The St. Louis Cardinals are World Series Champs!
Just in case you hadn't heard.
Darrell, not too proud of our home team, and quiet...for now
Darreil, I am happy than a 200 car train going up a 3% grade. I was busy tonight so I could not listen to the game at work, darn customers. Had a late guest that bought so I did not get out till after 9:45. Car radio will not pick up the POS KTRS station (only way it would have been better if KMOX was still the voices of Cardinal Nation). Got home and turn on the TV in the bedroom, for some reason the wife seemed to think she needed to stand in front of the TV?
Headed to the train room where I can pick up the game. All I heard was the last Pitch and "let go cray" and that was all I needed hear!
Just to give you a idea how into it I am and hanging on ever word on the radio? I just got a new Specturm GE Dash 8-40 C, have not taken the time to run the engine?
Card's Ken
I hate Rust
dgwinup wrote:The St. Louis Cardinals are World Series Champs! Just in case you hadn't heard. Darrell, not too proud of our home team, and quiet...for now
Tiger fan here. Congratulations!!!
I can't be too disappointed. When the season started, I would have been happy if we finished above .500 for the first time in 13 seasons and we made it to the World Series. The way we finished the regular season, I would never have believed we would have made it this far, but you guys probably felt the same way.
The only thing they disappoints me is how badly we played, both offensively and defensively. I've watched my team all year and at times they played like the best team in baseball but then they would revert to playing like the same guys who struggled through 12 losing seasons. I've never understood how pitchers who can throw the ball up to 100 MPH to the plate turn into noodle arms when they throw to a base. The one bright spot was Sean Casey. Since he came over from Pittsburgh in mid-season, he hadn't done squat at the plate and he turned into Reggie Jackson. The good news is our team is still very young and hopefully will be better for this expierience.
It was a great game. I sat in section 431, that is right at the right field fowl pole very top row.So how about those Cards folks?!?!
Glad to see the STL up top after so much hard work.MVP got a Yellow z06 corvette. The siren and fire works last night was a great touch and added to the excitement of us fans. We were so happy in my section that I could feel the stadium moving!Two Cards tickets= $300Two round trip Metro Link Tickets= $8One Big Sprit & One Pretizel w/out cheese= $10.ooOne cup of hot coco= $2.ooOne big beer= $8.oo...............................................Cards as the 06 World Champs!= PRICELESS Game Pictureshttp://www.photolocker.net/images/BakersLayout/img1466.jpghttp://www.photolocker.net/images/BakersLayout/img1478.jpghttp://www.photolocker.net/images/BakersLayout/img1480.jpghttp://www.photolocker.net/images/BakersLayout/img1481.jpghttp://www.photolocker.net/images/BakersLayout/img1483.jpghttp://www.photolocker.net/images/BakersLayout/img1486.jpghttp://www.photolocker.net/images/BakersLayout/img1487.jpg
GO CARDS!Baker
So the team with the worst regular season record in World Series history wins the Championship.
I'd like to say that the better team won last night, but as we all know, the better teams didn't even make the Series.
So this third generation life long Cubs fan offers a sincere Congratulations to the Cards fans on this forum anyway.
I know that 24 year drought was excruciatingly loooong.
Yeah, but gone are the days when baseball teams rode trains to the World Series. Remember "The Natural?" These guys used to relax and stretch out for the train ride home, but now they're shoehorned into airplane seats designed for the body types of anorexic teenage girls. Yeah, it's nice to be big and tall, unless you have to ride on an airplane.
As a Red Sox fan, I feel your pain and understand your thrill at ending a drought. But ours was 86 years. Still gotcha beat there.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasley wrote: Yeah, but gone are the days when baseball teams rode trains to the World Series. Remember "The Natural?" These guys used to relax and stretch out for the train ride home, but now they're shoehorned into airplane seats designed for the body types of anorexic teenage girls. Yeah, it's nice to be big and tall, unless you have to ride on an airplane. As a Red Sox fan, I feel your pain and understand your thrill at ending a drought. But ours was 86 years. Still gotcha beat there.
Oh yes The Natural. The team rode the Santa Fe's Chief even though in the era the movie was set, St. Louis was the western most city in the major leagues.
I wouldn't feel sorry for the players having to fly. Their contract requires the teams to either fly them in first class or buy 3 coach seats for every 2 players so they don't get squeezed in quite as tight as most of us grunts.
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I have seen the Cardinals win 4 WS wins in my lifetime '64, '67, '82, '06 and 4 WS loses '68, '85, '87, '04. I feel for such loyal Cubs fans. But I'm a big Hockey fan and the ST Louis Blues have never won the "CUP". All the years that the football Cardinals were here in STL and never won we got the Rams who have won a Super Bowl. When the teams did travel by train St Louis was the farthest west Major team & we had 2 teams, the Cards & the Browns (who are the Baltimore Orioles now). The teams played in the same ball park (Sportsmans Park) so there was ballgames all the time! One item that I would like to add to my layout would be a ballpark. I have been to a game in Charlston WV and the train track runs just beyound the rightfield wall! You get to see the game + trains! Well now that the season is over maybe I can get some more track down.
Mr. B never took you for a Red Sox fan. Me too!
GUB
tomkat-13 wrote:I have seen the Cardinals win 4 WS wins in my lifetime '64, '67, '82, '06 and 4 WS loses '68, '85, '87, '04. I feel for such loyal Cubs fans. But I'm a big Hockey fan and the ST Louis Blues have never won the "CUP". All the years that the football Cardinals were here in STL and never won we got the Rams who have won a Super Bowl. When the teams did travel by train St Louis was the farthest west Major team & we had 2 teams, the Cards & the Browns (who are the Baltimore Orioles now). The teams played in the same ball park (Sportsmans Park) so there was ballgames all the time! One item that I would like to add to my layout would be a ballpark. I have been to a game in Charlston WV and the train track runs just beyound the rightfield wall! You get to see the game + trains! Well now that the season is over maybe I can get some more track down.
I've been a Tiger fan since 1959 and this was only the third time I've seen them in the WS and the first time I've expierienced them losing one. They exceeded expectations so much this year that I am only slightly disappointed they didn't win it all. The team is young and should be even better in the next few years. No excuses. St. Louis just played better.
I fondly remember the days when there were just 16 major league teams in just 10 cities. Half the teams were on the eastern seaboard and half the cities had more than one team with New York having three. I fell in love with baseball about the same time I fell in love with trains.
I've toyed with the idea of a ballpark but to do it justice would be a space hog, even on my rather large layout. Instead I'm going to find a picture of an old ballpark and make it part of my backdrop so you can see it between the background structures, suggesting a ball park that is several blocks away from the modeled area. I suppose if you were real ambitious you could create one facade of a stadium and make it a background structure. I do plan to have a place where the track passes beyond the outfield fence of a Little League field. When I was young, many of the parks we played out had tracks running along side them. Even this modest project will require some space as the foul lines will need to be over 2 feet long from home plate to the fence in order to be the right size. The ideal location would be inside an end of table curve.
Little boy was talking with a judge so the judge could decide who the child would live with. Judge asked "do you want to live with your dad"? No say the little boy, dad beats me! Hum said the judge "so you want to live with your mon then"? No said the little boy, mon beats me to! Confused the judges ask "then who do you want to live with"? Boy said the Cubs, they don't beat any body!!!!!!!
One track, just a joke I heard. I hate it when we played the Cub's. Friend of mine in the windy city explained for what ever reason the only time the Cub's played well was when they where up aginst the Cards for some reason?
Cuda Ken
In some parts of the new STL ball park you can sit in your set and watch the trains or you can stand out next to all the selling booths and see the trains.It's nice to go to the ball game and see trains at night in the city coming across bridges. I now wish I would have taking some picture to show you guys.
Baker