There was excitement, momentum, and a sense of optimism after the Cardinals swept the Pirates in Busch on Wednesday afternoon. There was this idea that things had turned the corner and that everything might just be all right after all. I really should have written yesterday morning. Instead, the Cards go off to Milwaukee, a [...]
We talked yesterday about how the Cardinals had had a rhythm this year, though not one that was pleasing to the ear. A win, followed by three losses. A win, followed by three losses. A win, followed by three losses. Last night’s discordant note in that rhythm was sweet music to the ears. It again [...]
Thankfully, they kept to the pattern. Hopefully tonight, they’ll break it. As someone pointed out on Twitter Sunday night, the Cardinals have had three sets of games where they had a win followed by three losses. After being swept by the Yankees this weekend, the pattern said they were due for a win. It didn’t [...]
I’ve done two podcasts this weekend (Meet Me at Musial and Gateway To Baseball Heaven) that totaled close to three hours and it’s still hard to come up with words to describe how the Cardinals are playing right now. Especially if you, like myself, limit yourself only to words that don’t get you an explicit [...]
Baseball, as we’ve noted before, has its stubborn streak, at times determined not to follow the script. So it wasn’t as much of a surprise to see a struggling Cardinal team on a three game losing streak face Max Scherzer, one of baseball’s top pitchers, with a getaway-day-looking lineup and win, just because we’ve gotten [...]
Eight games is 5% of the season. It’s still not deep enough into the new year to make sweeping generalizations and have enough data to expect them to be true. (That doesn’t stop folks–me included–from making sweeping generalizations, of course.) However, this has been the worst start to a season in some time. Consider: For [...]
I said at the beginning of the calendar year that I was going to try to be better about writing game recaps instead of series recaps, a habit I fell into last year because I’m old. Unfortunately, I just mentioned this to a young pup of a blogger in Cassie yesterday, so I have to [...]
We’ve got four games to discuss here. Let’s hit the high points then talk about any overarching issues. Thursday (6-4 loss to Chicago) Hero: Aledmys Diaz. Two for five with a couple of runs on a day when the whole team could muster only seven knocks. Goat: Brett Cecil. His Cardinal debut included a pitch [...]
Look, I’m on a tight time schedule here and nothing is coming to me for a title. I thought about “You Down With RISP, Because The Cardinals Aren’t” but that didn’t work well. I looked for some sort of air pun for Jake Arrieta (“Letting the Arrieta Out of the Tires”, etc.) but it seemed [...]
The Cards have called another press conference for 1 PM this afternoon. Unlike yesterday’s, nobody has any idea what this one is about. Stay tuned to Twitter and we’ll come up with 1000 goofy reasons before finding out the real one.
Before we get too far on discussing last night’s game, let’s take a moment and look at a beautiful piece of art. For one night, the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place and sanity, so lacking over the last few months, has returned to our world. There’s no guarantee on how long this will last [...]
Last month, the United Cardinal Bloggers did their annual preseason roundtable. There were lots of questions asked and, as is my tradition, I went last with the group, which meant that most of the good stuff was taken. I did get one out there though and the answers came in. Good answers. Solid answers. And [...]
