Your one-stop, baseball-playoff spot
You might have heard by now that the Cardinals are back in the playoffs, clinching their berth Saturday night in Denver behind star hurler Adam Wainwright. (Please feel free to drop your congratulatory messages for me in the comments thread below.) The 2009 National League Central Division Champions have already made their case as the National League Team of the Decade with 33 postseason wins during the Aughts, nineteen more than the Diamondbacks and Mets tied for second place.The CM Blog will be there again for you this October, from the first pitch to the last out of the postseason, or until the Cardinals are eliminated, at which point I could conceivably lose all interest. Remember all the fun we had back in 2005 and 2006. You're going to feel as if you have a full postseason pass to sit in the Cardinals Club at Busch Stadium, or even better, on the futon in my Cardinals room at my Des Moines apartment. Hey, I didn't even have a Cardinals room the last time the Birds were in the playoffs! (Disclaimer: Please note that blog viewing during October is technically sold out, but tickets usually become available online to the general public after they are returned from other teams or from Major League Baseball.) This is Beyond Baseball. October. 8 Teams. 1 Champion. Baseball fever-- Catch it! It's FAN-tastic.
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Actress and author Carrie Fisher has adapted her 2008 memoir "Wishful Drinking" into a one-woman stage show that opens on Broadway October 4th. If you can't make it to New York before February, she also has a blog (granted, one with little or no baseball coverage). The force is strong in this one.
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The Pappajohn Sculpture Park opened in downtown Des Moines this weekend, three blocks down the hill from my apartment. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sunday, millionaire philanthropists rubbed elbows with degenerate politicians and curious onlookers across the street from the former landmark site of the Blue Nude Adult Bookstore and Emporium. It's the first civic sculpture garden in Iowa in which the featured pieces were not molded from butter.
posted by CM @ 8:51 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds like its time to buy a new HDTV for the Cardinals room. TA
The Cardinals room was actually the first in the unit to go high-def. The TV in there is just too small for games so big. Or for TV Festivals.
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