Happy Memorial Day 2018!

Thank you to the United States of America Armed Forces present and past.  As we celebrate this weekend, with barbecues and get togethers with family and friends let's not lose sight of what Memorial Day means.  Memorial Day is set aside to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation, and to those who are ready to step into harms way to keep us all safe.  I give my personal thanks to the hundreds of thousands of US troops who are serving in various posts around the world. Your bravery allows me to sleep  at night knowing people who want to destroy the United States are being held at bay. Thank you very much!

Huckster Stadium

I had an old friend of mine once refer to Busch Stadium as "Huckster Stadium".  It's been about five years since he said it and the home of the St. Louis Cardinals has become little more than a blatant display of commercialism.  Each year there are more and more advertisements on the outfield walls, each half inning brings sales pitches from the PA announcer and to top it off every part of the game has an "Official Cardinal" sponsor.

I still love the game.  I was there last Thursday and watched the Cardinals beat the Mets 4-3 in 13 innings even though the game lasted over four hours.  (Major League Baseball would say that's not bad for a long extra inning affair, but it's way too long.  I will go into why baseball is played at a snail's pace in a future blog.)

When the game ended I was ready to go back for another game.  But after watching four games in a row on TV.  I am not sure I will go back unless someone gives me free tickets.  And to top it off the 2018 version of the Cardinals is mediocre at best.  The team has a terrible defense and an un-dependable bullpen.  I hope I'm wrong but this Cardinal team will be lucky to finish the season at the .500 level.

Stay tuned for more on this boring team that plays games that are averaging well over three hours each.