Vince Coleman Gets His Phil
“That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard” said one writer to future Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn. “How could you say a thing like that, as long as you’ve been around baseball?” said another. Richie was just trying to help. And the Phillies needed help. They couldn’t stop Vince Coleman. Richie had an idea. When…
1934 World Series Game 1 – The Experience
Just trust me – watch the video. You don’t need my behind the scenes comments below. Just click through and watch the video. You’re still here? Fine. I’ll tell you how this happened. The 1934 World Series is the earliest World Series we have with full game radio broadcasts available today (There’s a rerecording of…
Jordan Walker, Get Out(s)
Much has been said about Jordan Walker’s defense this year. It’s easy to see why. He’s been one of the worst defenders we’ve ever seen. This isn’t his fault. He’s playing a new position, for a team that has repeatedly handled his development like they have no idea what they are doing. Jordan was drafted…
Deadline News Addiction
Have you heard the latest rumors? I don’t know. I have to be honest. It’s hard to keep up. Arenado wants to stay a Cardinal, or he only wants to be a Dodger, or he wants to get out and be anywhere. The TV news networks seem to think this is a good idea, and…
Trader Jack
I have been waiting for years for the Cardinals to get rid of Jack Flaherty. And by years, I mean, almost since the beginning. Since well before his 2019 post-All-Star game Gibson imitation. I believe my rationale for this was sound. First of all, I was never of the belief that Jack Flaherty was all…
Cards Clapback – Week 16-17 St. Louis Cardinals recap
Welcome back to Cards Clapback, boy the Cardinals are looking set up for 24 already aren’t they? It’s been about 10 days since we last talked, and it that time they’d DFAd a few guys and made a deal for a rookie league catcher. I for one am thrilled with their aggressive approach for improving…
The Best Trade Mo Never Made
As we head into the 2023 trade deadline, the Cardinals sit, let’s see, a gazillion games out of the playoffs, and with every intent to be sellers at the trade deadline. Being sellers may fittingly send the team to the cellar as they would then play the remainder of the season with a bullpen made…
Cards Clapback Week 14: Mo Trades Mo Problems
Welcome back to Cards Clapback, the All-star game is over, the Cardinals sit at minus 14, at 38-52, and well out of contention with nothing super exciting to talk about on the field.But it’s TRADE SEASON, with the deadline just a bit over two weeks away!Now usually at the trade deadline, Cardinals fans get dreams…
The Worst Trade in Cardinals History
With how bad the Cardinal’s season has been, you’d have almost thought that the All-Star break would be a welcome relief from all of the misery. Nope. It’s been a spotlight on the front office’s failures, as fans watched Randy Arozarena and Adolis Garcia reunite like two long-lost lovers in a Sleepless in Seattle remake.…
Those Magic Moments Part II
This is all about finding beauty in baseball, purely for the sake of baseball. That’s what you have to go for watching the 2023 Cardinals. This ain’t about a playoff hunt. This is about the day to day emotions of watching a baseball team, and the occasional super highs you can get from it. Last…
Scott Rolen Topps Cards: The Official Ranking
OK, I admit. I collect baseball cards. Pretty fervently. I’m sitting in a room with around 100,000 of them. I just love baseball, and history, and also I clearly have brain damage. It’s a terrible combination. I have a serious day job in the healthcare industry, where I must discuss and analyze serious things, with…
Those Magic Moments
2023 is a different sort of year for the Cardinals. There isn’t much need to be staring at standings at this point. If the Cardinals win 18 out of 20 or something, we can happily start dreaming again about the Hunt for Red October, but instead, Cardinals fans have to do something they haven’t had…
Wainwronged
Adam Wainwright took the hill in London. He got shelled. In the subsequent days, he went on to delete his Twitter account, at least temporarily, and the obvious reason as to why has to be the negative commentary being lobbed in his direction by baseball’s best fans. It hasn’t been a pretty season. That’s an…
Cards Clapback: You Deserve Better
See the video here: Two clapbacks in one thanks to the early game last Monday, but you didn’t miss much anyway. Last time I talked about how if the Cardinals had at least a chance of rebounding if they canned Oli Marmol, at the very least it might have sparked the team to a bounce…
London Home Run? No. Run Home
Please, please almighty God, please let that famous London Fog overtake the stadium the next few days, cancel the games, and save the St. Louis Cardinals. I say this, God, because if you don’t step in personally, then other Gods will. The Gods of baseball. And they hate the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals. London Stadium…
The Great Dizzy Dean at Rickwood Field
Rickwood Field is a pretty cool ballpark, with a pretty cool history. And you’re going to get fed a lot of it over the next year, with the announcement that an MLB game will be played there by the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals. That’s understandable. That’s marketing. It’s being hailed by…
Freese Warning
David Freese has chosen to not be a Cardinals Hall of Famer. He’s gotten a lot of praise for this move. I’ve seen a lot of people who have said, ‘Good for him!’ for essentially recognizing that he isn’t deserving. Good for him for realizing he has no place in the same room as Stan…
Cards Clapback Week 11: The Obvious Problem
Once again, this is my loose writeup for the video, if reading is your thing, and watchin’ ain’t your thing, then read on my friends. But why you would want to read about the 2023 Cardinals, God only knows. Anyway… When we last left off, the Cardinals were in shambles, and since then They dropped…
It’s not Personal, Oli. It’s strictly business.
The time has come to fire Oli Marmol. I know. Media and bloggers will need their fainting couch at such a statement. Fans with profiles like “Cardinals fan, but a smart one, not one of THOSE BFIB morons” will scoff, roll their eyes, and write me off as a hysterical fanatic, devoid of common sense.…
Hero Max Muncy and His Anti-Bullying Crusade
Finally, there is one person willing to stand up to the bullies: Max Muncy. You see last week there was a series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. And in a FAIR world, in a RIGHTEOUS world, the Dodgers would have swept the series. But they didn’t sweep the series. They…
Cards Clapback: How Did They Set This Record?
Cards Clapback Week 8: The Cardinals rolled last week behind Nolan Gorman, Paul DeJong, and others. But more work has to be done before they are back to normal. These are my notes from the video – so if you only want to read clean writing – just watch the video! How fun are the…
Cards Clapback: The Cardinals Found a New Catcher?
Week 7 was great. Finally!But who is this new catcher the Cardinals got?And how is this the MLB record Paul Goldschmidt is trying to break?Plus Nolan Gorman and Nolan Arenado are killing it, and Willson Contreras is a master at getting into opponents heads. Almost as good as Cardinals management is at getting into his.
Cards Clapback: What the $*!% Are They Thinking?
Dear Diary: Week 6 has to be the nadir right? Has Stifel asked for their money back? Willson Contreras isn’t catching? What an absolute freaking mess. Thank the good Lord for Paul Goldschmidt.
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David Freese and His Epic 2011 Postseason [An OnlyCardsFans Documentary]
If all you remember are Freese’s game 6 heroics, you aren’t alone. But Freese was a hero before game 6. The Cardinals had to make the playoffs, and win the NLDS & NLCS. They couldn’t have done any of it without David Freese. Listen to the story and see the overshadowed highlights of the new…
Cards Clapback: St. Louis Cardinals – The Worst Start in How Long?
Week 5 wasn’t any better than the other weeks. Really, it was worse. One win. Six losses. Oh, and we had to say goodbye to Mike Shannon. Are there bright spots? Perhaps. But a historically terrible start has to change immediately, or the fans can start looking forward to next year. We remember Jordan Walker…
Meeting Mike Shannon
“I know that’s Mike Shannon.” I remember how fervently I had to state it to my friend, my friend who didn’t even know who Mike Shannon was, but still didn’t believe me. It was for a good reason. What the Hell was Mike Shannon doing there? There is a period in Spring Training before games…
DisCardGraphy – The History of St Louis Cardinals Music
Take a musical journey through St. Louis Cardinals history, reliving just a few of their countless highlights throughout the centuries. With Stan Musial, Dizzy Dean, Rogers Hornsby, Ozzie Smith, Adam Wainwright, Yadier Molina, Jim Edmonds, and more – Stay ‘tuned’ for an announcement at the end…
So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance
The Cardinals have started the 2023 season 9-14. 5 games under .500. 7 games out of first place. It’s not a pretty picture. Every newspaper article you read, every blog post, video, podcast, social media influencer, you name it – anyone who WANTS to be your choice for Cardinals content is telling you it’s still…
Angry Chatter
Aren’t you tired of being talked down to by the geniuses in the media? Aren’t you tired of feeling like some writers believe they were hired only to disperse an endless barrage of condescension out on their silly, slack-jawed readers? I’m tired of it. I’m tired of looking for news updates from my favorite team,…
St. Louis Cardinals Hitting for the Cycle
Relive Cardinals history by watching cycles by Nolan Arenado, Mark Grudzielanek, John Mabry, Ray Lankford, and Willie McGee.
Adam Wainwright, Hall of Famer?
I…I can’t believe I’m writing this post. Seriously, Adam Wainwright has been done for years. Done. Career over. Finished. In 2014 he signed a 5-year deal for 19.5 million dollars a year to be the Cardinals ace. And in 2014, he was a bargain. He was at the height of his powers. People who weren’t…
Appreciating Tim McCarver
I’m not going to write a flowery eulogy to Tim McCarver. There’s about 9,000 posted on the Internet just in the 2 hours after he died. That fact has made me rather reflective. Tim McCarver got more praise in the hours after he died than I ever saw in totality while he was alive. I…