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Is Pujols Worth the Money?

Is Pujols Worth the Money?

Check out my latest question posed to the United Cardinal Bloggers (UCB): Is Pujols worth the contract the Cardinals must give him in order to keep him? The answer is more complicated than you might think.

UCB Radio Hour to Interview Cardinals Minor League Director

Dustin from Whiteyball is interviewing John Vuch, the St. Louis Cardinals Minor League Director, with Nick from Pitchers Hit Eighth on Saturday. Find out more information here.

United Cardinal Bloggers Question 2

The United Cardinal Bloggers are continuing with our annual roundtable discussion with questions and debate from several of our authors over the next 10 days. The blogger of the day proposes a question on e-mail, everyone takes a day to respond to it and offer responses to the question.

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The United Cardinal Bloggers are having our annual roundtable discussion with questions and debate from several of our authors over the next 10 days. The blogger of the day proposes a question on e-mail, everyone takes a day to respond to it and offer responses to the question. The first question was from yours truly regarding the value of Matt Holliday. Questions and Answers after the jump

UCB Radio Hour Heating Up

If you didn’t catch the interview last Tuesday with Ozzie Smith by Daniel Shoptow, please go take a listen by clicking here. It’s worth your time. Not only did Daniel get the chance to interview one of his childhood heroes on Tuesday, next Tuesday 6/23, another UCB member will be interviewing a Cardinal [...]

UCB Radio Hour with Ozzie Smith

Daniel Shoptow, from the Cardinal Blog C70 at the bat (www.cardinal70.com), will be interviewing Ozzie Smith at 1:30 PM tomorrow (Tuesday).  If you’d like to hear the interview, click here for more details.

UCB Progressive Game Log – 6th Inning

It’s the 6th innning of the May 23rd game against the Kansas City Royals and the Cards pitching is on fire. The staff was solid April and then really struggled in early May only to bounce back with performances that Tony LaRussa called the best stretch of starting pitching that he has ever seen. [...]

Reality wake up call is rude truth of the matter

Reality wake up call is rude truth of the matter

April began with a troubled bull pen and a offensive display that was most impressive.  The starting pitching was good with a few exceptions and late April saw a very impressive stretch of baseball that had Cardinal fans thinking this team was going to leave the rest of the central in the dust.
Then the May [...]

UCB Debate:  Brett Wallace should be called up if Glaus is out for the year

UCB Debate: Brett Wallace should be called up if Glaus is out for the year

The United Cardinal Bloggers are having an intersquad match up today and I’m going to offer my position as to why Brett Wallace should be called up (considered anyway) if Troy Glaus is out for the year.  Allen at The Redbird Blog will be countering and I encourage everyone to go check out his post.
Here [...]

We’re halfway there…

We’re halfway there…

by Michael Riehn
Whiteyball staff
Without looking, who has the best record thus far in spring training?
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No peeking!  Give up?
Would you guess the Atlanta Braves?  Our own Cardinals are 2 games back with an 8-4 record.  You get the general feeling that they are doing well, but most people don’t keep track of exhibition records.  The standings and sometimes even [...]

UCB Update: Mount Rushmore of Cardinals

United Cardinal Blogger (UCB) member Cardinal Virtue, posted a question to the UCB group on the “Cardinals Mount Rushmore”. 
Recently, ESPN asked each state to vote for their state’s “sports Mt. Rushmore”. In other words, who are the four most important and influence people in sports in history from their state? I wanted to know who [...]

UCB Roundtable: The Cost of Colby

by Michael Riehn
Whiteyball Staff
The United Cardinal Bloggers, of which Whiteyball is a part of, have had recent roundtable discussions on the Cardinals during Spring Training.  The Whiteyball staff posed a question for group discussion and you can find the comments in this post:
Question:In your opinion, what would Colby Rasmus have to do to make the team on opening [...]