Baseball is more than just a sport when you live in St. Louis: it’s a way of life. Busch Stadium is more than a stadium: it’s Baseball Heaven. Year after year, the Cardinals set forth tradition after tradition, especially one of winning games and making a [deep] playoff run.

Three weeks into the 2017 season, and many fans are already throwing the towel in on our hometown team, but is that really fair? The season is six months long.

As our core gets older, and the new generation of players set in, the team is bound to go through a rocky patch. The dynamics of the team are changing, and everyone is trying to learn their new role, both on and off the field.

In true Cardinal fashion, we have a third of our starting line-up playing in a new position on any given day. On top of that, players don’t know where they’re going to bat, one day they're #2, and the next they're in the 8-hole. Players are trying to figure out their new defensive position and trying to figure out when in the hell they're going to hit (which effects the types of pitches they're getting).

Now on the flip side, they're getting paid millions of dollars to play a sport they’ve spent their whole life mastering, so adjusting, both offensively and defensively, should be natural for them.

St. Louis is not a town to produce fair-weathered fans, so let’s not start now.

Remember this Cardinals Fans, these players love playing in St. Louis as much as we love watching St. Louis Baseball. Let’s give them some more time to prove they're the winners we know they are… After all, they had their best Spring Training in 20 years!