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 [...]
We sometimes forget that the big trade didn’t take effect immediately. The drama was just getting started! Also, I was a bit wrong on TLR’s intentions….. Is It Too Late? The idea at the trade deadline is to give a team an added boost to push them to the finish line. While it’s way too [...]
First, it was Noah Syndergaard. Then it was snapping Jeurys Famila’s save streak. Something about facing the top guys, dealing with the long odds, brings out the best in this team. It’s something I’ve noticed in years past as well. I don’t know if it’s a mental toughness or what, but it seems to happen [...]
I hope you’ve been enjoying this look back like I have. It’s fascinating to see some of the same problems we talk about now were part of that 2011 team as well, plus seeing the reaction to things as they happened. After the huge shakeup, the club still had to play some games and a [...]
The Mets are a good team, neck and neck with the Cardinals in the wild card race. They have their flaws, of course, but they are a quality team. Yet if you were to tell folks that St. Louis would go in and take two of three, that probably wouldn’t have surprised many people. The Cardinals [...]
If you blog long enough (usually about a week, though some of us don’t even make it that long), you are going to be wrong about something. The first blush reaction to the Colby Rasmus trade isn’t the same as the post-Series lens we use to look at it today. Fair is fair, though, so [...]
The calm before the storm, right before things radically changed. You can hear the thunder in this piece, though we didn’t know it at the time that Edwin Jackson was not going to settle in Toronto. Continuing The Roll So far, so good. The Cardinals have a home stand against the two worst teams in [...]
The trading deadline was starting to heat up and, it appeared, so were the Cardinals as we again look back at the World Series year of 2011. According To Plan Looking at the schedule, the Cardinals needed this week to be a successful one. Four games against the woeful Astros and a weekend series against [...]
