It’s time to forecast the season for your 2026 St. Louis Cardinals and the Sportists use 20 questions for the preview. Compare your answers:

1. Season Record

2. Games Played for Laars Nootbaar – Over/Under 81

3. Most starts in left field

4. Victor Scott II – Over Under 43.5 Stolen Bases (Last year – 138 g, 34 SB)

5. JJ Wetherholt – Over/Under 150.5 hits and ROY?

6. Season Attendance – Over/Under 2,250,007.5 (Last year’s total, decrease of 628,108)

7. First player on major league opening day roster to Injured List

8. Kyle Leahy – Innings Pitched – Over/Under 150.5 (Last year, 88 IP - 1 start)

9. Number of Pitchers to Start at least One Game - Over/Under 14.5

10. Leader in Saves

11. Who is replaced from Opening Lineup First – Gorman, Scott, Walker, None

12. Masyn Wynn HR – 13.5 (Last year 9)

13. First Player Traded

14. Any Player(s) over 20 HR? If so, whom?

15. Joshua Baez Call-up Date

16. Jordan Walker – O/U 13.5 HR (repeat from last season)

17. Matthew Liberatore Wins – O/U 12.5 (last year – 8)

18. Starts for Liberatore, McGreevy, May – O/U 81.5 (Last year – 81 for Mikolas, Fedde and Pallante)

19. Liam Doyle Call-Up Date

20. Player on Memphis roster on March 26 who plays in most games for major league team?

21. One specific and quantifiable prediction

The Blues refuse to lose and CITY breaks through! March Madness is in full swing. It’s an action-packed episode of the St. Louis Sportists Podcast.

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Happy March Madness! It’s all-Ava this week as March Madness roars into action. Mizzou, SLU and Illinois are all part of the field of 64 and the team breaks down the prospects for the local teams.

The guys consider the bracket winners and losers – starting with the Missouri Tigers who were fortunate enough to wind up playing in St. Louis. Maddening Mizzou has driven ticket prices to over $1,000 courtside and the get-in price over $200.

SLU shuffles off to Buffalo for a showdown with an SEC opponent – the Georgia Bulldogs. And it doesn’t get any easier – Michigan would likely be the second round opponent.

The Fighting Illini have an Ivy league opponent in Penn and an uncertain second round matchup against VCU or North Carolina. What is certain is that Bruce Pearl’s act has worn thin on CBS already.

The World Baseball Classic has grown in interest and intensity as Venezuela defeated the United States in front of a “juiced” crowd in Texas. The TV audiences skyrocketed as well.

The Blues are winning – but is the timing off? Are they going to fall short of the playoffs while securing a later draft choice? The Cardinals are ready to break camp and the opening day starter has been announced. What do they do about Jordan Walker?

All this plus St. Louis City and their one goal (literally), and can a baseball team have a pitching staff with no defined roles? All of this on this week’s action-packed episode of The St. Louis Sportists Podcast.

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March Madness is here, and the Sportists are ready – even if some of it is played on glass.

Maddening Mizzou is doing everything possible to stay on the bubble. SLU is facing a troubling trend, and a key player suddenly has an unsettling injury. But the Illini – now there’s a group gelling at the right time.

The remaining St. Louis Blues go on a modest win streak only to be ended with help from the captain they traded days earlier. The one percent playoff chance guarantees playing time for many of the younger players, many of whom are playing very well.

The Cardinals send one of their leading Spring Training performers to the minor league camp. Are they gun-shy after the Jordan Walker experience? Will the starting rotation be improved simply because of who is NOT in the rotation?

The World Baseball Classic provides no shortage of storylines. Italy deals a stunning blow to the USA, who survives to the next round (during the podcast). And is a managerial change coming for the USA in the next classic?

As predicted here, the Chiefs move on a running back before the draft. Old friend Travis Kelce also returns. Are they contenders again? And Maxx confusion and frustration hits Baltimore.

It’s a somber week for St. Louis CITY ahead of the reunion with Klauss in LA this week. And the PGA heads to the “Fifth Major” as the tour heads to the island green at Sawgrass for the Tournament Player’s Championship this weekend.

All of this plus the NFL’s latest bit of hubris and how do you sweep a floor with no markings on this week’s speedy edition of The St. Louis Sportists Podcast.

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