Daily Dose: Tail lights

Sometime last night, on a flight from Chicago to San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Cubs officially got word that they were all alone in first place in the NL Central. Seven days removed from an eight game stretch that would make them or break them, the Cubs have been made....

Four-oh-five ain’t just a California freeway

And so, as the Cardinals board their haywagon for the drive down 55 back to St. Louis, they are full of regret. For four straight days they managed to find a way to lose to the Cubs. Today, they used their now patented fall back from ahead strategy and managed to lose...

Daily Dose: What the hell is a “buzzball”?

In one way you have to admire The Genius. There he was yesterday, sitting at a table, holding a press conference in a game that his team absolutely coughed up. The Cardinals had blown a six run lead, had abused their “ace” pitcher by throwing him into the...

“I hate these guys!”

It doesn’t take much prompting to get Ron Santo to snap. But after a few innings of complaining about things like, “We outplay them, they get lucky and they win.” Then somebody named Felix (don’t call me Hereida or Jesus) Sanchez gave up a...

Daily Dose: Push has come to shove

Cardinals fans think the Cubs got what they deserved last night. They think that the call in the first game that Albert Pujols dropped Aramis Ramirez’s flyball was a bad one and that the call led to two runs for the Cubs that they shouldn’t have had. They...