Pitchers and catchers have been at it for a half week now. Guess it’s time for me to start getting back into this regular blogging habit, huh? That’s a little easier to do after a weekend of 70 degree temperatures that made it feel so much like early April. That sort of weather just screams [...]
We continue our look back “as it happened” at the 2011 World Championship team with this spring report, marking the end of Jim Edmonds’s career and hints about what would happen with Jason Motte. Shifting Focus With Albertageddon in the rearview mirror and getting farther away by the hour, the focus has finally shifted to [...]
You’ve heard me talk about Howard Megdal’s book The Cardinals Way a number of times, including the review that ran yesterday. Howard was gracious enough to answer some emailed questions about his experience writing the book. As noted elsewhere (and often, with the Playing Pepper series coming), you can purchase the book here and it’ll [...]
Twitter is a wonderful thing. I don’t know exactly why I started following Howard Megdal on Twitter, besides the fact that he was a nationally recognized writer who did a good bit of baseball work. (He’s also a fairly entertaining follow with a passion for women’s sports that you don’t get everywhere.) So when I [...]
We continue looking at the 2011 championship season. What happens when the end of the world doesn’t actually end the world? Life goes on. The Calm After the Storm: Pujols Reports, Cards Move On Yesterday’s deadline came and went. Albertageddon peaked yesterday morning, but by the end of the day had calmed back down. Life [...]
It’s been a long time, it seems, since Stephen Piscotty struck out against Hector Rondon to end last year’s 2015 National League Divisional Series and send St. Louis home for the winter. Ever since that moment, we’ve been looking toward the time where 2016 spring training would start and we could begin to remove that [...]
Hello, it’s me I was wondering if after all these months you’d like to meet To start over everything They say that time’s supposed to heal ya But I ain’t done much healing Hello, can you hear me Time for Florida dreaming about who you’re gonna be Though core’s not younger nor free I’ve forgotten [...]
We continue our look at the 2011 season as the main story line of the season (we expected) showed up to spring training and kicked off Albertgeddon. Albertgeddon Is Here The clock is ticking loudly. Only a few brief hours remain before talks are broken off and the fears of Cardinal Nation are finally realized: [...]
We continue our look at the 2011 season. I’d forgotten that Stan’s Medal of Freedom came that year as well! Stan Musial Day Today, we set aside deadlines and contracts and negotiations. Today, we set aside forecasting and expectations. We set all of that aside, at least for a short time, because today is a [...]
As noted earlier, we’re re-running some 2011 posts to mark the fifth anniversary of the last Cardinal World Championship. In 2011, Valentine’s Day coincided with pitchers and catchers reporting, so love was rekindled! Love Is In The Air Today is a day of love. That love that keeps you going. That warms you through the [...]
Before we get into talking about those guys that come after the starters, let’s take a look at how folks wanted to sort out the starting rotation. I will say I was a little surprised, given how his season ended last year, to see Michael Wacha the choice here. Not saying that it’s a bad [...]
As noted earlier, we’re re-running some 2011 posts to mark the fifth anniversary of the last Cardinal World Championship. In this one, we’ve got that regular winter dilemma of wanting to post but having little to post about. No matter the year, that end of winter is always the same! Cardinal Nation Catchup As we [...]
