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 There isn’t much to say about Wednesday’s carnage at the ballpark located atop the hill in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Dodgers went wilding and humiliated the Cardinals 14-3. There isn’t much to say, but I’ll try. ...
WELCOME TO THE REDBIRD REVIEW… How are ya? THE OVERVIEW: Remember the good times? Just kidding. But the Cardinals’ momentum of a 15-5 stretch ended with three straight losses during a hideous weekend of baseball at Petco Park in San Diego. After winning two of three...
THE BERNIE BITS The Blues are full of surprises this season, often to their own detriment. But this was not the case on Saturday at Enterprise Center, when the home team recovered for a 5-3 win over Colorado after getting zapped for two goals in the game’s first...
BERNIE BITS I hope you had an enjoyable and safe weekend. We have another busy week ahead, so let’s get going! The 5 Best Things that happened over the weekend in STL-related sports. 1–The Blues won at San Jose, 7-6, in a crazy game that evidently drove the...
Our friend Derrick Goold got at least some of The Best Fans In Baseball reaching for inhalers with this teaser in Thursday’s Post-Dispatch and STLtoday: “Adam Wainwright has received several competitive offers, and one of the current offers is from the San Diego...
BERNIE BITS: It’s time to check in and update the NL Central as the member teams desperately spend money and make trades and disregard all discipline in the ravenous attempt to win it all… No, wait, that would be the NL East. Or just the rambunctious San Diego...
Does anybody want to win the NL Central? The Cardinals, Cubs, Brewers, Reds and Pirates aren’t exactly buzzing ambition. If anything this is the buzzkill division. Teams aren’t busy loading up on talent; they’re frantically offloading salaries. In baseball’s quiet...
BERNIE BITS I hope you are staying safe and enjoying this holiday season, even if it’s tough for so many people right now. OK, let’s start with this: a Christmas present that hasn’t arrived … if it will ever arrive, which certainly is in...
