BERNIE BITS Welcome to my place. I call it “The Lair.” Birthplace of The Bits. Quite historical. 1) Blues Lose To Nashville in OT, 4-3: Sorry, but you can’t take a 2-0 lead at home and fail to win the game. At least the Blues collected a point, but this...
The Cardinals already are having a good offseason. Why? Because the NL Central is weakening. — The Cincinnati Reds are in another salary-dump mode. They’ve traded veteran catcher Tucker Barnhart, a two-time Gold Glove winner, to the Tigers. They declined to...
Unless the Cardinals can have a set lineup with no glaring weaknesses in 2022, they’ll have to resolve a problematic issue that’s put them at a disadvantage offensively. I’ve discussed the need for more balance in the composition of the lineup and bench. To...
The Cardinals came into Cincinnati at a good time, with their pitchers having a chance to tranquilize a listless Reds offense. But would this be easy? Probably not. After a lackadaisical 2-4 road trip to Milwaukee and Miami, the Reds were returning to the Great...
Welcome to the Redbird Review The Cardinals moved on from a disappointing weekend in Cincinnati, relocated to Cleveland for two games, and got back on track with a 4-2 victory over the Indians in Tuesday’s series opener. It was a nice win, all the way around....
For the last three-plus years, the Cardinals have invested vast amounts of patience, hope, and confidence in Tyler O’Neill. Along the way chairman Bill DeWitt Jr., president of baseball operations John Mozeliak, GM Michael Girsch and the organization’s analytics...
Greetings. I usually have no problem coming up with a plethora of words, but the Cardinals are slowing me down. I just don’t know what to say at this point. The only word I can think of is walk. I could type out the word 240 times to match the MLB-worst 240 walks...
On the long road to 162 games, the Cardinals’ front office faces an intriguing mission: How will the organization’s baseball leaders improve the pitching staff by the July 30 MLB non-waiver trade deadline? This time around there must be more urgency and a...
WELCOME TO THE REDBIRD REVIEW Good afternoon, friends. The Cardinals were off Monday, which gave the fellers a little time to recover from the dizziness of losing three in a row at San Diego over the weekend. But even after stalling out the Cards lead the NL Central...
