Baseball has returned to our TV screens! Just, well, not exactly what we are used to. Given their fighting of the virus, South Korea was able to start their baseball season this week. (I’m not here to argue whether their methods would have worked here or anything of the sort, so let’s move on.) With [...]
Part of the problem with writing a post every day is that you aren’t going to use material by posting twice on one day. So while there were discussions this weekend about what Albert Pujols had said about playing past his contract, we’re just now getting to them. If it makes it old news, it’s [...]
May the 4th be with you! While celebrating Star Wars on May 4th is kinda like amateur hour, like partying on New Year’s, for someone that can do Star Wars at the drop of the hat and for many possible reasons, that doesn’t mean I’m going to pass over this opportunity. Honestly, the five of [...]
No matter what happens with the season, whether it is cancelled or just significantly shortened, there’s going to be a whole lot made out of vesting options for certain players. For anyone unaware, you can have a team option, where the team decides whether to pick up the option year of a contract, a player [...]
Honestly, one of the aspects of this whole shutdown that hadn’t even crossed my mind is what it meant for the umpires. They always say that a good umpire is one that you don’t even notice, so I guess there was a whole association of them right now. Even Angel Hernandez hadn’t popped up in [...]
While it seems more and more likely that we’ll see some sort of major league baseball this year (even if Dr. Fauci believes that the country isn’t ready yet for the resumption of games, even though he wants to see MLB return), we’re getting closer and closer to the cancellation of minor league baseball for [...]
Very early on in this interminable slog we’re calling a series, we talked about what this sort of break would do to Yadier Molina. Yesterday, he let us know the answer in no uncertain terms. According to Marty Riveria at ESPN, Molina says that without this coronavirus stoppage, he was “50/50” that he’d retire at [...]
While there seems to be more and more talk about the 2020 season actually happening, one major milestone of the summer won’t be. It looks like Ted Simmons‘s wait to be enshrined is going to last a little longer. Bob Nightengale (I know, I know, but I think this is pretty solid) reported yesterday that [...]
Throughout this whole process, it feels like we (and by that, I really mean me) have gone back and forth on whether baseball will actually be played this season. When things first shut down, it seemed like a no-brainer that we’d see players back on the field at some point (though that original two week [...]
If this thing is to keep going, we’re going to need a few hooks. One is looking at what the gap means to various players, which we’ve done with Adam Wainwright, Yadier Molina, and Alex Reyes so far. I think what we’ll do also everyone once in a while–hopefully not more than once a week–is [...]
It’s April 26. This afternoon, the Cardinals should be taking on the Marlins at Busch Stadium, ending a three game set with Miami. It was scheduled to be game 28 on the season. Honestly, I wouldn’t have been surprised if this wouldn’t have been the annual Blogger Day. So what could we have seen in [...]
We’re all looking for content right now, right? We want something that entertains and preferably something that involves our favorite team. So the folks over at FOX Sports Midwest put together a special called “Top 25 Cardinals Regular Season Moments of the 2010s” and it ran Thursday night on FSMW. As starved as anyone else [...]
