Welcome to the Internet’s favorite pastime, The Blame Game! The Cardinals again cracked their head on that glass ceiling that is three games above .500, losing in heartbreaking fashion to the Reds last night. You’ve got fingers, let’s point them! Who do you like for this one? Is it…. ….Kevin Siegrist? After all, the Cardinals [...]
I tried to write this post yesterday, but after an hour and 1700 words, Wordpress ate it like a fat guy at a buffet. (I should know from experience.) Given the recent move of the Cardinals, it’s probably a good thing at least some of it never could be read. Let’s try to quickly review [...]
Imagine, if you will, you wake up prone in a strange land. It looks nice, it’s warm, it’s bright. You sit up and look around, finding a few familiar things but unable to see much beyond your immediate radius. When you try to stand up, however, you crash into some invisible barricade, forcing you back [...]
I hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day holiday. While the Cardinals got us a win on most folks’ day off, over the past few days we’ve seen that they are still unable to string wins together at any sort of consistent rate. Which is unfortunate, because both Chicago and Pittsburgh (especially the Cubs) seem [...]
The hope for the Cardinals this week, facing both the best team in the world (and possibly the greatest of all time, if you believe the press clippings) in the Chicago Cubs and one of their few threats in the Washington Nationals, was to come through it with more wins than losses and a sense [...]
After 44 games, the Cardinals sit barely above break even, winning 23 and losing 21. I thought I’d have to go a long way back in their history to find a similar start. After all, we’ve been spoiled by so many good teams that almost .500 seems ridiculously pedestrian for this franchise. So I looked [...]
Two games with the Rockies and, unsurprisingly given this team, a mixed bag of results. Before we get into the positive that was Adam Wainwright‘s start, we’ve got to look at Tuesday’s outing. Tuesday (3-1 loss) Hero: Kolten Wong. On a night where there was little offense to speak of, Wong provided the lion’s share [...]
Perhaps it’s not surprising that when this team went Hollywood, they got a bit of stage fright. After a boffo performance up (down? I have really no clue on California geography) the road in Anaheim, the Cardinals went into Chavez Ravine for their last outing in front of Vin Scully and were lucky to salvage [...]
It’s not often that a sweep doesn’t tell you much about a team, especially one with the flaws that this Cardinals team has. However, they went in and pounded on a team that now has lost six in a row and sits at the bottom of the AL West, a division that isn’t just covering [...]
The last time we looked at a game, the Cardinals were a game under .500. Five games later, they are….at .500. The inability so far of this team to get some traction and start piling up more wins than losses is quite frustrating and something Cardinal fans aren’t that used to. Wednesday (5-4 win vs. [...]
It’s Star Wars Day (May the 4th, you know) and I had no real desire to write up yesterday’s Cardinal outing. However, Star Wars is always there to help me and annoy StlCardsCards, so let’s mix things together. After the offensive explosion of the night before, when the Cardinals were treating the Phillies like this [...]
Last week was a fairly busy time for me, and with the late starts in Arizona it made it difficult (and some days impossible) to get up early enough to get a post done. However, as you know, that happens from time to time and we don’t let that give us an excuse to not [...]
