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With no games on Wednesday and Thursday, there are no game threads either. So feel free to use this thread for any general Cardinals topic you want to discuss that does not warrant its own thread.
Anyone know the last time the Cards had two consecutive scheduled days off? (Not caused by weather)
It was scheduled as one day off, then the KC series, then another day off.
On the radio post game show Memorial Day, it was reported that Cardinal brass lobbied for the Memorial Day home game, and mlb obliged.
I guess because April was so bad, we are supposed to celebrate a 15-13 May as a “turnaround”.
How the Cardinals turned things around in May and no longer look like a potential calamity https://t.co/Kdg1ZkdaBL
— STL Cardinals News (@STLCardsNews) May 31, 2023
No, it sure wasn’t BW. And I can’t remember if everyone started back playing on the same day, but I’ll never forget Jack Buck’s heartfelt address to the crowd at Busch Memorial. Almost seems like just the other day.
The answer is 1978. I found this in the “turnaround” article from the P-D.
They’ve got back-to-back scheduled days off for the first time — excluding All-Star breaks — since Sept. 27-28, 1978, when they had a two-day break in the schedule in New York City due to Shea Stadium being used as dual purpose stadium for both the NFL’s Jets and MLB’s Mets. The stadium transition necessitated the gap in the schedule.
Just think if we had to suffer through a season like the Redbirds had in 1978. We’d all be losing our minds. When I think about playing the 1978 Cardinals in Strat-O-Matic I usually cringe.
Freddie Freeman’s now beginning to stand in the way of Acuna Jr. for the frontrunner for NL MVP. In my view, he’s clearly the best hitter in the NL and probably the entire Big Leagues. Freddie’s no joke and seems to never slump. He covers all areas of the strike zone, sprays the baseball over all areas of the field, hits for average and hits for power. He just hits. And not only does he hit, he looks real good doing it. With the possible exception of Altuve, I think Freddie’s the odds on favorite to be the next player to reach the 3000 hit plateau.
The Chubs lost so we have moved out of the basement, percentage points ahead of them. I think our best tactic is to not play.
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