Welcome To The Redbird Review The Cardinals have won 16 consecutive games. The Cardinals have won 16 consecutive games. 16 … consecutive … games. Lawdy, I need to head to the fainting couch. Then again, what’s the big deal? After all, the Cardinals won 16 games during...
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...
Welcome to The Redbird Review Hello, and I hope your long weekend has been happy and restful. I’ve been overdosing on college football. This just in: Alabama is great, and by gosh, who could have ever predicted that? I’ve been sipping adult beverages, and...
Welcome to The Redbird Review Excuse me for holding my nose as I look at the state of play in the so-called competition for the No. 2 wild card in the National League. It appears that this fracas will come down to this question: which team will produce the least...
Welcome to The Redbird Review THE OBVIOUS OPENING COMMENT: Pirates 11, Cardinals 7. The most horrendous and humiliating loss of the season for the increasingly kooky Redbirds. When the Pirates are now beating your arse on a regular basis, you can’t be taken seriously....
Let’s talk about the bullpen. And no, this isn’t an overreaction to Thursday night’s raging-fire cataclysm in a savage 11-7 loss at Pittsburgh. Specifically, I want to talk about three guys: Genesis Cabrera, Giovanny Gallegos and Alex Reyes. And if you’ve kept up with...
Welcome to the Redbird Review. The Cardinals are down to 39 games on their schedule, and it’s time to stop fooling around. A wild-card ticket is in reach. Make your move, boys. The front office can’t help you now. The coaches are what they are. Manager Mike Shildt...
Welcome to the Redbird Review The Cardinals did a nice job Thursday night, wiping out a 4-1 deficit to upend the Brewers with a 8-4 consolation victory. The Cards lost the series but avoided a sweep; the Crew could not Swiffer them away. So … hooray for the home...
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals (61-58) have lost the first two games of their series against the Milwaukee Brewers. Sad, but expected. The division rivals shall altercate again on Thursday night, with the Cards trying to dodge a sweep, and perhaps draw a...
