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You know, the Cardinals flat-out SHOULD have swept the lifeless Cubs this weekend. They're a far better team with a much better starting rotation and offense, even WITH Matt Holliday out. You know what else? Jeff Samardzija's pitch to Albert Pujols on Saturday wasn't THAT bad a pitch. And you know one more thing? HOW ... Read More

The Cardinals are in town, which will, of course, cause all of the city's journalists to write stories about how we should steal all of the Slugger's batting tokens out of Todd Rickett's piggy bank (and those crammed up his nose) to sign Albert Pujols next year. Never mind that Pujols' "slow start" is starting to look more like ... Read More

I was tempted to assault all of your senses by Livetweeting my first playthrough. But then I decided I'm not that cruel, and I would liveblog it instead. So, without further delay, here are my initial impressions of SCEA's latest entry in its successful baseball series. *NOTE: I'm going to try to add video at some point, but (1) ... Read More

I'm a former teacher. And, as such, I'm going to give you a brief, in-class assignment. Imagine every single random, bad pitcher around the MLB you can recall in recent years. The Jason Grillis. The D.J. Carrascos. The Carlos Villanueavas. Of all the random middling veteran relievers you've ever seen take the mound, where ... Read More

I'm not going to lie. I just really wanted to do a Staredad. And here it is, if you can't see it. But feel free to revel in the comments that Albert Pujols has not yet signed with the Cardinals. I'm sure The Best Fans in BaseballTM are rending their overalls and Zubaz, and The Genius ... Read More

There's no slumpbuster like a Muskbox slumpbuster. Thanks to the idiocy of people who read Cubs.com and the continued nightmare that is the 2010 edition of the Chicago Cubs, the Muskbox continues to shine. In this week's Muskbox, a guy from Valparaiso asks about a player from Valparaiso, an Iowan is sick of watching Darwin Barney play in ... Read More

There are times when the lede of an article is so cornily stupid, that it makes me question the existence of a loving God. Times when the lede is so embarrassingly awful to read, that I as a blogger don't even care what the rest of the article is about. I just know that I have to fisk ... Read More

Can you believe it's been only three years since Tony LaRussa was arrested for having no idea how many letters were in the English alphabet, nor which order in which they are arranged? It feels like so much has happened since then. Except for the Cubs winning a postseason game. Or Mark McGwire's skin clearing up. ... Read More

Because it has sort of become an annual tradition, and because it annoys Mike D. more than Ron Santo reading a national ad for bicycle safety, I'm going to go ahead and give you a pseudo-review of the latest in video game baseballery. Only this year I have finally had the brains to completely abandon the awful, awful 2K ... Read More

As you know, I love being right at the absolute forefront of all your base are belong to us internet memes, so when I saw that Google mining became popular about six months ago, I jumped right on that trend! Some of the things you can learn about people from their Google habits should not be learned. And ... Read More