In the good ol’ summer of 2010, the St. Louis Cardinals loathed the Cincinnati Reds — and vice versa. The feud ignited with a bloody Cards-Reds brawl in August. Then came two-plus years of sniping, insults, and accusations.
Ah, those were the days.
Calmer and friendlier Redbirds and Reds teams will open the 2020 baseball season in Cincinnati on March 26. Yadier Molina, a key participant in the 2010 melee, will likely get booed by the Great American Ball Park crowd, and maybe they’ll hoot Miles Mikolas, who screeched at the Reds’ Freddy Galvis for stepping on his pitching mound a year ago but don’t expect to see many death glares between the opposing players.