I want to start this blog, by again, apologizing for delaying the top 5 St. Louis Cardinals memories of mine another week. Wait for it......I am doing so, because of the late developments from this past week, and game 7 being played tonight.....there could be a shakeup in the countdown! That's right people...after one of the greatest baseball games I have ever seen, there will be a game 7 in the World Series for the first time since 2002! Baseball, needs to be proud of itself. It had a great last few weeks of the season! There were so many playoff implications, as far as who was going to make it, what the seeding was going to be when the playoff teams were finalized, the first few rounds of the playoffs being great....baseball had been putting up some rating numbers it hasn't enjoyed for quite sometime. And it's about time! With the NFL, just barely escaping cancelling the season, which would have put it back...who knows how many years, as far as fan following....it may never have recoved. Even though, they are playing games now, they didn't have any training camps, or organized team activites through the summer, to help the rookies get better acclimated to the pro game, and help new free agents learn a new playbook...the product on the field so far, has been crap. There's no other way around it. The Packers and Steelers/Patriots are going to be playing in the Super Bowl this year. You can write that down. They three, are so much better than the rest of the league...it's a joke. The NBA will be lucky to have games on the docket by Christmas. Yeah, I haven't missed them either. The season was supposed to open a few weeks ago, but I don't think anyone noticed.
Back to baseball, because the other sports right now are down.....baseball had to have a big postseason, to establish some relevancy again. And the sport has not let us down. I have been watching baseball religously, for 20 years now.....and I can't think of a better baseball postseason, than the one we are having now. Now, I know you are going to say..."Well, you're a Cardinals fan...so, of course you are going to say this is one of the best postseasons ever." That's not entirely fair. The Cardinals in the 2000's, made the playoffs 6 times last decade. And in each of those 6 times, there hasn't been the theater that there has been with this postseason. Case in point, last night. The Cardinals were down by 3 runs going into the 8th inning. A home run by a bench player, a few other timely hits and by the end of the 9th inning the game was tied. The tie, was short lived however. In the top of the 10th inning the Texas Rangers (the Cardinals opponent in this World Series), had a player hit a huge 2-run homerun. Only to have the lead erased in the bottom of the 10th, when the Cardinals scored 2 runs to tie the game once again. Then, after getting the Rangers out in the 11th inning, without giving up a run.....David Freese, the Cardinals third baseman hits a walkoff homerun to win the game!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.....baseball on this stage, is unparalled...as far as excitement by any other sport. Enjoy game 7 tonight folks, and go Cards!
I firmly believe that game 6 alone may deserve a spot in that top 10 - it will go down in the record books for sure. The season as a whole may also go down in history - a down and out team comes back to pull the wild card on the last day of the regular season thanks to the team that they would later go on to beat in the first round. They would then beat a heated rival in round two and eventually take the World Series in game 7 which would make the Cardinals 11th series win in franchise history. 11 in 11 - Go Cards!!
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