I’ve already told you that we may have to get creative with some of these posts. Which is fine, because nobody is actually reading this stuff anyway. (Given the lack of baseball, it’s probably not surprising that both blog stats and podcast downloads are in the tank.) Occasionally, I may have to dip into the [...]
It has been 1,114 days since the beginning of the 2017 Major League Baseball season. Alex Reyes has pitched in a MLB game five times in that span. It’s been an extremely rough road for the phenom, who was ranked as the top prospect in baseball on some lists before he got his call up [...]
What are you doing when 7:00 PM Central rolls around? For some folks, I realize that it’s difficult to separate the days from each other, much less the hours. If all you do is stay home, it really doesn’t matter what the clock says. However, for others you may have a fairly regular routine going. [...]
Here we are, finishing up five weeks of true disruption of the national economy. Here, schools closed in mid-March, with Friday the 13th being the last time my kids stepped into their building. While the return date got pushed back a couple of times, eventually last week the order came to keep them closed for [...]
Cardinals fans can relive the team’s 2006 World Series championship next week on FOX Sports Midwest. The TV home of the Cardinals will replay the Cardinals’ four wins vs. the Detroit Tigers – Games 1, 3, 4 and 5 — starting Monday, April 20. FOX Sports Midwest will also air a new one-hour special, Cardinals Top [...]
Yesterday, Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich wrote an article for The Athletic saying that MLB owners may be looking to cut players salaries for the 2020 season. From my reading, it’s not a question of paying players for games that don’t happen–they’ve agreed that’s not going to happen–but more cutting salaries for games that do, [...]
Civic, Sports and Business Sectors Calling on STL to Honor Frontline Heroes St. Louis civic, sports and business leaders have joined to rally the St. Louis community in a region-wide expression of thanks and support for the frontline heroes in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The “Rise Up For Heroes” initiative is asking everyone in the St. Louis community [...]
If you are A) a Star Wars fan or B) been around me for any length of time, you know that, in The Empire Strikes Back, C-3PO tells Han Solo that the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 3,720 to one. Right now, if it’s between getting through an asteroid field or getting [...]
April 15 is a mile marker for baseball and for me. Usually for me, it’s the last day of tax season. There’s a palpable relief when 5:00 rolls around and things get wrapped up. The long hours are past and we can breathe a little more. This year, of course, tax season is going to [...]
Brings Total to $2 Million to Provide Financial Support for Staff Affected by Postponed MLB Games ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 14, 2020– The St. Louis Cardinals have announced an additional $1 million fund to support seasonal and game-day Busch Stadium contract employees impacted by postponed games and events at Busch Stadium. The first fund, which [...]
One of the few silver linings in this whole mess? The regular state roundtables provided by Ben Brainard on Twitter. (Thanks to my good friend Tara Wellman for pointing this out.) I continue to watch them over and over, because they stay funny even on repeated viewings. Here’s yesterday’s, but I suggest you go find [...]
One day closer to baseball! The problem is, that rings a bit hollow when we don’t know when that baseball will be. With some of the projections this weekend indicating a second wave might come if the current guidelines are relaxed after April 30, there seems to be a long time still before we hear [...]
