It started, for me*, from this picture put out by Matt Sebek of Joe Sports Fan fame: This struck a chord with me, as I was a fan of The Office for much of its run (I gave up around the episode where they baptized Jim and Pam’s baby and just never made it back). [...]
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. It seems to be an aphorism that is following the St. Louis Cardinals around these days. That’s a bit extreme–knock on wood, there’s been no major injuries or other dramatic things–but when you get between the white lines, it seems to apply. If it’s not one thing, [...]
Oscar Taveras‘s home run on Saturday not only brought the rain, but apparently put a seal on the Cardinal offense. Since that goose-bump moment, the Cardinals have pretty much just put up goose eggs, with a Jhonny Peralta RBI double being the only blemish on that line of zeros. It’s not even that they’ve lacked [...]
You could look at last week as a test for the St. Louis Cardinals. After all, they had two worthy opponents coming into their home territory. You have the New York Yankees and all that represents, plus the fact that for 2014 they are an above-.500 team competing for the AL East title, something that’s [...]
It’s amazing what Adam Wainwright will do for this team. I mean, that’s gotta be what happened last night, right? Wainwright got a heads up that, during the game, news would break about Oscar Taveras and knew that Cardinal Nation would have trouble dealing with that plus a tight, well-pitched game. So he went out, [...]
Rob Rains is reporting that, per a source, phenom Oscar Taveras is now on his way to St. Louis. That would seem to mean Matt Adams would be placed on the DL.
When you have a game like last night’s game, it doesn’t take long for Twitter and other places around the Internet to erupt with Cardinal fans not exactly happy with those involved. Some blamed Peter Bourjos, believing he misplayed the hit that led to the eventual winning run. Some blamed Trevor Rosenthal for giving up that [...]
I ask that question in the title knowing full well I have no answer and, indeed, if anyone has one I’d like to hear it. Shelby Miller was one of my picks to have an outstanding year this season and the results have been, well, let’s say underwhelming. While up until these last couple of [...]
When I did all the data collection for the Lance Lynn post that now apparently has me tabbed as an expert in all things Lynn, at least if my Twitter mentions are to be believed, there were a lot of interesting things that didn’t make it into that post. I’ve updated the database to include [...]
Perhaps Lance Lynn is a positive example of observer effect. It seems so often that once something becomes widely known, enough that people are looking for it, it changes or disappears. How often has ESPN or a major network cut into their programming to show a no-hitter, only to see it lost within the first [...]
Unsurprisingly, given that she turned seven years old last week, my daughter is quite taken with the Disney movie Frozen. From what I understand, that puts her in a very, very large group of people. That also means that we have the soundtrack at our house and “Let It Go” plays fairly often. Given the [...]
We’ve hit the traditional beginning of summer. The temperatures are rising, schools are starting to wrap up, and the Cardinals have played just over a quarter of their schedule. Memorial Day marks a lot of things, most importantly the sacrifice made by many so we could sit here talking baseball, but it also means it’s [...]
