The 2011 World Series starts tomorrow, the 19th, and features the Rangers of Texas and the Cardinals of St. Louis.
Both teams closed out their championship series in convincing fashion pounding the baseball all aroundArlington and Milwaukee
Both teams closed out their championship series in convincing fashion pounding the baseball all around
The Rangers Nelson Cruz set a single playoff series record with 6 homeruns and was named the MVP while the Cardinals David Freese earned the same honors for St. Louis
The Cardinals have the better starting pitching in this series but simply because the Rangers might not have the horses to start games, they have a nice bullpen and have the power to overmatch the Cardinals.
The Rangers return for the second straight year to the World Series but the Cardinals are no strangers to it either. They won it in 2006 and have Albert Pujols. I know that every time I write about baseball that I mention his name. But he is the premier player in the league and, as such, deserves the mention. After all, look where his team is right now.
The Cardinals have the better starting pitching in this series but simply because the Rangers might not have the horses to start games, they have a nice bullpen and have the power to overmatch the Cardinals.
The Rangers return for the second straight year to the World Series but the Cardinals are no strangers to it either. They won it in 2006 and have Albert Pujols. I know that every time I write about baseball that I mention his name. But he is the premier player in the league and, as such, deserves the mention. After all, look where his team is right now.
Ron Washington’s Rangers starters need to hold off the Cardinals for a good 6 innings in each game or they are doomed again. Five inning “quality” starts aren’t going to get the job done, I imagine, especially on this stage. But this is going to be a tricky thing for them.
But the Cardinals staff has its own worries. Michael Young, clean-up hitter and future hall-of-famer now, is now on fire getting locked in at just the right moment. That’s fuel on the fire that Cruz lit against the Tigers. The Cardinals can’t pitch around these guys either because there are 5 other guys in the lineup who hit at least 24 homeruns this season.
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Will there be any new-found heroes this year? Will the stars we already know are stars, like Young, Pujols, Adrian Beltre, Chris Carpenter, Josh Hamilton, Berkman, Matt Holliday, or Cruz add to their stature? Will there be one of those “goat” moments or a black-cat kind of moment which will go down in baseball lore?
Wednesday we will begin to find out.
But the Cardinals staff has its own worries. Michael Young, clean-up hitter and future hall-of-famer now, is now on fire getting locked in at just the right moment. That’s fuel on the fire that Cruz lit against the Tigers. The Cardinals can’t pitch around these guys either because there are 5 other guys in the lineup who hit at least 24 homeruns this season.
Normally the DH rule has an effect on the
Will there be any new-found heroes this year? Will the stars we already know are stars, like Young, Pujols, Adrian Beltre, Chris Carpenter, Josh Hamilton, Berkman, Matt Holliday, or Cruz add to their stature? Will there be one of those “goat” moments or a black-cat kind of moment which will go down in baseball lore?
Wednesday we will begin to find out.
I am a news junkie and particularly a political news junkie. But I am now currently interested in odd news stories from around the world. To be precise I am interested in finding headlines that stick out as odd to me. For example…
The main reason is to discuss them on the Dungeon of Manlove show. They provide good fodder on which the cast can opine. These conversations get pretty interesting and often times funny as our diverse group of misfits provides a unique blend of commentary.
If you’d like to hear examples of that, you know what to do, but I really bring up this point to bring up a different point.
The Holidays will be upon us soon and as soon as Thanksgiving hits I stop reading the news. Even though we will be in an election year and there are extra things to think about and discuss, I try every year to keep as far away from the news as I can so that I can enjoy the season.
This will be particularly important this year as I have all the classic symptoms of depression once again. Whether this is a chemical issue or just the result of an awful year, there is little doubt about this.
I was in the gym a week or so ago and was watching a screen talk about depression and its symptoms. Now, I’m not a hypochondriac here; I’m pretty objective about myself when it comes to this stuff. I had everyone they listed. It was depressing to read that I was depressed!
But certainly not shocking. This means taking proactive measures wherever possible short of checking in with a doctor for medication. That is one place where I will not turn unless as an absolute last resort. As a recovering person diagnosed with depression a long time ago in a rehab clinic I was pretty pissed off when I was prescribed anti-depressants when I was trying to rehabilitate myself from self-medicating for far too long.
Staying away from the news is one of those ways. Now I did just start my political blog under my fake name so I might have started that too soon since I might have to take the holidays off from it. But since it’s my fake name, no one will care even if anyone finds it anyway.
If you’d like to hear examples of that, you know what to do, but I really bring up this point to bring up a different point.
The Holidays will be upon us soon and as soon as Thanksgiving hits I stop reading the news. Even though we will be in an election year and there are extra things to think about and discuss, I try every year to keep as far away from the news as I can so that I can enjoy the season.
This will be particularly important this year as I have all the classic symptoms of depression once again. Whether this is a chemical issue or just the result of an awful year, there is little doubt about this.
I was in the gym a week or so ago and was watching a screen talk about depression and its symptoms. Now, I’m not a hypochondriac here; I’m pretty objective about myself when it comes to this stuff. I had everyone they listed. It was depressing to read that I was depressed!
But certainly not shocking. This means taking proactive measures wherever possible short of checking in with a doctor for medication. That is one place where I will not turn unless as an absolute last resort. As a recovering person diagnosed with depression a long time ago in a rehab clinic I was pretty pissed off when I was prescribed anti-depressants when I was trying to rehabilitate myself from self-medicating for far too long.
Staying away from the news is one of those ways. Now I did just start my political blog under my fake name so I might have started that too soon since I might have to take the holidays off from it. But since it’s my fake name, no one will care even if anyone finds it anyway.
Autumn does have a positive effect on me though. The summer really drains me and is a reason why I get down in the dumps. It’s totally opposite of most people, I know. I’ve been fortunate to have a few shows this month which have taken me to a couple of areas where I can enjoy watching the leaves change in the mountains. It has been sort of tempered by the fact that my dog is gone but it still helps. Driving, and driving to see as much territory as possible, is one of my favorite things to do.
Well, there are lots of things I need to do and not a lot of money to do them, so I guess that I’m off and I’m
Done.
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