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The St. Louis Cardinals lost their first series of the year this past weekend in San Francisco. How concerning is this to the Cardinals? Let's try not at all. Or maybe 0%. Either would work. Fans are understandably on edge. After all, the teams offense seems to be under the impression that they only have two options when batting: strike out or hit a home run. While this approach isn't exactly preferred by baseball ...

Spring Training is like Jesse James at this point- nobody wants it around. A mere 2 weeks from Opening Day and I think we’ve all seen enough fake baseball for the year. We don’t want to watch fake baseball, the players don’t want to play fake baseball, and the announcers don’t want to announce fake baseball. It’s the dog days of spring training. But now that we’re officially into spring we can ...

The St. Louis Cardinals and outfield free agent Matt Holliday have come to terms on a new contract making Mr. Holliday the highest paid team member for 2010. Scott Boras, Holliday's agent, has confirmed it's a seven year, roughly 120 million dollar deal for the free agent outfielder. Holliday revealed those numbers late this afternoon on ESPN Radio. All were in agreement that the brawny baseballer wouldn’t have to “ever set ...

Mark DeRosa does one thing extremely well: marry. Perhaps he does other things well. It could be heÆs an amazing pastry chef. Or he has a special knack for sanding pinewood derby cars. I donÆt know. But what I do know is that A) heÆs got a unbelievably hot wife and B) heÆs a mid-level free agent signing...at best. Word leaked this week that Mr. DeRosa was in agreement with the San Francisco ...

Don’t lie Cardinal fans—you didn’t want Roy Halladay to end up in Philadelphia. Anywhere but Philadelphia! But there he goes, taking that golden right arm to the city of brotherly love to defend back to back NL championships with an offense that only got better when they added Placido Polanco. Ugh. But wait a second Hookshot—the Phillies play in the NL East. Shouldn’t we be more concerned about winning our division and then let ...

The MLB winter meetings are commencing this week in Indianapolis. Perhaps the St. Louis Cardinals could pencil in a 15-minute sidebar in economics. Perhaps they could commandeer fellow executives to a session where they instructed them on the finer points on looking like asshats.   Or maybe they could just ask the Oakland A’s for Brett Wallace back. Pretty, pretty please? The St. Louis Cardinals are run by Bill DeWitt Jr., but this week ...

Albert Pujols has officially been named the National League’s most valuable player for 2009. This is Mr. Pujols’ third MVP honor, previously being named NL MVP in 2008 and 2005.  Earlier this award season the St. Louis Cardinal first baseman collected his fifth Silver Slugger award and his second Hank Aaron award.  2009 also brought his eighth All-Star selection via the most votes of any player in either league and depending ...

It is most definitely not summer anymore.á In fact, this weather is much like a lazy fly ball to St. LouisÆ collective applebag, if our applebags were saturated with 14 inches of rain. The two most pertinent issues to the Cardinals offseason have been publicly tabled by the team: Matt Holliday will not be negotiated with until he speaks with other teams first, and Mark McGwire will get his day of media ...

Twitter.á By this point youÆve formed some sort of opinion on the micro-blogging site. And that opinion is usually in one of two camps and only in one of two camps. Camp No. 1: I hate Twitter. I donÆt know why anyone would want to know what IÆm doing all the time. ItÆs so stupid, IÆm not surprised itÆs popular in America.á Camp No. 2: I simply cannot live without Twitter. It integrates ...

One of the better Halloween costumes at my annual party this year was Matt Holliday. Pretty simple, actually. But clever. A guy just wore a Holliday jersey tee with baseball pants that had a Wiffle ball sewn into the crotch. It was funny because it was reductively true. Matt Holliday had indeed defined his 2009 season with one ill-timed nut shot and turned a routine fly out into a holiday meme.áá Now ...