Hey, you guys remember Larry Bigbie? No? Outfielder? Played a little for the Cards one year, actually? He got hurt quite a bit. No, never really made it big. Oh, yeah, plenty talented; just didn't quite seem to ever get the breaks to fall his way, you know? No, that's Kerry Robinson. Bigbie was a white guy. Bigger than Robinson, too. Actually, no, he didn't have as cool a walk-off as Kerry did in '03 off the Cubs. We traded Ray King for him! No? Still don't remember? Well, maybe a little me
Sometimes, there's a man. Sometimes there's a man who, well, is the right man for his time and place; he just fits there. And that man is Jim Edmonds. Today is one of the holiest days of the baseball calendar; Pitchers and Catchers Report Day. And while I am all kinds of excited, I'm also just a little bit sad. Why, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. I miss Jimmy Baseball. Jim Edmonds was my favorite Cardinal player of all time. I loved Ozzie when I was a kid, John Tudor was a big hero
Ladies and gentlemen, the dream is over. Todd OwyoungCardinals manager Tony La Russa enjoying a hilarious moment.It was just a small, simple dream that I had; a dream of a Cardinal rotation without Joel Pineiro. A simple dream for a simple man, with simple tastes. A dream of summer evenings spent on the veranda, listening to the baseball match on the Victrola, sans Joel Pineiro. Now that dream has been ripped from me, torn asunder by a cruel and uncaring manager. I thought, just for an
Spring training is officially underway, with real, no-foolin' games being played and everything. The beginning of a long, twisty road that leads through summer and into autumn, hopefully ending late in October with a nice, new piece of hardware to add to the trophy case at Busch Stadium.At the very least, it promises to be an interesting season, one which will likely go a long ways toward deciding how the fan base views the Cardinals' new-found commitment to a build-from-within philosophy. In fa
