Cardinals Represent What Baseball is About

The defending World Series Champions, the St. Louis Cardinals dropped the "best player in baseball," had a legendary coach retire and still managed to play themselves into Game 6 of the NLCS tonight.  Must we forget what happened last year with the Cardinals in this game?

I think it's obvious to say that St. Louis is the best baseball town in America.  I may have a biased opinion here, but let's look at some facts:

New York believes they have the best team; the Yankees.  Well, how fun was it to watch a bunch of overpaid, pre-Madonna crybabies wiff at every pitch in this playoffs? With respect to Derek Jeter, the whole excuse of "the New York media is just so hard" is really wearing itself out. Turn on ESPN and they are talking about Alex Rodriguez giving his phone number to a girl.  Is that really newsworthy? That's the first story ESPN will talk about when there's an amazing series going on in the NLCS.  Meanwhile, the "die-hard" Yankee fans are booing their own team.  Yeah, that's about as classy as the Atlanta Braves throwing bottles during a game because of a call. The Yankees lost that series after Game 1 of ALCS.  Wanna know how I knew? Look at their body language, heads down, no smiles, no confidence.  America then had to watch painfully as the Tigers basically waltzed through the next three games.

The Boston Red Sox had something special.  Until they starting drinking in the cluhouse, throwing their Manager under the bus, and losing games.  Here's a tip, take note of what's going on with the Yanks and do the complete opposite!

It's been great watching the L.A. Angels collapse.  Everyone had them easily winning the World Series this year.  Just goes to show you can't buy your way to a ring.  Call me bitter, but I hope Pujols has a nice view for these playoffs.

Have we learned never to count the Cardinals down and out?  Two outs, bottom of the 9th against the Nationals and everyone knew the game was over, expect Cardinals nation.  They have the talent, not one superstar in the line-up, but nine.  The pitchers are unreal, the bullpen is young, but they throw like they have nothing to lose and they throw hard.  Look in that clubhouse and you'd see a Little League team, full of best friends making up funny and elaborate handshakes.  The Skipper, an ex-Cardinal catcher, leading these players deep into the post season in his first coaching job ever, as if he was LaRussa himself.  These guys are having a blast playing baseball! YouTube Adam Wainwright clips and tell me he's not enjoying it, follow the bros on Twitter as they tweet about "#highsocksSundays", wear ridiculous Tuxedos on a road trip, and enjoy the game the way it should be loved. I'm a loyal Cardinals fan, and I think it's safe to say St. Louis is the best baseball town in America. Go Cards!!