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Daily Dirt for Monday, Nov. 10, 2025<\/p>\n
Cubs are No. 6 in those same rankings \u2026\u00a0 Welcome to today\u2019s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,456 of The Daily Dirt.<\/p>\n
1. If you\u2019re a Cardinals baseball fan, you may want to brace yourself.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels like the Cardinals overachieved to even finish 78-84,\u201d writes David Schoenfield of ESPN.<\/p>\n
And it may get worse. Much worse.<\/p>\n
ESPN ranks St. Louis No. 26 among the 30 MLB teams in its first Power Rankings of the offseason. The only teams the Cardinals are ahead of in that breakdown are rebuilding Minnesota, the Los Angeles Angels, Washington, plus woeful Colorado.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Cardinals\u2019 young players simply haven\u2019t taken off and the team lacks any semblance of a star player,\u201d Schoenfield continued. \u201cIf 2025 was a \u2018hold steady\u2019 season, 2026 looks more like a rebuilding year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The St. Louis\u00a0pitching staff ranked 29th in the majors in strikeout rate and its offense ranked 29th in home runs. Those are two categories that trigger wins and losses in this era.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow Chaim Bloom takes over as head of baseball operations and the Cardinals will apparently be willing to include cash in deals for Sonny Gray\u00a0(one year left at $35 million) and Nolan Arenado\u00a0(two years left at $42 million total),\u201d Schoenfield said.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned, it\u2019s only early November.<\/p>\n
For those who are curious, the Cubs are No. 6, the Royals No. 11 and White Sox (who have lost 100-plus games three straight seasons) No. 24 in those ESPN rankings.<\/p>\n
2. Did you know (Part 543)<\/p>\n
\u2014 That Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.<\/p>\n
\u2014 That Chuck Norris knows Victoria\u2019s secret.<\/p>\n
\u2014 That if it looks like chicken, tastes like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Chuck Norris says it\u2019s beef, it\u2019s beef.<\/p>\n
\u2014 That 43 years ago you were going to the record store (remember those?) to buy \u201cLove\u2019s Been A Little Bit Hard On Me\u201d by Juice Newton, \u201cHeat Of The Moment\u201d by Asia, \u201c65 Love Affair\u201d by Paul Davis, \u201cLeather And Lace\u201d by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley, \u201cHold Me\u201d by Fleetwood Mac, \u201cWe Gor The Beat\u201d by the Go-Gos and \u201cAlways On My Mind\u201d by Willie Nelson.<\/p>\n
\u2014 That a \u201cblatherskite\u201d is a person who talks at length without making any sense, \u201chuckmuck\u201d is the feeling of confusion that arises when things are not in their right place and \u201cmalneirophrenia\u201d is the unhappy feeling of waking up from a nightmare.<\/p>\n
3. A few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine asked its readers what their least favorite songs of the 1960s were. <\/p>\n
These were the results:<\/p>\n
1. \u201cYummy, Yummy, Yummy\u201d by The Ohio Express:\u00a0Yes, I\u2019m rather biased because the Ohio Express was from the town where I went to high school back in Ohio. That aside, this was a GREAT song at the time. It put the bubble in bubble gum \u2026 and set the stage for follow-ups from the group like \u201cChewy, Chewy,\u201d \u201cMercy, Mercy\u201d and \u201cPinch Me (Baby Convince Me)\u201d. Ahh, those were the days, my friend. We thought they\u2019d never end.<\/p>\n
2. \u201cHoney\u201d by Bobby Goldsboro:\u00a0If I never hear this song again, it will be too soon. Ugh.<\/p>\n
3. \u201cMacArthur Park\u201d by Richard Harris:\u00a0I may have been the only teenager who actually like this strange interpretation, but I did. It was a bit long, though.<\/p>\n
4. \u201cCherish\u201d by The Association:\u00a0Granted, I became extremely sick of this song during its heyday, but a spot in this type of top 10? I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n
5. \u201cRevolution 9\u201d by the Beatles:\u00a0Even the Fab Four recorded an occasional dud.<\/p>\n
6. \u201cI\u2019m Henry VIII, I Am\u201d by Herman\u2019s Hermits:\u00a0Well, no argument here. How this effort even reached radio has always been beyond me.<\/p>\n
7. \u201cSugar, Sugar\u201d by the Archies:\u00a0Pure lunacy. Another of my all-time bubblegum favorites. I nearly wore this record out. And I was not alone. It was Billboard\u2019s No. 1 song in 1969.<\/p>\n
8. \u201cI Got You Babe’\u201d by Sonny and Cher:\u00a0Who was voting? Holy crap. This was a No. 1 song, and years later, Cher re-recorded the song with \u2014 drum roll, please \u2014 Beavis and Butt-Head.<\/p>\n
9. \u201cSurfin\u2019 Bird\u201d by The Trashmen:\u00a0This is a crime. \u201cSurfin\u2019 Bird\u201d will always be one of those garage-band classics.<\/p>\n
10. \u201cTiptoe Through the Tulips\u201d by Tiny Tim:\u00a0Very deserving of a place in the top ten, probably should have been higher.<\/p>\n
Steve Thought O\u2019 The Day \u2014 Maybe the Cardinals should hire Chuck Norris.<\/p>\n
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Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. Sadly, Whitey Herzog ain\u2019t stepping back into Busch Stadium any time soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Dirt for Monday, Nov. 10, 2025 Cubs are No. 6 in those same rankings \u2026\u00a0 Welcome to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[479,149680,149681,363,99,1231],"class_list":["post-283238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chuck-norris","tag-did-you-know","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}