The Bernie Miklasz Show

Bernie Show: Career News!

Greetings. I'm so thankful for all of the support you have given me since I started my own YouTube channel late last summer. The growth of the show is gratifying, and your audience loyalty means the world to me. But I'm here to announce my next career phase: I'm joining a new venture, SportsHubSTL, which was started by my longtime friend Dave Greene. In short, you will be able to find my video commentaries -- and my written commentaries -- on the SportsHubSTL platform. No more searching. All of my individual work can be found at the same place, and the convenience should be beneficial to you -- and to me. There are several reasons why I made this decision, and in this video I will bring you inside the loop and lay it all out for you ... and also give you a complete rundown of all of the sports-media work I'm doing. The changes keep coming, with new doors opening, and that's a GOOD thing. Anyway, watch this one for all of the info. This particular video platform will still be here, but starting Monday (March 24) my new videos, and my columns, will be available at SportsHubSTL.com ... please join me at my new home. And thank you for everything! --Bernie

Bernie Show: I'm On Team Contreras.

I wanted take some time today to talk about a player that I respect ... and respect a lot. That would be Willson Contreras, the erstwhile catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals who has moved to first base for 2025. It is a wise move that will give Contreras more at-bats -- while also creating more at-bats for the impressive young hitter, Ivan Herrera, at the catcher position. I'm glad that Willson Contreras is still a Cardinal. After the was so unfairly treated and benched when manager Oli Marmol capitulated to mewling pitchers early in 2023 -- blaming the catcher for their own failures -- my respect for Contreras grew. He handled this shabbiness with grace, class and a spirit of forgiveness. You can always count on him to play hard and care about doing as much as he can to help the Cardinals win. Oh, and he's one of the top right-handed hitting batters in the majors. Near the end of this video, I included 3 random "Bernie Bits" notes for some bonus content. Thank you.

Bernie Show: Why the Blues are winning.

The St. Louis Blues are a different team since Jim Montgomery became their new coach on Nov. 25. In this video I explain all of the reasons behind the Blues' dramatic turnaround -- but nothing has been more important than Montgomery's brilliant work at reestablishing a strong identity at 5-on-5 play. We haven't seen this type of 5-on-5 dominance from a Blues team for a long time, and there is nothing fluky about their recent hot streak.

Bernie Show: Cards 2025 strategy? Lotto.

As the roster shapes into its final form for opening day on March 27, the St. Louis Cardinals are basically repackaging the 2024 team and putting a new wrapper on it. If there's a strategy, it's hoping to get lucky. In this video I discuss all of this and more, explaining why it makes sense to give young players and pitchers the benefit of the doubt and put them on the roster for 2025 as a way to prepare them to become key pieces in 2026. And 2025 is the perfect season to try creative things, different things, and new things. If not now, when? Plus much more ... thanks for watching.

Bernie Show: Roster logjam, again

Just like last season, the 2025 St. Louis Cardinals will be loaded with left-handed hitters, especially in their collection of outfielders. Now, this would be a true positive if these left-handed batters were more effective on a consistent basis. And if these LH batters are hitting well as a group, this would make the Cardinals a lot more capable when facing right-handed pitching. Why? Because over the past three seasons, 73% of the plate appearances taken by big-league hitters have come against right-handed pitching. For the Cardinals to improve offensively in 2025, their LH bats will have to come through with much better results than they did in '24. It's bad enough to have these incessant logjams that are a John Mozeliak speciality. But it's worse when the logjams are such a big factor in shaping a mediocre/poor offense. Thank you for watching.