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Notes on the Waino and the Parra

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Published June 7, 2010 at 3:01 a.m.
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More photos » ... Jeff Curry - AP ... Browse more photos » ... You know what?  F**k that game last night.  We are paying Matt Holliday 120 million for the sole purpose of driving in runs and protecting Albert, and he strands two runners on in the bottom of the ninth in a tie game.  That by itself doesn't mean much, but, Holliday ranks around 100th in baseball in RBI's this year (seriously) despite playing virtually every game this year and batting 4th in all of them, and Pujols is on pace

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a brief social history of african-american baseball

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Published Feb. 20, 2010 at 8:49 a.m.
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center fielder oscar charleston, hall of famer, hit .348 for his career and ranks fourth on bill james' list of all time great baseball players ... View full size photo » ... hola amigos, i know it's been a long time since i rapped at ya posted something substantive but i've been unable to keep up with my sources on revisiting negro league baseball. when i have had time to read, i've been simply unable to put down "the soul of baseball: a trip through buck o'neill's america" by joe posnanski,

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With its fourth album, The Constant, Story of the Year stays the course

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Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Story of the Year released its major label debut, Page Avenue , in 2003. In the years since then, other bands of its ilk have broken up, run out of creative steam or gone soft. But four albums into its career, the St. Louis quintet continues to defy critics – and resist pigeonholing ...

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Spring Training Storylines

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Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 6:00 a.m.
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More photos » ... Jeff Roberson - AP ... The only Spring Training photo without McGwire's face, silhouette, etc. was Ruben Gotay. Send all complaints to the Associated Press ... Browse more photos » ... I'm out of town for the next two days, so I'll be brief, but one day in we already seem to have some Spring Training storylines penciled in— ... Four members of the St. Louis media out of five think La Russa's implicit endorsement for Kyle McClellan as the fifth starter will win out, and

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Viva El WAR (Pitchers, part 1)

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 5:25 a.m.
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More photos » ... Ben Margot - AP ... This is why we have DIPS folks ... Browse more photos » ... Last time, I used my mod powers to look at one of the primary evaluative tools for position players, WAR.  This time, we'll focus on pitching ... Construction ... The basic formula for pitcher WAR goes something like this: ... ((((B/A)^(((A+B)/0.92)^0.28)/((B/A)^(((A+B)/0.92)^0.28)+1))-C)*D/9) + ... ((((B/A)^(((A+B)/0.92)^0.28)/((B/A)^(((A+B)/0.92)^0.28)+1))-0.C)*D/9)*(E-1) ... Where A = the

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you know me blog: stories of an unnamed pitcher

Published Jan. 30, 2010 at 8:29 a.m.

*with all credit and apologies to ring lardner whose far superior "you know me al" provided a model for this post ... **while the story was conceived prior to jd salinger's passing, it seems appropriate to publish it now, as it was his incessant references to ring lardner that inspired me to read lardner's work ... *** this story is fiction and satire. the author does not pretend to have any more information about any figure in the story than what is provided in the media ... February 16, 2009

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The NL Central Offseason Revue Pt. 5: Blue Steel Buccaneers

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Published Jan. 27, 2010 at 12:15 a.m.
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View full size photo » ... I'm writing this Monday night, as I'll likely be indisposed on Wednesday. Hopefully the Pirates don't make any huge trades or signings before then ... You know what I would do if I had, like, a billion dollars? I would commission a remake of the movie "Toys". Just one of the worst movies I've ever seen (though only about the seventh or eighth worst movie Robin Williams has ever made), but I really like it. And it had such promise. I picture my version as something

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Joel Pineiro and Rick Ankiel: An Ex-Cardinal Spectacular

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Published Jan. 22, 2010 at 6:00 a.m.
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More photos » ... Darron Cummings - AP ... Browse more photos » ... Dear Cardinals bugs, ... It is I—the ghost of Christy Mathewson!—once more into the "breach" for your mercurial proprietor, whose "days on" and "days off" have, if I may jape, here, against the terrestrial hand that feeds me, blended lately into quite the erratic melange! He is, you might say, in blue company, a regular "Woodrow Wilson"—he kept himself out some more ! Of course I do digress ... It is with sad but

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Missouri's Highest Peaks: Cardinals at their Greatest

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Published Jan. 25, 2010 at 6:08 a.m.
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More photos » ... Michael Conroy - AP ... If you have a serious cocaine habit, do not let this man know about it ... Browse more photos » ... Over at Play a Hard Nine Erik christens his "Hall of Excellentitude" by discussing the Hall case of Keith Hernandez, erstwhile Cardinal first baseman and star of the [second] most-embarrassing commercials on national television. It's not a bad case; Hernandez is a major beneficiary of the re-evaluation of defensive statistics, gaining more than a

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The Ten-Millionaires Club

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Published Jan. 8, 2010 at 1:15 a.m.
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More photos » ... Jeff Roberson - AP ... Browse more photos » ... THE TEN-MILLIONAIRES CLUB ... A VIVA EL BIRDOS PLAY IN ONE ACT ... CHARACTERSTHE TEN-MILLIONAIRES:  ALBERT PUJOLS, their charter member CHRIS CARPENTER, the enforcer MATT HOLLIDAY, club greenhorn, unsure of his position KYLE LOHSE, who also is a ten-millionaire ... A WAITER, eager to please ... SCENE ... It is like any other exclusive back-room establishment, only significantly richer, and it caters to the peculiar and

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