Cardinals vs. the World

Oh geez. I couldn't be happier. Well, I could be happier if .....the Cardinals win the world series! AHHHHHHHH. That is a very feasable possibility. After sweeping the overmatched Padres, the Cardinals are on their way to playing their new rivals, the Houston Astros. After last year's NLCS, I don't expect anything less than another classic of a match-up. Here's my analysis of the post season thus far.

• The Red Sox and Yankees were eliminated in the first round. Although this poses a problem for the networks who were hoping for a rematch of last year's ALCS and ratings galore for their dirty/greedy little hands, that won't be the case. For baseball lovers, this is an opportunity to have a 'clean' World Series, free of the evil- super duper rich teams.

• Yesterday, some of the media were whining about the scheduling for the teams playing in the ALDS/ALCS. Something about having to play 2 games in a row because of a rain postponement and traveling across the country. I dunno. Screw 'em. Let the babies whine. They didn't care about the Padres/Cards fans when we were scheduled at the insanely unfair time slots. One of the games were on at 10 am on a weekday for the West Coasters, while the Cardinals' clincher was scheduled at 10 pm my time (central time) with the game not finishing until after 1 am. That is how they treat the team with the best record in all of baseball? All of this so that the Yankees/Angels game, the network's priority, could be shown at primetime hours for the country. This isn't the first time Major League baseball has scheduled a Cards post-season game that started at 10 am or pm for the teams involved. Bud Selig apparently said this would never happen again a few years ago. (*smirk) Not only were our scheduled times disrespectful, but the media is claiming it would only be fair to switch the starts of our games so that the NLCS play a day earlier (today) and the ALCS teams get a day off so that they could play tomorrow. Boo freaking hoo. That would only inconvenience our fans again by changing our plans at the last second. I had these tickets for a month now and asked off of work for Wednesday, not Tuesday. They should just deal, like we had to. Maybe it's Karma. Either way, Major League Baseball got theirs. Although I'm sure they won't learn from their unjust mistake, I will revel in the fact that their prioritizing got them in this little mess in the first place. Moohoohahaaaaaa.

• I don't want to face another 'cursed' team in the WS, if we're fortunate enough to make it. (fingers crossed, please God, Pleeeeease let us win) I'm sick of this "awww, they haven't won in 5,000 years, how sad, let's root for them" crap. What about my needs??? lol.

• I just found it interesting how the BoSox last out recorded was a groundball by an old fan favorite, Edgar Renteria. Seems the If you can't beat 'em, join 'em idea kind of backfired on my old buddy. *cheesey grin.

ok, so I went to the last regular season game at Busch. Everything about the game was goosebump-worthy. The fans were told to sing the National Anthem on our own. No sucky musician to forget the words, no famous face jumping on the bandwagon or posing as a Card fan for the day, just our thousands of voices in unison. The Cards won a comebacker, which I guess is appropriate. After the game, everyone, I mean, everyone stayed for the ceremonies. Over a hundred former and current players were called onto the field. There were videos about those who passed, about our old friend Jack Buck, and about the game of baseball that moved people to tears. The ceremony closed out with the Clydesdales coming out and circling Busch. That was unexpectedly more exciting than I thought it would be. The season just flew by. The only thing that could make this year more perfect were if we could just win that WS.

I also went to game 2 of the NLDS. Fun Fun Fun. Even if the seats we had were kind of sucky, I refuse to go any further in complaint because the important thing to me was winning. We had our thunder stix and I made sure they were put to use. Loud use. Me and Nan got some cool pictures. Our favorite was the one by the championship flags way up high above the outfield. I didn't know we could move our way over to them. As we were trying to get our picture taken, an usher-dude/ championship flag-area Nazi was yelling at us for being up there. He was literally yelling his ass off and saying something about having had a man removed from that area in cuffs. Our photo is kind of telling as we yelled at the lady to hurry and take the picture, meanwhile the guy's still yelling his butt off. It was kind of a "Damn it, Johnson,pull the trigger!" movie moment . But when you see the picture, you'll know it was all worth it.

Tomorrow and the day after I go to games 1 and 2 of the NLCS. Please God, Please let us win.

GO CARDS!