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The "Admitting to Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs Checklist"

We knew it would have to come sometime before Mark McGwire stepped onto the field as the new hitting coach of the St. Louis Cardinals, but today McGwire surprised nobody by admitting that he had used ...

Worst Idea Ever Might Get Even Worse

You may have tried to forget that Mark McGwire will be returning to Major League Baseball as a hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. He's been recruited by Cardinals' manager Tony La Russa, who c...

Excerpt: Evaluating Baseball's Managers on Tony La Russa

A week and a half ago we did a mini-review of what Chris Jaffe's forthcoming Evaluating Baseball's Managers had to say about Cardinals managers. Now, the long-promised excerpt: a l...

Lidge, La Russa

Is it weird that I don't blame the Dodgers? Usually I'm a little more vengeful toward teams that eliminate the Cardinals—though admittedly that was last the Hated Astros—and that's always ...

Blogger Smackdown: Dan Moore from Viva El Birdos

The Mets start a four-game series tonight at Citi Field against the Cardinals, so to get an idea of what's going on in St. Louis this season I checked in with Dan Moore at SB Nation Cardinals site Viv...

Cardinals Falling

Now that Spring Training has hit nearly mid season, the Cardinals, already weak in depth, have lost four of their main starters: David Eckstein, Adam Kennedy, Jim Edmonds, and Juan Encarnacion. Eckste...

More newsworthy: pitchers hit second, Skip plays eighth base

Today's P-D is an important moment in the history of inexplicable Cardinals career shifts, as the Skip Schumaker Experiment gets another several column inches to its name. With no stats to l...

Morning Prowl: Netherlands, Tryouts, Dinners, and Porcello

  Last night's thrilling victory by the Netherlands over the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic had a slight Tigers flavor to it.  Not only was Randall Simon the starting ...

1-2-3, count with me . . .

welcome back, walter jocketty. the guys at SB Nation brother site Red Reporter asked my opinion of their team’s new gm over the weekend, and i gave ‘em some thoughts; read all about it. a...

meaningless trivia

i usually don’t write on wednesdays, but the red baron is traveling to a funeral today so i’m covering. he lost someone very close; my thoughts are with you, dude. star of last night&rsqu...


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