I hope that you are all will have a great Easter Sunday. For those of you in the faith, this one is going to be different than any other Easter you’ve had, I imagine. The traditions of the church, the gathering with other believers, they won’t be happening today. That doesn’t mean that the day [...]
If you were to tell me that there hadn’t been baseball for 30 months, I might well believe you. 30 weeks? For sure. But 30 days? Just 30 days? Surely it’s been longer than that since Adam Wainwright took the mound for the Cardinals against their spring roommates, the Marlins. So many things have changed [...]
With no baseball (or any major sport, with few minor ones even going on), you’ve got to find ways to pass the time. The best ways are ways that involve other folks. Not physically, of course, but virtually there’s been any sort of interactive things going on. Brackets were and have been big. It’s the [...]
With all that is going on, it’s fair to ask–is the Cardinal Hall of Fame voting still a thing? You can still vote, so I’m guessing so. The deadline is April 17, which is a week from Friday. And even in the best of times, the end of that voting might be drowned out by [...]
Late Monday night, Jeff Passan came out with an article that said that the MLB was at least considering an idea of playing games in Arizona in empty stadiums to at least start the season. The idea, the basic premise of which has also come up for the NFL and the NBA from what I [...]
Early on in this series (but what seems like eons ago), we talked about what the work stoppage would be like for Yadier Molina. Today, let’s look at the other elder statesman of this organization, the man who is almost synonymous with Molina, Adam Wainwright. First of all, let’s get this out of the way: [...]
I did a radio interview soon after the coronavirus stoppage. The host asked, “Will we have baseball this year?” and I immediately said, “Oh, sure, we’ll have baseball. It might be June or so, but we’ll have it.” The more and more that I hear, the more and more that goes on, the less and [...]
Late on Wednesday night, the Cards put out a tweet that some folks thought might have been an April Fool’s joke. 👀Coming soon… pic.twitter.com/yN2e5lr7Yv — St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) April 2, 2020 I guess I could see people thinking that it might be a joke, but 1) brands usually try to do their jokes early [...]
Three plus weeks from the last time a Cardinal threw a competitive pitch and we know probably even less than we did on that Thursday. After all, back then there was at least the idea that the season would just be delayed a couple of weeks. Granted, it didn’t take long for that to be [...]
Yesterday, St. Louis’s civil holiday was cancelled. Whenever baseball returns, if it does, it’s going to be hard for a late May/mid-June/early July game to feel like a true home opener, even if it is the first game the Cardinals play at Busch. The 2020 season is going to have so much baggage that when [...]
If you are a real, real long time reader of this blog, you might remember when I did book reviews. I was fortunate to be on some lists that would send books along to be read. However, the pile got bigger and the reviews stopped happening. I still have a good stash that I read [...]
20 days. 20 days since the ballfields went quiet. Every day is a day closer to baseball, true, but until we know that day, it’s impossible to have a countdown or feel like you are getting closer. Even if we knew it was a guaranteed 50 days away, we could start anticipating and counting down. [...]
