Six weeks ago, Carlos Martínez took the mound at Yankee Stadium and just didn’t have it. In the first inning, thanks in large part to a sinker that was going all over the place, he threw 36 pitches, walking four and allowing a run on a wild pitch. Then he dug in and battled, overcoming […]
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There is a crisis among America’s youth, a clear and present threat menacing our most precious hearts and minds, and the men of the BASE Foundation are determined to stop it, even if they’re not entirely clear on what it is. “I’m concerned, quite frankly, about the culture of youth sports in America,” said Rick Sems, a […]
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One year ago next week, St. Louis sports fans had their hearts ripped out of them by a grotesque Thomas Nast cartoon of a team owner. Stan Kroenke, a wigged weirdo who’d lucked into his fortune as a tapeworm in the intestines of the Walton family, persuaded a roomful of equally talentless and vicious old men—silver-spooned […]
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If you logged on to Twitter after the Cubs’ World Series Game 6 victory over the Indians last night, you might have seen what looked like the aftermath of a classic Twitter witch-hunt—one of those ritualistic crusades in which the outraged digital mob shames the villain-of-the-hour for the most heinous and unforgivable crime any person can commit: Bad […]
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It will be 2033 at the earliest before Cardinals fans watch a local broadcast that isn’t produced by Fox Sports Midwest, after the club and network last summer signed a billion-dollar rights deal that will begin in 2018 and run for 15 seasons. And unless the network breaks with an unfortunate, unusual, and long-standing trend, […]
Continue reading →Originally published on Medium. The following is an exclusive excerpt from a conversation that will be published in the Summer 2014 issue of the Paris Review. DAN McLAUGHLIN One of the things I wanted to take the chance to talk to you all about—you of course have the great tradition of Cardinals broadcasters through the […]
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