Author’s note: As you know, two of my great obsessions are Cardinal baseball and Star Wars. I’ve mixed and mashed them a number of times before, but never to this scale. If you’ve watched A New Hope a hundred times and have followed the Cardinals this season, I believe you’ll find this at least somewhat [...]
Monday we looked at what went right for the Cardinals and yesterday we took a look at what went wrong. Today, we’re going to wrap up this little retrospective by looking at a few game that might have made the difference between sitting at home and at least playing a Game 163. It’s fair to [...]
We looked earlier about the things that went right for the Cardinals. If you go by the record, more things went right than wrong. I mean, they won 86 games, stretching their streak of finishing at least 10 games over .500 to nine straight years. So on balance, things went their way more often than not. [...]
We’ve had a few days to come to terms with the fact that October is going to happen without the Cardinals. It’s a strange feeling not looking up broadcast times (and then complaining about them). We’re just not used to looking toward next season quite this early. Before we move on to 2017, though, let’s [...]
My original podcast comes out of its slumber and I get a chance to chat with Heather Simon of Viva El Birdos. So if you have mourned the season enough, give a listen!
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. [...]
