Again, it’s hard to know what kind of weight to put on anything this team does, but sweeping a team that currently is in the playoffs makes you sit up and take notice a little bit. It doesn’t mean that all the problems on this Cardinals team are fixed, it doesn’t mean that a big [...]
Star Wars Night, Ozzie Smith Bud Bash & Mizzou Night Highlight Ninth Homestand at Busch ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 24, 2017 – The Cardinals return to Busch Stadium for the first time since the MLB All-Star break. The seven-game homestand begins with a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies (July 24-26) and concludes with four [...]
If you’ve read the blog, listened to the podcasts, or followed my Twitter account, you know that I’m not much about talking myself up. I’m much more comfortable on the self-depreciating humor level, in part because it’s often very true. Folks that have been on this ride for a long time know it’s not often [...]
So, when your team goes into Philadelphia, what you don’t expect is to be playing two extra-inning affairs. The fact that the Cardinals can’t put the Phillies completely away until the very end might counteract the fact that they’ve won two in a row and are now four games under .500 and four games out [...]
Inigo Montoya: Who are you? Man in Black: No one of consequence. Inigo Montoya: I must know. Man in Black: Get used to disappointment. —The Princess Bride It was about this time last year when I created the Cardinals Frustration Level Index. It feels like over last few weeks, the Cardinals have really been riding [...]
Man, good thing Carlos Martinez got his hair cut, huh? OK, no reasonable person actually believes that there was a connection between Martinez’s silver extensions and his rough play as of late. People may joke about it but nobody honestly thinks that is the difference. (Though Martinez may have bought into that a bit, saying [...]
After a weekend where plenty of characters and lots of air time (including some of my own) was used dissecting what the deadline for a contract extension laid down by Yadier Molina meant, yesterday Jon Heyman reported that significant progress had been made toward that extension, giving Cardinal fans hope that perhaps a deal could be [...]
Every fanbase has their underbelly, as it were. Those fans that root for the same team as you do, but do so in crude, entitled, arrogant, jerky fashion. Again, there is that segment in every fanbase, I believe. It’s just that the Cardinals segment tends to draw a bit more attention from the world at [...]
Over 30 Theme Dates Scheduled Including Star Wars Night, Grateful Dead Night & Budweiser Bash Series ST. LOUIS, Mo., January 18, 2017 – Tickets for more than 30 Theme Ticket promotional dates during the 2017 season, including Star Wars Night and St. Louis Blues Night, are on sale now at cardinals.com/theme. “Theme Tickets are a [...]
Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and old lang syne? I don’t have much to say here, but it seemed nice to end the year on a run of five straight days of posting, something that I don’t think this blog has seen since….well, all the [...]
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 [...]
Is anyone really surprised that I went straight to the Star Wars well to try to describe this evening? I didn’t think so. Also, I’m just now realizing Albert Pujols was the Goat in the last regular season game he played in St. Louis. A Wild, Wild, Wild Night Luke’s X-Wing has sunk into the [...]
