October 10, 2019
Cards Scalp Braves
Timothy Birdnow
The Red Mitred Ones (the Cardinals) scalped the Braves in a 13 to 1 bloodletting. They advance to the championship series in the National League.
I'm gratified. Not so much because I live in St. Louis, but because it will make coastal teeth grind down like Indians grinding corn to meal, and because sportswriters will cry into their latte's over flyover country besting the coastal elites. St. Louis won the Stanley Cup earlier this year, which I am sure made them most unhappy (the announcers kept referring to the Bruins as if they were the home team, even when in St. Louis) but, hey, that's hockey! Nobody expects civil behavior from hockey people, right? Baseball is different. If the flyover country Cardinals win it all this year, St. Louis, the midwesternest of midwestern places, will show up the Supermen of the coasts. It will be like Jesse Owens embarassing the Nazis, or Joe Lewis knocking out Max Schmelling. Intolerable! THEY are the superior ones, not those hayseed, hillbilly, God and Country types in Middle America! (Well, out side of St. Louis proper, that is; STL is as much an east-coast liberal enclave as Philadelphia or Trenton N.J.
So I'll choke down a Budweiser in honor of the Cardinals (we have much better beer here than THAT, but the Bush family connection to the Redbirds requires a bad bud brew and later the bud flu.)
Go Cards! I only wish we still had football in this town.
The Red Mitred Ones (the Cardinals) scalped the Braves in a 13 to 1 bloodletting. They advance to the championship series in the National League.
I'm gratified. Not so much because I live in St. Louis, but because it will make coastal teeth grind down like Indians grinding corn to meal, and because sportswriters will cry into their latte's over flyover country besting the coastal elites. St. Louis won the Stanley Cup earlier this year, which I am sure made them most unhappy (the announcers kept referring to the Bruins as if they were the home team, even when in St. Louis) but, hey, that's hockey! Nobody expects civil behavior from hockey people, right? Baseball is different. If the flyover country Cardinals win it all this year, St. Louis, the midwesternest of midwestern places, will show up the Supermen of the coasts. It will be like Jesse Owens embarassing the Nazis, or Joe Lewis knocking out Max Schmelling. Intolerable! THEY are the superior ones, not those hayseed, hillbilly, God and Country types in Middle America! (Well, out side of St. Louis proper, that is; STL is as much an east-coast liberal enclave as Philadelphia or Trenton N.J.
So I'll choke down a Budweiser in honor of the Cardinals (we have much better beer here than THAT, but the Bush family connection to the Redbirds requires a bad bud brew and later the bud flu.)
Go Cards! I only wish we still had football in this town.
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I'm hoisting one in your honor as we speak, Tim. I just MUST gig you on your spelling, because some people will get the wrong impression. I will give you the benefit of the doubt because I understand about your eyesight, but dammit, when referring to the purveyors of alcoholic pop, it's Busch, as you know. Not the political family, a member of whom Ellen de Generes was chumming with the other day -- and unceremoniously got her head handed to her on Twitter by Leftist troglodytes. (For her act, I also hoist a glass in Ellen's honor, and also blow a kiss her way despite her membership on "the other team." She's a gentleman. Her stock rose greatly in my estimation.)
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 10, 2019 09:52 PM (mAEZo)
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Ugh; you're right Dana. I shouldn't have made such a rookie mistaike, being from St. Louis and all.
Good for ED, er, Ellen Degeneress...
Good for ED, er, Ellen Degeneress...
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