Pittsburgh Pirates
Dan Shulman from ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball joins us to discuss his second visit to St. Louis in 2011 to see the Cards play the Cubs. We also talked with Dan at length about being in the booth with Bobby Valentine and Orel Hershiser, and breaking the story that Osama Bin Laden had been killed [...]
The Pirates just finished their 18th straight losing season, and 2010 was by far the worst season of those 18. At least 1997 was close to respectable at 79-83 and within shouting distance of .500. Last season’s record was 57-105 which represents a .352 winning percentage. How does a team accomplish such a [...]
As mentioned at the end of our big NL Central Predictions project, we followed up the original request for predictions and comments with a set of questions about the teams in the divisions. Here are the questions, and the responses that we received, for your enjoyment on this 2010 Opening Day: 1. The St. Louis [...]
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In an effort to put a new spin on making preseason predictions this year, we decided to get outside input from those who know the division best – other folks writing about the NL Central. It just so happens this falls in line with the United Cardinal Bloggers’ 2010 Predictions project as well, so two [...]
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[Ed. note - As a charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals chapter of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) (along with fellow UCB members C70 at the Bat, Fungoes, and Stan Musial's Stance), PH8 been afforded the honor of carrying an official vote for a couple of the BBA's 2009 MLB Awards. You can find [...]
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Matt Capps should be thankful that Albert Pujols cannot throw a 100 mph fastball. Or that he would likely never bat versus the Cardinals in a situation to be hit anyway. Or that Albert just didn’t feel like maiming a guy who could arguably be laughed at for calling himself a closer in the first [...]
Posted in: 2009 Cardinals Game Notes
Tagged with: Albert Pujols, Bernie Miklasz, Joel Pineiro, John Russell, Johnny Cueto, Khalil Greene, Kyle Lohse, Matt Capps, Pittsburgh Pirates, Scott Rolen, Tiger Woods, Todd Wellemeyer, Tony LaRussa
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, [...]
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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Nice of the Cardinals to decide to take a game from Pittsburgh while they were in town. I was beginning to think that the Pirates would wind up in first place in the division by the time the Cards escaped… Mitchell Boggs did “just well enough” in his short outing again to put the Cardinals [...]
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Yeah, I know…it’s not really reveille when it goes off at 4pm. Consider this the “sleeping in” version of the Reveille… —– Ryan Ludwick hits the shelf. Todd Wellemeyer gets creamed. Lineup still not hitting. Cards and Pirates are on the verge of combustion during this series via the beanball. Am I missing something, or [...]
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