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 [...]
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 29, 2020– The St. Louis Cardinals have announced the following ticket refund policy for April and May games at Busch Stadium impacted by the COVID-19 shutdown: SEASON TICKET HOLDERS (Full, Half and 27-Game Plans) Season Ticket Holders will receive an account credit to be used on a future game. If a [...]
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 [...]
5th Annual Drive to be Held Online Starting April 25th in Honor of Longtime Cardinals Beat Writer Joe Strauss ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 24, 2020– For the fifth consecutive year, the St. Louis Cardinals, in conjunction with the St. Louis Baseball Writers and Be The Match, will host the #Join4Joe marrow donor drive starting April 25th, to [...]
While obviously the coronavirus has wrecked havoc on lives, both with illness and death and the loss of employment or financial wherewithal, it’s also done a really big number on the traditions we hold dear. Honestly, one of the reasons we all have trouble knowing what day (month?) it is is because of these markers, [...]
42 might be the answer to life, the universe, and everything, but it’s sure not the answer to our withdrawal from baseball. The drought continues apace. If you’ve listened at all to Gateway to Baseball Heaven or you follow my co-host Tara Wellman on any sort of social media, you know about the conflict between [...]
Much like Ben Brainard keeps adding states to the roundtable, so too does MLB keep adding states to their return plan. Monday, CBS writer R.J. Anderson reported that, along with Arizona and Florida, baseball might be played in Texas as well. There were no details about how it might work, but the teams would use [...]
