During the All-Star Break, I set up a little contest to see who would be able to guess the second half of the Cardinals’ season the best. We had 64 folks give it a shot and, now that the season has wrapped up, it’s time to look back and see who gets the bragging rights. [...]
If you had told most Cardinal fans Friday morning that this club, this inconsistent, maddening club, would have swept the Pirates this weekend and finally reached the 10-games-over plateau, I think most would have expect that the Cardinals would have at least been playing on Monday in the tiebreaker game, if not nabbing the second [...]
Last October, I asked for your opinions about who were the best Cardinal Twitter accounts to follow. It was an open-ended question, allowing you to write in any 15-20 accounts and then I compiled them into a series ranking them by the votes that they received. It was a fun and enjoyable project and it [...]
Who knew that ballpark design could become such a hot topic? As you all know by now, the Cardinals won the rubber game against the Reds 4-3 when Yadier Molina (our Hero for so many reasons) doubled in Matt Carpenter in the bottom of the ninth to break the tie. However, the ball seems to [...]
Is anyone really surprised that I went straight to the Star Wars well to try to describe this evening? I didn’t think so. Also, I’m just now realizing Albert Pujols was the Goat in the last regular season game he played in St. Louis. A Wild, Wild, Wild Night Luke’s X-Wing has sunk into the [...]
Right now, every game is a must win if the Cardinals want to go to the playoffs. Can we agree on that? Any loss puts them in a bad position. This is a tightrope over Niagara Falls and any loss could send them plunging into the water. So losing–again–to the Cincinnati Reds is a real, [...]
After the wildest of Septembers, the rush of winning while others were inexplicably losing, we came to the greatest day in baseball history. This was on the site as we got ready for the last night of the 2011 season. Tied For First It’s a phrase that Tony La Russa likes to use a lot. [...]
One thing that we’ve said over and over about this year’s version of the Cardinals (and, indeed, many other years as well) is that they seem to be allergic to momentum. Big wins never spark long winning streaks. Thankfully, it goes both ways. A day after completely not showing up, the Cardinals gave an early [...]
When last we got together, the Cardinals were in a three-way tie for the wild card (either of them) and while they had some challenges ahead, they were nothing that a team going to October shouldn’t be able to handle. Instead, St. Louis has lost three of four and while you could fashion some explanations [...]
There was a train of thought, completely sound, that the Cardinals had to sweep the Rockies to keep their wild card chances legitimate. They weren’t quite able to do that (sweeps are hard, especially for this team who hasn’t swept a three game series since the four-gamer against the Padres in mid-July and again failed [...]
A young hero, pressed into difficult situations, becoming the backbone of an uprising. No, I’m for once not talking about The Force Awakens, I’m talking about the Cardinals’ Rey(es). Before we get there, though, we need to look at the other two games of the series. Friday (8-2 loss) Hero: Matt Carpenter, I guess. Carp had [...]
Given the last couple of games, you’d be forgiven if you came to the conclusion that the answer to that question is “no”. At a time when wins are paramount, it’s seemed at times that the club is just going through the motions. While we might not want to, we probably should talk about the [...]
