Kevin Horrigan

Aspiring curmudgeon. Retired scribe. Youthful appearance.

[Kevin Horrigan @OldSport]

Public service journalism at its finest. https://t.co/LBQegwqMAb

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@DaveKemp43 If things got screwed up over the past decade, shouldn’t the guy who was in charge during that time walk the plank?

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This whole exercise has a reshuffle-the-deck-chairs feel to it. #Stlcards

[Derrick Goold @dgoold]

#Stlcards expect major-league payroll to go down, John Mozeliak said.

#cardinals #MLB

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Is it time yet to revisit all the early heralding of the internet's pure democracy, of the idea
of "citizen journalists," of each and every voice being able to be heard being a good thing for our ability to find truth and govern ourselves? Because having spent a previous career in newsrooms, as part of the cold, organized monolith that was our gatekeeping mainstream media, I know that we were often too herd-like and centrist, sometimes misled and sometimes capable of publishing horseshit on incomplete or contradictory data. Sometimes we got it dead wrong. But every day, I remember that the editors read the copy and tried to verify what they could and avoid what they could not. And no one could pay us a fucking dime to say what we didn't think was the story we thought we had. Fact is, I once tried to sneak a piece of celery through some ranch dip at some politician's fundraiser because the guy was late showing up to make a speech and I was starving. Another reporter smacked it out of my hand: "That's Harry McGuirk's celery."
We had an ethic. We believed in our role, however flawed and vulnerable to error our work product might at times be. So fuck the influencers, fuck the pimps who bought them, fuck their rancid whoredom, and fuck a media culture that has bypassed the gatekeepers at least trying to hold to a core ethos. The marginalization and eventual death of old-fashioned journalism and what has ensued is going to be what ends our republic. And everyone who championed some purist vision of a post-mainstream media future is now and forever, officially, a rube.

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@kodacohen New slogan: The Best Empty Seats in Baseball.

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@sdkstl How hungry are you? https://t.co/ZkkDiPBIfL

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@STLsherpa And to think, he did all this without making a trip to the Driveline Academy.

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Ah, sweet memories of Gridbird glory (or) The day the Cardiac Cardinals flatlined. https://t.co/0jjS70qfXf

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Ah, sweet memories of Gridbird glory. https://t.co/0jjS70qfXf

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@dgoold Important Daniel Descalso trivia: In Spanish, the word “barefoot” can be translated as “descalzo”, so I’ve always thought of this guy as Shoeless Dan. https://t.co/Ptk57NuS4f

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@PDPJ @stltoday @pdpj @wjohnson68 A photographer named Dan Werner had the same idea. In 1989. It worked for seven months.

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@tonymess @elonmusk I’d forgotten about the “moxie” experience. It lasted, what, two weeks?

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Ahem.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In the early 1970s, there were estimates of fewer than 100 black bears in New Jersey. That number is now about 3,000. “Bears, in short, are coming back to places they haven’t been in generations,” Jill Lepore writes. https://t.co/pMsPqndQwx

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Wembley had tiny locker rooms so the bus took the platers back to the hotel to shower. Traffic clogged central London so the guys had to walk 5 blocks, in uniforms and helmets. I was with 6-6 DE Bubba Baker, who never met a stranger. The Brits thought the Martians had landed.

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The @stllcards-@Cubs series recalls that time 40 years ago when the other St. Louis Cardinals played the @Vikings in the first NFL game at the original Wembley. The Gridbirds lost, of course, but it was a hoot. (More)

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Coach Hanifan met his harder-drinking Irish cousin. The Brits complained about the length of the game and couldn’t figure out why yellow “dusters” kept being dropped on the pitch. Bill Bidwill wore a maroon bowler and looked like Oliver Hardy. (More)

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@charliekmox @SchnuckMarkets My personal highlight on that day was interviewing Craig Schnuck about the new store’s fabulous selection of produce. Journalism at its finest.

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Wouldn’t things be simpler if Wilson Contreras and Kim Gardner just exchanged jobs?

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The @Cardinals pretty clearly miss Rick Hummel.