This post actually went up five years ago yesterday. Five years ago today, the run started while some of us watched, as it was Social Media Night at Busch that evening. The Cardinals sat 10.5 games out of the wild card with barely a month left. It’s no wonder that many of us were pessimistic. [...]
All year long, we’ve talked about this team being allergic to momentum. Big wins are followed up by terrible losses. The most you could seem to hope for was a couple of games in a row. Nothing that made you think that this was more than a slightly-better-than-.500 team. And yet, over the last week, [...]
The Cardinals spent the off day Monday visiting NASA (a different Ground Control than the one Chris Correa visited) and apparently charged up their bats while they were at it. Even though the offense generally hasn’t been a problem this season, after this series the Cards are riding their first four-game “serious” streak since the [...]
The Cardinals have announced Seth Maness will have Tommy John surgery Thursday, while Matt Holliday will have thumb surgery tomorrow.
If ever there was a line to summarize the 2016 Cardinals, the ending of Guardians of the Galaxy might just be it. Any time you try to summarize this team, you’ve got something good and something bad, though not always in equal measure. We’re behind on the games, so let’s go catch up. Wednesday (3-2 [...]
There are some days that it’s tough to know what to talk about in this space. The games, sadly, are often very similar and somewhat depressing to relive. There’s nothing happening off the field. Things seem stagnant. Then there are days like yesterday, when everything happens. Let’s get the game out of the way first, [...]
The Cardinals’ top prospect Alex Reyes has been promoted to the big leagues and, per Twitter source @cardsfanmatt, is already at Busch Stadium. The move has not been officially announced.
After eight innings last night, I was doing some searches to find ways to describe how this team was making most of its fans feel. I finally settled on the noted philosopher Rachel Green: I mean, we thought that losing a series to the Reds, followed by losing a series to the Braves, had to [...]
I mean, technically I don’t have to do anything here at the blog. Nobody’s paying me, nobody’s made that a requirement besides myself. Heck, there’s no guarantee anyone’s even reading. However, we’ve been doing Heroes and Goats for almost nine seasons now and even at this low point, we’re not going to give that up. [...]
Another night, another one-run lead. This time, Seung-hwan Oh was more the guy we’ve seen all year long and less the guy we saw Tuesday night. Oh did allow a one-out single, which made the inning longer since the Reds pinch-ran Billy Hamilton, which meant a lot of throw overs, but he was able to [...]
In the 1997 Disney film Hercules, there’s a training montage set to the song “Zero To Hero“, showing how quickly Hercules went from a nobody to a full-fledged hero. Last night, a couple of Cardinal bullpen stalwarts reversed the script, starting out at the highs and quickly hitting the depths. The biggest problem was, one [...]
OK, so there probably weren’t actually 50 ways on display this weekend in Miami, but it’s not like Paul Simon used 50 in the song either and I’m just as able to use poetic license as a legendary musician, right? It was a frustrating end to the series, made more so on Sunday when defeat [...]
