Talking About Birds: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

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 relievers and flip them at the deadline, plus a grade for Oli Marmol and a Fall League check-in on Tai Peete and Tekoah Roby.Plus: who should replace us on the show, a defense of $2 Casey's pizza, John Mozeliak's Angels, and Ben's case for Christmas every other year in You're Out.Have a question or comment for the show? Text or leave us a voicemail at: (848) 48-BIRDS (848-482-4737)Talking About Birds is listener supported on Patreon. Support the show and join our private discord server at: www.patreon.com/talkingaboutbirds

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 deadline flip, and celebrate a farm system that is suddenly loaded, led by Rainiel Rodriguez, Liam Doyle, and Jesús Báez.Plus: the kid who broke youth soccer, humanity's post-building future, a Brewers–Rays World Series preview, and Nate struggles with who the closer was in the return of What Year Is It?Have a question or comment for the show? Text or leave us a voicemail at: (848) 48-BIRDS (848-482-4737)Talking About Birds is listener supported on Patreon. Support the show and join our private discord server at: www.patreon.com/talkingaboutbirds

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 break out; Kyle Leahy and Michael McGreevy had “zombie” seasons the regression ghouls will come for; and Nate and Ben map out the bullpen, the Jimmy Crooks catching puzzle, and two (three?) very deserving Gold Glove finalists.Plus an $8.99 gourd, a zucchini canoe, a cursed week for Chicago, a full playoff check-in, and the triumphant return of the best game they’ve ever made: Pope or Nope.Have a question or comment for the show? Text or leave us a voicemail at: (848) 48-BIRDS (848-482-4737)Talking About Birds is listener supported on Patreon. Support the show and join our private discord server at: www.patreon.com/talkingaboutbirds

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 half to the second, while — somehow — the pitching staff doubled, even after trading Dustin May and JoJo Romero. They dig into Victor Scott's fading experiment, Ivan Herrera's concerning collapse, why they've both gone Burley-pilled, and whether Matthew Liberatore is still a starter.Plus the $10 gourd lords, a disastrous bet on Renaissance Faire jousting, a full playoff check-in, and the end-of-season edition of Who Charted?Have a question or comment for the show? Text or leave us a voicemail at: (848) 48-BIRDS (848-482-4737)Talking About Birds is listener supported on Patreon. Support the show and join our private discord server at: www.patreon.com/talkingaboutbirds

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 above its weight, a bullpen that gave it all back, and a top-ten defense that held the whole thing together — and ask why a team that won fewer games than last year somehow feels like a success.Plus the 2027 holes and a Jazz Chisholm pitch, favorite moments from Josh Baez's debut to Jordan Walker's Home Run Derby, playoff picks, and the season finale of Draft Day: Heroes & Hatchlings.Have a question or comment for the show? Text or leave us a voicemail at: (848) 48-BIRDS (848-482-4737)Talking About Birds is listener supported on Patreon. Support the show and join our private discord server at: www.patreon.com/talkingaboutbirds