Meet me in St. Louis
"Meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair,
Don’t tell me the lights are shining
any place but there;
We will dance the Hoochee Koochee,
I will be your tootsie wootsie,
If you will meet in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair.”
i only have the utmost respect for the history of the st. louis cardinals franchise. i've been to old and new busch stadium. my lovely bride and i spent our first anniversary at new busch. as a christmas gift the following year she bought me old stadium seats from old busch that now sit in my "baseball room." i've met hall of famer lou brock and got his autograph. i have an original saturday evening post, the one where there's the image of stan "the man" musial in front of his locker, autographed. some of my all-time favorite players are cardinals. i have an ozzie smith and bob gibson jersey hanging in my closet.
but for the second year in a row my local nine, the rangers, are fortunate enough to make it back to the world series [you may recall they lost 4-1 last year to the giants, who hadn't won one since moving west to san francisco] but this season i believe they are deeper, stronger and better than last year's rangers team.
it's difficult enough to win back to back pennants [photo above is from saturday night's pennant clinching game celebration over the tigers.] the rangers join the '92-'93 blue jays and the '98-'00 yankees as the only A.L. teams to do it since 1990. and i am very thankful that the rangers have won two A.L. pennants now in my lifetime.
"Meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair,
Don’t tell me the lights are shining
any place but there;
We will dance the Hoochee Koochee,
I will be your tootsie wootsie,
If you will meet in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair.”
i only have the utmost respect for the history of the st. louis cardinals franchise. i've been to old and new busch stadium. my lovely bride and i spent our first anniversary at new busch. as a christmas gift the following year she bought me old stadium seats from old busch that now sit in my "baseball room." i've met hall of famer lou brock and got his autograph. i have an original saturday evening post, the one where there's the image of stan "the man" musial in front of his locker, autographed. some of my all-time favorite players are cardinals. i have an ozzie smith and bob gibson jersey hanging in my closet.
but for the second year in a row my local nine, the rangers, are fortunate enough to make it back to the world series [you may recall they lost 4-1 last year to the giants, who hadn't won one since moving west to san francisco] but this season i believe they are deeper, stronger and better than last year's rangers team.
it's difficult enough to win back to back pennants [photo above is from saturday night's pennant clinching game celebration over the tigers.] the rangers join the '92-'93 blue jays and the '98-'00 yankees as the only A.L. teams to do it since 1990. and i am very thankful that the rangers have won two A.L. pennants now in my lifetime.
but now it is time to see if they can carry the banner for an entire league.
as it sinks in for me and we are roughly 48 hours away from game one of the fall classic, the texas rangers are happy but not satisfied.
#oneextrahanger
1 comments:
'Bout time you update your blog!
Great article. I'm still laughing at your kid like joy knowing you have the treasure of a lifetime in Buster Olney's autograph.
jeff
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