The St. Louis Cardinals to livestream intrasquad games

After missing the first two games, the St. Louis Cardinals have finally decided to livestream the intrasquad games on socials.

I guess bullying works sometimes? While other teams had their intrasquad games on YouTube, Periscope, and other streaming platforms, the first two games played by the St. Louis Cardinals left fans with clips recorded from media members and a lot of written transcriptions.

Publicly, nobody had any answers about why the team was not showing the games somewhere as even though they weren’t a full nine innings, showing any sort of baseball at all seemed like an easy slam dunk from a public perception standpoint.

However, no longer will fans need to clamor for the team to show the intrasquad games going on at Busch Stadium.

The Cardinals have announced that they will be streaming the majority of the intrasquad games that are left on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and directly on cardinals.com.

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Other teams have had broadcasters on to call the games, and other teams (like the Braves) have had just a stationary camera showing the entire field. The Cardinals will have the TV voice of the Cardinals, Dan McLaughlin, on the broadcast to call the game.

I do want to stress that these games won’t be nine innings, they won’t be official, rules will be broken (some players switched teams after the first pitch in the second game), but it will be Cardinals baseball on your screen with Danny Mac on the call. What more could you ask for?

We are now 10 days until the start of the regular season and there will be a scrimmage against the Kansas City Royals on July 22 (opening day is the 24th). There is no set schedule for the intrasquad games, but the first one that will be streamed is Tuesday night at 7:00 PM.

Whatever rights or logistical reason the Cardinals had for not streaming the first two is no longer a worry, but if you’re like me, you can’t wait to see the Cardinals playing again on Tuesday night. I applaud the Cardinals for throwing this together so quickly for the fans to see.