The St. Louis Cardinals lost in ugly fashion Thursday night, blowing a one-run lead in the ninth inning to fall behind the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0 in the best-of-5 NLDS.
Among the Cardinals Twitterati, many electrons were spilled trying to cast blame for the meltdown. The conventional wisdom is that Matt Holliday has to take the [...]
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Defense takes a Holliday, but hey, it’s Franklin
John Smoltz joins the Cardinals
Much to the chagrin of some people, one-third of the Atlanta Braves’ formerly Holy Trinity will join the St. Louis Cardinals to bolster the Redbirds in their playoff chase.
In a long-rumored move, the Cardinals have signed John Smoltz after he was released by the Boston Red Sox. It’s an interesting move, to be sure, as [...]
Photo gallery: Cardinals vs. Reds 8.12.09
Back in January during the Cardinals Caravan stop at SHG, The Girl won one of the door prizes: a Lou Brock bobblehead and a voucher for two tickets to a 2009 game.
Some restrictions applied: no weekend games, no games against the Cubs, etc. But we certainly weren’t going to sneeze at two free ducats. We [...]
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Watch out, Lou Brock
In my family, baseball is a way of life. You played growing up — both organized ball and unorganized with the other kids in the neighborhood — and you followed Major League Baseball religiously. Period. While my time with the former ended relatively early, the latter is still very much a part of my life [...]
100 years and counting
The century of suckitude continues…
Not another baseball post
A couple of years ago, the Benevolent and Righteous St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series after a agonizing 24-year wait. The 2006 playoffs were wonderful and highly stressful all at once, which is why it’s sometimes nice to be able to enjoy the playoffs as a detached observer with no rooting interest, something Cubs [...]
Jimmy Baseball joins the Douche Crew
I suppose I should be happy that a beloved former Cardinal found work again, but in that uniform? Why don’t you run over my dog in your Ferrari while you’re at it, Jim?
And what are Cubs fans to do now that the man they loved to hate is on their team? Will they now cheer [...]
No finer song has ever been written
At long last, baseball season is here again. Opening Day ought to be a national holiday. No work, no school… just baseball all day and all night long (all night). A day on which fans of differing stripes can put their differences aside and exult side by side in the glory of the Church of [...]
Will the Hall make a Goose call?
The 2008 inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame will be announced Tuesday. Baseball fans like to pass the cold, dark days of winter arguing various players’ Hall worthiness, and I’m no different.
There is nobody in the crop of first-time eligibles worth enshrining (with the possible exception of Tim Raines), so lets take a look [...]