There are third-graders who were not yet born when the St. Louis Cardinals last won a World Championship.
That’s a staggering thought, isn’t it? Surely it explains why so many of the Best Fans in Baseball were completely beside themselves when the team got off to a slow start this year. Pitcher Jack Flaherty, who has never met a bus he wouldn’t throw a teammate under, suggested that the team’s problems — and his own — could be traced to the pitches that catcher Willson Contreras was calling. Especially two-strike pitches. The calls were fine until then.