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Ballpark Food ~ Best at Busch Stadium!

Posted on November 5, 2011 | 1 comment

I’ve never been to Busch Stadium in St. Louis but since this blog’s supposed to be about ballparks AND ballpark food it just seemed natural we’d want to highlight the fan favorite food of the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals.

Tony LaRussa Vegetarian & Animal Lover

When I found out that Manager Tony LaRussa is a vegetarian it brought back a memory from one of the baseball tours I took to Yankee Stadium. After touring 42nd street, I ended up with some marvelous leftover pastrami (that I hadn’t even began to touch) from an early dinner at Roxy’s Deli. There was probably a pound of pastrami left, wrapped neatly in aluminum foil, in a tidy little white bag that Jess our waiter so meticulously wrapped up for me. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I just couldn’t leave it on the plate. I mean it was a complete meal, untouched. Continue reading →

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Game 7. Those Wild ‘WILD CARD” Cards!

Posted on October 29, 2011 | Leave a comment

Best Fans and Best Team in Baseball

It’s true! What better gift to the fans of the St. Louis Cardinals than the title “World Champions”! This picture is my favorite of all the thousands because if shows the team and the fans in unison like they’re in it together and they did it together, which of course they did. Last year the St. Louis Cardinal fans were selected number one best fans in baseball based on knowledge of the game, loyalty and sportsmanship. San Francisco Giants fans were voted second. Continue reading →

Raining in St. Louis? Fiddley Diddley Dee.

Posted on October 26, 2011 | Leave a comment

I thought you might enjoy this little filler video while the rains come down in St. Louis, postponing tonight’s game. This one’s courtesy of Sooze over at Babes Love Baseball. I especially got a little chuckle out of her last comment. Oh to be young again with so much energy …..

“In case you somehow missed this video of an absolutely adorable member of the Rangers Ballpark grounds crew randomly busting a move between the sixth and seventh innings of Game 4… please do enjoy. Ian Kinsler was not impressed, but we totally are. (Call me when you turn 18!)

Update: We were just informed that this guy is 28. He just became like a billion times more attractive.”

As only Sooze can say it!

Related articles

Rain in St. Louis: A Gift for the Cards (blogs.wsj.com)
World Series Game 6 postponed; schedule pushed back (timesunion.com)

St Louis Cardinals “Flying Happy” Tonight!

Posted on October 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

St Louis Cardinals 2011 NLCS Champions!

Congratulations to the St Louis Cardinals, winners of the 2011 National League Pennant. On August 25, the Cardinals were 10 1/2 games out in their Division and it was nothing but a comedy of twists, turns and magic that they were able to advance to the National League Pennant race, let alone win it! The Cardinals won in fine fashion by a final score of 12-6.

It was the sixth game of the series and the Cards took 4 out of 2. It’s a surprise to everyone, except maybe the players themselves, that the Cardinals were able to overcome a whole lot of things to advance to the 2011 World Series against the Texas Rangers. One of the chants tonight was “11 in 11” which I was told means the Cards are going after their 11th world series win in 2011. This is the Cards 18th National League Pennant and Manager Tony LaRussa’s 6th trip to the World Series. The World Series begins Wednesday, October 19, 2011, at Busch Stadium, St. Louis Missouri.

I was trying to think of a title for the blog tonight and these were some that came to mind:

Meet Me in St. Louis Baby!
This is One for the Birds!
Tony’s Birds sing “Happy Flight” as they advance to the World Series
Brew Crew Singing the Blues … St Louis Blues that is.
St Louis advances to World Series … It’s in the Cards!
Birds of a Feather Stick Together and Win!

David Freese 2011 NLCS MVP

MVP for the National League Series is St Louis native David Freese. Fantastic statistics. The 28-year-old third baseman has a 10-game postseason hitting streak as the wild-card Cardinals head home to open the World Series on Wednesday night against the AL Champion Texas Rangers. Freese also scored three times Sunday night and batted .545 (12 for 22) in the NLCS with three homers, three doubles, nine RBIs and seven runs.

I have to admit after listening to most of the programming tonight, several different television stations and reading several media reports and blogs, that the Texas Rangers … once again … are the definite favorites to win the series this year. It makes me chuckle because it drags up memories of postseason play last year like it was today. Those poor downtrodden SF Giants were outmatched and over-classed and really had no business even showing up. The Rangers had it all, and on and on. Same thing is being said this year.

At one point tonight before the game even ended one of the commentators made a comment that the Texas Rangers are a better team. Now this is before the game was even over, not certain who the winner was going to be. Well, okay, it was a pretty sure thing, but still. I don’t know, maybe they would have said the same thing if the score was 12-06 Milwaukee. But then he added, and this is not verbatim, something like “the American League has a way of making their clubs better”. Better than what? Good grief. I was rather leaning toward the St. Louis Cardinals before and now really don’t have any choice. I mean, aren’t we supposed to cheer for the “underdog”?

I guess maybe that’s why I have a feeling the St. Louis Cardinals are going to take it all in 2011. I don’t know, I’m just saying …..(forgive me for this) …..

A bird in hand is worth two in the busch!

Cardinals capture the flag (timesunion.com)
Cardinals to take on Rangers in World Series (cnn.com)
“Those Classy Cardinals” …. On and Off the Field. (garlicfriesandbaseball.wordpress.com)

“Those Classy Cardinals” …. On and Off the Field.

Posted on October 8, 2011 | 4 comments

St. Louis Cardinals

I’m kinda sorta breaking with my tradition of not writing about post season play until we get to the pennant winners. But not really, since this concerns a story written after last nights game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies. It was written by Les Carpenter for Yahoo Sports (I’m assuming Les is in no way related to Cardinal pitcher, Chris Carpenter). This is a human interest story about sportsmanship, team spirit and the camaraderie of the players. Here’s an excerpt from the story:

“The National League Division Series had been decided, the mighty Philadelphia Phillies dispatched like a playoff pretender, and the St. Louis Cardinals raced into their clubhouse and tore into the three giant blue tubs of Champagne. Then they stood in a half circle near the door to the tiny room, late Friday night, shook the bottles, held the corks and …

They waited. And waited. And waited some more.

Five minutes passed, then seven, eight, then 10 and still they would not celebrate. Here was a baseball team, just after the most improbable of playoff victories, and its players were standing awkwardly as if this was a junior high mixer at the VFW Hall. But the national television people had grabbed their pitcher, Chris Carpenter, the one who stifled the Phillies on three hits in nine innings, the one who sent them to the Milwaukee Brewers with a 1-0 victory, and that meant he wasn’t in the room with them.

Carpenter was still on the field doing interviews. Given the way he pulled them through this night, making the postseason last another week longer, they couldn’t pop the cork on anything until he arrived. So with no Carpenter, there was no party. They would wait.

Finally someone spotted him. He was walking up the tunnel from the dugout. Someone waved to the others and they huddled in position near the clubhouse entrance. And as he turned the corner into the room they pounced. Bottles flashed. Liquid poured. And Chris Carpenter could do little else but hunch his shoulders as they doused him with Champagne, screaming for the joy of a playoff win they never could have imagined a month earlier.”

Last April I wrote about the San Francisco Giants Home Opener against the St Louis Cardinals. The post wasn’t about the game so much as it was about the reputation and tradition of “those classy” Cardinals. They’d just been selected as having the best and most knowledgeable of all fans in Major League Baseball.

After reading this article I think it’s safe to say “Those Classy Cardinals” doesn’t just relate to the St. Louis fans. It’s pretty safe to say that scene in the locker room represents a pretty darn classy group of baseball players and teammates also. Congratulations to the St. Louis Cardinals both on and off the field.