Hey Bloggers, Leave that Exec Alone

Time to cue up some late era Pink Floyd and let the mechanical droning rhythms of The Wall bring out your inner child.   Or something like that. In the last few weeks, impatience over the lack of an Albert Pujols contract extension is causing a lot of stress across Cardinals Nation, and it is just [...]

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Cardinal Nation’s New Public Enemy #1 is …….

Not Brandon Phillips. As much as I love that photo, and the memories of the Cincinnati series last August, Phillips is not a problem for the Cardinals in 2011.   Yes, he did spout off his mouth, like many competitive players do.   Sure, we took extreme exception to those comments, as we were meant to.   But, [...]

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Pitching will be the key to success in 2011

In an attempt to keep one of my New Years resolutions (keeping things brief), I have broken up a long and rambling article about trying to handicap the 2011 Cardinals into two pieces.  Here is the second part – certainly shorter and I hope less perambulate. Viva el Birdos 2.0 Of all the championship teams, [...]

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What will a Cardinals win look like in 2011 ?

In doing some research for my next batch of I-70 Baseball articles, I started thinking about how some of the great Cardinals teams in the last few decades won their division.  One thing led to another, and pretty soon I’m wondering how this cast of characters that John Mozeliak has assembled will do in 2011.  [...]

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