Welcome to The Redbird Review For many weeks now, interested if confused observers have tried to make sense of the straggly, goofy wrangle for the NL’s No. 2 wild card. This bewilderment often leads to a familiar question. My baseball-writing friend Bob Nightengale of...
Welcome to The Redbird Review Attention, Cardinals. This is important. You’re not going to fool around again, right? The Cincinnati Reds are in town for three games. They come into Busch Stadium with the drag of losing five consecutive series. They went 5-10 against...
Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. It’s all-day baseball on this Wednesday, with the Cardinals and Reds having back-to-back bouts in a doubleheader at Great American Ball Park. The NL’s No. 2 wild-card spot is up for grabs, and the race tightened again...
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals powered up on the road, making stops in Pittsburgh and Kansas City and winning all six games.  The baseball was mostly one-sided, with the Cardinals outscoring the Pirates and Royals 37-13. The Cards had 17 more extra-base...
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...
