Around the Blogs: April 2010

Changes At Baseball Digest

As you know, I started writing a little ditty over at Baseball Digest this week.  The man who brought me into the fold was Bill Ivie, who has just gotten a promotion over there.  Here are excerpts of the press release:

Around The Blogs: Opening Day 2010

I've not done one of these in a long, long time, but with the season upon us, I wanted to highlight some of the posts about yesterday's game.  Because almost everyone will blog on Opening Day.  I mean, even 4thebirds and The Cardinal Virtue came out of hibernation for the day!

It's tough to top CardinalsGM, who actually drove in to Cincy to see the opener.  If there was any town other than St. Louis I'd want to be in on the opener, it'd have to be Cincinnati, who do it up right with a parade and all the works.

Jeff at 5 O'Clock Blogger got his series preview up a bit late, so he added in his thoughts on yesterday's game.  Hopefully Adam Wainwright can keep up the momentum tomorrow and get the series win out of the way.

Cards Diaspora blows the lid off of the first rule of baseball: Thou shalt not pitch to Pujols.

Short and long: The McBrayer-Baseball Blog has up a paragraph recap of the game, while Bird Brained did a running blog of the whole thing.

Mike over at Stan Musial's Stance reminds us about 2006 and not to worry if Carpenter and Wainwright drop off a little bit.

Dan at Viva El Birdos notes that perfection is still possible and looks at what we learned from yesterday's contest.

Redbirds Rap makes sure to preserve the box score as well as give him impressions of the first game of the year.

The newest member of the United Cardinal Bloggers (as in, joined just minutes ago!) gives their take on yesterday at Redbird Report.

I mentioned Blake's Redbird Insider report in the first post of the day, but didn't want to leave it out in this roundup.

Nick has brought back Redbird Reveille this year, getting you caught up on all the salient aspects of the day that was.

Ryne over at Redbird Rants poses the question, can Albert hit 60 this year?  You wonder. With a healthy elbow and a healthy lineup, perhaps that's not that far-fetched.

I honestly can't imagine how excited Sarah got when Yadier Molina's homer cleared the wall.  I'm really surprised there wasn't a whole post just on that.

When you want the stats to go with the show, you always turn to Pip, who doesn't disappoint.  Side note: Pip is going to be assisting in Cardinal live game chats on ESPN.com this year, so congrats to him!

Scott's View From The Cheap Seats sums up today, though: An off-day?  Really?

Good stuff all along the Cardinal blogosphere.  The hype and pagentry are put aside now, with the grind starting tomorrow.  But yesterday was definitely worth a look back.