Kansas City Royals
Do you like free stuff? We knew you did. Thanks to the fine folks at AnyDate, we’re happy to be able to provide a free St. Louis Cardinals History commemorative New York Times newspaper for the lucky winner of today’s contest! From the AnyDate.com website, a description of this cool piece of memorabilia: Commemorate the [...]
If you haven’t noticed, the Cardinals are in the middle of a stretch during which they play 16 games in 16 days. That alone is tough enough, but somewhere in the middle of that they are starting inter-league play (aka – “The unbalanced schedule”). Maybe it’s a statistical certainty that over a really long period of [...]
Posted in: American League,Inter-league
Tagged with: Baltimore Orioles, Brad Bergeson, Chris Tillman, David Price, Eric Hosmer, Inter-league play, Jake Arrieta, James Shields, Jeff Niemann, Jeremy Guthrie, Jeremy Hellickson, Jose Bautista, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, Wade Davis, Zack Britton
May 23rd, 2009 – Kansas City Royals @ St Louis Cardinals Cardinals 5, Royals 0 Well, if it weren’t for the goings on of the eighth inning (which you can find over at Fungoes), the ninth inning would’ve been an uneventful and good end to the ballgame for the Cardinals. Indeed, the game wrap-up had [...]
Posted in: Blogs,Cardinals Coaches,Current Cardinals,Inter-league,United Cardinal Bloggers
Tagged with: Brendan Ryan, Chris Perez, Fungoes, Jose Guillen, Kansas City Royals, Kyle Lohse, MLB.com Gameday, pitchFx, Progressive Game Blog, Tony LaRussa, UCB, United Cardinal Bloggers
[Ed. note - While the usual suspect around here is on vacation, we've drummed up some great guest posters to take the reins and keep our loyal readers (all three of you) entertained. Today's guest post is from Sherwood Farnham. If you're not already following Sherwood on Twitter @Mstrdstr12, you should be. Thanks Sherwood!] I [...]
Posted in: Ballparks,Busch Stadium,Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,Inter-league,National League,NL Central Division,Non-Cardinals
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, AT&T Park, Ben Sheets, Braden Looper, Busch Stadium, CC Sabathia, Chicago Cubs, Chris Carpenter, Cincinnati Reds, Cole Hamels, Gil Meche, Jason Motte, Jeff Suppan, Joakim Soria, Juan Cruz, Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Mitchell Boggs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Predictions, Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun, San Francisco Giants, Washington Nationals, Yovani Gallardo, Zack Greinke
As part of another United Cardinal Bloggers project, below are our (largely uninformed) predictions for the American League standings in 2009. AL East Just an absolutely brutal division, could easily have three playoff teams if not for that silly “one from each division” rule. New York Yankees – they bought up every player under the [...]
Posted in: American League,Non-Cardinals,United Cardinal Bloggers
Tagged with: AJ Burnett, Baltimore Orioles, Baseball Prospectus, Billy Beane, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, David Price, Detroit Tigers, Erik Bedard, Jason Giambi, Jim Leyland, Kansas City Royals, LA Angels of Anaheim, Mark DeRosa, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Ozzie Guillen, Predictions, Ron Gardenhire, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, UCB, United Cardinal Bloggers, Vernon Wells, Victor Martinez
Today brought us some great posts across the Cardinal blogosphere, not so indirectly focused toward an article that appeared yesterday in the St Louis Post-Dispatch. I don’t have a lot to add to what Pip and C70 have already said regarding the venom being spewed toward Cardinal management, nor about the media’s involvement in provoking [...]
Posted in: Agents,Blogs,Cardinals Front Office,Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,Free Agents,Media,Minor League Cardinals
Tagged with: Aaron Miles, Adam Wainwright, Alan Embree, Arthur Rhodes, Bill DeWitt, Brian Fuentes, Carl Pavano, Casey Blake, CBS Sportsline, Cesar Izturis, Chicago Cubs, Chris Carpenter, Chris Perez, Damaso Marte, Daniel Cabrera, David Freese, Edgar Renteria, ESPN.com, Felipe Lopez, Francisco Rodriguez, Jamie Moyer, Jason Giambi, Jason Motte, Jeremy Affeldt, Joe Nelson, Joel Pineiro, John Mozeliak, Kansas City Royals, Kerry Wood, Khalil Greene, Kyle Farnsworth, Kyle Lohse, LA Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Dodgers, Matthew Leach, Milton Bradley, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Rafael Furcal, Randy Johnson, Russell Branyan, Ryan Dempster, San Francisco Giants, Scott Boras, Skip Schumaker, St Louis Post-Dispatch, Tim Lincecum, Trever Miller, Troy Glaus, Tyler Greene
That’s really all the Cardinals had to do this season, with any sort of regularity, to be staring a playoff berth right in the eyes. Sure, 5-10 against the Brewers hasn’t done them any favors either (and 2-4 against the Royals, and 3-4 against the Giants). They’ve had their other opportunities, they’ve had many chances [...]
Posted in: Cardinals Coaches,Current Cardinals,NL Central Division,Non-Cardinals,Playoffs
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Bullpen, Chicago Cubs, Jason Bay, Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, NL Central Division, NL Wild Card, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St Louis Cardinals, Tony LaRussa, Xavier Nady
Cardinal starting pitcher Joel Pineiro gave the team a much needed seven inning start last night against the Dodgers. Pineiro wasn’t particularly sharp early, surrendering three runs in the first three innings, but the big Cardinal fourth inning – puntuated by back-to-back home runs by Albert Pujols and Ryan Ludwick (is there an internal MVP [...]
Posted in: Cardinals Coaches,Current Cardinals,NL Central Division,Playoffs
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols, Braden Looper, Bullpen, Chris Carpenter, Chris Perez, Jason Isringhausen, Joel Pineiro, Kansas City Royals, Kyle Lohse, Los Angeles Dodgers, NL Wild Card, Ryan Ludwick, Starting Rotation, Todd Wellemeyer, Tony LaRussa
Another week, another frustrating set of performances from the Cards’ bullpen. Not that I haven’t appreciated him before, and I haven’t taken notice of his other-worldly performance in his career to-date, but Cardinal fans should really take pause at being so lucky to watch Albert Pujols on an everyday basis. The man is an incredible [...]
Posted in: Sunday Spitballs
Tagged with: Aaron Miles, Albert Pujols, Bill Belichick, Brett Wallace, Bullpen, Carlos Beltran, Central Division, Chicago Cubs, Chris Perez, Dave Duncan, Jason Isringhausen, Jason LaRue, Johnny Damon, Kansas City Royals, Lance Lynn, Mark Mulder, Mike Parisi, Mitchell Boggs, Randy Flores, Russ Springer, Sunday Spitballs, Yadier Molina
At this stage, I’m not really sure how else to describe it. Words, for the most part, escape me. This team has failed. Four times. Tonight more emphatically than before. Sigh.
