Ankiel Book Signing and First Batch of Theme Nights Highlight Brief Homestand vs. Pirates ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 17, 2017 – The Cardinals return to Busch Stadium for a short three-game homestand versus Central division foe, the Pittsburgh Pirates. The second homestand of the season is highlighted by four theme events including College Night, Scouts [...]
Club to Kick Off Green Week with E-Cycling & General Donations Drive on April 21 ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 17, 2017 – In celebration of the 47th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, the St. Louis Cardinals will host its 8th annual Green Week at Busch Stadium from Tuesday, April 25 through Sunday, April [...]
I’ve done two podcasts this weekend (Meet Me at Musial and Gateway To Baseball Heaven) that totaled close to three hours and it’s still hard to come up with words to describe how the Cardinals are playing right now. Especially if you, like myself, limit yourself only to words that don’t get you an explicit [...]
Friday’s Cardinals game to air on FOX Sports Midwest Plus in St. Louis The Cardinals’ game against the New York Yankees on Friday, April 14, will be televised on FOX Sports Midwest Plus in the St. Louis market and on AT&T U-verse, DirecTV and Dish. This is because of overlap with Game 2 of the [...]
Hall of Famer Receiving Treatment for Multiple Myeloma & Unable to Make April 25th Budweiser Bash Event ST. LOUIS, MO, April 13, 2017 – The St. Louis Cardinals announced that Lou Brock has cancelled his April 25th Budweiser Bash appearance at Busch Stadium as he is currently undergoing treatment for Multiple Myeloma. The Hall of [...]
Baseball, as we’ve noted before, has its stubborn streak, at times determined not to follow the script. So it wasn’t as much of a surprise to see a struggling Cardinal team on a three game losing streak face Max Scherzer, one of baseball’s top pitchers, with a getaway-day-looking lineup and win, just because we’ve gotten [...]
Will the real Carlos Martinez please stand up? Before I get into the post, I realize I may be overreacting a little, but with the Reyes injury and everyone else’s struggles last year, it should be understandable that Carlos, our ace, will be watched closely. Same with pitcher number two. In his last start, Carlos [...]
Eight games is 5% of the season. It’s still not deep enough into the new year to make sweeping generalizations and have enough data to expect them to be true. (That doesn’t stop folks–me included–from making sweeping generalizations, of course.) However, this has been the worst start to a season in some time. Consider: For [...]
Limited Amount of All-Inclusive Tickets on Sale April 13 at 10:00 AM at cardinals.com/pooches ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 11, 2017 – It’s time again for St. Louis canines to “bark” on the Cardinals at Busch Stadium when the Redbirds square off against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday, May 20, as part of the 13th [...]
“We had a bad first week,” Adam Wainwright said after the Cardinals fell to 2-5 in spectacular fashion Monday night. Before that, I broke down three takeaways from said “bad first week” that still hold true. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueqmbu0FtjA&w=560&h=315]
I said at the beginning of the calendar year that I was going to try to be better about writing game recaps instead of series recaps, a habit I fell into last year because I’m old. Unfortunately, I just mentioned this to a young pup of a blogger in Cassie yesterday, so I have to [...]
Limited Number of Signing Tickets on Sale Now at cardinals.com/museum ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 10, 2017 – The Cardinals have announced that former pitcher/outfielder Rick Ankiel will sign copies of his new book,The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life, in the Cardinals Museum from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18. [...]
