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The Dynamic Duo Reports and Other Random Spring Training Thoughts

I’m not sure if it is the fabulous February weather (68 degrees here today), my excitement about Spring Training starting, or my short attention span but I can’t seem to focus on one topic to write about today. Fortunately it ...

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The Numbers Game: Adam Wainwright

The St. Louis Cardinals have many things to be excited about this season. They are the reigning World Series Champions. They have filled holes admirably throughout the offseason. One upgrade, which came from within, is the return of Adam Wainwright ...

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2012 Cardinals Twitter Guide for Fans

With Spring Training moving into full swing, I thought it was time to update the ole’ Twitter Guide. Some of you may remember the original, from 2010 - and as you’ve come to expect from the internet, Twitter has changed wildly ...

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Playing Pepper 2012: Baltimore Orioles

In 2009, I decided to get a feel for other teams around baseball by asking bloggers for those teams some questions about their squad.  Not only has this series been very popular, but it spawned the Baseball Bloggers Alliance.  With camps...

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MLBs Best Bromances

  If anything in life tops the love between a man in uniform and another man in uniform, then I don’t know what it is.  Maybe it is the long season, or perhaps the commuting between cities that helps forge ...

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Rants Daily: Is Molina good as gone?

On Sunday, Yadier Molina let everyone know there would not be a hometown discount if he were to stay in St. Louis beyond the 2012 season. He indicated then that talks have been put on hold for the time being. ...

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Reversal About Fortune

The World Series MVP walked into camp yesterday.  But that wasn't the top story.The new third-place hitter walked into camp yesterday.  But that wasn't the top story.No, yet again the Yadier Molina contract saga took the top slot.  Afte...

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> THE MANNY SIGNING WAS ACTUALLY A GOOD IDEA

Upon hearing, “The Oakland A’s have signed Manny Ramirez,” the natural reflex is to think of how completely stupid an idea this is.  The guy is 39 years old, still has to serve 50 games of PED suspension (his second) and ...

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Editor’s Letter: What to expect from Redbird Rants this season

Dear Readers, Each week in this spot I will write a letter to you, the readers. This week since spring training has begun in earnest, I thought I would take the time to give you an idea of what you can expect ...

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Pujols and TLR Gone, but Winter Warm-Up Core Remains…

By Kevin Reynolds   As I entered the Hyatt, all-together too early but much too excited to stay away any longer, the first signs of Winter Warm-Up were immediately apparent.   Cardinal fans stood in the lobby at least an hour before the ...

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My only 2011 Cardinals game: an appreciation of baseball’s lows and highs

Up until last Sept. 28, when the Cardinals won in Houston and the Braves lost in Atlanta and the National League wildcard spot completed its logic-defying defection to St. Louis, May 1, 2011, would have been as good a day ...

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Playing Pepper 2012: Atlanta Braves

In 2009, I decided to get a feel for other teams around baseball by asking bloggers for those teams some questions about their squad.  Not only has this series been very popular, but it spawned the Baseball Bloggers Alliance.  With camps...

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Rants Daily: Relievers take the mound

Ok fans, I’m in spring training mode too. I’m still getting the kinks out. As we work to make Redbird Rants a place where you can come each day for various news, commentary and opinions, I’ve renamed the column you’ll see each...

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Cardinals Continue To Flock Together

Every day, more and more Cardinals are on their way down to Jupiter.  Even though position players don't have to report until Thursday, Jon Jay noted on Twitter that he's on his way, making it into camp after ...

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Minor League Report – Pitching Prospects

I considered splitting this post into starting pitching but unless a prospect is primed to be an ace closer or shutdown setup man, he isn’t much to get excited about. The Cardinals have a surplus of pretty good right handed ...

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OOTP 12 review and 2011 season replay

Some of you may remember from last year’s OOTP 11 review and season preview (or were reminded in my iOOTP review of last week) that I’ve been a pretty regular player of the OOTP game since its early versions. I ...

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Redbird Rants Report – Spring has sprung

Good day St. Louis Cardinals fans! The Cardinals pitchers and catchers held their first workouts yesterday and thankfully everyone made it through without issues. Redbird Rants Report will be a daily (typically in the morning from here on) look at the previous day’s occurrences ...

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Redbird Rants Report – Spring has sprung

Good day St. Louis Cardinals fans! The Cardinals pitchers and catchers held their first workouts yesterday and thankfully everyone made it through without issues. Redbird Rants Report will be a daily (typically in the morning from here on) look at the previous day’s occurrences ...

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Playing Pepper 2012: Arizona Diamondbacks

In 2009, I decided to get a feel for other teams around baseball by asking bloggers for those teams some questions about their squad.  Not only has this series been very popular, but it spawned the Baseball Bloggers Alliance.  With ...

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> MOZELIAK’S RUNNING THE SHOW NOW

John Mozeliak is now king of the St. Louis castle.  All competitors for the throne have been cast out.  Tony LaRussa has retired, Jeff Luhnow is in Houston, and Mozeliak showed this offseason that no player is bigger than his ...

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Are there too many old Cardinals in camp this year?

The pitchers and catchers have reported.  The 2012 season is officially underway.  It has been a long winter of great expectations, changes and hopes for another championship run for the St. Louis Cardinals.  We have seen the departure of some ...

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Spring Is Springing

This weekend, those wonderful words came to fruition.  Pitchers and catchers reported and suddenly the world was a much better place.I said before at this time of year that baseball's spring training correlates well with the Christian season of Le...

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Pitchers Hit Eighth Podcast – Episode 11.0: “Rebecca Black needs to watch out!”

Joined by MLB Fan Cave finalists Kyle Thompson, Sam Springli, Kelsey Shea Weinrich, and Nick Straatmann, we talk about the Fan Cave application process and ongoing voting (obviously) but also how these four finalists are Cardinal fans and how that ...

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IS YADI AS GOOD AS GONE?

It started as just mere speculation: a subtle ripple bumping the boat here and there during the offseason.  Mike Matheny said in mid-January, “[W]e are in the business of being in baseball…  There’s a budget that somebody–that we–have to stay ...

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Redbird Rants Recap: 2/12/12 – 2/18/12

Rejoice! Pitchers and catchers have landed in Jupiter, Fl! Within a week the rest of the team will report and by next weekend the full squad workouts will commence. Two weeks from tomorrow is the first spring training game. The ...

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It’s A Celebration….of Baseball Movies

Pitchers and catchers reported to St. Louis Cardinals Spring Training Camp yesterday. The season is drawing near. Yet I find myself on a holiday weekend wanting my fix. I turned to my tried and true DVD collection to grab a ...

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Dear Mike Matheny

Pitchers and Catchers report this weekend.  Divine music to the ears of all Cardinals fans.  Now that the Rites of Spring have officially begun I want to take this opportunity as a Cardinals fan to express my wishes to new ...

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SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE

Alright guys, things are changing just a little bit again here at The Machine. After visiting the University of Missouri yesterday, I’ve been contemplating how I could possibly cover the Cardinals daily while also keeping up with school and working ...

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ON THE FUTURE OF EM

After contemplating how college and a new job will coincide with the baseball season, I’m beginning to wonder if I will be able to maintain this site through the coming season, let alone the next four seasons since  covering every ...

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YADI’S GIANT NEW TATTOO AND OTHER ST NOTES

Cardinals p’s & c’s reported today in Jupiter, Florida, including, of course, Yadier Molina, who has added to his array of tattoos. In addition to the two he got on either side of his neck last offseason, Yadi has gotten some new ...

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Beyond Busch: NL Central Bullpens & MLB Notes

This week Beyond Busch will cover the bullpens of the teams in the National League Central and then provide a brief snippet for each of the remaining MLB teams. … [visit site to read more]

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Cardinals Minor League Report – Right Field Prospects

Today we will focus on the last position player, but certainly not the least. Defensively, right field players are an assortment of speedy guys who have been converted from center field, like Torii Hunter, or players with cannon arms, like ...

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Keeping You Informed: Special Cardinal Programming

I've mentioned before that I don't get Fox Sports Midwest down here as a regular channel, that I just get the games on an alternate channel.  When you get things like this in your inbox, you feel that loss pretty ...

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Matheny not suger coating the obvious

One of the unknowns surrounding St. Louis Cardinals’ spring camp is how new manager Mike Matheny is going to handle the team. Since he has not managed before, at any level, we cannot go by the past. We know he was ...

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Who am I? Name that Cardinal

The 2012 campaign is just right around the corner.  Even thought our Cardinals played the maximum number of games they could have played in 2011, it still seems like it has been an eternity since the final out was made ...

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The Buzz Is Building

For Cardinal fans starving for any morsels of news, the buffet that was Thursday's activity was a delight. Jason Motte probably said it best.  After seeing all the pitchers in camp, he quipped, "It feels like we started today."  If ...

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Jimmy Ballgame is Back

It appears that Jim Edmonds will be joining the club down in Jupiter, Florida … [visit site to read more]

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TLR TO HELP TIGERS

Tony LaRussa is joining his buddy on a new team; at least for the spring. The recently-retired manager will be with his friend and fellow captain Jim Leyland during Tigers spring training. “Tony’s going to be down for a couple ...

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CARTER KNEW WHERE HE WAS GOING

Kimmy Carter, daughter of Gary Carter: “Hello to Team Carter, “It has been exactly four weeks since the last journal and that decision was made as a family.  I am deeply saddened to tell you all that my precious dad ...

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Five Questions For Spring Training

The smell of fresh cut grass and warm weather is almost here. Spring training is officially underway for the Seattle Mariners and Oakland A’s while most teams including the St. Louis Cardinals will have pitchers and catchers report this weekend. ...

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