October 20, One of the most dramatic finishes in League Championship Series history ended with Carlos "got your ass looking" Beltran batting in front of a roaring crowd at Shea, bases loaded, two out, bottom of the ninth, Game 7. "Dear Mr. Beltran: Pull up the covers and kiss yourself goodnight."
The Cardinals clinched the pennant when Adam Wainwright got Beltran looking at a stank-nasty curve ball on the outside corner, touching off a St. Louis celebration worthy of 315 bottles of your best champaigne.
We could talk about other highlights of that week, like Yadier Molina going BIG off Billy Wagner in the top ninth to give the Birds the lead in game 7 or So Taguchi doing the same thing only days before, but we'll spare the Met's misery for now and talk about the present, all the while remembering the past.
Fittingly, the Mets and Cardinals kick the 2007 season off with the only game on Sunday. Tom Glavine and Chris Carpenter will be the game 1 starters at Busch Stadium, where the second season gets under way. A three game set spanning from Sunday through Wednesday is set for the Cardinals and Mets, but opening day is where the excitement is.
"It's never been completely routine for me," the 94 year-old Glavine said. "I always feel them. And on Opening Day, the feeling is always a little stronger. It gets you; this is it, this is the beginning of what we're going to do for the next six months and, hopefully for us, a little bit longer. The excitement is part of why we do it.""A little bit longer..." Yea, until you run into Yadier Molina's Lousville Slugger in October.
The Cardinals' starting pitcher was excited as well, "I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward for it to start counting," Carpenter said. "I'm looking forward to the first game. Here we go, it's time to go."Go Time it is, gates open at 4 p.m. and first pitch is set for 7:05. ESPN2 will televise the game, but I would suggest finding a lawn chair, a case of cold Budweiser, and a spot on someone's back porch next to a bar-b-que pit with the soothing sounds of Mike Shannon on KTRS 550.
Get big or go home, It's baseball season!
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How about setting the T.V. up on the back porch with the lawn chairs, and Shannon on the radio? I CAN'T WAIT!!!
That 94 year old pitcher did't do to bad did he?
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/070326&sportCat=nba
Jemele Hill makes good points in her article, stating Kobe is better than Jordan. Who knows? They're both superfreaks, and I hate the NBA so I don't really care.
Kobe certainly lives up to the "next Jordan" expectations better than Harold Minor did, that much is for sure.
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