The Bernie Miklasz Show

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I'm Bernie Miklasz. I've been writing and talking about St. Louis sports since 1985. I've won multiple national awards for writing and talk-show hosting. I was the lead sports columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1989 through 2015. I was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2023. I write tons of columns for the Scoops Network, and I'm a regular contributor at the legendary St. Louis radio station, KMOX. I believe in speaking my mind without filters and supporting my views with facts. Though I will discuss other sports, my YouTube channel will put heavy emphasis on all things St. Louis Cardinals baseball and rely on my extensive history of covering the franchise. Whether I'm addressing news, developments, issues, trends or controversies, you can count on honest, straightforward, analytical opinions. I tend to be blunt, and I don't care if the teams like it or not, because I'm here to serve those who support my work. Thank you.

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Bernie Show: It's Over. Play the Young Dudes

Sep 10 2024 21 mins

As the St. Louis Cardinals go into three-game home series against the Reds, they are 6 and 1/2 games out of the 3rd wild-card spot and must pass three teams ahead of them in the standings. There are only 19 games left on the STL schedule. The Cardinals have a 0.6% chance of making the postseason. This season is over. So why is Luken Baker sitting on the bench? Why is Victor Scott I

Bernie Show: Dump Miles Mikolas

Sep 10 2024 23 mins

Miles Mikolas has ranked among the worst starting pitchers in the majors for the last two seasons in ERA, strikeout rate, swing-miss rate. The contact rate against him is enormous. He doesn't miss many bats. And at 36 years old, Mikolas will be even more vulnerable (read: bad) in 2025. Mikolas is under contract for 2025 at a salary over $17 million. If the Cardinals plan to keep Mi

Bernie Show: Big Man! Luken Baker

Sep 06 2024 27 mins

This is a "Bernie Bits" style video, an offshoot of the popular Bits column I did for 25 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In this vid, I discuss the following topics: * Investment advice for the Ravens at Chiefs game. A few glaring trends caught my eye. * My menu at home for the first game of the season, as a nod to Baltimore and Kansas City. * Don't mess with my crab cakes. K

Bernie Show: Defending Oli Marmol

Sep 05 2024 32 mins

Oli Marmol takes a lot of heat, which is understandable considering that he's viewed as "John Mozeliak's guy." And if you are burned out on Mozeliak, then you probably are tired of his manager as well. But based on actual job performance, Marmol has done many things right this season. (All managers make mistakes. Hardly breaking news when Marmol does it.) And Marmol has done about

Bernie Show: Here Comes Goldy!

Sep 04 2024 22 mins

Paul Goldschmidt turns 37 years old on Sept. 10 and has already said he plans to play again in 2025. His St. Louis contract expires after this season. During the first three months of the season, it looked like Goldy was succumbing to a severe aging curve. At that point, it was easy to just write him off and declare that it was time for the Cardinals to move on and come up with a n

Bernie Show: The Cardinals? Not smart.

Sep 03 2024 18 mins

The Milwaukee Brewers are running away with the NL Central and have the third-best record in the majors despite operating with a limited payroll as a team in the smallest market in MLB. The Cardinals are outspending Milwaukee by $60 million this season, so why are the Brewers so much better? Lots of reasons. But today, I want to focus on this: the Brewers are a very smart baseball

Bernie Show: Can Chiefs Three-Peat?

Sep 03 2024 19 mins

The 2024 Kansas City Chiefs are pursuing a third consecutive Super Bowl championship -- something that's never been done since the Super Bowl came into being for the 1966 season. In Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs have perhaps the best coach/quarterback tandem in modern NFL history. Regular season and postseason combined, the Mahomes-Reid combo has a incredible .781 winni

Bernie Show: Don't Rip Cardinals Fans

Aug 30 2024 15 mins

There's been some criticism of the no-shows at Busch Stadium. It's nonsense. It's unfair. It's ridiculous. As the DeWitts have said, the Cardinals couldn't have gone on a long run of high-level sustained success without the generous, consistent financial support of the franchise. The DeWitts depicted this as a partnership: if the fans do their part, we'll do our part. Nice. The fan

Bernie Show: Can Mizzou Football Handle the Pressure?

Aug 29 2024 15 mins

I'm excited about the start of the 2024 college football season, and Mizzou gets underway tonight (8--29) with a home game vs. Murray State. The expectations are huge for The Tigers after their 11-win campaign in 2023. And now with the playoff expanded to 12 teams, Mizzou has a good chance to be among the dozen teams that can compete for a national title. But the pressure is on. Th

Bernie Show: Mo Won't Go? Oh No!

Aug 29 2024 15 mins

Via Derrick Goold, the outstanding baseball writer at STLToday, it appears that Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak will fulfill the final year of his contract in 2025 -- and that ownership will "welcome him" to return and finish that contract. This could be a huge fan-relations blunder for the Cardinals. Mozeliak has been running the baseball department since