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November - 2009

Joe Jackson talks briefly to a newsboy about yesterday's news
Rule 5: You do talk about the Rule 5 draft
November Rain
Waino, the Cy Young, and Me — a poem by Chris Carpenter
Rookies of the Following Year
Wainwright for Carpenter, Carpenter for Wainwright, Somebody for DeJesus
The good and the bad of Ryan Franklin
holliday overload
The Flea Market
SBN, BBWAA, CY, MVP
The Bull Market
Type-B personalities
2009 SBN Rookie of the Year
Signing Most-Valuable Players
SBN Manager of the Year
Links ahoy
November
La Russter's Millions
What the Cardinals can take from the Yankees, besides the luxury tax
My Maudlin' Career
Keeping the Seat Warm
Travel Day
Colby Rasmus' plate discipline

October - 2009

Putting UZR to the Test
Friday Notes
Community Projections: Future Young Pitchers of St. Louis
The Trade Bait Blues
Tuesday Morning Open Thread
Let's talk about the past just this once
Mark McGwire! rumored to be the Cardinals' next hitting coach
The untradeable: Part 1
Big Shoes
Bill James and Pitchers
2010 Projections: Bill James Annual edition
The Sky Is Falling, David Freese is a Cheap Copout, Offseason Shopping List Chat Thread
Hot Stove kickoff: The Roster Matrix
Adam Wainwright and Late-Blooming Fascism
The 2010 rotation
Patience...please!
Lidge, La Russa
NLCS Preview
Trader Mo Redux
Albert Pujols freakout #1
How to spend your winter vacation
It ended as it began
Credit Sequence Blooper Reel Overflow Thread
Playoff Shave overflow thread
Once more, for those in the back
Three Series
Well that last thread got out of hand overflow
To Hit or not To Hit
The guy on TV just high-fived his reflection after talking about ED overflow thread
The mute the game and listen to calming music overflow thread
Skip Schumaker can't hit lefties overflow thread
Serenity Now overflow thread
The Twins Finally Win
Playoff Worrying In Particular
Cardinals back into the playoffs, hope to turn around soon
MVC!  MVC!
Saturday Overflow Thread
Vince Coleman Overflow Thread
Four things about Chris Carpenter and three about Ted Wilks
Game Is It the Post Season Yet Overflow Thread
A tale of two aces

September - 2009

Game 158(?) Overflow
Wednesday Afternoon/ Early Game Open Thread -- 30th September, 2009
The Malingering Title Overflow Thread That Goes On And On Without Any Real Drive Until It Bores You To Death Like The Cardinals Offense
I don't doubt he'd win the Carlos Beltran Award
Resting the Starters
What did we learn last night?
Non-phallic Jackadongwick Overflow Thread
What Might Otherwise Have Been
Off-day Overflow Thread
Thursday stuff
Game 153 Overflow 2
Game 153 Overflow
Reflection
Affirmation
Wandy Rodriguez Gets Beaten Up Somehow Overflow Thread
Cardinals vs. Cubs: A Thorough, Poetic Recap
Broom Thread
Liz Taylor Overflow Thread
I Love Quick Games Overflow Thread
The Why Is Yadier Still In The Game Overflow
Lohse's Lost Season
Further Adventures of the Cardinals vs. the Cubs overflow thread
Game 148 Overflow Thread
Freaking a Cardinals fan out at 85-62
Comparing Cards' Champs
Game 147 Overflow
Game 147 Open Thread -- 16th September, 2009
The missing-Brendan-Ryan overflow thread
They can't make Lohse Wellemeyer
Game 145 Overflow Thread II
Game 145 Overflow Thread
At least it wasn't the NLDS
Franklin's making me want to have some franklins!
Prelude to Postseason Production
Game 142 Ovurrflow Thread
Post off-day grist: Matt Holliday edition
Stuff
Game 141 Overflow
Hot Corner Futures
The Overflow Thread of Happy Endings?
The Game Where Boog Is Awesome . . .
16-3 would even be a good save percentage
Franklin comes back from Hollywood
Miscellaneous Sunday Ramblings
Game 137 Revelry Thread
We have an answer, and I'm not Ryan!
Game 136 Overflow Thread II
Game 136 Overflow
A Motte Proposal
The best pitch one can throw
Game 134 Overflow 2
Game 134 Overflow
The Early September Afternoon Chat Thread
Game 133 After Hours Thread
Casey McGehee? Overflow Thread
Call-up Day

August - 2009

Pitching to Contract
10 Game Lead Victory Thread
Right handed relief
Game 131 Overflow Thread
Middle Relief Day Overflow Thread
The Brian Moehler Diaries, or, Notes from Undermound
Game 129 Overflow thread
Breaking down the Cy
Heading to the 9th Overflow Thread
Game 128 Overflow thread
Game something open thread
The September Shuffle
VEB Postgame Emporium
Game 127 Overflow thread
Breaking the Wandy
The Back of the List
Smoltz Reverie Overflow Thread
Game 126 Overflow Thread II
Game 126 Overflow Thread
Dominant!
Anatomy of a Streak
Game 123 Overflow Thread
An Open Letter from Christy Mathewson
Brendan Ryan Hit A Grand Slam Earlier Overflow Thread
Brendan Ryan Hit A Grand Slam Somehow Overflow Thread
May the Smoltz be with us
Game 122 Postgame Celebration Thread
Game 122 Overflow Two
Game 122 Overflow
The 2009 Draft in Review, Part Two
Game 121 Overflow thread
Talent in, talent out
Game 120 Trever Miller Sucks? Overflow Thread
Game 120 Overflow thread #1
Cardinals show Shelby Miller the money
The October Team
Game 119 Postgame Thread
Game 119 Overflow Thread II
Game 119 Overflow Thread
Great Trade Deadline Acquisitions
Game 118 Overflow thread
On Defense
Post Off-Day Inner Monologue: Pete Kozma
RHRUI v. St. Louis Cardinals
Game 116 Overflow 2: The Overflowening
Game 116 Overflow
The 2009 Draft in Review, Part One
Quick Notes
Game 115 Overflow Thread II
Colby Rasmus Birthday Overflow Thread
Twelve Over
Game 114 Overflow thread
Todd Wellemeyer, or, Chris Lambert Returns to Discuss Todd Wellemeyer with Viva El Birdos from Beyond the Grave
Game 113 Overflow Thread
Game 112 Overflow Thread
Right here, right now
Game 111 Overflow Thread
Leverage and La Russa
Guest Post: Happy Birthday, Edgar Renteria
When did Kyle Lohse become Todd Wellemeyer?
Game 110 Overflow
Wednesday Grand Slam Open Thread
Cleverly Titled Overflow Thread
Game 109 Overflow thread
Anger, Management
Off Day Relief
Game 108 Overflow
Too early to celebrate, but...
Game 107 Overflow
Big Boggs Man

July - 2009

Boggemeyer Overflow Thread
Three out of three out of four
Post-Game 105
Overlord of Overflow Threads
Wonderbrad, Set-up Man overflow thread
Game 105 Overflow Thread
And for my next trick...
Inning 15 Overflow
The Weaver Time Overflow Thread
The 12th is 2 Serious Overflow Thread
Bottom of the 10th Overflow
Game 103 Overflow
The Road Map
Game 103 Overflow Thread III
Game 103 Overflow II
Game 103 Overflow I
Tuesday Morning Open Thread
Where They're At: Your Second-Half-of-2009 Cardinals
Game 101 Overflow thread
The Deadline Approacheth
Wallace for Holliday and a Reliever overflow thread
Julio Lugo Trade overflow thread
Deal of the Century
Colby Rasmus just got into the game overflow thread
Game 15 Overflow Holliday
Cardinals Still Acquire Matt Holliday Overflow Thread
Cardinals Acquire Matt Holliday in exchange for Brett Wallace, Clay Mortensen, Shane Peterson
The Matt Holliday Limbo Trade
Game 98 Overflow thread
Lugo and the Lefties
Game 97 Overflow
Chris Duncan traded for Julio Lugo
Trade Target Talk Time
Post Game 96 Thread of Ineptitude
Game 96 Overflow thread
Over the same time period, Joel Pineiro contributed 1.4 runs
Quirky Fence Distances Overflow Thread
Worth the Wrist
The Glaus Experiment
Pujols's First Half IBBs
Game 92 Overflow Thread
Not having a game after the break is weird
Khalil Greene set to play in AA Springfield tonight
First Half Catcher Defense
Post All-Star Game Musings
All Star Game Overflow Thread, Part Deux
All Star Game overflow thread
All Star Game Open Thread: American at National
The All Star Game: This time, jokes about it counting are almost quaint
Home Run Derby Thread III
Home Run Derby Thread II
The Home Run Derby, or, Take Good Care of My Hombre
Game 91 Overflow thread
Game 90 Overflow thread
First Half Relievers
Game 89 Overflow thread
First Half Pitching
Cardinals Beat the Cubs overflow thread / A Word from Our Sponsor
Defused Pitcher's Duel overflow thread
Joel Pineiro pitches old enough to vote for Rutherford Hayes
Game 87 Overflow
Current Batting Splits
Game 87 Overflow
Roamin' Halladay
Game whatever overflow thread
Undead Tuesday Notes
The Ballad of Swingin Shawon
Whither Ludwick
Put me in, coach
Game 81 overflow thread
Return of Goodemeyer
Todd Goodemeyer Overflow Thread
The NL All-Star Team, according to chuck
Look... We Need to Talk

June - 2009

Game 79 Overflow Thread
Sometimes the other pitcher is just really, really good
More Holliday Chatter
Cardinals acquire Mark DeRosa for Chris Perez, PTBNL
Game 76 Overflow thread
Breakthrough!
Cardinals sign Wagner Mateo
It's okay to appreciate Chris Carpenter, but only since the Brewers lost
Game 73 Overflow
Reversal of Fortune
Game 73 Overflow
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past
Game 72 Overflow
All's well to ending Todd Wellemeyer?
Game 71 Overflow Thread
Khalil Greene surprises everyone; Albert Pujols surprises no one
Do not speak of this!!!
Walking Pujols
Game serious8 overflow thread
Tony La Russa plans on starting Rick Porcello again tomorrow
Game 67 overflow thread
Revisiting the projections
Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken and the Cast of VEB
Game 65 Overflow thread
Gee, but it's nice to see you again
Overmatched!
Game 64 Overflow Thread
He's not helping on offense either
Game 55 Overflow thread
Taboo
Game 62 overflow
talking trade
Game 61 Overflow thread
Game 60 Overflow
Drafting a Masterpiece
Game 59 Overflow
2009 Draft Open Thread
choosing up sides
The Good Luck, Turn It Around Overflow Thread
Albert and the 7 Dwarfs
Game 57 Overflow thread
The state of the staff
Greene w/ envy --- and I'm not ryan!
Chris Carpenter could finish a game of Risk in two hours
Thursday miscellany
Game 53 Overflow
2009 Draft Preview #10
Game 52 Overflow
A hitter short?
Game 51 Overflow Thread
In which the Teapot Dome is a baseball stadium

May - 2009

Game 50 Overflow thread
15 years later...
Game 49 Overflow thread
Random May Facts
Game 48 Overflow
Theoretically we could just move Who to third, but I Don't Know
The Hot (Stove) Corner
Game 47 Overflow
2009 Draft Preview #9: Persons of Interest
Game 46 Overflow Thread: Cardinals Still at Brewers
Carpenter Carpenter Carpenter
Memorial Day Overflow Thread
The 2009 Cardinals: A Positional Progress Report
Game 44 Overflow
Game 42 Overflow
The Sweep: Choose Your Own Explanatory Adventure
Game 41 Overflow thread
The Penthouse and Doghouse
Game 40 Overflow
2009 Draft Preview #8
Cardinals-Cubs overflow thread #1
Defining Listlessness, OR When you're sure you've had enough of this team / well hang on
Game 38 Overflow
Physician, Kaheal thyself
Post-Day-Game Thread: May Days
Game 37 Overflow thread
Game 36 Overflow thread
Game 36 Open Thread: Brewers at Cardinals
Out Fielders
Game 35 Overflow
I have nothing nice to say
In Which the Author Holds Forth, at Great Length, With Much Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth
Game 33 Overflow Thread
Todd Wellemeyer, Zach Duke, and the Case of the Missing Home Runs
McClellan, and Reyes, and Motte, and Miller, and Franklin, and Boyer, and Perez, oh my
Game 32 Bonus Baseball Thread
Game 32 Overflow thread
Game 31 Overflow thread
Percentage Players
Shane! Shane! Come back!
Game 29 Overflow thread
Game 28 Overflow
2009 Draft Preview #7
Game 27 Overflow Thread
Tuesday Morning Thread
Game 26 - Post Game Thread
Let Rasm-us Pray
Game 25 Overflow thread
Game 24 overflow thread
Game 24 overflow
merry month of may

April - 2009

Game 22 Overflow thread
King Albert's best
Swingin', and not Just Dick
Game 21 Overflow Thread
Say it ain't slow, Joe
Game 20 Overflow Thread
Welle, er...
Game 19 Overflow
WAR Cards -- the hot corner
Game 18 Overflow thread
Anatomy of a Great Start
Good Morning
Post Game 16 Thread
Game 16 Overflow thread
Pineiro's terrific changeup?
Game 15 Overflow Thread
Game 15 Open Thread- 22nd April, 2009
2009 Draft Preview #6
Game 14? Overflow 2
Game 14? Overflow Thread
And I think it's going to be a long, long time—
Rain Delay Programming
What a mess!
Game 13 Overflow thread 2
Game 13 Overflow thread
Early Season Offense
Game 12 Overflow II
The Further Adventures of Game 12: Cardinals Still at Cubs
Wain wrightish
Game 10 Overflow Thread #2
Game 10 Overflow thread
On the other hand...
Game 10 Overflow
Game 10 Open Thread
Talk Talk Talk
Game 9 Overflow 3: Double you. Tee. Eff.
Game 9 Overflow 2
Game 9 Overflow Thread
Pujols, Barden, other sluggers
Game 8 Overflow Thread
Lohse, verdant greens
Game 7 Overflow Thread
First Week Recap
Game 6 Overflow thread
A win is a win is a ...
Game 5 - Overflow Thread
Local Carpenter Reunion
Game 4 Overflow thread
Opening Day Jitters
Game 3 Overflow
Game 3 Open Thread
The Best Defense
Game 2 Open Thread
Motte gets Apple Jacked
2009 Game 1 Overflow Thread 2
Baseball Open Thread: Season 139
Pirates '09 Season Preview
Brewers '09 Season Preview
Cardinals v. Redbirds
Your 2009 St. Louis Cardinals
Astros '09 Season Preview
2009 Draft Preview #5

March - 2009

Back into the Chrisper
The Last, Interminable Week
Reds '09 Season Preview
Cards Lineup Optimization -- Tango Style
More newsworthy: pitchers hit second, Skip plays eighth base
Cubs '09 Season Preview
Mr. Mo For a Day
The Player To Have Been Named Yesterday
Game Thread: Chris Carpenter Day
Making Contact
The 09 schedule
Halil Greene?
2009 Draft Preview #4
40 Men Enter, 25 Men Leave
Viva El Birdos Theater: Skip dresses as a second baseman, marries at the end
WAR Cards -- Middle Infield
The Roster Dilemma
Carpenter was a carpenter
Albert's 5 Best Games
2009 Draft Preview #3
Looking for a Strikeout-bites-Greene story
Cards' WAR Lords -- C and 1B
The Cards Experience
Which Dennys do we get?
State of the Southpaws
Off Day, Off Day, Everybody Loves the Off Day
Game Thread, Game #-31
The shaded part on the 2B/LF Venn Diagram
Home Field Advantage -- Part II

February - 2009

Home Field Advantage -- Part I
From the Class of 2005
Baseball's back, baby!
Technology Will Be the Death of Me
An unfortunate Odalliance
It's Prospectus Time
Behind the plate -- Yadi's RAA
Rotation depth
That's some kind of rotation
Perez -- pitching release points and performance
Spring Surprises Part 2: The Surprisening
Ludwick a Cardinal, Isringhausen a former Cardinal
Panic Attacks
The 2008 All Defense Team
More Defense...Yay!
Schumakers
The Keymaster and the Gatekeeper
Life Lenses
Gritless Veterans
Skip A-Rod, Skip Schumaker
K's, KMac, and the Keystone
Cards community WAR project -- pitcher edition
Elbow Griefs
Cards' community WAR project
2009 Draft Preview #2
Viva El Birdos Theater
Precocity
What might have been

January - 2009

Bench Jocketty-ing
The best shapes of our lives
Disappointing
Snow Day Musings: Chaos = Garland?
Groundskeepers and PA announcers report
Getting Bobby Bonillaed
Ankiel Community Projections
3, 2, 1...countdown
"I don't know!" "Third base!"
Anatomy of a Closer
In Search of the Elusive Upside
Tuesday notes
Inspecting the unexpected
My Cards' story
Wainwright -- the ace
friday hash
Community Projections -- Adam Wainwright
Feet to the Fire
Verdict: Very-Goodwick
Community Projection: X-Wick
Sunday tidbits
So frustrating
Friday Briefs
Lowe down dirty mean
2009 Draft Preview- Part One.
Live every week like it's Prospect Week
My Hall of Fame Ballot
It's not easy being Greene
Community Projections -- Khalil Greene
Ashes to Ashes, Grit to Grit
New Year's Value

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