Watching the St. Louis Cardinals go from flat line corpses to adrenaline junkies this weekend, I found myself trapped in a Queen song. “Is This The Real Life/Is This Just Fantasy” The phrase begs repeating and quite a bit of investigating due to the way the 2014 team has treated the home crowd. It hasn’t [...]
A few game day thoughts on the Cardinals before the first pitch in 15 minutes. The Cards have been Jekyll and Hyde in August. They have been up and down all season. Good baseball followed by bad baseball. Runs scored followed by a cold streak. They scored more runs(9 in the 8th) in a single [...]
When I think of Yadier Molina‘s importance to the St. Louis Cardinals, I think of one of my legs to the rest of my body. What would I do without one of my legs? Molina isn’t the heart and soul of the team because that position belongs to the logo on the front of the [...]
After the 3-1 loss today, in which Adam Wainwright took the loss and saw his record drop to 15-9 and his ERA rise to…holy smokes..2.59, the ace of the St. Louis Cardinals rotation admitted he is reeling from “a dead arm”. This strikes many starting pitchers in August. They reach 160-180 inning and all those [...]
When did PNC Park seem so scary to play baseball in? The Pirates home park treated the Cards rudely in 2012 and 2013, and while the record is better in 2014, the games aren’t easier to watch. The Cards won a close game Monday night, and fought off the usual urges they come into with [...]
August 24th, 2014. The day the National League Central Division was flipped. A day remembered by many as the day the Milwaukee Brewers fell hard and never got back up. This is the headline St. Louis Cardinals fans want to hear. This is the news they need to hear. They have waited all season for [...]
The United Cardinal Bloggers like to keep things interesting during the season and put together these projects. One month may be a roundtable where questions are presented and others include a set of questions for the writers to answer themselves. It’s a lot of fun and a way to decompress from the drama of a [...]
The Cards walked off Tuesday night for the second night in a row. This meant a lot of things but I will break it down into five separate items. Takeaways that I have this evening. 1. Don’t Forget About John Lackey. If the defense doesn’t miff two plays in the 6th inning, the score isn’t [...]
How do you know when a team gives one away? When you blow a four run lead against a weak opponent. Let’s take a deeper look. The Cards jump out to a 4-0 lead on the talented young pitcher Jesse Hahn of the San Diego Padres. They jumped on Tyson Ross early on Friday and [...]
Good old baseball. It will break you down if you let it and lift you high at any given time. It’s romantic. Passionate. Maddening. Full of despair. Moments like last night’s ninth inning thriller make you both love it and hate it all at the same time. The Cards surged ahead in the bottom half [...]
Another lackluster night in Miami ended in a 3-0 shutout last night folks. The bats went silent. Without a two hit outburst from bench rat Mark Ellis, the line score would have extremely depressing. Kolten Wong singled in the 9th and Jon Jay skipped one off Garrett Jones glove, and that was it. Four hits. [...]
Lance Lynn has always been a good pitcher and capable of racking up wins. He came into the season with 34 wins in three seasons. However, in this age of baseball and advanced sabermetrics, fans want more from a pitcher. They want results and dessert too. They want details. Winning isn’t enough for a starting [...]
