The Cardinals signed Dexter Fowler, a pretty good center fielder, to a five-year deal at the end of the Winter Meetings, for the like half dozen of you who’re reading a Cardinals-centric site but somehow missed this crucial detail. It’s a good deal, as free agency goes. The Cardinals had a clear hole (largely of […]
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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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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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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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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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