Huh, how about that?
It's their first one since 1982. I'm sure the poor citizens of St Louis must be so happy, having had to wait so very long and all.
Actually, I am rather fond of Cardinal shortstop David Eckstein. He was on the 2002 World Series Champion Anaheim Angels team that I so enjoyed. That was, of course, before they took on the worst sporting name in all of baseball, no, in all of sports, true, but, in the entire world, getting there ... in the known universe (yes!) - "the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim".
His two Red Sox ties? He was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 1997 amateur draft (although he never played for the big league team) and then he was part of that weird 2004 shortstop shift, when Orlando Cabrera went from the Red Sox to the Angels, Edgar Renteria from the Cardinals to the Red Sox, and Eckstein left the Angels for the Cardinals.
And to the citizens of Detroit, my heart goes out to you, as you haven't won a World Series since 1984. Poor things. Just don't move to Cleveland, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston or San Diego any time soon. Then you'll see real baseball suffering. |
