My favorite player. Interviewed him at Wrigley NLCS 1984 and ran into him at Lambert in 2022.
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My favorite player. Interviewed him at Wrigley NLCS 1984 and ran into him at Lambert in 2022.
Coming back to Busch Stadium this weekend for a return engagement of three days. An encore from August's appearance, it's ... Yadier Molina, the coach. www.stltoday.com/sports/profe...
Great thoughts from Jen Rubin. Dems Must Hold Out for these Five Demands
That’s an under two hour winner!! #stlcards
Serious question. So Riley O’Brien is being “shut down” after his latest MRI. The season is less than a month from ending. Why is he not being put on the IL? How can a pitcher be shut down and come back within a month, especially in a lost season? #stlcards
Albert swears by him. That’s not nothing.
Newsflash. It’s not changing this season.
Did Chip just say Severino struck out the side? Really? I’m shocked!! #stlcards
Of course he’s the damn coach.
My Redbird Review: why is Jordan Walker doing so poorly? I asked #STLCards manager Oli Marmol and batting coach Brant Brown and they didn’t dodge the question. www.stlsportscentral.com/2025/09/02/b...
I’ve always been a big Walker guy and had just assumed there was something extremely complicated about his stat dive. It’s really shocking to read and hear such an obviously intelligent guy apparently needs motivation more than anything.
Ruth Paine, the woman who boarded Marina Oswald during the period Lee Harvey Oswald was involved with the assassination of President Kennedy has passed away. She died Sunday and would have turned 93 tomorrow. She became an enigmatic assassination figure. #JFKAssasination
FELOTUS of the United States of Embarrassment
If you love baseball you must get Andy Strasberg’s new book of real baseball stories! Andy is a former Padres executive and I was fortunate enough to get a ln actual ticket to the game in SD where #stlcards Lou Brock broke Ty Cobb’s stolen base record.
Trump’s announcement Tuesday at 2 o’clock will be to reveal that the Swift-Kelce nuptials will take place on September 13th at 13 0’clock pm at the White House Rose Ga—White House Parking Lot. #trump #swift #kelce #wedding
The Netflix documentary series on Katrina does an amazing job of covering all the facets of the disaster. Credit to Soledad O’Brien for calling out the media’s hypocrisy of coverage. #Netflix #Katrina
Beginning year number 51 in radio this afternoon hosting on All Things Considered on WGCU-Fort Myers, FL Year 2 was 1976 at WAKC-Normal, IL. #NPR #YourPlaceInTheCountry #radio
Happy Labor Day!
Actually more like 1:30 considering the men’s match is the “undercard”.
The #USOpen match between Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka is set for 11:30 EDT Monday 9/1 on Arthur Ashe Court.
And please don’t tell me this will only be available on ESPN+!!
Right on cue, Crooks first big league hit is a HR! #stlcards
Legendary legal thriller author John Grisham writes a Chicago Tribune opinion piece urging clemency for Jamie Snow. Snow is serving life in prison for fatally shooting attendant William Little at the Clark gas station on Empire Street in Bloomington, IL Easter Sunday 1991.
Jimmy Crooks debut reminds me of Keith McDonald, #stlcards catcher from 2000. His first two ABs were home runs and his third and only other MLB hit was a homer. He’s the only MLB player ever to have three career hits, all four-baggers.
There is absolutely no reason Nootbaar isn’t on second right now. #stlcards
Yea I saw that. Earlier schedules had it on Aug 31 with no matches Monday, which of course was incorrect.
If the #stlcards could cash in every time Brad asks, “Right?” for a win, they’d be World Champs.
Nice win. The #stlcards have three wins in a row and have one of their two remaining “stoppers” on the mound tomorrow. Wait, what?
I thought it was tomorrow Sunday?
Why is it we can be brought to tears by four minutes of life's moments, yet we plod through a lifetime of them as if we are fighting a war of survival? #Radiolab
My two current favorite racquet swingers! Can’t wait!!
Sorry but I just can’t hear John McEnroe’s voice without thinking of Devi and the crew on Never Have I Ever. #McEnroe #NeverHaveIEver #MindyKaling #USOpen #Tennis
He’s also just 22 years old. I have hope he’ll get there.
Priceless.
So a rapey, senile, convicted felon pedophile gives a military honors burial to a martyred insurrectionist. Yawn.
This NWS “warning” is one of the strongest worded weather advisories I’ve ever seen. Turns out it was pretty much right on, unfortunately. #KatrinaAnniversary20
Seems pretty clear right now that, unless the #stlcards make some major changes unlike what are rumored to happen this offseason, they’ll be a solid pick for last in the division in 2026. Which is sad when you consider the ‘27 season is likely to be stolen away by Manfred. #glasshalfempty
I’ve been a baseball fan for 60 years and never knew, in 1936, Mickey Cochrane served as the Tigers starting catcher, player-manager, and general manager! #Tigers #mlb #Baseball
This will be the ultimate test of the Brewers reclamation project magic.
Let’s hope so. #AlligatorAlcatraz
Throw back Tuesday to August 2022 and my trip to #ForTheLou to watch the #stlcards battle the Braves and win two of three! I kept running into people, including my all-time favorite player, Tim McCarver! #McCarver #Smoltz #Ascencio #Fredbird
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #stlcards
At the rate it’s going now, 5 runs per one out, the pirates will score 135 runs tonight. #stlcards
Last month I started referring to Mikolas and Pallante starts as “Netflix Nights” #stlcards #Tudum
Pallante has full-blown skidded off the runway. #stlcards
The disastrous decision to defund CPB likely will have a devastating impact on the storm alert system. Thanks FELOTUS.
#stlcards release 2026 schedule
The complete idiocy of this admini--no, regime...continues to manifest itself mutiple times daily. It's unlikely anyone wanting a covid vaccine will be able to get one within a year or so.
Cute. Now release the Epstein files! Am I doing this right? #taylorswift #Trav
42 years ago tonight the #stlcards first baseman hit a game winning ninth inning home run to beat the Braves by a run. #SilentGeorge #HistoryRepeatsItself
To those who like to trash the Ozuna trade, if we didn’t have Ozuna to lose to free agency, we wouldn’t have Burly. #stlcards
The 2020 pandemic brought us may tragic and sad moments. But thankfully, there was this. #CovidThrowBack
I checked. He turns 19 in January!
He’s phenomenal. I believe he’s only 19 yrs old!
When PGH hurls a fourth straight shutout at #stlcards tomorrow night, get ready for the “4AM bedtime, no sleep” excuses.
No, they’ve always been.
Incredible. Pay attention everyone!
I’m trying to find out if that’s ever happened before- two guys with those two firsts, on opposing teams, each with two separate at bats.
Friendly neighborly tip: #VoteByMail
@jmjones.bsky.social @bmiklasz.bsky.social @dgoold.bsky.social @katiejwoo.bsky.social Has there ever been a game with two players one on each team getting their first @mlb hits and later getting their first mlb home runs? (Williams and Church) #stlcards #TampaBayRays
MLB first? One player on each team got their first hit and home run (separate at bats) in the same game. #stlcards
The Rays version of The Cat just asked Williams’ dad when they knew there were flying from Washington state to Tampa to see their son’s debut. Answer: “When we saw who was pitching for #stlcards” Not really but chances to pile on MM are (thankfully) running out.
The Rays announcers are poking some fun at the #Stlcards players names, even though TB has 2 players batting back to back with the exact same last names pronounced differently.
43 years ago, “Brummer’s stealing home!” A hot day at the grand Busch II! #stlcards
Definitely justice prevailing here. I hope this sticks. #AlligatorAlcatraz #DeathSantis
Woohoo JJ! Great observations here on McGreevy and Gorman too. #stlcards
I don’t think Marlins veteran analyst Tommy Hutton is happy with Miami’s catcher right now. #stlcards #Marlins
As a former news director, there is nothing as professionally satisfying as winning a National Edward R Murrow Award. My longtime colleague Charlie Schlenker has done it again, teaming with skilled pros at WGLT. And congrats to my WGCU coworker Sandra Viktorova for her Natty Ed with “Dream School”!!
So fun to see my hometown community name-dropped in S2, E2 of Wednesday! #NormalIllinois #NPD #Wednesday #Netflix
#stlcards FO must’ve been listening to Bernie rant about it on today’s podcast.
NPR is losing a major afternoon cog. #NPR #AllThingsConsidered
Happy National Radio Day! I’ll be hosting All Things Considered Fri 8/22 on #WGCU #NewtonMinow #JackBuck #51RadioYears 1975-KDWB Minneapolis-St Paul 1975-WAKC Normal, IL 1977-WJBC/WBNQ Bloomington, IL 1993-WGLT Normal, IL 2021-WGCU Fort Myers 2022-WFYI Indianapolis
IYKYK.
Shhhhhhhh
Fun. Duh. Mentals. Jeez this hard to watch sometimes. #stlcards
But had Donnie not been active last Monday, the #stlcards would be sitting on a six game L streak. I suppose you could argue an able-bodied Fermin could’ve cracked a win along the way. Dunno about that, but at least they got the one W to start the Rockies series.
10 minutes ago, the Miami TV crew was raving about Perez “he’ll have more ASG’s than Mizerowski!” WOOPS! Bye Eury #stlcards
Victor Scott II is headed to the IL with an ankle sprain. The #stlcards have selected the contract of OF Nathan Church.
The more I watch this #stlcards team, the more I am excited to see Chaim Bloom take over and do massive reconstruction. I can think of two players that should, under no circumstances, be dealt and neither of them are on the 40 man roster.
The fundamental flaws in this game alone are absolutely frightening.
You misspelled “every major league team”
Stolen from @waterkris.bsky.social
Get Jimmy Crooks on the phone. #stlcards
I’ve heard him on some podcasts. Boy he comes across as an extremely bright, totally with it people person. Which begs the question…how long before some team swoops him up for POBO? I sure hope the #stlcards can hang onto him.
@mcfaulmike.bsky.social sums it all up perfectly. This was more than a waste of time and energy. This was dangerous. #AlaskaSummit #Summit #Putin #FELOTUS
So when do we find out how much of Alaska we have to return? #Summit? #Submit #tRump #PutinsBoy
That wasn’t a summit. That was a debacle.
that summit could've been an email
So fucking embarrassing.
Big day for Bob! #Bob #TBRays #stlcards
Congrats to my longtime co-worker Charlie Schlenker and the rest of the #wglt team for nailing down their first National Edward R. Murrow Award in a decade. #SoTwentyTeens #RTDNA
#KennedyCenterHorrors
As long as FELOTUS is “in charge,” this once grand cultural event of the year shall hereby be known as The Kennedy Center Horrors. #tRump #FELOTUS #KennedyCenter
It’s this…
*Ryan Reynolds Meme goes here*
Even if the FELOTUS administration wants to toss the automotive future to the curb, at least the industry is “zipping” forward. #Ford #EV #ModelTmoment #MadeInMurica
I don’t think Yadi was there Sunday but maybe he picked something up while he was there.
👀👀👀 #stlcards
