Are you kidding me? Are. you. kidding. me? If ever a single game formed such a perfect microcosm of a team’s season, Game 6 of the 2011 World Series was that game. Like the first five months of the regular season, the Cardinals stayed competitive through the first two thirds of tonight’s game. Never in…
I suppose one day when I have years of predictions under my belt I may have built up a tolerance to the intoxicating effects of my own prognostication abilities. But in year one, I fell hard for my own prescience. I was on a real roll. Let’s go to the tape: NLCS Game 3 prediction:…
To quote myself from earlier today: “…it may be that we have seen the last 15-5 or 12-6 score this postseason.” I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. After a return to strong starting pitching in Games 1 and 2, the St. Louis and Texas offenses erupted as many had predicted in Game 3 Saturday night. …
Thursday night witnessed a great deal of hyperventilation following the Texas Rangers’ impressive come-from-behind victory against a St. Louis bullpen that has been mostly stellar this postseason. You had journalistscalling for the heads of Albert Pujols and -to a lesser extent – Matt Holliday, Lance Berkman and Yadier Molina for ducking out before speaking to the…
As if my credibility as an unbiased prognosticator wasn’t already shot after my (correct) but decidedly homer pick of the Cardinals in 6 over the Brewers in the NLCS, now a new obstacle to objectivity has been thrown in my way. A little background. Some years ago I came across an ad for the MLB…
Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has given Cardinals outfielder Jon Jay a nickname. “The Federalist.” I don’t know when this started, but I am going to have to take exception. Don’t get me wrong, I like Bernie Miklasz. He’s a good writer and a fair journalist. He offers good insight and perspective on the Cardinals and…
If the St. Louis Cardinals manage to win the 2011 NLCS – whether today or tomorrow – and advance to the World Series, remember that you heard it here first: 11 in ‘11. If the Cardinals do indeed advance, they will be going for their eleventh World Series title. I expect some clever marketing or…
A series of pitching duels it is not, at least not in terms of starting pitching. Through three games, the 2011 NLCS has been tough on the starters from both teams. In 28.1 innings pitched, St. Louis and Milwaukee starters have combined to allow 42 hits, 15 walks and 26 earned runs. Even identifying the…
After weighing the first two games of what looks to be a relatively even and high-scoring series, I am ready to make my prediction for the NLCS. Ok, I was actually ready two days ago, after the gut-punch that was Game 1. Shortly after the Brewers closed out their 9-6 come-from-behind win in the series…
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