Here’s a needlessly elaborate version of a hypothetical first proposed to me by sometimes Double Birds contributor Adam Felder: On Sunday evening, just before the Cardinals open the regular season against the Cubs at Busch Stadium, an Omnipotent Time-Traveling Baseball Genie appears before you in a blinding seraphic vision. He offers you a deal: he […]
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The Cardinals are probably not going to make the postseason every year in perpetuity. Compared to the past 20 seasons of Cardinals baseball, one can see how coming to terms with that reality is disheartening. But through the prism of every other baseball team in the world, the Cardinals are in solid shape. St. Louis […]
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There are a number of reactions you could have to yesterday’s rollout of the Sporting News’ Cardinal-less list of the 50 best players in baseball. You could make a convincing case that Matt Carpenter belongs on it. You could make a highly dubious case, as panelist Derrick Goold apparently did, that Yadier Molina belongs on […]
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1. I wrote this in a rush Wednesday night and tried to cram a bunch of disparate thoughts into the last section without much success, and then it blew up in a way I wasn’t expecting. There’s one thing in particular I’d intended to address but didn’t, and it’s incredibly important: of course racism is […]
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Returning to Busch Stadium for the first time since choosing the Cubs over the Cardinals this past offseason, Jason Heyward stepped up to the plate Monday night and was booed by morons. It was hardly unanimous—there were a few cheers, too, and most fans looked like they were choosing to do neither—but it was significant. […]
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Originally published on Medium. The Cubs are the Cardinals’ biggest rival. Any fan of either team will tell you so, and for good reason. They’ve played each other more than 2,300 times, staring in the 1885 World Series when the Cardinals were called the Browns and the Cubs were the White Stockings. Not many things […]
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