THE REDBIRD REVIEW It could be a festive Tuesday night for the Cardinals in Milwaukee. With a victory over the Brewers the Cards will clinch the NL Central division title. They can spray champagne, and douse each other with Anheuser-Busch products. And if the fellers...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW After the Cardinals took their bats and cracked the ice to break out for a 5-4 win over the Padres on Thursday, the best quote of the day came from manager Oli Marmol. It wasn’t a bunch of palaver about how he never was concerned by the team’s...
“When you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.” – Dr. Seuss You may have heard something about the Cardinals and how their hitters are currently stuck in a massive crater of preposterous futility. Over the past few...
Let’s stop the clock for the two-week warning: the Cardinals have only 14 games left on their regular-season schedule. There’s a lot to sort out during the final two weeks. The Cardinals have more issues than I would have expected for a team that has won 87 games...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW I’ve been spending too much time thinking about the Cardinals recent troubles on offense. Their declining team batting average, their shrinking onbase percentage, their fading slugging power, and their strain to score runs. The downturn isn’t...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals are playing like a group that’s gotten bored by whupping up on bad teams. Perhaps the pursuit of first place in the NL Central was too easy for them. It’s probably a challenge to compete with urgency when there’s no pressure. I mean,...
Perfect. The towering presence on the mound, the monolith behind home plate. Adam Wainwright. Yadier Molina. Two legendary figures in all of their glory, setting a major-league record, entering their names into baseball history. There was so much to absorb, and nearly...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Is it a slump? Yeah, it kind of is. But I’d describe it a different way: the Cardinals are in a rut. It’s nothing extreme or particularly worrisome. Nothing, so far, that has weakened their hold over the Brewers for first place in the NL Central....
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The rival Brewers are in town for a two-game, quick-stop series against the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. Much has changed, including the NL Central standings, since Milwaukee’s last visit to St. Louis. When the teams played a three-game series at...
