cards vs cubs

as one if my bucket list items, seeing a ballgame in every major league park, i recently took a trip to st louis, to busch stadium, to watch the cards lose one to the cubs in their desperate battle to overtake atlanta for the nl wildcard
carpenter throws over to pujols at first trying to get the base runner


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as i get more processed i may to a thread storyline from the disney hometown museum as i spent most of thursday at marceline





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Looks like you paid some good money for those seats... ; (unless you were able to get them from the ticket office and not a scalper)

 

Those were a couple of crazy games the other night. ; And great shot by the way. ; Having been there many times in the past, you can only work the angles as your seat provides (unless you can smuggle a 300 into the bleachers seats).

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yes that was a great seat, i did pay big dollar through the cards online,. but i bought that seat 5 months ago. section 140, row L, seat 5
parks seen so far
old yankee
shea
citifield
pittsburgh
philly
wrigley
white sox
cleveland
baltimore
st louis

 

so last night to my shame, i discovered that i never finished posting my cardinals game shots on my phanfare site, so while i'll be attending to that over the next week or so, i'll be adding a little baseball here, sort of a keep the faith, spring is coming type of thing. might as well start at the beginning, arriving via light rail at busch stadium. i give high praise indeed to any city that i can arrive at the sports stadia by mass transit. i hate waiting in a parking lot for hours to leave





the address says it all





43 hall of famers, 11 world championships, st louis is a proud town with a rich baseball history

 

The college i attended was one block from a metrolink station. ; We'd hop the train to Union Station for lunch and the odd afternoon ballgame. ; Fyi, the hokey arena is a half block from a station and the football stadium about three blocks away.

 

would that have been washington university?? i ate a mighty tasty breakfast at a coffeehouse right next to the skinker metro stop, the name was kayak if i recalll correctly, corner of n skinker and forest park parkway. i found metrolink to be very good for my visit. took me everywhere i needed or wanted to go.

 

It was a private college of pharmacy located near the hospital campus on the east side of forest park. ; Where you ate is near the heart of the hipsters neighborhood.


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i kind of figured it was hip, the amount of vegan and organic menu kind of clued me in, but it seemed like a nice area, found it on http://urbanspoon.com great restaurant locater site, with a mobil app that works on blackberry and free. have used it with great success so far in vancouver, st louis and chicago. it helped me find great thai in st louis, not an easy cuisine to just casually locate in the heartland

 

3 of the best to ever play the game











my team doesn't have a sign like this out front





the ballparks are like cathedrals, you hit clean balls for batting practice, yeah i was in the show, greatest 21 days of my life

 

i was there early enough to catch a little pre-game stretching and sprinting to keep loose





tony LaRussa, being part of the ceremony honoring the retirement of the head groundskeeper after 50 years with the cardinal organization



tonights starting line-ups

 

You might need to "photoshop" this photo, it's missing a number. ;

 

PLAY BALL!


first hit of the game, a single by the cubs





first cards baserunner





pujols at bat, little did i know at the time i was witnessing some of his last regular season home at bats in a cards uniform

 

that might be next years 2013 stadia tour, due to the home/away scheduling that mlb does for 2 team regions, i'll have to make it a trip where one team is on the last date of a homestand and the other returns home the next series, usually involving a thursday off day, which could become my disneyland day. the only workable 2 team trip this year for me is the last weekend in july, i'll be doing a friday milwaukee, saturday minnesota set, back to milwaukee sunday to fly home

 

carpenter sending one in there





out by a half step





the umpire listens for the sound of the ball hitting the glove while watching the runners feet, if you look you can just see the ball in pujols glove

 

jeff you should, i may put some spring training on the bucket list after i knock off a few more things


warning track power





if i recall this was defensing against the bunt