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Homestand Highlights September 8-14, 2017
The calendar has turned and the Cards are now in the stretch run. The Cards have won all but 2 games (not including tonight’s game, since it just started) of the West Coast road trip. The young guys...
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The last game of the preseason is tonight. The reason I called it a preseason game is because last night’s and tonight’s game are not in Florida, so they can’t be spring training games. You can watch...
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Homestand Highlights for May 17-May 23, 2018
The Cards are limping back into town with Adam Wainwright, Luke Gregerson, Carlos Martinez and Tyler Lyons joining Yadier Molina on the disabled list. The Memphis Express has been busy with John...
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Homestand Highlights for May 31, 2018 – June 7, 2018
The Cardinals come back to town tomorrow night for a week long homestand. Alex Reyes pitched his first game at the major league level since September 2016 today. Sadly, the Cards’ bats let him down....
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Road trip report and Homestand Highlights for August 28-September 2, 2018
The Cardinals have been on fire on this last road trip. They only lost one game, which was Saturday’s game in Colorado. Matt Carpenter’s bat has been as hot as his salsa – he hit 4 doubles in...
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Has the magic vanished? and Homestand Highlights for September 10-16, 2018
In my last blog post, I mentioned that the Cardinals should take the interim tag off of Mike Shildt. I didn’t think they would do it the very next day! LOL! I should probably buy some Powerball...
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It’s the last homestand of the 2018 season!
Since my last post, the Cardinals compiled a 6-5 record, including losing 3 out of 4 to the Dodgers. A vintage start by Adam Wainwright kept the Dodgers from sweeping the Cards. The Cards won both...
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2019 Winter Warm-Up report
This past weekend, my son and I attended the 2018 Winter Warm-Up. Mother Nature brought the winter part – snow was predicted for Saturday, but it was just cold and windy instead. Mother Nature...
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In and out of the deep freeze
Coming into this series with the Rockies, the Cardinals’ bats were on fire. They scored 16 runs in the Pittsburgh series. During the current series with the Rockies, however, their bats were as cold...
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Cardinals are (will be) doing it for themselves
(Sorry, Annie Lennox, for appropriating your song title.) Unfortunately, the last couple of days, the Cards haven’t been doing it for themselves. They lost a 19 inning marathon on Tuesday and a B team...
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Onward and forward to the NLCS!
Since it took 162 games for the Cardinals to win the National League Central (with some help from the Colorado Rockies – thanks, guys!), I shouldn’t have been surprised that it took all 5 games for the...
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Remember the 1980s Cardinals? Or want to learn more about the running Redbirds?
The calendar has turned to another year and the Cardinals have been busy. In December, the Cardinals signed free agent LHP Kwang-Hyun Kim. Adolis Garcia was designated for assignment, but then he was...
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2020 Winter Warm-Up Report Day 3
As Geoffrey Chaucer once wrote, “All good things must come to an end,” and so must Winter Warm-Up. My son and I got to Winter Warm-Up on day 3 around 9:00 AM. We stopped by Starbucks again for hot...
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Hope, postponed
Today was supposed to be Opening Day for Major League Baseball, New Year’s (or New Season’s) Day for baseball fans, with all its pomp and circumstance. The Cardinals were to start the season on the...
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Home Opening Day would have been tomorrow :(
If you have a Cardinals wall calendar or a foldable Cardinals schedule or have the schedule downloaded on your phone, you know what tomorrow is, and you are probably sad like I am. For tomorrow would...
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Opening Day is tomorrow – but it will look a lot different
Tomorrow is Opening Day (finally!) for the Cardinals. But Opening Day will look a lot different than it’s looked in a long time. The Opening Day game will actually be at night, which is the first...
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COVID throws the Cardinals a curveball
You may recall in my July 27, 2020 blog post I addressed what MLB needed to do to stop the spread of COVID-19 and keep players and staff safe. Unfortunately, the Cardinals were the next team with mass...
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Welcome back, Waino! And hello, Arenado!
Cardinals fans and bloggers have been complaining all winter that the front office wasn’t doing anything to improve the team. The last couple of days, however, have really been exciting for Cardinals...
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Future’s so bright, gotta wear shades
Most of the United States suffered through a deep freeze with snow and very cold temperatures these last two weeks and the only thing keeping me warm was thinking about spring training – that, and a...
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Happy Opening Day Eve!
If your family celebrates Christmas, I’m sure you remember the anticipation and excitement you felt on Christmas Eve knowing that Santa Claus would come that night and leave presents for you under the...
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