This Week on Marvel Unlimited: 07/29/2020
After a pretty big week of books, Marvel originally drops 3 this week, then adds another 7 while I’m writing this up. What should have been an easy reading week is ending up to match last week. I’ve got a…
The 2020 Cardinals Off-Season Salary Matrix
Today starts the beginning of 2020-21 Free Agency. The Cardinals have 4 free agents: Brad Miller, Yadier Molina, Adam Wainwright, and Matt Wieters. They also have to decide today if they execute the club option on Kolten Wong; he’ll either…
This Week on Marvel Unlimited: 07/22/2020
We’re back to 1 weeks of books, 11 total, this week. We get a lot of Empyre, a couple of Dawn of X books, and a few new arcs. No retro review, but a good amount of recaps from last…
The Cardinals WAR Totals
Each year, I look at the WAR for individual Cardinal players and look at how they were acquired to see where the Cardinals are struggling to find players. This year is done, but the exercise is pretty meaningless compared to…
This Week on Marvel Unlimited: July
Starting today, Marvel is releasing stuff from 3 months ago, rather than the 6 months that they previously waited. Whether this is due to DC Infinite starting up or a lack of books during the Covid-19 hiatus, we don’t know.…
This Week on Marvel Unlimited: More Random Books
Marvel is doing some weird stuff with releases on the app. We get 18 books (as of this going live) from over a few different months this summer. This list is bound to change over the next 24 hours, as…
This Week on Marvel Unlimited: Most of the Summer
Holy crap!!! Marvel dropped much of their summer content this week; everything they released from April to August, along with some stuff from September. We get some X-Men, Empyre, and books of variant covers. This is a full week. ****Please…
Cardinal Wild Card Day 2
With the announcement that Dinelson Lamet and Mike Clevinger were not available for the Padres, the Cardinals were able to catch a break and take advantage of Chris Paddack in Game 1 of the series. The issue I saw was…
2020 NL Award Ballot
I normally vote in the IBWAA year end awards, but I missed the deadline this year. Here is how my ballot would have looked for the NL side. NL MVP1. Freddie Freeman, 1B, ATL2. Mookie Betts, OF, LAD3. Juan Soto,…
NL Wild Card Preview 2020: Cardinals vs Padres
The Cardinals got the short end of the playoff seeding; while it’s a miracle they got a 5 seed (Covid-19 outbreak, roster shuffling, etc), they face the #4 Padres, who had the second best record in the NL. The teams…