At the 60th annual writers’ dinner Sunday night, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny arrived at the podium to talk about the season ahead in front of a room filled mostly with true believers or media, and, in his closing remark, he invited the doubters, the skeptics and the critics to pull up a chair.
He welcomes them, too, he said.
They help feed his message.
“It’s opposition,” he added Monday, talking with the media during Day 3 of the Cardinals’ Winter Warm-Up. “There’s opposition all across the board against us. That’s what we have. That’s what we do.