Not many Gray areas on the pitching side of the roster | Photo by Rick Ulreich/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s “Pitching, pitching, pitching!”. Except, it’s not. I am back with Part 4 of the 2024-2025 Off-season Analysis. These are links to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. NOTE: This article was written before the Cardinals announced they were declining the … [Read more...] about 2024-2025 Off-season Plan – Part 4 – The Pitching
Expect to be underwhelmed by the Cardinals in free agency
Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images For a while, I was beating the drum for the Cardinals to still make some moves to improve their roster for 2025. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized what the Cardinals meant by “reset.” They’re going to rebuild to a degree, and instead of making moves to improve the roster, they’re likely not going to do much of … [Read more...] about Expect to be underwhelmed by the Cardinals in free agency
VEB Historical Hall of Fame: Part Fifteen
Photo by Hy Peskin/Getty Images Stan Musial finally goes on the ballot! Okay, I’m going to make this intro short and sweet. This is, for now, the last ballot of the 1st round of voting. It has taken 15 separate ballots, but we have gone through every conceivable player who played past 1900. If I post any more historical ballots, it will be either a second chance or … [Read more...] about VEB Historical Hall of Fame: Part Fifteen
Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Yankees – A World Series Game 5 thread for October 30, 2024
Dodgers lead 3 game to 1 The New York Yankees attempt to hold off elimination tonight at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series at 7:08 pm CT. Here are tonight’s lineups: Today's Lineups DODGERS YANKEES Shohei Ohtani - DH Gleyber Torres - 2B Mookie Betts - RF Juan Soto - RF Freddie Freeman - 1B Aaron Judge - CF Teoscar Hernandez - … [Read more...] about Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Yankees – A World Series Game 5 thread for October 30, 2024
The Catching Cerberus of 2024
Robert Edwards-Imagn Images Bonus Halloween theme this week! Happy Halloween week, readers, regulars, and irregulars of Viva El Birdos! Welcome to our haunted blog. I have some fun links to Halloween related St Louis Cardinals merchandise. This is sort of like the Green Man from Always Sunny In Philadelphia, but more of a Gray Man with a Cardinals logo and … [Read more...] about The Catching Cerberus of 2024