The day was September 27, 1959, and the St. Louis Cardinals finished their season with a doubleheader sweep of the San Francisco Giants. By this point, neither the Giants nor Cardinals, though armed with baseball legends like Willie Mays and Stan Musial, were contending for the National League pennant, but 19,477 fans flocked to what…
Every year, I come up with a new construct for how to preview baseball at large, and this is my one for this year. The thing in the subject. Simple enough, I think. Note: For the purposes of this exercise, I'm determining how a team is rated by their current odds to win the division--I'm…
I can't say that I expected, three days away from the first game of the season for the St. Louis Cardinals, that I would be writing about something that has nothing, at least in terms of its literal nuts and bolts that have been reported so far, to do with the St. Louis Cardinals. But…
The great thing about writing about the St. Louis Cardinals in the internet age is that any information I could reasonably need is at my fingertips. Writers may bemoan that they do not have access to all of MLB's proprietary statistical data, but one can simply sidestep that conversation. There is information which is fundamental…
There is a relatively early episode of Family Guy (based on the fact that I have seen and remember it) where the Griffin family is offered one of two gifts (I think for sitting through a timeshare presentation? I promise I'm not trying to seem too cool for Family Guy, a show that had plenty…
The acquisition of Brandon Crawford by the St. Louis Cardinals is simultaneously the funniest possible transaction and a completely defensible one. Acquiring a thirty-seven year-old, a fifth acquisition this off-season of a player who was born in the 1980s, is a deeply funny way of leaning into their own bit, and bringing in a guy…
Not too long into the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals season, I suggested that the St. Louis Cardinals should extend Jordan Walker. They didn't, which on one hand means that the Cardinals have not secured the services of the most exciting young player that the franchise has to offer, but it also means I have the…
On Sunday night, a team that does not play in St. Louis defeated another team that does not play in St. Louis in the championship game of a sport that is not baseball. But I promise we're going to get there. In an objectively thrilling, tightly-contested game, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco…
Huh.
On Wednesday afternoon, news broke that the greatest coach in the history of college football was retiring. On Thursday morning, news broke that the greatest coach in the history of professional football was retiring (or possibly being retired, but he will no longer be coaching regardless). These are not stories related to the St. Louis…
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