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Like most outlets across the country, ESPN.com rolled out their predictions for the World Series this morning. For Texas, ESPN is expecting Josh Hamilton, Nelson Cruz and Adrian Beltre to have big series.  And, why not?  They’re the three main components of the Rangers offense.  For St. Louis, it looks like they’re expecting big things [...]

No one predicted a St. Louis/Texas World Series.  No one.  Okay, fine, if you end up in an elevator alone with Peter Gammons, he’ll happily tell you that he envisioned this match-up months ago while slugging daiquiris with Eric Clapton in Panama City.  Now, the rest of us had no idea. In fact, neither “St. [...]

If you ever want to milk the cash cows in Las Vegas for a few hundred grand, you can certainly set up an elaborate card counting scheme like they did in the movie ’21′. Or put together an arrangement where a guy sitting two tables over taps on a little electrical device you’re connected to, [...]

The tale of the 2011 Cardinals just keeps getting more and more unbelievable.  And we’re not using the word “unbelievable” strictly in the fairy tale sense, although it’s certainly fits.  We’re saying it’s literally hard to believe this all happened, if you hadn’t just witnessed it yourself. Every step seems to throw one more element [...]

On September 7th, the Cardinals/Brewers concluded their last regular-season series of the year.  The Cardinals took two of three games from the Brewers at Busch Stadium, but Milwaukee held a sizable lead atop the NL Central. As they left town, Nyjer Morgan headed out to the interwebs and posted the following message on Twitter. Truly [...]

Truthfully, no setup is needed for the levels of awesome in this video, so we’re going to let it speak for itself… Wow. Just wow. We love everything about it.  From the guy popping off a limb…to “That One Guy” holding it up like he’s a character from “Mortal Kombat”.  Go ahead and enjoy your [...]

Every one in St. Louis loves the varmint that wandered across Busch Stadium during both home games of the NLDS.  Heck, we’ll admit; it’s been entertaining to observe a collective fan base latch on to something other than Busch Light and “Everybody Clap Your Hands!!!” It’s been equally interesting to observe the products that have [...]

This afternoon, the media at large received a glimpse of Busch Stadium with all of its NLCS accoutrements.  Most notably, NLCS logos on the home and visitor sides and additional bunting.  Mmm, bunting.  I would drape myself in bunting if it was socially acceptable. Also included in the spread; freshly cut grass and some new [...]

Last year when it became apparent that the Blues weren’t going to make the playoffs, we directed our efforts to fruitless endeavors and immature tomfoolery surrounding our local hockey team.  Yeah, so it wasn’t much different than any other day.  Whatever. One such effort was a plea to Blues head coach Davis Payne to shave [...]

David Freese is from St. Louis and attended Lafayette High School.  He also plays 3B for the Cardinals and is extremely endearing.  These attributes roll up into him a perfectly-assembled specimen for the local media.  He’s like a baseball-playing Voltron. On top of those facts, his last name is verb homonym.  Thus, whenever Freese does [...]