Surely by now you know of Playing Pepper, that preseason look around the majors where we harass numerous bloggers until they give me answers to various questions so I’ll shut up. Occasionally, I’ve done a postseason version of this and it seemed like a great time to dust that off this year. We’ll start with [...]
It seems like every year, around this time, there are these “who to follow on Twitter” lists for each team making the playoffs. Most of the time, these lists are fairly good and have some important folks to follow on them. (Last year’s postseason list had a strange outlier on it, though.) However, these lists [...]
There really isn’t such a thing as momentum going into the playoffs, I don’t think. Especially if you aren’t playing in the wild card game, these days there are so many off days between the end of the season and the start of the LDS that it doesn’t seem to have much bearing. Last year’s [...]
Fandom is a strange thing, when you think about it. Unless you grew up in the shadow of a major league stadium, why do you pick the team you do? If you listened to my most recent Conversation, you heard my friend Robert say he became a Royals fan almost out of spite, while my [...]
Rain in Pittsburgh has cancelled tonight’s Cardinals/Pirates matchup. There will be a doubleheader tomorrow, with the makeup game at 1:35 PM Eastern. Available for that game? Adam Wainwright, who will be activated and can pitch one inning Wednesday, Friday and Sunday per the team.
If you are a fan of the Sherlock Holmes canon, you surely know about Reichenbach Falls. For those that aren’t up on the adventures of the world’s greatest detective (non-Batman category), Arthur Conan Doyle wrote what was to be the last Holmes story, entitled “The Final Problem”, and the climax had Holmes and his greatest [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals split their last series of the home portion of the calendar in route to a final homestand that saw five wins and two losses. It was the worst weekend of the 2015 season. Not only did the Pirates not lose any of the games in that span, cutting the lead down [...]
Anytime you’ve got the number six involved, it’s a good time to break out these guys. Seriously (no pun intended), it’s amazing how one ad campaign has basically embedded itself into a fanbase. Even if you aren’t a fan of the, well, whatever these guys are, we all know that six is a serious number. [...]
Per Derrick Goold and others, Yadier Molina has a small tear in left thumb and is hopeful he’ll play again in the regular season. Also, Adam Wainwright has been cleared for baseball-related activities and may pitch out of the bullpen soon. Catcher Travis Tartamella was called up and Xavier Scruggs designated to make room.
Tara Wellman, who talks with me every Sunday night on Gateway To Baseball Heaven (and, as you know, has a great video blog going), has made the point that this Cardinals team seems to be immune from momentum. Sometimes, that’s a good thing. Most of the time, though, we’re not using that as a selling [...]
A Royals fan, a Mets fan, and a Blue Jays fan walk into a Cardinals podcast. The result is….well, listen for yourself!
Amazing what four straight wins, coupled with some Pittsburgh losses, will do for your outlook, isn’t it? On Saturday, we were pretty doom and gloom, what with the Cards losing so many games and the division tightening up. Now, we look at that magic number down to 12, with a postseason berth clinched possibly as [...]
