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I'm Bernie Miklasz. I've been writing and talking about St. Louis sports since 1985. I've won multiple national awards for writing and talk-show hosting. I was the lead sports columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1989 through 2015. I was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2023. I write tons of columns for the Scoops Network, and I'm a regular contributor at the legendary St. Louis radio station, KMOX. I believe in speaking my mind without filters and supporting my vie ...
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Fans of the St. Louis Cardinals have nothing to apologize for. Despite another season of missing the playoffs, the Cards franchise continues to sell home-game tickets at a level that many MLB teams can only dream. St. Louis ranked 7th in the majors in tickets sold per home game in 2024 -- and averaged more tickets sold per home game than seven team…
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It's somewhat overlooked, but the St. Louis Cardinals went through a lull from 2007 through 2010, making the playoffs only one time in four seasons. What happened? A lot of core-nucleus talent and effective role players had inevitably moved on after the team's phenomenal stretch from 2004 through 2006. Jeff Luhnow's dramatically revamped draft, dev…
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Three Cardinals are among the National League finalists at the positions for the annual Rawlings Gold Glove award: 1) Nolan Arenado at third base 2) Brendan Donovan in the utility fielder category 3) Masyn Winn at shortstop. To me, among the three Redbirds, Winn has the best shot at striking gold. But the competition at shortstop is formidable. Som…
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This is the latest in my series that takes a look at players the St. Louis Cardinals could be willing to trade this offseason in advance of 2025. With the franchise entering a rebuilding phase, it makes sense to test the market to gauge the trade value of Cardinals such as Sonny Gray, Ryan Helsley, Willson Contreras, Nolan Arenado, and Erick Fedde.…
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Former Cardinals have been all over the stage in MLB's 2024 postseason tournament. With no postseason baseball of our own in St. Louis over the last two Octobers, we've obsessed over the many Cardinals who went elsewhere -- by trade or any other means -- to help their new teams pursue a championship. In this video, I put special emphasis on these t…
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Chaim Bloom will focus heavily on the huge project of getting the Cardinals' minor league and player development system up to date and up to speed to give the franchise a better talent pipeline with more prospects who are fully prepared for the big leagues. And that hasn't been the case with St. Louis for too long. Bloom is content to take over as …
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This is my second video that examines potential trade pieces the Cardinals have to offer other teams as they enter a rebuilding phase. In my first video in this series, I discussed the possibility of trading closer Ryan Helsley -- and it makes sense to do so because of the current circumstances. Today's video: trade candidate Willson Contreras, the…
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The Cardinals had an extraordinary run of success from 2000 through 2015, competing in more postseason games (125) and winning more postseason games (65) than any team in major-league baseball. And Busch Stadium (both venues, old and new) were pulsating with tremendous October excitement. But the Cardinals are in a different time and place, and Oct…
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If the St. Louis Cardinals aren't in position to contend in 2025 -- and why would they be? -- it makes sense for the club to explore trades. What could the Cards receive by shopping several players and letting other teams know that St. Louis was willing to make a deal for the right return? Acquiring premium prospects and/or young major-league talen…
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The St. Louis Cardinals are entering a rebuilding phase, and at the moment it is difficult to predict how it will go. Major rebuild? Moderate? Minor rebuild? We'll know soon enough. But if the Cardinals want to do it right to get it right, they can learn a few things by looking across the state to the Kansas City Royals. KC lost 106 games in 2023, …
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The Blues open their 2024-2025 season on Tuesday afternoon at Seattle. Good luck to The Note. It's good to have the hockey season to look forward to and enjoy. The Blues are a compelling team. GM Doug Armstrong had a positive summer, making moves to that upgraded the roster. The Blues enter the season as a younger, faster, fresher group that is lay…
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Mostly because his close association with John Mozeliak and the stigma that it carries among "Mo's" aggressive critics, Oli Marmol is an unpopular manager among Cardinals fans. Not all of them feel this way, but the negativity is obvious. And that's OK. Fans can like who they want to like. They can dislike who they want to dislike. But here's my op…
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The Cardinals are firing batting coach Turner Ward, who oversaw an offense that ranked 22nd overall and 12th in the National League in runs per game this season. The Cards were dreadful offensively in too many areas -- and especially futile when batting with runners in scoring position. And in this video, I detail the specific failures of the team'…
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I keep chuckling at the people who feel so compelled to tell us that Chaim Bloom wasn't all that great as a front-office baseball executive at Tampa Bay because the Rays never won a World Series .... Oh ... in this video, I try to explain why the Rays did such a sensational job of winning with an average annual budget that ranked 27th among 30 team…
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Chaim Bloom is an ideal hire by Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. Why? A simple reason: they both share a love of drafting, player development and building a thriving minor-league system. DeWitt's baseball DNA goes way back to accompanying his father -- who ran and owned the Cincinnati Reds -- on scouting trips. The young DeWitt Jr. also installed…
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The Cardinals are in denial. They insist they're not rebuilding. Except that they are rebuilding, and still can't play it straight with the fans. It's strange. And that's not all. Not only is John Mozeliak staying in the role of president for baseball operations in 2025, he's also taking over the GM position after the Cardinals moved GM Michael Gir…
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The Cardinals acquired first baseman Paul Goldschmidt before the 2019 season. According to reporting from Katie Woo of The Athletic, the Cardinals are moving on from Goldschmidt. His contract is up, and he can become a free agent, signing with a new team that could give him a chance to win a pennant and World Series. And with the Cardinals entering…
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According to reliable media reports, St. Louis Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. is staying with John Mozeliak as the team's president of baseball operations. DeWitt could have gone another way by installing newcomer Chaim Bloom as the head of baseball ops. It will be extremely difficult for DeWitt to convince skeptical fans that the franchise is …
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The Cardinals' farm system and player-development structure is an embarrassing mess. I knew it was bad, but the deterioration is much worse than I imagined. Thanks to the excellent reporting by Katie Woo, who covers the Cardinals for The Athletic, we received valuable information of how bad things are, and what must be done to fix a long-term found…
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As I continue with my series of looks at the best and worst of the St. Louis Cardinals' season, I turn my attention to the two best stars on 2024. Two shining stars, sparkling above the mediocrity: Masyn Winn and Ryan Helsley. I think we all agree on both of these obvious choices. But I'll give you some extra details that you should find interestin…
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There's obviously a chance that Oli Marmol will return as the St. Louis Cardinals' manager in 2025. He is under contract through the end of the 2026 season, and the Cardinals' ownership-management could give him another chance in '25. It depends on who will be running the baseball department in 2025? John Mozeliak? Chaim Bloom? What if the hand-off…
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If the Cardinals see Miami manager Skip Schumaker as an ideal candidate to take over as manager for the St. Louis franchise that he played and coached for, they can't afford to wait. I'm not saying that he's the only candidate the Cardinals should pursue. It's just a matter of timing. If Schumaker checks all of the boxes for the Cardinals -- and I …
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Fired by Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak in a stunning and controversial move at the end of the 2021 season, Mike Shildt has rebounded in a big way by leading the San Diego Padres to the playoffs in his first season as their manager. And as we write this, the Padres are only two games behind the first-place Dodgers in the N…
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The 2024 Cardinals will conclude a disappointing season at the end of the week. I'll be handing out some awards -- and some penalties -- in the coming days and weeks. Best player, MVP, most disappointing player, top pitcher, most overrated, most underrated, high point, low point, the firing line ... things like that. Today, I discuss the most Disap…
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We respect Cardinals catcher Willson Contreras for speaking up and speaking about the team's front office needing to "be hungry" about improving the team, especially the lineup, to reclaim the NL Central division from Milwaukee. The truth is always preferred to head fakes and cliches and excuses. That said, we're not sure what Cardinals management …
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The Missouri Tigers are 4-0. That's great. But the first two games were glorified scrimmages, and over the past two weeks Mizzou has defeated Boston College and Vanderbilt by an average of 4.5 points. Coach Eli Drinkwitz and his team were very fortunate to escape with a harrowing 30-27 victory over visiting Vanderbilt in two overtimes. But the Tige…
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Despite having substantially lower payrolls than the Cardinals and Cubs, the small-market, limited-spending Milwaukee Brewers clinched their second NL Central division title this week. That makes three division championships in the last four seasons, and four first-place finishes in the last six years. The Cubs and Cardinals have a huge financial a…
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Other than Bill DeWitt Jr., Bill DeWitt III, John Mozeliak -- and perhaps others in the Cardinals' leadership circle -- know one knows if the Cardinals are planning to offer, or have offered, their top baseball job to Chaim Bloom. And hypothetically speaking, what happens if Bloom politely declines the offer? What if he joined the Cardinals as a sp…
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Assuming that Chaim Bloom will take over the baseball department after this season to get started on a crucial overhaul of every competitive aspect of the St. Louis Cardinals, the project will require time and patience. (And if the Cardinals don't make Bloom the head of baseball operations when this season is completed, they will have wasted his ti…
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Andre Pallante has done a very good job as a starting pitcher since the Cardinals put him in their rotation on May 29. Pallante has the team's best starting-pitching ERA this season, and since May 29 he's the only St. Louis starting pitcher with an earned-run average less than 4.31. But here's what amazes me: It was Pallante, and not the Cardinals,…
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The Cardinals went a ghastly 2 for 27 with runners in scoring over the weekend in Toronto, scoring only seven runs in three games while getting swept by the Blue Jays. This team's failure with runners in scoring position has been a chronic problem all season, and no one seems to know how to make it better. And now, of course, it's too late to matte…
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I firmly believed Missouri would be in for a tough battle when Boston College came into Faurot Field. The final betting line in the game had Mizzou favored by 14 and 1/2 points, which was too much. As I said in my Friday "Bernie Bits" video here, Missouri would win the game, but Boston College would cover the point spread. And that's exactly what h…
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In today's video, I offer my opinion on the "Sell the team DeWitt!" cries that have gotten louder and more intensified. I understand why St. Louis Cardinals fans are disappointed, disgusted, disillusioned. I understand why the great baseball fans have lost faith in DeWitt and are clamoring leadership. But Bill DeWitt Jr. doesn't have to SELL the fr…
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Missouri football will get its first test of the season on Saturday in CoMo against a surprising Boston College team that's No. 24 in this week's Top 25 AP ranking. BC stunned college football fans and investors by winning big on the road at Florida State. At the time I write this, Missouri is a 16.5-point favorite over the Eagles. That's a big spr…
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Oli Marmol is the manager of the Cardinals and is under contract through the end of the 2026 season. As I mention near the start of today's video, it may be considered unfair or inappropriate to discuss potential replacements for a manager who hasn't been fired ... and may not be fired. But this subject has been on my mind, and I think about it a l…
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2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1999 St. Louis Rams and their shocking runaway sprint to a Super Bowl championship. They went 4-12 the season before and had an offense that was as dull as any we've seen. No stars, limited talent, an embattled coach in Dick Vermeil ... and then, one year later, there's a Super Bowl parade down Market Street i…
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In today's video I discuss the awful season offensively for the St. Louis Cardinals. But it isn't just about 2024. Unless something changes quickly and dramatically to upgrade the hitting-talent roster for 2025, there's no reason to to have optimism for 2025. STL's older hitters will be older, we can't count on young hitters Jordan Walker and Nolan…
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As the St. Louis Cardinals go into three-game home series against the Reds, they are 6 and 1/2 games out of the 3rd wild-card spot and must pass three teams ahead of them in the standings. There are only 19 games left on the STL schedule. The Cardinals have a 0.6% chance of making the postseason. This season is over. So why is Luken Baker sitting o…
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Miles Mikolas has ranked among the worst starting pitchers in the majors for the last two seasons in ERA, strikeout rate, swing-miss rate. The contact rate against him is enormous. He doesn't miss many bats. And at 36 years old, Mikolas will be even more vulnerable (read: bad) in 2025. Mikolas is under contract for 2025 at a salary over $17 million…
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This is a "Bernie Bits" style video, an offshoot of the popular Bits column I did for 25 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In this vid, I discuss the following topics: * Investment advice for the Ravens at Chiefs game. A few glaring trends caught my eye. * My menu at home for the first game of the season, as a nod to Baltimore and Kansas City. …
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Oli Marmol takes a lot of heat, which is understandable considering that he's viewed as "John Mozeliak's guy." And if you are burned out on Mozeliak, then you probably are tired of his manager as well. But based on actual job performance, Marmol has done many things right this season. (All managers make mistakes. Hardly breaking news when Marmol do…
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Paul Goldschmidt turns 37 years old on Sept. 10 and has already said he plans to play again in 2025. His St. Louis contract expires after this season. During the first three months of the season, it looked like Goldy was succumbing to a severe aging curve. At that point, it was easy to just write him off and declare that it was time for the Cardina…
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The Milwaukee Brewers are running away with the NL Central and have the third-best record in the majors despite operating with a limited payroll as a team in the smallest market in MLB. The Cardinals are outspending Milwaukee by $60 million this season, so why are the Brewers so much better? Lots of reasons. But today, I want to focus on this: the …
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The 2024 Kansas City Chiefs are pursuing a third consecutive Super Bowl championship -- something that's never been done since the Super Bowl came into being for the 1966 season. In Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs have perhaps the best coach/quarterback tandem in modern NFL history. Regular season and postseason combined, the Mahomes-Reid…
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There's been some criticism of the no-shows at Busch Stadium. It's nonsense. It's unfair. It's ridiculous. As the DeWitts have said, the Cardinals couldn't have gone on a long run of high-level sustained success without the generous, consistent financial support of the franchise. The DeWitts depicted this as a partnership: if the fans do their part…
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I'm excited about the start of the 2024 college football season, and Mizzou gets underway tonight (8--29) with a home game vs. Murray State. The expectations are huge for The Tigers after their 11-win campaign in 2023. And now with the playoff expanded to 12 teams, Mizzou has a good chance to be among the dozen teams that can compete for a national…
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Via Derrick Goold, the outstanding baseball writer at STLToday, it appears that Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak will fulfill the final year of his contract in 2025 -- and that ownership will "welcome him" to return and finish that contract. This could be a huge fan-relations blunder for the Cardinals. Mozeliak has been runn…
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When Bill DeWitt Jr. purchased the St. Louis Cardinals before the 1996 season, the franchise was in decline. Diminishing crowds, a shortage of stars, mediocre results, and no postseason appearances since 1987. It was a bad time, but DeWitt aggressively revived the franchise and led the Cardinals to a long and distinguished run of success loaded wit…
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Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak abruptly fired manager Mike Shildt soon after the 2021 season. The two had an ongoing dispute about the direction of the team. Shildt pushed too hard, and Mozeliak sacked him. And now here comes Shildt, back in St. Louis with his San Diego Padres for a four-game series with the Cardinals. The…
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The St. Louis are struggling to fully develop young hitting prospects and do everything that's necessary to help them maximize their full potential. Too many young batsmen have stalled, the latest being Jordan Walker and Nolan Gorman. Lars Nootbaar hasn't developed into the player the Cardinals thought he would be; "Noot" has taken a step back. And…
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