If you want to look for the silver lining, the Cardinals could have swept this small series and, at worst, were very competitive with a team that was expected (and still may) to have a deep playoff run. When you factor in the normal thought that AL teams are better than NL teams overall, there [...]
Listen, I know the general realities of baseball slogans, at least the ones that get the official stamp of approval. Marketing teams come up with them and they have to put them in place before the beginning of the season to go on tickets, merchandise, advertising, etc. You can’t wait and see how the team [...]
Winning all the games of a road trip is hard. Winning a game when you are down four runs in the first is hard. Put a team down four in the last game of a six game road trip in which they’d won the first five games and you’d almost forgive them for going through [...]
It’s not exactly accurate to call Magneuris Sierra a child. I mean, the man is 21 years old. However, not only is that ridiculously young for an old guy like me–I have clothes older than that–it’s also a pretty young baseball age. Couple that with the fact that he’s not had a lot of pro [...]
After a 14-inning marathon on Sunday, the Cardinals needed one thing desperately and another thing that would be great. They needed a solid start and a good bit of offense to make sure the game wasn’t too close. Carlos Martinez provided both. El Gallo, as he is known at times, seems to have gotten back [...]
Apparently the Braves have a great new ballpark. The Cardinals loved it. In fact, they’d like to play there a lot more against the Braves if this weekend was any indication. A sweep in Atlanta helped dull the pain of outfielders dropping like mics after pointed comments. However, before we get into those games, we [...]
Man, good thing Carlos Martinez got his hair cut, huh? OK, no reasonable person actually believes that there was a connection between Martinez’s silver extensions and his rough play as of late. People may joke about it but nobody honestly thinks that is the difference. (Though Martinez may have bought into that a bit, saying [...]
I wasn’t planning on writing this morning, as I only saw bits and pieces of the game and didn’t feel like I had a lot to say about it. Then I realized, when has that ever stopped me before? No, what I really noticed was everyone talking about Kolten Wong this morning. Which is a [...]
The Cardinals seem to be locked into a pattern. We’ve talked about it before this season, how they’ve matched wins and losses, then turned it on its head. Win one, lose three. Do that three times. Then lose one, win three. Do that three times. Suddenly, a team that looked done just days into the [...]
I’ve read a few athlete biographies in my day. While interesting, they usually are just a progression through their careers. Perhaps they shed some light on a few important moments, maybe they talk a little about their teammates. Again, they are good books, but they often stay in a fairly predictable lane. Perhaps it’s not [...]
There’s a quote–attributed to George Carlin in my initial searching–that goes “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.” Last night, the Cardinals played the last-place Toronto Blue Jays and while the quote might have still been relevant, what that saying doesn’t take into [...]
We remarked a week or so that the Cardinals had fallen into a distressing pattern. Win one, lose three. Win one, lose three. Over the past week, though, the club has reversed that to a much more fun and acceptable arrangement. Lose one, win three. It started by dropping the finale in New York, then [...]
