, and just a little Fighting Illini chatter […]

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