We’ve come to the final stop on our look at the postseason teams (unlike Deadspin, we’ve got a reason to not include the Cardinals in this) as we look at the other half of the other NLDS, the New York Mets. The Mets, perhaps more than any other team in the postseason derby, weren’t supposed [...]
We have arrived at the last first day of the playoff series, as the National League kicks off its series this afternoon. While, of course, we’re much more focused on the Cardinals and the Cubs, there are two other teams that are looking for a trip to the NLCS, two teams that would probably love [...]
We finish our tour around the American League with our “friends” across the state. Kansas City shocked the world in 2014, but a deep run this year would be just fulfilling expectations, you’d have to think. It’s a strong team that wound up with the best record in baseball (non-NL Central division) and is an [...]
As we said this morning, we’re spending the day looking at the American League while trying to manage the significant worry that comes with the NLDS matchup. We saw their opponents in the first post, so let’s take a look at the Toronto Blue Jays before their afternoon first pitch. If there has ever been [...]
Now that we’ve gotten past both play-in games, we can focus on the real playoffs. Today’s the American League’s turn in the sun and we’ll look at the three teams that have been resting throughout the day today. We’ll start with the Texas Rangers. Using a late season run that vaulted them ahead of their [...]
It’s really happening. The Cubs are playing in the playoffs. Of course, given the expanded nature of the playoffs, that’s not exactly what it used to be. They aren’t even the National League team with the longest drought left standing, as the Mets last were in the playoffs in 2006 (as we well remember) while [...]
We took a look yesterday at the two AL Wild Card teams, so today we turn our attention to the game that will provide the Cardinals’ next opponent. Most everyone expects that tonight’s matchup between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs will be intense and most Cardinal fans are probably just glad it’s not [...]
As I said this morning, we’re taking the preseason standard feature Playing Pepper and applying it to the 2015 postseason participants. This time around, we’re talking with our good friend James Yasko from Astros County. James and I go back to when Houston was in the NL Central (you know, almost prehistoric times!) and he’s [...]
Surely by now you know of Playing Pepper, that preseason look around the majors where we harass numerous bloggers until they give me answers to various questions so I’ll shut up. Occasionally, I’ve done a postseason version of this and it seemed like a great time to dust that off this year. We’ll start with [...]
We’re just a couple of days from the calendar flipping over. Since the end of the season, I’ve written the Exit Interviews and done the Top Cards on Twitter. While, in all honesty, both are a good bit of work, I’ve not written anything else in part because the motivation has been severely lacking. It’s [...]
Since we last got together in this space, the Cardinals have played five games. They’ve won three, they’ve lost two. What they haven’t done, really? Hit. The Cardinals have a .222/.267/.329 batting line over that span and that includes the 15 single attack (back in my day, that was just called an album but the [...]
It was never supposed to be this way. Sadly, it was probably always going to be this way. After a winter of discontent, the players and owners have until this evening to come together on a deal that will save the entirety of the 2022 season. MLB has said that games cancelled will not be [...]
