Well THAT was crazy!

So I thought I would be writing this about the end of baseball season.  Whoops!  I should be in bed right now, but watching that game has given me a shot of adrenaline, much in the same way the Redskins Monday Night Miracle comeback in Dallas kept me up six years ago.


There are certain rare events in my life as a sports fan where I know something amazing is happening while I'm watching.  The sideways pass from Wycheck to Dyson on wild card weekend (the best weekend of football in the NFL).  Michael Jordan strikes the pose after pushing off Byron Russell. Chris Webber calls timeout and Michigan losses -- just kidding I'm not old enough to remember that.

This was definitely one of those events.  For sports fans without a biased rooting interest in the game, this is one of the most pure moments you will ever see.  David Freese, the hometown kid down to the last strike of the Cardinals season, hits a two-run triple off a closer who had been perfect in the postseason up to that point (Nelson Cruz should have caught that ball by the way.  He was drifting  the last 5 or 6 steps after getting a great jump).  Lance Berkman, who said he didn't think Texas had what it took to be a contender after Texas tried to sign him this winter, delivers an inning later down to his last strike.  Freese then hits a walkoff home run.  Movie-script ending.

If I were a Cardinals or Rangers fan, I'd be hooked up to an IV right now (yes, either way) but it's cool to watch from a neutral prospective.  The only thing that could have made this game better was if after Kyle Lohse pinch hit and dropped down either the luckiest bunt I've ever seen or had an extremely good read on a charging Beltre,  Scott Feldman then proceeded to walk Ryan Theriot, loading the bases for Albert Pujols.

Then Fox would have panned in on Ron Washington's face about 80 times while Joe Buck talked about how fitting this was for the city of St. Louis and their fans that the face of the franchise was up and had a chance to decide the game.  Buck would have somehow spinned it to make it seem that whether or not Pujols re-signed with the Cardinals hinged on how he did that at bat.

But I think the way it ended was pretty cool too.  A special thanks to John Rossi, my friend from Providence College, who helped inspire this post.