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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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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Cross-posted at Viva El Birdos. Let’s get this out of the way: Cardinals fans are racists. Some of them, anyway. It’s not exactly a controversial statement. It’s easy to find examples of Cardinals fans spewing some of the most vile racist rhetoric imaginable—and goodness knows there are oodles of Twitter accounts that’ll do the work […]
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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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It’s been more than a month since an atom bomb detonated in the middle of the Cardinals’ offseason in the form of Jason Heyward’s decision to accept an eight-year, $184 million contract offer from the Chicago Cubs, and we’re still no closer to understanding exactly how that decision went down. We’re probably never going to […]
Continue reading →When asked over the weekend by a Hall of Fame beat writer about the biggest story of the Cardinals’ offseason, Mike Matheny decided to answer, and when he answered he politely refused to concede that his club is old and bad, causing friend of the blog Patrick Redford and others to conclude that the Cards […]
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In the hours after the news broke yesterday that Jason Heyward had signed with the Cubs, it initially appeared that something remarkable had happened—that Heyward had turned down an offer from the Cardinals in excess of $200 million and taken nearly $20 million less to play for Chicago. This quickly caused a great deal of […]
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