I had the chance to talk with Davis Ward, most recently of the Peoria Chiefs, and talk about playing minor league baseball. Davis had some really interesting things to say about his stuff, his recovery from Tommy John surgery, and his mindset as he pursues his career. I think it’s a different point of view [...]
The next morning, Shildt comes into the clubhouse to find Bryan Eversgerd working with some other pitchers. SHILDT Where’s Luke? BRYAN EVERSGERD I don’t know. He said something about doing some extra workouts, maybe running a bit through town. SHILDT Well, as long as he’s back by first pitch. He take those new droids with [...]
Author’s note: As you know, two of my great obsessions are Cardinal baseball and Star Wars. I’ve mixed and mashed them a number of times before, but never to this scale. If you’ve watched A New Hope a hundred times and have followed the Cardinals this season, I believe you’ll find this at least somewhat [...]
Every year, the UCB gang gets together to solve all the world’s problems in one fell swoop. …well, sort of. This year, I kicked off the discussion with the only question I could think to ask: What to do with Kolten Wong? If you weren’t part of the debate, here’s what you missed… Hello, all [...]
Monday we looked at what went right for the Cardinals and yesterday we took a look at what went wrong. Today, we’re going to wrap up this little retrospective by looking at a few game that might have made the difference between sitting at home and at least playing a Game 163. It’s fair to [...]
We looked earlier about the things that went right for the Cardinals. If you go by the record, more things went right than wrong. I mean, they won 86 games, stretching their streak of finishing at least 10 games over .500 to nine straight years. So on balance, things went their way more often than not. [...]
We’ve had a few days to come to terms with the fact that October is going to happen without the Cardinals. It’s a strange feeling not looking up broadcast times (and then complaining about them). We’re just not used to looking toward next season quite this early. Before we move on to 2017, though, let’s [...]
My original podcast comes out of its slumber and I get a chance to chat with Heather Simon of Viva El Birdos. So if you have mourned the season enough, give a listen!
There’s been plenty said about how the team missed the playoffs and some vitriol tossed at Mike Matheny and others. Basically what you’d expect when a team comes one game short. I’d rather focus on the positive, though, so here are 3 things from 2016 that made me smile during the season and give me [...]
During the All-Star Break, I set up a little contest to see who would be able to guess the second half of the Cardinals’ season the best. We had 64 folks give it a shot and, now that the season has wrapped up, it’s time to look back and see who gets the bragging rights. [...]
If you had told most Cardinal fans Friday morning that this club, this inconsistent, maddening club, would have swept the Pirates this weekend and finally reached the 10-games-over plateau, I think most would have expect that the Cardinals would have at least been playing on Monday in the tiebreaker game, if not nabbing the second [...]
Last October, I asked for your opinions about who were the best Cardinal Twitter accounts to follow. It was an open-ended question, allowing you to write in any 15-20 accounts and then I compiled them into a series ranking them by the votes that they received. It was a fun and enjoyable project and it [...]
