Not The Best Day For St. Louis

Defeat in the fifth game of the World Series. The Cardinals offense hit the snooze button as they lost to the Red Sox 3 - 1. The match returns to Boston on Wednesday. Our team would have to win both of the two final games to gain the championship, a very tough assignment.

So today we have some strange-ish baseball images. Top, a TV camera's monitor near our seats with a glowering Boston pitcher. Below, a girl whose mother gave me permission to photograph, but between us we could not get to smile. 

Last, there has been a blimp floating over the stadium for the last few days, surreal enough by itself. It had cameras for aerial shots and LED ads for Direct TV. I didn't catch the context of this sequence. Interpret it any way you want. As Archibald MacLeish said, a poem should not mean, but be.          

World Series Game 3 - Cardinals Win

The Cardinals won Game 3 of the World Series on a bizarre play in the bottom of the ninth. Americans have all heard about it by now. My international readers would have a hard time understanding it. We'll take whatever we can get. The Cards are up 2 games to 1 in the best-of-seven contest. 

Carolyn, Emily, Brian, Madeleine the Rally Baby and I are going to Game 4 tonight. Hope I can get something posted. Gotta be at a business meeting 7:30 Monday morning.         

The Big Show

St. Louis is beginning to boil with excitement. The baseball World Series resumes here tonight after a split of the first two games between the Boston Red Sox and our beloved Cardinals in Massachusetts. Souvenir stands and the first few scalpers are popping up in the streets around Busch Stadium.

The Cardinals won the championship in 2011 and 2006. We made the Series in 2004 but got blasted by Boston. Considering that there are 30 teams in Major League Baseball, that's quite a record. The family is going to the game tomorrow night, including Madeleine, the rally baby.

It may be a bit arrogant to call the U.S. baseball championship the World Series. The game is played to a high standard in Japan, Korea, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other countries. Why, there is even a baseball field in Evry, France, although I cannot attest to the quality of play.