Bob’s Blog

Friday night, I attended a 50th-birthday bash for my friend, Brent Kemnitz, at Yia Yias. It was a great party, put together by Brent’s great wife, Kelli. It was a who’s who of Shocker baseball. So many former players were there, a list too long to go through. Charlie O’Brien and Mike Lansing were among the group.

Anyway, going to that party meant missing some of the Cardinals’ Game 5 World Series win over Detroit. Which is something I didn’t want to do.

So, at the beginning, I told people at the party not to let me know how the game was going, even though many of them were checking the progress throughout the evening. I was taping the game to watch when I got home.

But, as you might predict, I broke down. As the game got into the later innings, I asked for score updates. And I went to the bar to watch the ninth inning, when Adam Wainwright got the save and the Cardinals won the World Series.

When I got home, I watched the entire game. And I watched it again Saturday morning. Then I watched selected highlights Saturday afternoon.

It’s awesome. I am ecstatic. That this team, which was so beaten up during the final six weeks of the regular season, won a championship is a great story. Can’t wait for spring training.