Sometimes you’ll hear sculptors talk about looking at a block of wood or marble or clay and try to “free the sculpture within.” They insist it’s not what they want, necessarily, but what is inside the material. Which, personally, sounds like a lot of artsy mumbo-jumbo to me, but whatever. It seems now that the [...]
While it finally became officially spring yesterday, in the baseball world spring is just about over. This weekend, we’ll see official games between Arizona and Los Angeles (played in Australia, but they still count) and one week from today will be the last game in Jupiter. Things are starting to come to a head. Which [...]
The curtain has come down on yesterday’s matchups, but we are well underway today with the second round. Now we’ll take a look at the Champions Region. 1) Lou Brock vs. 8) Steve Kline How they got here: Brock ran away from Dal Maxvill 28-1, Kline had the closest decision of the day when he [...]
We’ll have to see how the big red 70 looks in the land of the blues. Yesterday, Patron Pitcher of the Blog Tyler Lyons was sent to minor league camp with the idea of stretching out and being ready in case a starter is needed. This, of course, really isn’t a surprise. Lyons came into [...]
If, when the spring started, you were doing a modified version of Derrick Goold’s Survivor: Jupiter, in which instead of picking the last player to miss a spring game, you were picking the order in which people were sent to the minor league camp, I’m fairly sure there wouldn’t have been many that said Stephen [...]
A rainy one down in Florida yesterday as the Cardinals and Twins, along with a number of other games around the state, were washed away by a spring storm. That doesn’t mean, of course, that we were completely devoid of news. There seems to be always something! The biggest “something” would be that the Cardinals [...]
Yesterday afternoon, as the rain that turned to sleet came pouring down outside my home, I laid on the couch in front of my television watching a scene that might as well have been on another planet. Warm sunshine, fans tanning in the bleachers or on the grass, and glorious Cardinal baseball. It seemed so [...]
Usually, when a player goes to see Dr. James Andrews, positive news does not issue forth. Nothing against the good doctor, of course, but when a player from your team makes an appointment, you start figuring out where to send the flowers. Most of the time, he’s getting out his knives. So it would be [...]
We are just days away from actual Cardinal baseball on our TVs and radios, folks. If you have MLB.tv, you’ll see professional teams facing off as early as tomorrow. (And the MLB At Bat app for 2014 is available today! Yippie!) So our limited news for today is going to be more rare going forward, [...]
Saturday morning, I was watching my daughter cheer at her last Upward Basketball game when I saw a number of people had retweeted a Tweet from Jenifer Langosch. Jaime Garcia is dealing with shoulder discomfort again; #STLCards sending him back to St. Louis to be examined. — Jenifer Langosch (@LangoschMLB) February 22, 2014 To say [...]
I think all of us at one time or another (and, likely, more than just once) have daydreamed about winning the lottery. For me, after the prosaic parts of paying off all debts and donating to my church, it turns into building a nice two-story house with a finished basement/man cave, a second-story library with [...]
Between the end of one season and the beginning of another, there are different markers along the way that let you know you are closing in on your destination. There’s free agency, the Hall of Fame voting, etc. When you get to this part of the year, those markers start clicking by fairly rapidly. Winter [...]
