Hey, how about some Happy Talk? As the Cardinals open a six-game homestand on Tuesday night, they’re 10-19 and have played dreadful, across-the-board baseball. They’re dwelling in last place in the NL Central, 10 games behind the first-place Pirates. This division has...
“April is the cruelest month.” — T. S. Eliot The Cardinals spent the month of April in a free fall, unable to defeat gravity or most of the teams on their schedule. They reinvented the so-called “Cardinal Way” and reversed it by losing games in every...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals move into Dodger Stadium for a weekend of baseball. They undoubtedly entered Chavez Ravine in a better mood, having escaped San Francisco on Thursday with a dandy 6-0 Thursday win that blocked the Giants from completing a four-game...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Bad starting pitching, bad defense, bad bullpen, bad offense, bad baserunning, an overwhelmed manager and an underwhelming front office. They don’t get out to many leads, but they do let many leads slip away. And during Wednesday’s postgame show on...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW THE LEDE: The Cardinals are having a miserable time of it in San Francisco. They were shutout in the first game, 4-0. On Tuesday, they charged back to take a 4-2 lead with three runs in the eighth, only to get boomed to smithereens on a three-homer...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW I don’t care that it’s early. March-April games count just as much as August and September games. The Cardinals have stumbled into trouble And the harder they fall, the harder it is for them to make up ground in the playoff chase. After a dull,...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW THE LEDE: Manager Oli Marmol and his players have stressed the need to do “the little things” to win more games. And that isn’t wrong. The Cardinals used aggressive but intelligent baserunning and a highly-rated defense to average 91.5 wins over the...
WELCOME TO THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals easily could have been swept in their three-game series at Colorado but persevered through the threat of failure to win the last two games. It was a burning point that could become a turning point. The Cardinals were fed up...
WELCOME TO THE REDBIRD REVIEW That was a helluva 9-6 win by the Cardinals on Tuesday night at Coors Field. Sure, the starting pitching was horrendous (again), but this time the St. Louis hitters rebounded from a 6-2 deficit to power the Cardinals to their second...
