With the postseason now over the Cardinals, it’s time to start sorting through some of the other responsibilities on my baseball desk. One of those is voting in the Baseball Bloggers Alliance‘s postseason awards. As head of the St. Louis Chapter, I was able to assign people to vote for the various awards. I also [...]
For 29 teams, when the end of the season comes, it’s a tough thing to handle. Even for fans with teams that were out of the race in June, you miss the companionship of the daily grind, you miss turning on the TV to see your team play ball, however badly. For teams that make the [...]
I think you could forgive Cardinal fans if they started exploring nihilism. It seems like, no matter what they do this series, the Giants are going to wind up scoring crazy runs and win the ballgame. This series is closer than the 3-1 deficit, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. Would you like to [...]
The error was almost incidental, the speeding up of the inevitable. After all, even if Randy Choate throws a strike to first base, there are still runners at second and third with one out with a left-handed Joe Panik coming up, meaning that Choate would have likely stayed in for that. Anyone want to bet [...]
The folks at THE San Francisco Giants Blog were so receptive to the Q&A that Craig and I did before the series that they asked that we do a little more of that as the series went along. So, with Game 3 just hours away from getting started, here are a few more answers from [...]
Last night had plenty of worry and concern. At least it went out on a high note. In a vacuum, Game 2 of the NLCS was an exciting and ultimately fulfilling outing for the Cardinals, who used the home run ball that had been so desperately lacking in the regular season to create leads and dig [...]
Another off day. When postseason baseball is done right (i.e., your team is in them), there are stretches of agonizing, heart-pounding angst followed by periods of almost boring calm. Right now, with three days between the LDS and the LCS, we’re in that eye of the storm, the calmness before everything breaks loose yet again. [...]
The National League Championship Series came into being in 1969, when that year’s expansion to Montreal and San Diego forced baseball to divide each league into divisions. While it took a while for St. Louis to visit the NLCS, they’ve done a great job of making it their home. The Cards didn’t make the big [...]
Once the Giants had disposed of the Nationals and were set as the other half on the NLCS, I reached out to Craig of THE San Francisco Giants Blog (fine title until you note the URL) to see if he’d answer a few questions for me. Not only was he up for that, but he [...]
My lack of vocalization saved me $35. At least temporarily. When Matt Adams, or as we call him due to his myriad of nicknames around the Internet, Big Fill-In-The-Blank, stepped to the plate in the seventh inning with a blank on the scoreboard but two runners on the pond, I almost remarked to my wife, [...]
A true Carpenter and a Carpenter in spirit took center stage in Busch Stadium last night. When that happens, good things usually result and now the Cards are one game away from their fourth straight NLCS, which as far as I could tell would be the second-longest streak ever, only eclipsed by the eight game [...]
The Cardinals are back on home turf. The crowd tonight will be overwhelming red instead of the blue and white of the first two games. While St. Louis is in a good position, they were so achingly close to being so much better off. You know all about Game 2 by now, of course. How [...]
