Albert Pujols, Paramedic

by Nick August 9, 2009

By now, you’ve read about Albert Pujols’ mercenary mission down the right field line on Friday night. By now you’ve likely seen replays, photos, and read the stories. Poor guy, just trying to get a ball for his kid… Pirates first-base coach Perry Hill helped Pujols attend to the fan, fully clad in Cardinals gear, […]

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Cards Game 111: Win at Pirates

by Nick August 8, 2009

Chris Carpenter wasn’t his sharpest. Albert Pujols continued to smack the ball around the park, but didn’t deliver the big blows. The Cardinals put together six runs (it’s a serious number) against Pirates’ pitching, and moved one game ahead of the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central. Matt Holliday continued to rake, Mark DeRosa has […]

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One Year Ago on PH8: Familiar Pitchers

by Nick August 7, 2009

One year ago today, we were talking about an extended start from Joel Pineiro and what it meant for his status in the starting rotation during an up-and-down 2008 season. It is always entertaining to go back to these posts and see how things looked then. Particularly Chris Carpenter coming back soon, Chris Perez being […]

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New PH8 Archives page

by Nick August 4, 2009

So while I was watching Albert Pujols pulverize a ball into the left-center field stands at Citi Field during the tenth inning of tonights Cards-Mets game, I took the time to put together a fancy new archives page. Since the redesign, a main source of archives was missing, and I wouldn’t want to deprive you […]

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Special UCB Radio Hour – Trade Deadline Edition

by Nick July 31, 2009

Join yours truly and Josh from Redbirds Row while we talk with Drew Silva from MLB Trade Rumors and Ben Cook from MLB Rumor Blog at 2pm CT this afternoon! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/UCB-Host/2009/07/31/UCB-Radio-Hour-Trade-Deadline-Edition Call in to ask questions of the group at 646.929.1758.

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New Cardinals enjoying the National League

by Nick July 29, 2009

Anyone following the Cardinals of late, or at least since the two most recent trades, is well aware that Julio Lugo and Matt Holliday are really hitting well right now.  Just how well? Holliday:  .529/.609/.824 in 23 plate appearances. Holliday has yet to hit his first Cardinal home run, but five of his nine hits […]

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PH8 across the interwebs

by Nick July 25, 2009

We showed up on a couple other outposts in the blogosphere lately… MVN Outsider carried our Cardinals Trade Deadline Preview just a few hours before the big Matt Holliday trade. One of my favorite parts of that post? As protective as Cardinals management has been of their minor-league system, I can’t see them parting with […]

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Cardinals trade for Matt Holliday

by Nick July 24, 2009

Brett Wallace. Clayton Mortensen. Shane Peterson. Which one is this go-round’s Dan Haren? As one would expect, the Cardinals’ trade for Matt Holliday brought about much excitement, for there is a new big bat in the daily lineup.  It also brought consternation because of the seemingly exorbitant price. We can’t add much outside of the […]

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Three Degrees: Mark Mulder to Dan Haren to Matt Holliday

by Nick July 24, 2009

The Matt Holliday to St. Louis trade rumors got us thinking… Just how large of a haul has Billy Beane raked in via Mark Mulder’s balky shoulder?  The answer may surprise you, and make you rethink whether the Cards should be party to increasing the haul. As you’ll find below, the (now) ill-fated Mulder deal […]

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Chris Duncan never had a chance

by Nick July 24, 2009

If you needed any more evidence to back up our prior assertion that Chris Duncan is one of the more polarizing players of recent Cardinal history, you need only read the wide variety and massive number of St Louis mainstream media pieces, blog posts, and message board threads on the Duncan-Julio Lugo trade. For every […]

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