There was a GM in Gotham who sent his manager to the Midwest to win two out of three, and in a little while the manager came back, pale and trembling, and said, “Omar, just now when I was in the Midwest I was jostled by a man wearing red in the stadium and when […]

He is the very model of a modern big-game pitching ace

Ignore info about his age and all those lines upon his face

Thrown inning after inning shutting every darn opponent out

From Spiezio to Yadier while making Albert Pujols pout

Very well acquainted, too, with hurling at this time of year

The only arm we have right now that […]

Watching the middle of this Championship Series has been slightly odder for me than it would be if it were taking place anywhere else in the National League. The ridiculously retentive reader will recall that my midsummer jaunt in 2006 was to the very same Busch Stadium we focus on now. I was in that […]

Tonight, as promised, I watched two episodes of “The Wire” on TiVo.

People in St. Louis watched it rain. We checked in various places to verify that that’s what it was doing.

Tom Glavine had his usual fourth day of rest. So did Jeff Weaver. The Cardinals’ bullpen took it easy too.

Willie Randolph offered crumbs of platitudes […]

Rain, rain wouldn’t go away. Game postponed. They play tomorrow night. Glavine, better rested versus a better rested Weaver or, for all we know, a three-day Carpenter. Maybe La Russa, that genius, will pitch Spiezio.

Got a presser on SNY right now. St. Louis writers say “we” a lot and refer to Cardinal players by first […]