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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Even by the extremely low standards by which American presidential campaigns must be judged, the last eight months or so have been a waking national nightmare of shameless hucksterism, grotesque toxicity, contemptuous manipulation, and indefatigable detachment from anything that even remotely resembles reality. All over the country, Americans have watched this ghastly two-ring circus unfold […]
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Originally published on Medium. Misconceptions about the “Cardinal Way” and the “Best Fans in Baseball” aside, there is at least one way in which Cardinals fandom truly does help you become a better person: To be the target of so much half-assed vitriol — to see whip-smart writers lapse into trollish tendentiousness, to have to […]
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