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Athletes and philanthropy.  It’s not a new concept in St. Louis, where local stars regularly take an active role in the community.  For good reason, these efforts are lauded by the collective fan base and respective media.  Charity by distinguished personnel provides inspiration for civic selflessness. Blues youngsters David Perron and Erik Johnson recently headed [...]

Brendan Ryan’s brief time with the St. Louis Cardinals is over.  On Sunday morning, the Cardinals finally dealt Ryan to Seattle in return for a hard-throwing reliever that had trouble in A-ball last season.  Yeah, things weren’t personal with Ryan at all. Ryan struggled last season with the Cardinals and there’s no debating that.  Nevertheless, [...]

When the St. Louis Cardinals finally dumped doghouse occupant, Brendan Ryan, they went about standard procedure and issued a press release about the situation.  Little does the standard Cardinals fan realize that the initial draft of said letter was drawn up by GM John Mozeliak, before it was “red lined” by a team of PR [...]

When the college football bowl announcements were released last week and Mizzou had officially been selected to participate in the Insight.com Bowl, coach Gary Pinkel’s message was clear – it’s now on the fans to help sell the program to bowl organizers in the future. “It’s our job to consistently go to bowls, and we’re [...]

As we eagerly anticipate future Cardinals grittiness in players like Ryan Theriot, Brendan Ryan, and Skip Schumaker, it’s important to remember those that have scrapped before us. Stubby Clapp is a godfather of grit in St. Louis and he made national headlines on Thursday.  Well, Canadian national headlines, that’s is. Canada’s major news empire, the [...]

According to Derrick Goold over at the Post-Dispatch, Ryan Theriot will wear #3 this season.  Lance Berkman will wear #12, which should anger the six Aaron Miles fans in the St. Louis Metro area. Nevertheless, let’s return to more pressing matters.  With Theriot selecting #3, our jury has reached an official decision on whether or [...]

As news broke yesterday that Blues C Andy McDonald would miss time one the ice with concussion syndromes, rumors of potential trade options escalated around local/national news outlets.  With several key stars already on the sidelines (e.g., Perron, Oshie and Polak), the Blues need significant scoring help.  Like, now.  These rumors have kept Blues players [...]

When it comes to laying out analysis on how the Cardinals should go about building their team in today’s financially unique market, no one has a strategy as revolutionary as former KTVI and KMOX sports director Zip Rzeppa.  Zip popped up on the gimmicky “Just Saying” portion of the KSDK newscast last night to give [...]

We know what you’re thinking. Will it be more fun listening to Mike Shannon mumble “Big Puma” or “Fat Elvis” after a few hours of frosty, cold ones?  Personally, we’re partial to “Big Puma”.  It’s a nice complement to big Phat Albert, Big Mac, and any name you could possible come up with for Dennys [...]

After the Cardinals announced the 1-year deal with Lance Berkman and GM John Mozeliak insinuated that the core of the Cardinals lineup is now in place, the local message boards proceeded to light up brighter than the Christmas tree sitting in your living room.  Most of the reaction ranged between skeptical and positive, but as [...]