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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 4:15 PM ET by Terence Moore (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Cardinals, MLB PEDs

This can't end well. In fact, unless the city of St. Louis is just into the bizarre -- you know, such as plans to replace that large arch downtown with a Starbucks or something, this will end sooner than later.
Mark McGwire as
Cardinals hitting coach?
I'm still waiting for the punch line.
In order for this to work, McGwire has to discuss what he hasn't wanted to discuss forever, and you know what that is. Instead, he spit at a bunch of congressmen during a hearing on steroids during the spring of 2005 on Capitol Hill by telling them, "I'm not here to talk about the past."
Yeah, well. The guy has no choice now. He will be hounded by his "past" on every Cardinals road trip. I'm guessing that more than a few folks in St. Louis also will have questions about his "past."
Posted: Oct 22nd 2009 4:15 PM ET by B. Thompson Stroud (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Cardinals, Dodgers, Phillies, Red Sox, Rockies, Yankees, MLB Playoffs, The Dugout

The playoffs are almost over and the stage is set for the defending World Champion Philadelphia Phillies to face the dreadnought New York Yankees ... or the Los Angeles Angels Angels, pending a dead Christopher Lloyd-style miracle.
The bottom line is this: the World Series is like one block to our left, and we're going to have to start buckling down and making some declarative statements. Before we do that, though, today's Dugout features some pre-ALCS decision arguing and some sad realities.
Posted: Oct 12th 2009 7:35 PM ET by Terence Moore (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Cardinals, MLB Fans, MLB Playoffs, National League Division Series

Contrary to popular belief, Ralph Branca didn't throw away a pennant with his pitch that became Bobby Thomson's shot heard around the world. All of the Brooklyn
Dodgers kept themselves out of the World Series back then. They choked away a huge lead in September to force that playoff against the New York
Giants.
Remember Bill Buckner's gaffe?
Overrated.
That was in Game 6. The
Boston Red Sox still had a chance to win the world championship in Game 7, but they didn't.
Posted: Oct 11th 2009 10:05 PM ET by Matt Snyder (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Cardinals, NL Central, MLB Rumors
John Smoltz completed his 21st major league season Saturday night when the Cardinals were swept out of the NLDS by the Los Angeles Dodgers. As of now, the 42-year-old hurler does not plan on it being his last.
Smoltz told the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he'll need some more time to fully evaluate whether or not he'll come back to pitch in 2010,
but his initial thought is that he will.
Posted: Oct 11th 2009 5:20 PM ET by Pat Lackey (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Angels, Cardinals, Dodgers, Phillies, Red Sox, Rockies, Twins, Yankees, AL Central, AL East, AL West, NL Central, NL East, NL West, MLB Playoffs, American League Division Series, National League Division Series

With two series over, Major League Baseball has updated the schedule for the rest of the Division Series.
The Rockies and Phillies will play their Game 4 at 4 PM ET if the Yankees-Twins series is still going on. Should the Yankees finish off a sweep Sunday night, the NL Game would move to 6 PM ET.
Series-by-series times are after the jump (all times Eastern).
Posted: Oct 11th 2009 6:00 AM ET by Andrew Johnson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Cardinals, Phillies, Rockies, MLB Playoffs, American League Division Series, National League Division Series, Playoff Pulse
Playoff Pulse is our morning rundown of the night that was and the night that will be during the MLB postseason. Looking Forward ...With the World Series scheduled to go into November, we had a feeling extreme cold weather could play a factor in the postseason. Who knew it would be so soon? Wintry weather forced the postponement of Game 3 of the
Rockies-
Phillies NLDS to Sunday night.
It should be nicer than it was Saturday, with the game-time temperature projected to be in the low-40s, but that's still awfully frigid for baseball, and it will only get colder as the game goes on.