As you know by now, the Cardinals had a press conference this afternoon, promoting John Mozeliak to a new role, President of Baseball Operations, and elevating his assistant, Michael Girsch, to the general manager spot. Apparently, all it takes for front office reshuffling is a down year, as Mo took over the job after a [...]
It’s not been a fun few days for Cardinal fans. Scratch that. As we talked about in the All-Star Roundtable on Saturday night (the latest Conversations With C70, which you can find here), it’s not been a fun season for Cardinal fans. However, losing the last to the Phillies and the first two to the [...]
So, when your team goes into Philadelphia, what you don’t expect is to be playing two extra-inning affairs. The fact that the Cardinals can’t put the Phillies completely away until the very end might counteract the fact that they’ve won two in a row and are now four games under .500 and four games out [...]
If you are reading this, chances are your favorite team in baseball is the St. Louis Cardinals. (If not, appreciate the click but you might not find this all that interesting.) As you probably know, the Cardinals are celebrating their 125th anniversary this year as a member of the National League. Over that span of [...]
I’ve never been a big Simpsons fan. Honestly, I think I could probably count on both hands the number of episodes I’ve seen in their entirety. One of those, of course, was when Mark McGwire made a cameo in Springfield. (The relevant bit begins at 1:22 below.) I thought about that this morning as I [...]
Last Friday, the day of the John Mozeliak press conference designed to shake things up, the Cardinals were about to start a home stand sitting in fourth place at 26-32 and 4.5 games behind the division leading Milwaukee Brewers. After last night’s game, they wrapped up that home stand….in third place, 30-35, 4.5 games behind the [...]
After all the complaints, after all the disappointment, after all the shoddy play, the Cardinals last night were about a run and some outs away from being a half-game out of first place. A great weekend against the Phillies and a win in the opener of the doubleheader had them on a four-game streak and [...]
For seven straight years, the Cardinals have hosted the bloggers, allowing Q&A with John Mozeliak and Bill DeWitt III. And for the seventh straight year, everyone there has come away with a similar thought. Man, Mo can be a candid guy. I didn’t take notes this year, so perhaps other bloggers in the group will [...]
The Cardinals snapped their seven-game losing streak last night with a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. While welcome, that’s not really what everyone is talking about the day after. No, that goes to an unprecedented press conference by John Mozeliak, which announced more staff changes than the Cardinals have done in-season in a long [...]
You get swept by the Cubs in their ballpark. OK, not great, but even given how they are playing, they are still the World Champs. You can rationalize that a little bit. Getting swept–in a four-game series, mind you–by the Reds in their ballpark? While scoring a total of nine runs against a statistically terrible [...]
Many of you may have thought that it was the Cardinals’ weak play against the Reds that has kept me away from the computer, but that’s not quite the truth. (That said, it’s hard to get too motivated about writing about yet more losses.) There have been a few things going on, most notably my [...]
The Cardinals spent the weekend in Chicago. It didn’t go well. Three games, three leads lost, three games on the wrong side of the ledger. All that equals third place and two games (an alteration on a theme) under .500. We have to look at the games because I’m a completist, but it’s not going [...]
