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Getting This Party Started
After such a warm welcome, I figured out the best way to introduce myself again to the three loyal readers of PH8. I’m going to talk entirely about another person. Erin Bolen has resumed her...
View ArticleThe people or things responsible for the Cardinals missing the playoffs
Let’s just dispense with the pleasantries and list them all here, shall we? This way, Cards fans have a repository to come back to game after game, without having to continue to come up with new...
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United Cardinal Bloggers Roundtable – 2012′s unexpected contributor?
Image by Getty Images via @daylife It’s that time of the year again, for the United Cardinal Bloggers’ Fall Roundtable discussions. You can find all of the other question and answer sessions by...
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Duck and Cover: Cardinals Disaster Preparedness
In this crazy world of ours, where nuclear war could break out at any moment, one must be ready for the worst at all times. Baseball is no different, and if any team should be doing as many...
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What is the opposite of TOOTBLAN? ARTALAN.
Ok, to be fair, what I’m about to lay on you folks isn’t a perfect equal and opposite of the TOOTBLAN, because the TOOTBLAN specifically does not incorporate caught stealing – but I’m going to use it...
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By The Numbers
153 games down and 9 to go with the Cardinals owning a 2 1/2 game lead over the Brewers for the 2nd wild card spot in the National League. Ironically, that’s exactly the same advantage that the Braves...
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Down To Their Last Strike (Humpty remix ft Skrillex)
The moment Jayson Werth pulled an Adam Wainwright offering to left field for a double, it seemed like the Cardinals might be in for a long, long night. When Wainwright has it all going good, he does...
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Building a Bonfyre
Imagine Facebook minus all the extraneous crap that most people don’t have time to use, kick, or farm. Then imagine that the slimmed down version of Facebook is solely dedicated to a unique,...
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Rally Unicorn Time
Rally Unicorn After the Giants took to Twitter to make some rather unoriginal topics trend on Twitter last night, I think it only right to fight fire with a nuclear unicorn weapon. Of course, the...
View ArticleCardinals and Giants Playing Roulette
There exists a gambling fallacy – one that applies to many games, but is especially evident in roulette – in which a player believes that if the bouncing ball has landed on red enough times, black is...
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The Titanic’s Deck Chairs Are Now In Order
The 2012 season for the St. Louis Cardinals came to a rather abrupt, sobering halt tonight. Taking time to reflect and collect one’s thoughts before writing a post-mortem might be a savvy move. I am...
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Nostradennis
Based on what we saw in 2012, feigned knowledge of the minor league system, and some tarot cards someone left in the driveway, I shall attempt to predict the future. Barring an unexpected retirement...
View ArticleDr PH8 and Mr HOW COULD YOU LOSE A 3-1 LEAD
I expected to have more time to process the end of the Cardinals season – to savor it, if you will. But between the abrupt collapse of the hometown club in the NLCS and the quick work the Giants made...
View ArticleWill Leitch’s two month Twitter conversation AT the Cardinals: Part Two
Sometime in mid-August (ok, August 12 to be exact – it’s right there on the Tweeter box) Cardinal fan Will Leitch began a dialogue “with” the Cardinals. Er, maybe AT the Cardinals is more appropriate....
View ArticleNovember 19th – UCB Roundtable Question
The UCB roundtable question of the day for November 19th involved some alternate universe baseball, because why not have it involve alternate universe baseball? Courtesy of some guy eating a burrito…...
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