Bernie On The Cardinals: “Accountability” Doesn’t Just Apply To The Manager. Oli Marmol Didn’t Hire Himself.

Fans are demanding the firing of Oli Marmol. He’s an easy scapegoat, but to an enraged fan base Marmol’s managerial skills or perceived flaws are largely irrelevant to the much larger picture. The public just wants someone to pay for the team’s .431 winning percentage...
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Bernie’s Redbird Review: The Best and Worst Of The 2024 Cardinals Through The Season’s 1st Quarter.

THE REDBIRD REVIEW Greetings. The Cardinals have reached 40-game mark, which puts them about 25 percent into their full-season schedule. How are they doing? You don’t need me to tell you, that’s for sure. We’ve all been watching the same games. And fans are not happy....
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Weekend At Bernie’s: The Cardinals Offense Continues to Choke This Team, Leaving Little Space To Breathe.

WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S  The Cardinals are discovering different ways to lose games. Usually the problem is the offense, and that was a factor in Saturday’s 5-3 defeat at Milwaukee. This time the bullpen deserved criticism because Andrew Kittredge was birched for a...
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Weekend At Bernie’s: The Goldschmidt-Arenado ‘Era’ Isn’t Working Out As Planned Or Expected.

WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S After getting a two-game break from his severe slump and troubling season, Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt returned to the lineup Friday and went 0 for 4 in the team’s depressing 11-2 loss at Milwaukee. The box-score blank left Goldy...
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