With the Winter Meetings well underway, all indications are that the Cardinals’ pursuit of Dexter Fowler—the best outfielder on the free-agent market and a solid, straightforward answer to some of the club’s biggest needs—is a real thing. Ken Rosenthal reported late Monday night that the Cardinals had met with Fowler’s representatives and “made him an […]
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Shortly after the seventh episode of Ken Burns’ Baseball introduces the legendary Willie Mays, the author George Will—who, in case you don’t know him from his day job, is a far cry from a bleeding-heart left-winger—says this: You remember when he came up, people would say: what an instinctive player he is, what a natural […]
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Want to know a secret? I don’t actually hate the Cubs. Sure, I hate “the Cubs” in the abstract. Sure, the Cardinals’ bouts with their longtime rivals mean more to me than the average game. Sure, their fanbase, like every other large group of people in the world, has its obnoxious (and worse) elements. But […]
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“Bad St. Louis Cardinals Fans Assail Rent-A-Player For Leaving For Real City.” “Bad Cardinals Fans Boo Jason Heyward on His Return to St. Louis.” “Smug Cardinals Fans Cheer Jason Heyward on His Return to St. Louis.” “Bad, Smug Cardinals Fans Greet Jason Heyward With a Uniquely Obnoxious Combination of Booing and Cheering on His Return […]
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Originally published on Medium. Back in June, when news of the Cardinals hacking scandal broke, Grantland’s Michael Baumann wrote a perfectly fine piece about it that included the following three sentences: … Second, people are going to start to impute some sort of moral meaning, good or bad, into that track record. The Cardinals have […]
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I agree with this Greg Couch piece that ran last week at Vice insofar as I think baseball could do with less stodgy, hidebound asceticism and more Yasiel Puigs, more bat flips, more tolerance for nontraditional styles and attitudes — in short, more fun. But I’m not really sold on the idea, put forth by […]
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