Welcome back. I was supposed to be on a plane today but postponed my flight because I had a cold and didn’t want to fly to the PNW considering certain factors. Besides, American Airlines will call you back in a…
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These uniforms. I just can’t. It’s the belts. The stocking caps on the birds. The candy cane bats. The lights! Here are some non-Carpenter pix from Xmas in July. by
Matt Carpenter visited Springfield to play third base for the Baby Birds and gather his wings to fly back to St. Louis. He went 0-21 in five games. Next – to Memphis (AAA)! A slideshow from July 26 – night…
Just a few kids trying to make it big … by
Just some Baby Birds preparing the fly, fly away to St. Louis: the city with basepaths paved with gold and per diems that can pay for sushi instead of burgers. You can have it all … by
Such a game when your team falls behind 5-1 into the 9th. I wondered what I might do later that night, still overly caffeinated from several days of updating my website in the hopes of drawing eyes and wallets. Next…
Sometimes your side gets picked off twice in one game, losing baserunners when you’re struggling to give them a base to begin with. Then you’re smiling like you don’t mean it. Then it happens again: (The other pix made it…
Strange – I scheduled this post at the end of May so I could fill out the site for each Monday I was gone. This was the final day. Now he’s somewhere else; listed as released from his Cardinal affiliate…
Conner Greene was sent up to Triple-A Memphis, and won the AAA National Championship with the Redbirds. Now he’s playing in the prestigious Arizona Fall League, still throwing as hard as he can, as he once told me, breathlessly, after…