Quite a number of things have happened since last we got together. Let’s dive right into the recaps and see what threads we want to tug on as we go, shall we? Thursday (8-6 win vs. Kansas City) Hero: Dexter Fowler. Two hits, including the third grand slam of the week, which made up the [...]
Here we are in the second week of the second round of the Greatest Cardinal Moment Tournament (#BestCardsMoments). I will admit, I was a little surprised to see how easily Bob Gibson‘s 17 strikeout game defeated Albert Pujols‘s moonshot off of Brad Lidge. So after last week’s matchups, here’s (or here’s) the bracket: Let’s check [...]
Rally cat, rally cat What are they feeding you? Rally cat, rally cat Yadi’s bomb is your fault They don’t want you at the K The Royals wish you’d go away It may not be a bed of roses When you leave the field by your toeses –“Rally Cat” by Phoebe Buffay (probably) Let us [...]
A four game winning streak. Three straight games with ten or more runs, something that ties a franchise mark (and would have been inconceivable–and I do know what that word means–a week or so ago). And when you wake up and look at this….. …how do you not start getting a little excited about this [...]
They’ve weaved and bobbed, made runs and fallen back, but finally, last night, the Cardinals accomplished a goal that has eluded them for over two months. As Ray Kinsella would say, the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place. The Cardinals, right now, can say they are actually a .500 team. It feels wrong that this [...]
After four weeks of work, we’ve cut half of our field of 64 and sent them packing. Some great moments, to be sure, but there were very few upsets in the first round. These are the more iconic times of St. Louis Cardinals history. Let’s take a look at the current bracket. (As always, to [...]
Right now, it feels like .500 is the Death Star and the Cardinals are the X-wings trying to take it down. Maybe one time a talented, gifted ship will sneak in and blow it up, but right now the Empire of Even keeps swatting away challengers. Two games, one win, one loss, against a team [...]
You remember last year, of course. That rough season where every time the Cardinals tried to get to 10 games over .500, they’d wind up losing. I don’t remember what the mark was and I can’t find it in a quick search, but I want to say that when they won the season finale against [...]
Yesterday, as three o’clock ticked past and the Cardinals’ roster look exactly as it did the last few days, a lot of frustration welled up inside many of us, including myself. While I don’t recant anything I wrote in the heat of the moment, I do want to revisit the issue after a few hours [...]
In 1948, President Truman bestowed the moniker “the Do Nothing Congress” on the legislative side of the government. While Congress still gets that tag slapped on them from time to time, most recently the current batch of folks, today the Cardinals decided to claim that as their own. It’s 3:15 PM and the trade deadline [...]
This morning, we had a meeting of the 2000s vs. the 1980s. This afternoon for our final first round game, we have the same! #2 Chris Carpenter shuts out Philadelphia in Game 5 (2011) vs. #15 Ozzie Smith and his iconic backflip (1982-1996) The entire run of the 2011 Cardinals, from the Colby Rasmus trade [...]
It’s the fourth week of the Greatest Cardinal Moments Tournament (#BestCardsMoments on Twitter) and we’ll see the last matchups of the first round kick off. Before we get to the first of the last for this site, let’s take a look at the current bracket. (You can also find it here.) We’ve got some good [...]
