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Bernie On The Cards: Give Mike Shildt Massive Credit For His Team’s Defense And Baserunning.
During their three-game sweep of the Mets at Citi Field, the Cardinals fully demonstrated their strengths in playing defense and running the bases. They had a clear edge over the Mets in...
Bernie On The Cards: Give Mike Shildt Massive Credit For His Team’s Defense And Baserunning.
During their three-game sweep of the Mets at Citi Field, the Cardinals fully demonstrated their strengths in playing defense and running the bases. They had a clear edge over the Mets in both areas, and the advantages were a factor in the three victories. This, of...
Bernie: Cardinals vs. Padres. A Showdown At Busch Stadium. Let The Good Times Roll.
The Padres are an example of how quickly things can turn for a team during the footslog of a 162-game season. You can get plenty of rest and eat healthy and take your vitamins, but the danger is constant. Arms will tire. The bat speed will go slow. Bodies will ache....
Bernie’s Redbird Review: The Cardinals Are Playing And Competing Like A Really Good Baseball Team. Finally.
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals had a wonderful and exciting adventure at Citi Field in New York. It was three days of frollicking in the grass, toying and tormenting the Mets, running around the bases with considerable zeal, covering themselves with dirt...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: Cardinals Ride The Rollercoaster To The Top Of the No. 2 Wild Card Standings
Welcome to The Redbird Review Cardinals 7, Mets 6. Whew. Eleven innings, a few coronary episodes, some Shea Stadium flashbacks, ensuing night sweats. Just your ordinary regular-season ballgame. No biggie. And after the Cardinals handled that live grenade of a game to...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: Are The Cardinals Making Their Move To Swoop In For The Wild Card?
Welcome to The Redbird Review For many weeks now, interested if confused observers have tried to make sense of the straggly, goofy wrangle for the NL’s No. 2 wild card. This bewilderment often leads to a familiar question. My baseball-writing friend Bob Nightengale of...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: Breaking Down The No. 2 NL Wild Card Race, Team By Team.
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals had a swell weekend, taking two of three from the Reds to narrow the gap in the race for the NL’s No. 2 wild card. It was a special weekend for Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado. Saturday night, he blasted the...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: After Salvaging A Series Split With The Dodgers, The Cardinals Must Jump On The Reds.
Welcome to The Redbird Review Attention, Cardinals. This is important. You’re not going to fool around again, right? The Cincinnati Reds are in town for three games. They come into Busch Stadium with the drag of losing five consecutive series. They went 5-10 against...
Bernie: The Cardinals’ Investment In Tyler O’Neill Is Paying Off. And He’s Better Than You Think.
The Cardinals have invested years of time and patience in outfielder Tyler O’Neill after acquiring him from Seattle in July of 2017 for the young lefthanded starting pitcher Marco Gonzales. O’Neill’s search for consistency has been disrupted by mighty winds generated...
Bernie: Ted Simmons Took The Long And Winding Road To Cooperstown. He Arrived. He Belongs.
Ted Simmons delivered one of the best Hall of Fame speeches I’ve seen during many years of watching the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. It was moving, and an invigorating departure from the standard speech on the Cooperstown platform. One of the all-time great...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: With The Cardinals In Trouble, Adam Wainwright Rides To The Rescue. Again.
Welcome to The Redbird Review It’s become a familiar question: Where would the 2021 Cardinals be without Adam Wainwright? We have the answer. And we can provide it without relying on fancy-pants numbers. Without Waino, the Cardinals would be the Colorado Rockies, or...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: The Pujols Homer Was A Reminder Of A Special Time, When The Cardinals Were Great.
Welcome to The Redbird Review First things first. The Albert Pujols home run was FUN. It stirred a familiar passion, warm feelings, and an appreciation of his leading-man role in the revival of St. Louis baseball for a dominant run. The franchise is trying to get...
Bernie On The Cardinals: It’s September, Mike Shildt. Please Show Some Urgency.
Manager Mike Shildt has bristled at “urgency” related questions this season. He seems offended by suggestions that the Cardinals are lacking in urgency -- because in Shildt’s opinion his team plays with the necessary urgency in every game. That’s ridiculous, of...