The St. Louis Cardinals have fired Mike Matheny and dismissed John Mabry and Bill Mueller. This after the Cardinals dropped two games to the once-bottom-dwelling-now-rebounding-under-a-new-manager Cincinnati Reds. And this after the Cardinals failed to record hits and runs.
The time for change had come. The time was long overdue and we fans had demanded the change on social media for far too long (since at least 2016). I was definitely one of them.
So imagine my excitement tonight when I read the press release that the St. Louis Cardinals sent out announcing the firing of Mike Matheny… And it got even better when I read that Mabry and Co.