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This year we will be naming the brackets after great Cardinals First Basemen; inspired by @Radbird 's use of Centerfielders for last year's tournament.

The initial matchups by bracket are below. Each contest will have its own thread and poll. Each bracket will have its own voting period that ends when the thread is locked and a winner is declared. That winner then moves to the next round to face off against one of the other winners from the same bracket. You may vote or change your vote up until that time so you may want to listen again after voting; sometimes your mood when listening to the music will change your choice!

The McGwire Bracket

Kincaid's Outtakes: Songs that were cut from their intended albums
vs
Radbird's Stratosphere: Random songs encountered while searching for space song.


Jocephus' Les Claypool works
vs
heyzeus' Whistling Solos List


TGantz' Hipster 4th of July BBQ
vs
Theosqua's 36-Year-Old-Divorced-Dad-Anthem


BottenFieldofDreams' Can You Play Solo it's Devastating?
vs
CardsofSTL's Filling the Void

The Hernandez Bracket

Fat_Bulldog's Greatest
vs
Richie Allen's YouTube List

IMADreamer's Not All New Country Sucks
vs
TGantz's Country but Good

Radbird's High Road: Broken Bells (James Mercer, Danger Mouse) together and with other efforts sandwiched by Isbell and Radiohead.
vs
Smith Corks One's Speechless

CardsofSTL's Undiscovered Country List: Shakespeare called the future the undiscovered country.
vs
Radbird's Cosmos: Songs from Jr/Sr HS days which coincided with the Apollo program when NASA & the Space Program were about the only positive current event in the midst of political and cultural upheaval. All were released between ‘66-‘72 except for 1989’s Coming Home which wrapped up Major Tom’s career.


The Pujols Bracket

st.lewis11's Underrated YouTube List
vs
Theosqua's Inner-Feminist-Angst

Jocephus' Closer Music
vs
CardsofSTL's Lullaby List

IMADreamer's Songs with Black in the Title
vs
heyzeus' Shhhhhhh. Alt rock instrumental tracks only.

CardsofSTL's Sea & Folk List
vs
Kincaid's Video Game Music


The Musial Bracket

TGantz' Cigar & Whiskey
vs
CardsofSTL's Elvis Covers List

Jocephus' Weird Al Style List
vs
Radbird's Fadeout

BottenFieldofDream's A Threat and a Promise
vs
Radbird's She/Her: Lilith Fair regulars Vega, Merchant & McLachlan plus boygenius and Lucinda.

Theosqua's Autumn Breeze
vs
CardsofSTL's Ease My Mind List

I wasn't feeling the greatest today so I would appreciate it if all of you that submitted a playlist or more take a look at the brackets and make sure all of your submissions were included. If I missed any submissions please PM me so I can take care of editing the brackets before voting starts.

I will post the opening polls for the McGwire bracket this weekend.

CardsofSTL wrote: ↑

January 20 24, 2:25 am

I wasn't feeling the greatest today so I would appreciate it if all of you that submitted a playlist or more take a look at the brackets and make sure all of your submissions were included. If I missed any submissions please PM me so I can take care of editing the brackets before voting starts.

I will post the opening polls for the McGwire bracket this weekend.

Good job putting all the work into this! Much appreciated!

thanks Cards. Looking forward to this.

Thanks for putting this together, it's always fun

Thanks for your hard work putting this together, Cards. This is the deadest of dead periods in our baseball year, I fear. We need this.

Hernandez bracket coming tomorrow!

McGwire Round 1 Bracket voting ends Saturday!

The Hernandez Bracket is now posted and ready to be listened to, enjoyed and voted on!

A couple of you that sent me five youtube links--I just created a playlist from those links for ease of poll creation. I used the video links you submitted so it should be the same version of song that you submitted.

Go vote!

McGwire Bracket Winners
heyzeus Whistling Solos
Radbird Stratosphere
TGantz Hipster 4th of July BBQ
BottenFieldofDreams Can you play solo it's Devastating?


These four will be organized into a second round bracket once the Musial Bracket is complete. Congratulations for advancing to the next round!

The third opening round bracket, the Pujols Bracket, is now posted and open for voting!

Hernandez continues for a couple of more days so if you haven't voted or maybe are thinking of changing your vote--act soon!

The final opening round bracket, the Musial Bracket, will be posted toward the end of this week. Once the Musial Bracket closes and we have announced all 1st round winners we will begin the 2nd round! Still plenty of listening and voting to come!