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A Game For The AgesYou may remember that recently I had a giveaway of a DVD of Game 5 of the 1985 National League Championship Game. It was part of a series of DVDs called "Baseball's Greatest Games." After last night, A&E needs to make room for another disc.Going into a game that was as heavily hyped as this one was, I was a bit concerned. I mean, how often to these games live up to the advance billing? However, I told my father Thursday afternoon, "You know, the team that scores next in this series might just win it." I was sure it was going to be low-scoring, but this low-scoring? That the Cards score the only run of the game before anyone was out? Which, of course, made for a stressful evening. The mid-evening start time meant I missed parts of the game with the whole bathtime/bedtime routine for the kids, but when I wasn't doing that, I was standing in front of the TV, pacing a little square as I watched the tension continue to increase. My wife, who went back to watch another show, came out in the bottom of the ninth to see me in front of the TV, phone in hand, and asked, "What did baseball fans do without Twitter?" As I told her, I honestly don't know. I'm not sure I'd have stayed sane if it wasn't for being able to share this incredible tension with a number of my closest Cardinal fans. So thanks to all that Tweeted with me last night, even if the last out countdown worried some. Right now, I think the next podcast is going to have our resident historian Bob Netherton as a guest. One of the questions I was planning to ask him, even before last night, was if Chris Carpenter was the Bob Gibson for our generation. He's not going to be a Hall-of-Famer (though if Jack Morris still gets arguments basically for Game 7 of the '91 World Series, perhaps there will be some discussions of Carp) but as Bernie Miklasz stated, last night he sure looked like him. Credit where credit is due to Tony La Russa, who did the controversial to attain the inconceivable. It almost backfired on him--if the Cards don't come back in Game 2, we probably aren't talking about a Game 5 at all--but La Russa knew that if the Cardinals were going to have a chance to win against Roy Halladay in an elimination game, they had to have Carpenter to go against him. There's no doubt that TLR is a baseball visionary and I'm very, very glad that he had the foresight to do just that, apply his vision to this series. We'll talk about the NLCS in the next post. The Brewers and Diamondbacks played their own classic game last night, an extra-inning affair that featured a safety squeeze to tie the game in the ninth. And yet, it was completely overshadowed by a game that will be talked about for a long, long time. Thanks, Chris Carpenter, for giving us a night we'll always remember and for giving this team yet another happy flight.  Leave a comment 5 Comments5 Comments | Leave a commentLeave a comment |
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Congrats on the big win. Quite thrilling for all of you. Enjoy every minute of it.
You know, for all of the talk about TLR's "genius" gamble to pitch Carpenter in game 2, I've yet to hear anyone explain why we really won that game: the offense rallied against Cliff Lee. Without that, the Carp move fails completely. Credit should go to them, not TLR's supposed super-genius.
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You've got a point, Ray, of course, but if TLR doesn't think a bit outside the box and start Carp there (fully prepared to yank him when he had to), there's no chance he can go last night. TLR should get a bit of credit, but agreed, the fact that the team had to rally in that game does get overlooked.
I vote yes for Bob on the next podcast!
Bob will be soon--maybe even next week. I have a Brewer blogger lined up for tonight, though, and I hope to get that one up soon after we talk.