Baseball
St. Louis Sports Observations
Been kind of quiet with my views on Twitter, so I thought I would share some of my thoughts on sports and more specifically St. Louis Sports. This is an exciting time for sports here in St. Louis. Gotta start with the NHL Playoffs and the St. Louis Blues. Today, they are up 2 games […]
2013 MLB Playoff Predictions and Awards
My third blog in one week! Continuing my United Cardinals Bloggers Predictions assignment I have taken my predictions thread to another level. Here are my award and playoff predictions. AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez, Seattle Mariners. No one player does more for their team as a pitcher. He helps lead his team to the playoffs […]
2013 National League Predictions Time
The March assignment for the United Cardinals Bloggers is to do a MLB predictions blog. Today is my second post this week! Wow, a blogger who posts regularly! I think the National League East could be one of the toughest divisions in baseball. There are three teams that could win it depending on injuries and […]
2013 American League Predictions Time
This years March assignment for the United Cardinals Bloggers is to do a MLB predictions blog. I am going to try to write three blogs on this in a week. Yeah, that’s kind of unheard of from me, but let’s see where this goes. Today will be the American League, later will be the National […]
2013 Cardinals in Spring Training
Yeah I know, haven’t written a blog in a while. Haven’t heard anybody complaining or telling me that it has been missed. Things that make you go hmmmm. Let’s see what has happened with our beloved St. Louis Cardinals this spring. They got great new batting practice hats; they are going to wear red hats […]
Stan Musial – The Man
Stanley Musial was born in Donora, Pennsylvania on November 21, 1920. He lived 92 plus years on God’s green earth before he passed away quietly at home surrounded by family and friends on January 19, 2013. He wife of 70 plus years Lillian passed away in May of 2012. He was the only one of […]
My St. Louis Cardinals Burton History Tree Thoughts
On Saturday September 8th of this year, Burton History Trees (1) did a presentation at UCB weekend (2) to members of the United Cardinal Bloggers. (3) I was immediately intrigued by the possibility of having something out there that showed every St. Louis Cardinals player in history on it. They asked for our help in […]
In The End, It Was a Good Year
I was among many local bloggers and or writers that picked the St. Louis Cardinals to go to the World Series. I believe most of them did it with a biased heart. They were filled with hope. Call me maybe a little guilty of that myself. I thought there would be little drop off. That […]
That Wacky Wild Card Friday
It started with two pitchers each playoff rookie manager trusted. It ended with some interesting actions by one team’s fans, a player retiring, and one quoting scripture that sounds like he probably won’t be coming back to that team. The commissioner’s office got what they wanted. I heard someone call it a WWE title match […]
Season’s Reflections and Post Season Preview
Well 162 games are down the drain and Major League Baseball is down to 10 teams in the playoffs. This season had a different feel for me with my beloved St. Louis Cardinals. There was some interesting high expectation and I think the Cardinals finished about where I thought they would by making it into […]