Two weeks ago, after the Sinclair Broadcast Group opted to stop payment to the San Diego Padres for their right to televise games, Major League Baseball took back broadcasting rights for the team, one which is among the most exciting in the sport and which holds the highest payroll in baseball outside of the city…
Sports gambling in Missouri should be a legitimate question with legitimate concerns
Last week, the Missouri legislature rejected measures to legalize sports gambling in the state. Entering 2023, sports gambling was legal in 36 states plus Washington D.C., and there is a spot, the East St. Louis, IL venue now known as DraftKings at Casino Queen, which is a seven minute drive, thirteen minute MetroLink ride, or…
10 things to do in the St. Louis area this summer other than watching this stupid baseball team
Yesterday, the St. Louis Cardinals won their first baseball game in their last nine. This is a thing that, no matter how bad you think the Cardinals are going to get, is going to happen from time to time. I am asking, not out of a sense of negativity but out of a sense of…
Quiet desperation is the Cardinals way
As a general rule of thumb, I would consider it a bad sign if I am referencing the following tweet in regards to the way that you are approaching something. https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/737030860260663297 Mike Matheny, of course, is no longer the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, but the spirit of five hundred spiders in a kindergarten…
When is the time to sell?
For the first time in my time as a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, I am writing this sentence: the St. Louis Cardinals, over a month into the season, have the worst record in the National League. The Cardinals currently sit eleven games under .500, playing the season at a crisp 52 win pace.…
Mike Shannon was the perfect icon of St. Louis baseball
Between his 882 Major League Baseball games played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the many thousands of games he broadcast as the team's radio announcer, there are generations of St. Louisans who have spent as much time with Mike Shannon as they have spent with all but a handful of people in their lives.…
What happened in Oakland can happen anywhere
In 1989, Oakland Athletics home games were attended by 2,667,225 people--in the American League, only the Toronto Blue Jays, who were opening up their brand new stadium then known as SkyDome, turned more fans through the turnstiles. Entering the 1990s, Oakland was not only packing fans into their stadium, but they were loading up with…
Did Nolan Arenado lock up his Hall of Fame induction last weekend?
On Saturday, Nolan Arenado went 0-for-5 with four strikeouts. He did make a pretty nifty defensive play, but it would be safe to say that this was not going to be the game his supporters note when crafting his case for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame five years after his retirement. But…
The time is now for the Cardinals to extend Jordan Walker
If the Cardinals believe in Jordan Walker, now is the time to secure his services for the long term
The five most pleasantly surprising St. Louis Cardinals of 2023 (so far)
It's rather difficult to analyze the first six games of the St. Louis Cardinals season. Entering the season, I thought the first week was going to be tricky--three games each against the Toronto Blue Jays and the Atlanta Braves, two of the arguably five or so best teams in baseball, is not an easy task.…
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