Cardinals Struggling In LA
You know, when the offense is clicking, you think things are just going to roll on forever. Â However, even with an offense like the Cardinals’, when you take out a couple of pieces, the Jenga tower...
View ArticleSweep Incomplete
Busy couple of nights at the ballpark, with most of the focus on the bump in the middle. First off, the Jeff Suppan return tour kicked off in a manner that didn’t shock me too much, though I will admit...
View ArticleCards Soar In Foreign Land
You know, when the discussion of launching pad stadiums comes up, I never think of Toronto’s Rogers Center. Â Wrigley, Coors, even the old Atlanta stadium that started the nickname. Â However, if last...
View ArticleCardinals Continue To Roll
What’s been the most encouraging thing during this current Cardinal winning streak is that they keep winning in different ways. Â The first couple of games, they slugged. Â They’ve had good pitching...
View ArticleGaining On The Off Day
The Cardinals hit the Big Apple yesterday.  They saw the sites (Ryan Franklin went to the Statue of Liberty with his family, according to the official Cardinal Twitter feed), made some appearances...
View ArticleFrustration Revisited
I thought this was behind us. Whatever corner the Cardinals turned after the All-Star break, they’ve turned another one or two and seem to be back where they started from–a frustrating team that can’t...
View ArticleSweeping Our Cares Away
Earlier this year, the Cardinals took the first two games from the Toronto Blue Jays on the road and sent out Adam Wainwright to complete the sweep. Â Wainwright, though, had one of his rare off games...
View ArticleA Cautionary Note
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a bit, but before I could write about it Brian Burwell, for once, beat me to it.  There’s been a lot of optimism out of the sweep of Cincinnati, as well there...
View ArticleSigh-Inducing
Just when you start to believe in this team, to think that they’ve finally found that gas pedal on the team car, they stomp on the brakes. Â A four game winning streak to get into first place? Â Let’s...
View ArticleAnother Lost Cardinal Weekend
What is left to say about this team? Â We are using up all the possible words to describe what we are seeing out of this team that, on paper, is one of the most talented ever to play in St. Louis but,...
View Article“It Didn’t Look Like They Wanted To Come Out And Beat Us”
I think the title of this post says it all.  When a player on the opposing team questions the desire, there’s little else to say about the 2010 Cardinals. That was Geoff Blum’s quote to MLB.com after...
View ArticleCardinals Get Off Script
We’ve seen it before. Â Way too many times, in fact. Â A miscue, a bad pitch, and suddenly the Cardinals are in a 3-0 hole early in the game, a hole that they don’t climb out of as they slog to another...
View ArticleMore Of The Same
It’s a little checklist that Cardinal fans go through before games, to prepare themselves for what is to come: Is the opposing pitcher someone the Cardinals haven’t seen much of? Check. Does the...
View ArticleBroken Promises
“I won’t lose again.” Adam Wainwright said those words two starts ago, upset with how he had been performing and looking at a four-game losing streak. Â He was able to win last time out, continuing the...
View ArticleThe Berkman Actuality
Regular reader(s) will remember that, last week, I wrote about the possibility that Lance Berkman would become a Cardinal.  My conclusion was that it wouldn’t happen and it didn’t work for the...
View ArticleThe All-Time St. Louis Cardinals (a draft book chapter)
Who would be selected for a mythical All-Time Cardinals dream team roster? And how have others answered this fun question throughout the years?
View ArticleLove Is In The Air
Today is a day of love. Â That love that keeps you going, that warms you through the winter and sustains you in the summer. Â The love that is always there, continuing to grow and evolve. Â You have to...
View ArticleThe Calm After The Storm
Yesterday’s deadline came and went.  Albertageddon peaked yesterday morning, but by the end of the day had calmed back down.  Life goes on. The man himself showed up today at camp.  He spent a good...
View Article10 Reasons You Should Already Be Especially Psyched for Opening Day
The smell of freshly laid sod, ballpark hot dogs and seven-dollar beer is in the air (or on the ground). Baseball season is quickly approaching, and fans everywhere — well, perhaps except for...
View ArticleTrying to Focus on the Positives
At his best Nyjer Morgan is a scrappy, prototypical lead off guy. Â Diminutive in size, he plays with grit and determination. He hurt himself sliding head-first into second base one too many times a...
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