THE REDBIRD REVIEW Only 66 games to go for the Cardinals. They went into the All-Star break with a 50-46 record and had their hands on the No. 2 wild-card ticket in the National League. In the wild-card pacing, the Cardinals are perched between the No. 1 Braves and...
WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S The Cardinals played some baseball in the spirit of a Sly and the Family Stone song on Saturday, having some hot fun in the summertime by sweeping the Cubs in a day-night doubleheader. Them summer days. Those summer days. (And yeah, that’s a...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW I have a jumble of feelings about the Cardinals going 3-4 on the road trip to Milwaukee and Anaheim. – It began poorly, with three straight losses to the Brewers. But yeah, it could have been worse. The Cardinals did something positive by winning...
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 .430 winning percentage...
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...
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...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals took it on the noggin from the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday night. The final score was 7-1. The verdict: the Cardinals stink, and the court adamantly rejects any appeal of our ruling. Offensively the Cardinals are Bob Uecker, a .200...
Late in the evening of April 16, the visiting Cardinals defeated Oakland to win the first two games of the series. This was no time to rejoice, but the Redbirds were looking pretty solid. They had a 9-9 record and were two games out of first place in the NL Central....
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Broken arm. Broken season. Not him. Please. Not Willson Contreras. The Cardinals can’t lose him. The fans can’t lose him. He’s the team’s best player. He’s the one guy the team and the public can count on to post up in every game that he plays with...
