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Stan Musial's Stance (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This is the third consecutive year for the Blogger awards. and I'm back in the saddle after not submitting a ballot in 2008. It's a fun look back at the past year. The final results of the voting will be put up at Dan's site at some point; I wouldn't expect it to happen tomorrow, but most likely by Thanksgiving. So, on to the voting: 1. Cardinal Player of the Year - Albert Pujols . Could there be any...
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MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Once the Braves acquired Mark Teixeira before the 2007 trade deadline, they started thinking of themselves as a World Series contender. They were 4.5 games behind the division-leading Mets and 3.0 games behind the Phillies, but there was still a sense of excitement when GM John Schuerholz made the move. "We've got the team to win the World Series," Brian McCann told the AP. Tim Hudson and...
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Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
You shoulda come to the first party—we didn't get home 'til around four in the morning. I was blind for three days... View full size photo » There's no new news, which means it's time we go over some old news: the decision to sign Ryan Franklin to a multi-year extension stipulating that he was not allowed to record another out in 2009. That particular clause was the main problem with the...
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Seamheads (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The general managers get together starting today in Chicago. While this is a preview of the big “winter meetings” that will be held next month in Indianapolis, there’s not expected to be much of a ripple made in the offseason pond from this gathering. Joe Strauss sets the scene not only for these meetings, but for the whole offseason in his article today . The Cardinals are going...
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Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Yes, I'm talking about Kyle Lohse. Hi, I'm vivaelpujols. You may remember me from such classic FanPosts as "Pitch f/x Thread", "A Look Back at the 2004 Cardinals", and "Can we please stop trashing Khalil?". Due to the fact the chuckb actually has a life, there was an opening for the VEB Sunday spot, and I emailed Dan asking if I could fill that hole. He consented, with...
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Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
I think we, as a community of worriers, are relatively pat about the offense—if anything bad were to happen, be it Pujols missing a chunk of time; Rasmus continuing to be Ramos; or the Cardinals seriously going into the 2010 season with Skip Schumaker and Allen Craig dueling for the chance to be the team's fourth best hitter, it would come as a terrible shock. But the pitchers... well, they were...
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The Cardinal Virtue (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
It's the end of the year roundtable for the UCB and Trey and I are both participating. You can check out the other questions here . Here's my quesiton and the replies it got: Most of the questions so far, due to the time of the year, have been front-office-esque--as they should be. Yet let's switch gears for a second and prognosticate. Do you believe next year's team will be better than this year's...
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Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
My first order of business today is to let everybody know that this will be my final daily post here at VEB. Though I’ve truly enjoyed doing this for the last couple of years or so, I’ve found that it takes too much time away from my family and my job to do this well. It’s simply a matter of priorities and my kids are getting older – they’re 6 and 8 now – and my...
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Baseball Digest Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
It’s a cold, rainy morning here in Arkansas, which finely matches the mood of Cardinal Nation after the quick exit from the postseason. There’s this kind of limbo that goes on when your team is out of the playoffs early. There are still games going (though the LDS have been pretty anticlimactic this year, save the fact closers can’t seem to get the job done) but your team isn’t...
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Baseball Digest Daily (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
It’s been a busy week for me, with having to drive a hour and a half to an audit every morning. (Usual commute to the office–8 minutes.) So I’ve not had the chance to finish up the regular season and look at tonight’s start of the NLDS. Let me see if I can’t do that extremely quickly. Saturday: 5-4 Loss Hero: Brendan Ryan . Three for three, scored twice, drove in run....
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The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
With the playoffs starting today, we give you a series-by-series LDS breakdown. Next up is game three of three today, with the Cardinals and Dodgers facing off on TBS at 9:37 p.m. Eastern. There are a ton of stars in this year’s playoffs, but none may be more fun to watch than Albert Pujols and Manny Ramirez. The Cardinals and Dodgers face off in the late game tonight in what seems to be the...
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True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
More photos » by Jae C. Hong - AP Emperor Palpatine takes questions before tonight's game Browse more photos » NLDS: Cardinals vs. Dodgers Game 1 Tonight Dodger Stadium 6:37pm Game 2 Thu Dodger Stadium 3:07pm Game 3 Sat Busch Stadium 3:07pm Game 4* Sun Busch Stadium TBD Game 5* Oct 13 Dodger Stadium TBD *if necessary All times Pacific All games televised on TBS The Dodgers and Cardinals...
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Macho Row (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The Phillies look to defend their first World Series crown in almost three decades and to do so they will first need to exhume one last ghost. After erasing the sting of the collapse of 1964 by twice coming back on the New York Mets , and then by capturing the first championship in the city of brotherly love in a quarter century, the Phillies now must dispatch of the team that thwarted them at the...
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Brew Crew Ball (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Current Series Brewers lead the series 2-0 Fri 10/02 WP: Braden Looper (14 - 7) LP: Kyle McClellan (4 - 4) 12 - 6 win Sat 10/03 WP: Carlos Villanueva (4 - 10) SV: Trevor Hoffman LP: Kyle Lohse (6 - 10) 5 - 4 win Milwaukee Brewers Brew Crew Ball @ St. Louis Cardinals Viva El Birdos Sunday, Oct 4, 2009, 1:15 PM CDT Busch Stadium Jeff Suppan vs Joel Pineiro Partly cloudy,rain. Winds blowing out to center...
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Rattler Radio (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Boxscore Braun reaches 200 hits in victory Never one to lack for confidence, Ryan Braun admitted he surprised himself with his intensity over the past week in pushing to compile 200 hits in a season. "I don't think I've ever been able to have this level of focus as far as trying to achieve one singular goal or singular event," said the Milwaukee Brewers' all-star leftfielder. "I think...
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