Most people mark the current “Golden Era” of St. Louis Cardinals baseball from 1996, when Tony La Russa came to the club, the DeWitts were just beginning their tenure, and the Cardinals returned to the playoffs for the first time in eight years. Since that time, there’s no team that they’ve beaten with more regularity [...]
This wasn’t at all how we wanted this first meeting between the Cardinals and Cubs to go. We wanted to see the Cardinals put them in their place, cool off their hot start, and show they still were the force in the NL Central. Instead, the Cubs took the first two pitching duels and made [...]
After that unfulfilling playoff series, after all the drama and hype of the offseason, the Cardinals and the Cubs finally met on the field last night. It was not the result Cardinal fans wanted. In fact, it was much closer to their fears and nightmares. Over the past 10 days, as the Cardinals have put [...]
The Cincinnati Reds came to town this weekend. We continue to wonder when the bats might start to go silent. The answer: not this weekend. Friday (14-3 win) Hero: Matt Holliday. We’ve wondered if Father Time was catching up to Holliday a bit, given his slow start and the injuries sustained by Holliday last year. [...]
For the third year in a row, the Cardinals have opened the voting for the new class of Cardinal Hall of Famers to the public after providing a quality ballot. The top two in the voting will be added to the 2016 HOF class and inducted in August. Many of the names on the ballot [...]
When I heard that Rob Rains had a book coming out that, included in the subtitle, was the phrase “the building of baseball’s best franchise,” I immediately wondered how that was going to compare with Howard Megdal’s The Cardinals Way. After all, both seemed to be approaching the idea of how the Cardinals had been [...]
A long time ago (at least in blogger years), my good friend Nick coined the phrase “Honkin’ For Jaime” over at the original Pitchers Hit Eighth blog. While the initial usage was indicating support for Jaime Garcia making the rotation, it seemed well enough suited to celebrate his dominant outing yesterday. It’s pretty easy to [...]
For as long as baseball has been an organized sport, three has been the focal point of the game. Three strikes. Three times three innings. And, of course, three outs. Last night, the Cardinals learned all about the fact that you can’t switch sides until that third out is made, mainly to their detriment. In [...]
It’s hard to go terribly wrong with Opening Day in St. Louis. Even if there’s rain, even if the game isn’t much of a game, the tradition and the excitement of a new home season makes up for a lot of that. Which is good, since before yesterday the Cardinals were 3-7 in home openers [...]
The Cardinals limped into Atlanta having lost their first three games and not looking especially noteworthy doing it. However, as many teams are likely to find out this year, the Braves can be good for what ails ya. Friday (7-4 win) Hero: Aledmys Diaz. With the score tied at 4 in the eighth and the [...]
So the Cardinals lost. Again. The Redbirds start the season 0-3 for the first time since 2007, which was not a good year if you aren’t remembering, one of the few missteps over the last 20 years. Still, things could be worse. 1) They could have been swept by the Cubs instead of the Pirates. [...]
After two games, we still don’t know much more about the St. Louis Cardinals than we thought we did in the spring or even before. We thought the offense was going to be iffy. Check. We thought the bullpen would be lockdown. Check. We didn’t know what we’d get out of Michael Wacha. Check. Two [...]
