Cardinal Nation!

No politics yet today. I am still basking in the glow of the Cardinals 5-2 victory over the Astros last night. What a game and what a series! The Astros were great down the stretch and probably the second best team in baseball by the end of the season. But I couldn't help thinking while the media was hyping Carlos Beltran as the next Barry Bonds or next Willie Mays that the best young slugger in baseball was, in fact, on the field in the series, but his name was the Cards' Albert Pujols, who has averaged 40 HRs and 126 RBIs a year for his first four years in the bigs. And the best center fielder in the league is not Carlos Beltran; as he proved last night, it's Jim Freakin'-Unbelievable-Over-the-Shoulder-How-Did-He-Do-That? Edmonds.

Now the midwestern, salt-of-the-earth Red State Cards move on to cruch the effete, out-of-touch Massachusetts girlie men Red Sox.

Okay, so maybe a little politics got in there. So sue me.