Game 1: The chess-match between Tony LaRussa and Ron Washington
Game 2: Cardinals bullpen collapse in the 9th Inning
Game 3: Pujols 3-HR game in Texas
Game 4: Derek Holland's masterpiece pitching performance
Game 5: The Cardinals "Bullpen Communication Mishap"
Game 6: The "Nelson Cruz" game (History will apply this name soon)
Game 7: Cardinals take it home, wins 11th World Series title!!!
Either way, the Cardinals will have to send a Thank-you basket to one team. Just remember, one month ago today that the Cardinals wasn't even in the Playoffs, but with the collapse of one team is another team's championship run. This one team, which I'll name shortly, had a death-grip on the NL Wild Card for it seems to be all season long. I wonder how the Atlanta Braves are feeling this morning, knowing that this could have been their championship. Either way, it doesn't matter but it's compelling to see what WOULD of happened if the Braves did make the Playoffs. This kind of reminds you of another championship game played earlier this year (Super Bowl) that had a team who was loaded in the Pittsburgh Steelers and a team that wasn't suppose to be there, but somehow made the final cut in the Green Bay Packers.
Anyhow, my last blog was about should MLB change the Home-field Advantage rule in the All-Star game for future purposes. Now I am sure that most of the "Expert Analysis" will say that this doesn't matter and stuff like that, but ask the Texas Rangers fans this. The Rangers had a better record then the Cardinals but had to play Game 7 on the road because of a player, Prince Fielder, who hit a 3-run moonshot in Arizona back in July that gave the NL All-Stars the win and home-field advantage. Now I am not the one to say that if the Rangers had home-field that they would won, but you gotta look at it from that prospective. Rangers we're the best home team in the playoffs, record-wise, and they have the "loudest" stadium of all the playoff teams (Okay I am poking fun at the Game 5 fiasco with the Cardinals Bullpen phone). I guess we'll never know how this series would of turned out had the Rangers played Game's 6 & 7 at home instead of on the road.
For the Cardinals, we should expect some "gifts" of some sort being sent to the Braves and to Prince Fielder. Or a simple THANK YOU PRINCE FIELDER for aiding the Cardinals to an 11th World Series championship. As for the Rangers, we all hope they can recover from this and win their 1st World Series championship soon. Just hope that Nolan Ryan doesn't do too many changes to a team that I feel is a championship-caliber team.
Congratulations to the St. Louis Cardinals.
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