h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It is 4.57 am and I am watching the cardinals, currently 15-7 up (after two pitchers duels? Do the batters feel left out and want to bring it?. I hold you responsible for this.

The game was a long one, that's for sure. As to your question, it's partly a difference in the way the ballparks are constructed. Rangers Stadium is a hitters part. Busch Stadium is a pitchers park. Syn and I were talking during the game about this and wondering what sort of numbers Pujols would have put up during his career if his home field was easier for hitters.

Do you get the same Fox Sports broadcasts that we do with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver?

No, we get rick sutcliffe and another man whose name escapes me.

The other man is dave o'brien

Neither broadcast team helped my Cards win last night. I have a board meeting tonight so will probably miss the first three or four innings.

Tonight's game has been moved to tomorrow due to rain. You can go to bed early.

Good to know. At least then if it goes to Game 7, I assume it'll be Friday night, so no work in the morning!

Well, no game 7 if the Rangers win tomorrow. It's still best of 7. Game 6 tomorrow and Game 7 if needed on Friday.

Game 6 last night was one of the best WS games I've ever seen. I hope you had the chance to watch it.

Game 7 tonight. WooHoo!

I just watched the half hour highlights package in MLB.com of last night's game. From the 8th onwards,athwart as some of the most exciting baseball I've ever seen.

Not working tomorrow, so will try and stay up for tonight's game 7.

Good result last night to clinch it. Will there be much celebrating going on in your house for a while?

Indeed! This one is very sweet since it wsn't supposed to happen. But my banner listing all of the WS wins is now out of date. What a cool problem to have.

Can you not write 2011 on in marker pen?

It's a largish rectangle. Red fabric with white embroidery for the dates. The location of the 2006 makes it difficult to add another year. But I'm going to see if I can pick out the treads of the 2006 and move the date over enough to put 2011 next to it.

The point where baseball and embroidery meet

You probably think I'm insane. It's just a sports team, right? The thing is, I grew up in a household where baseball was almost a religion. And the Cardinals were always our team. Making the 6 hour drive to St. Louis to the ballpark was a religious pilgrimage. Still is.

Baseball was one of the things my dad and I shared. We listened to all of the games on the radio together. They didn't televise all of them like they do now. He died in 99 before Fox Sports Midwest started making all of the Cardinals games available on TV. Dad would have absolutely loved being able to watch them all. And he would have been thrilled at the run the cards made the last 2 months.

I can't NOT be a cardinals fan. It just isn't possible. No matter how lousy they are some years, they're my team. I remeber the first time I went into their museum and saw all of the World series trophies. I got shivers down my spine just looking at them. Now there's a new one I'll have to go take a look at.

I don't think your insane in the least. I have a similar obsession. The Everton Football Club. A soccer team based in Liverpool, we have the fourth most league titles of any club (behind Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal).

I don't know how I'd react if we won the league. Because the most recent of our nine titles was in 1987, and I was five years old. In 1995, we won the FA Cup ( a knock out tournament for all English football clubs), and I still have my VHS tape recorded that day.

About three years ago, I was at a game where we beat Sunderland 7-1, an outrageous score for a soccer game. I was so hyperactive afterwards, you would think I was on drugs. When they released a souvenir DVD of the game, I bought it and it still sits on my bookshelf. As does the video of a game in 1985 when we won the European Cup Winners Cup ( a tournament for the winners of the FA Cup and equivalent in other countries in Europe).

But because I never saw the glory years, I don't know what it's like to see the team that is built into your character win the title. But I can imagine. And THAT is why I'm glad the CArds won. Because I don't know any Texas Rangers fans, and I like to think how happy you must be having just seen the Cards win the big show (and in such style as well- Game 6 was immense).

Enjoy it. Treasure it. Give it an importance it doesn't *really* deserve. That's what sport is. It's what takes our minds off real life and, once in a while, has the potential to make us blissfully, nonsensically happy

I hope Everton gives you a championship soon. You're spot on about what an amazing feeling it is. It's a rush that is hard to explain to people who don't follow a particular team like we do.

I'm old enough to have experienced a few of the Cards 11 WS wins. The first one that I clearly remember was the 1964 series with the Yankees. That one held special importance for the people in my area. That was the year that the Boyer brothers played against each other. Ken was the third baseman for the Cards and Cletis was the third baseman for the Yankees. These guys grew up less than 5 miles from me. And Mickey Mantle was still playing for the Yankees. He grew up just across the state line in Commerce, Oklahoma and started his career in Joplin. Joplin had a minor league team that was owned by the Yankees when Mick was starting out. And when Mick was young, he worked for the same company my dad did. This is a long way from New York, but it was Yankee country in those days. A WS between them and the Cards was as good as it gets.