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It didn’t take long to realize just exactly what he had inherited. “It wasn’t a 21st-century operation,” he said. They had suffered years of terrible losses marked by a few wins. There was a desire to make next year the year, every year. Always promising they were close and giving excuses for why victory slipped away. The leaders were aging. The technology was lagging. There was no common strategy that linked the entire organization. Money was being spent ineffectively. No, this isn’t an account of the current state of the Democratic party, but it easily could be. Rather, it’s the state of the Chicago Cubs when Theo Epstein took over in late 2011—as described, albeit paraphrased, by him. But Continue to Article

September 29, 2017 7:00:am EST

The words did not come easy for St. Louis manager Mike Matheny after the Cardinals were eliminated from postseason contention in a 2-1, 11-inning loss to the rival Chicago Cubs on Thursday night. "This is the first time I've had to stand up here and say (it's) not going to happen," Matheny said. St. Louis, which went 5-14 against the Cubs, missed the playoffs in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2007-08. Continue to Article

September 29, 2017 4:00:am EST

Having spent only two weeks of this season in first place, the Cardinals haven't looked the part of a playoff team for most of this season. The team saved its best play for the last two months of the season, allowing St. Louis to tease a postseason run over the last three or so weeks. All of it in the glove of Leonys Martín, who made this game-ending catch to mathematically eliminate the Cardinals. Continue to Article

September 29, 2017 12:24:am EST

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The Cardinals were eliminated from postseason contention when Leonys Martin leaped at the center-field fence to rob Paul DeJong of a tying home run with two outs in the 11th inning, preserving the Chicago Cubs' 2-1 win over St. Louis Continue to Article

September 28, 2017 11:19:pm EST

I loved the Twins lineup for this afternoon’s game. It came through about as well as I expected it to do too: they struck out 15 times and basically everyone kept their sunglasses on the whole time because, ow,my head. The Indians beat ’em 5-2 to pick Continue to Article

September 28, 2017 3:01:pm EST