…that Jeff Weaver, left for dead by the Angels in the middle of the season and traded to the Cardinals to promote younger brother Jered, would have thrown the game of his life in the clinching game of the World Series. Unbelievable.
Yep, the St. Louis Cardinals are 2006′s World Series champions. Congrats to them — they put together a hell of a run. Nice to see the National League get a little respect. I was certain that the Tigers were going to pull it off, but their pitching did them in — not so much with the pitches they threw, but with the errors they made. That will go down as the legacy of the 2006 Tigers, and that’s a real shame — they were a great story. But the Cardinals made fewer mistakes, hit the ball better, and put together a string of unbelievable pitching performances from totally unlikely heroes. My hat’s off to them.
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After getting home from my High Schools football game (which we won 3-0 in a second overtime, to become Eastern Confference Champs, beating our all-time rival Woody High, hehe), and, as you stated, it’s indeed to see the NL get a bit of respect, though I was truly rooting for Detroit. They were going so great, and I thought they’d put a spankin’ on STL, though, it didn’t turn out that way (I even had a friendly wager with someone, and I lust lost $15 :P). Congrats to STL!