I've written about the Cardinals since 2003, and here since 2008.
I've spent most of my life in Springfield, Illinois, where you can see all manners of things, including, somehow, a small airport, named after Abraham Lincoln. I went to school at the University of Missouri, where there is a statue of Beetle Bailey.
I kind of like home runs, personally, but I could get used to this line-drives-everywhere thing.
Lance Lynn, the other Cardinals starter in the middle of a career year.
Jake Westbrook is proof there's life after 21 for members of the St. Louis Cardinals' rotation.
Jake Westbrook bumps Michael Wacha from the St. Louis Cardinals' rotation, which is probably the last time we'll be hearing that phrase.
The St. Louis Cardinals' ace is making up for his outwardly unimpressive return from elbow surgery in a hurry.
I should probably know Jeremy Hefner is a real person by now.
Kolten Wong is having a great season that has not gotten him any closer to the St. Louis Cardinals' starting second base gig, and that's perfectly okay.
The Tyler Lyons experience continues.
Topps wants us to write about '80s baseball players, so I wrote about the most '80s baseball player.
Joe Kelly! Remember that guy?
Let Michael Wacha into your heart.
A slow start and Edward Mujica's timely appearance have masked it, but Trevor Rosenthal is having a remarkable season for the St. Louis Cardinals. But where should he be having it?
Once you call Michael Wacha up, it's hard to send him down.
The biggest difference between the old Cardinals and the new Cardinals: The old Cardinals would have been the ones starting Ervin Santana in this game.
Michael Wacha is going to join the St. Louis Cardinals' rotation after nine starts in Memphis.
Yadier Molina isn't as interesting a story as the St. Louis Cardinals' inexhaustible supply of pitchers, but he's even more crucial.
How many starts will each member of the St. Louis Cardinals' rotation end the season with?
If you need to get more psyched up, pretend Volquez is still a Red.
The St. Louis Cardinals lost to Jason Marquis for the sixth time on Monday.
Lance Lynn's strikeout rate is higher this year than it was last year, which is nice.
As it turns out, Jaime Garcia is not healthy.
The Cardinals have a decision to make at shortstop, and it's both difficult and not especially consequential.
Randy Choate's three years will fly by.
If John Gast picks somebody off tonight, this is going to be a very loud gamethread.
The St. Louis Cardinals signed Ty Wigginton because the slower he gets, the more like Ty Wigginton he becomes.
The Cleveland Indians got a 10-strikeout game out of Scott Kazmir. The more impressive thing was just how much like Scott Kazmir he looked.
The St. Louis Cardinals don't need to do better than Pete Kozma right now, so when will they do better than Pete Kozma?
Adam Wainwright looks to keep his seasonal K:BB ratio over 14.
The St. Louis Cardinals are going to do something else with their bullpen, because what else are they going to do?
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