If you’re looking for phony optimism as a source of hope for the 2021 Cardinals, I’m sorry to disappoint you. No can do. Oh, I can point out a few positives. During a 162-game season you can find just about anything on the statistical menu. Good, bad, or somewhere in...
Welcome To The Redbird Review: At the midway point of their 2021 schedule, the Cardinals are short on starting pitching, short on runs scored, short on the number of relievers that can be counted on to protect late-inning leads. The Cards are short on solutions,...
Welcome To The Redbird Review I don’t know how the Cardinals can do this, make up so much ground and do it rather quickly as Milwaukee’s lead continues to grow in the NL Central. We’ll talk about the Brewers and Cubs later in The Review, but...
Welcome To The Redbird Review The Cardinals are on a roll! The Birds are ready to fly! Not really. But the fellers have to start somewhere in their renovation of a problem-plagued season. And if it means stepping on the pitiful Arizona Diamondbacks to lift themselves...
Welcome To The Redbird Review: The 37-41 Cardinals are 14-26 since May 14 and have lost 19 of 26 since May 30. In only 40 calendar days the Redbirds went from having a season-best lead of 3 and ½ games in the NL Central on May 19 to a season-worst deficit of 8.0...
The short attention-span gnats out there want to revise history by insisting that Mike Shildt was never a good manager for the Cardinals. Yup, the geniuses completely choose to ignore the team’s improvement when he took over for Mike Matheny just before the All-Star...
The Pittsburgh Pirates are in town for a long weekend at Busch Stadium, providing competition for the home-team Cardinals. Once upon a time, I would have snarked up. I would have been blatantly disrespectful to the Bucs. I would have declared, “Lawdy, the punching...
Welcome To The Redbird Review Warning: I’m gonna get a little silly today. Let’s go. IT IS A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE: Sigh. I come here to write about your St. Louis Cardinals each weekday, and by now I have to be bumming you out by pointing to all that is...
The Cardinals seem to have a problem with accountability. In recent interviews, most notably with Derrick Goold of the Post-Dispatch, president of baseball operations John Mozeliak expressed support for the coaching staff and repeated something that he has said all...
