Unquestionably, the St. Louis Baseball Cardinals have one of major league baseball's most storied historys. The city on the west bank's of the mighty Mississippi River is noted for great baseball fans who have an understanding and appreciation for the games intricacies and skills needed to perform at the highest level. Those fans readily applaud great plays from opponents as well as their own. The Cardinals organization also distinguishes itself with charity efforts through the Cardinals' Care Program. Suffice to say, St. Louis Cardinals Baseball has been a class show.
There has been thousands of players who have worn the Birds-on-the-Bat uniforms throughout the team's history and sixty-four men have sat in the managers' seat. Since the beginning of Cardinals' baseball in 1892, the team has won 11- World Series ( second most in baseball), 19-League Pennants
(third most in MLB) and 14-Division Titles. A rich history most assuredly.
The Cardinals have done omens work promoting the game. Major League Baseball works hard at promoting its brand. All of baseball suffers when cheating occurs and all of baseball suffers when obnoxious and or vulgar behavior happens around the game. The latter was the case after the Cardinals 13-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves, which propels St. Louis into the National League pennant chase with the winner advancing to the World Series. Cardinals' manager, Mike Schildt who has done an outstanding job in his brief tenure at the helm, was live-streamed on Intagram by a Carindals' player in the post-Atlanta game locker room comments during which time Manager Schildt used the most disgusting language as he down-graded opponents and bragged boorishly about his ball team. The moment is a low point in Cardinals history and Mike Schildt's baseball career. His remarks give fodder to future opponents and creates a fan attitude of hate towards the team and city. Schildt's post game comments are as troubling as those of former Chicago Cubs' Manager, Lee Elia's vulgar post game tirade in 1983.
What should be a glorious moment for the Cardinals players, manager, coaches, ownership and fans has been tarnished by Mike Schildt's most unfortunate comments. Too bad!
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