I don’t have much analysis to add, but it’s a sweet night for all of us St. Louis Cardinal fans. As a kid growing up in the 1980s, whose limited baseball skills involved speed and defense (with a complete lack of power), becoming a Cardinal fan was only natural. David Eckstein, in so many ways the living embodiment of “Cardinal Baseball,” is your World Series MVP.
And what a relief it was to watch a World Series without either the Yankees or Mets, when another putrid Subway Series once seemed inevitable…
