NL Playoffs, Game 5: How Redbird Nation sees it Today's Redbird Nation summary of Game 5 is a must-read for any Cardinals fan.
As a baseball fan, tonight's playoff games were pure heaven. In the American League you had two eternal rivals grinding away for 14 innings, throwing everything at each other but the kitchen sink. And in the National League you had something even more astonishing. After all the offense, all the Sturm und Drang, of the first four games, we were treated to a novel concept: an endless parade of 1-2-3 innings. It was so brisk and well-played that for awhile there it looked like Cards-Astros was going to end before Sox-Yankees, which began three hours earlier up in Boston. As a baseball fan, I loved it.
As a Cardinals fan, I'm in agony. It's as depressed as I've been over a ballgame in years, if not several years, even decades. The experience was not unlike being smothered by a pillow for two and a half hours, then finished off with a knife to the gut.
Of course, the Cards aren't dead, but their situation is now critical. Continue...