Talking About Birds: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

Big On Biscuits

Should the Cardinals extend Masyn Winn, Jordan Walker or Alec Burleson? Ben brings a deal for all three, and he and Nate disagree on whether Walker would take the money.

Eckstein123!

The Cardinals get swept out of the Gold Gloves, and Ben makes his case for JJ Wetherholt over Sal Stewart for Rookie of the Year. Plus: Ryan Stanek's exit, a new hitting

Swing Around Fun Town, or How To Fix the Cardinals in 2027

The 2026 autopsy ends with prescriptions. Nate and Ben draw up fixes for the Cardinals' bullpen, third base and center field, including Ben's plan to spend $40 million on

Chaim Bloom's Body!!! (Of Work in 2026)

The 2026 autopsy rolls on. Nate and Ben grade Chaim Bloom's first full year running the Cardinals, re-grade every trade from the Sonny Gray deal to the Dustin May deadlin

Regression Ghouls: 2026's Spookiest St. Louis Cardinals

The autopsy continues, this time sorting the 2026 Cardinals into who got lucky and who got robbed. JJ Wetherholt was the unluckiest man on the roster and is primed to bre

Spooky 2: More 2026 Cardinal Autopsy: The Gourd Lords

The autopsy continues. Nate and Ben go player by player through the 2026 Cardinals, and the central mystery is brutal: the offense dropped 62% in value from the first hal

Spooky: The 2026 St. Louis Cardinals Autopsy

The season's over, so Nate and Ben grab the scalpel and perform the 2026 autopsy. They walk the final rankings — a middle-of-the-pack offense, a rotation that punched abo

My Own Method

The Cardinals are officially eliminated, so Nate and Ben start making peace with a season that — against every expectation — still counts as a success. They dig into the

Look at These Guys

Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina went into the Cardinals Hall of Fame together, and Nate and Ben get appropriately misty about a pairing we'll probably never see again. Th

Not Funny, Doug

Umpire Doug Eddings picked the wrong night to make it about himself. Nate and Ben break down his meltdown against a rookie, Oli Marmol's now-legendary response, and what

Curse of the TABino

The curse rolls on: the podcast is haunted, the Cardinals keep losing players, and JJ Wetherholt is the latest to hit the IL. Nate and Ben map out the team's slim 2.5% pa

The Haunting of TAB House

The show is cursed. Last week's audio came out haunted, three Cardinals hit the IL in a matter of days, and Nate and Ben have made peace with the grudge ghost now living

Two Talls

Joshua Baez made maybe the greatest MLB debuts of all time — three home runs, three different pitches, three different parts of the ballpark. Nate and Ben soak it in, the

The Ace We Deserve

The Cardinals are hovering around .500 and mostly out of the race — but the offense is waking up at the perfect time. Alec Burleson is launching bombs, Ivan Herrera is cr

Nootbye :(

The Cardinals sold at the deadline — Dustin May and JoJo Romero are Brewers, Lars Nootbaar is a Diamondback, and the returns are genuinely exciting. Nate and Ben break do

When Many Word Work

It's the last episode before the trade deadline, so next week's Cardinals might look completely different. Dustin May has pitched his way into a real trade chip, and Lars

A More Ept Ball Club

The Cardinals have lost four in a row and each one hurt in a different way. They gave away a 7-0 lead to the Diamondbacks. Riley O'Brien hit a guy to bring in the winning

I Believe the Children are the Future (w/ Kyle Reis)

Jordan Walker is the first Cardinal in history to win the Home Run Derby. He beat Kyle Schwarber in Philly, hit four in a row off the magenta ball to close it out, and lo

Hey Now, You're

Jordan Walker is an All-Star. Twenty-one home runs, a 142 wRC+, and the breakout is officially real. Meanwhile, JJ Wetherholt — 9th in fWAR among all position players — g

Hall of Famers

The Cardinals are 44-38 and the playoff picture is getting tight. Playoff odds dropped from 55% to 33% in two weeks, the Cubs are surging thanks to Pete Crow-Armstrong's