Every year around opening day I get an itch to do a blog that documents the baseball season in whatever haphazard, episodic form it happens to take, given life’s other priorities, and allows for an expansion of subject matter as I see fit.

So this morning, opening day, I’m walking to the train and I’m thinking about how good the Cardinals might be this year. I think, you know, Jhonny Peralta could have one of the better all-time offensive seasons for a Cardinals’ shortstop: if he’s able to match last year’s OPS+ of 119  it would be the team’s sixth-best in the last 100 years.

And what if Kolten Wong puts up a line of .280/.350/.430, and Matt Adams hits 30+ homers and drives in 100 runs, and Peter Bourjos uses that speed to get 35 doubles and 15 triples while playing a Gold Glove center field… and then I went through the rest of the lineup and then the starting rotation and then the bullpen, and I realized that this could be a historically great Cardinals team. Which I also thought would be a great name for the blog. Which forced me to go ahead and register the name, and one thing leads to another, and now here I am, during lunch at work seeing if I can get something up before the Cardinals’ first pitch of the season later this afternoon.