During your wandering try to find “Die Hard Cards Fan.” He’s usually in section 501 (right field bleachers). If he’s at the game he won’t be hard to find. Just in case, though, his website is diehardcardsfan.com. He’s one of the nicest guys I’ve met at the ballpark.
The company I work for has a major sponsorship with the Cardinals (signs throughout the stadium, seating area with the company name on it). Yesterday my manager and his boss made some phone calls and today my game 2 ticket showed up. I’ll have to use the last of my vacation time but it’s well worth it.
Heh, guess who decided not to keep getting our Ranger season tics the last couple of years. They’re the same as Nolan Ryan’s, just on the 3rd base side instead of the first, the front row next to the visitor’s warm-up circle. My grandad’s brother got them them decades back when they first came to town, but since moving from Dallas to Houston it got too much for us so we turned 'em over to my cousins. Maybe next year we’ll make a trip if they get back but until then thank goodness for HDTV in the comfort of your own home. No worries, between HD and missing a whole day of travel it’s all good.
Now, let’s get this show started. Like someone said upthread, our football preferences haven’t performed to expectations this year so we’ve invested more anticipation eggs in this baseball basket. C’mon 7:05.
I see Berkman has apologized for saying he didn’t think the Rangers would make it back as the reason he signed elsewhere. He’s always been a classy guy so this doesn’t surprise. What I’m curious about is whether he’ll DH in the games here. Allen would come in, I suppose? And yes, Washington is keeping Cruz at #7.
So I guess I’m (reluctantly) rooting for St. Louis in this one, so that (1) Berkman gets a World Series ring and (2) if the Rangers win, the Astros will be the oldest team with zero world series wins.
Well, of all sports perhaps baseball can best remind us of, and even take us back to, times past and here you’re going to either be at the ballpark or listening to it on the radio. Now that’s an experience steeped in tradition. Pretty cool.
Indeed – I have no rooting interest in either team, but I was surprisingly psyched when I realized that a long car trip that I’d already scheduled would happen during Game 1. (I get crappy radio reception my my house.)
The noon news is on right now. Let’s see. Light rain continuing to come in from the north, winds steady from the northwest at 14 mph, current temperature at the stadium is 47.
Forecast for game time – 41 degrees and windy with a chance of light rain. And pretty much the same for Game 2.
In '04 McCarver and Buck were generally accused of favoring the Red Sox. To my ear, they was mostly favoring the Yankees*.
I tend to tune them out anyway.
*In 2007 at some point during the Series, McCarver was talking about Troy Tulowitzki and said something to the effect of “of course, who he’d really like to be is number 2, Derek Jeter…” Really, Tim? He’d rather be the guy who is currently not playing in the World Series? I think he’s perfectly happy right where he is.
This seemed like the best alternative.