THE REDBIRD REVIEW Here are your 2024 Cardinals … Monday night: win 5-3 on a walk-off homer. Tuesday night: doze off in a 14-1 loss. The opportunity to churn needed momentum was created Monday and blown to smithereens on Tuesday. After producing their most delightful...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Let me say in advance that I’m sorry for being overly comprehensive here. But I have too much to say on this Monday. Be my guest to skip over the parts that aren’t interesting to you. There’s plenty here — good, bad,...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Coffee is for closers. That famous line – delivered by actor Alec Baldwin to a bewildered Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross – applies to the Cardinals. Baldwin’s character, trying to motivate an underperforming sales team, spots Lemmon pouring a...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals have problems: injuries, disappointing starting pitching, an offense that isn’t clicking, and a power shortage by Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado, and a team home-run disparity that puts them at a disadvantage. The Cardinals also...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals are off today, and that’s necessary but disappointing, because I like watching this team play baseball. I don’t think I said that last season. Not much, anyway. Watching the 2023 Cardinals was a health problem for me. My blood pressure...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Note from Bernie: this column was written before Thursday’s home-opener between the Cardinals and Marlins. The observations included here are based on the seven-game road trip through Southern California that produced a 3-4 record for the Redbirds....
THE REDBIRD REVIEW After an alarming 48 hours and two losses to the mighty Dodgers to open the season, the Cardinals settled down, pulled their game together, began to establish an identity and won three of their next four games. It was a nice recovery, and the...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Cardinals fans got their first chance to watch Kyle Gibson start a game that counted, and he did an exceptional job of quieting a potent Padres offense that came in averaging 7.5 runs per contest. And Gibson impressed with his professionalism, poise...
With Opening Day just about here, I wanted to get you primed with a roundup of national views on the 2024 Cardinals. Let’s begin with the latest, updated projections for the NL Central based on average wins from game simulations. CLAY DAVENPORT: Cubs 82.2 wins,...
