Third time the charm?

[plasticman]

Couldnt agree more, teams are playing for their lives just to win their division.

The way it used to be.

[Edgorman]

\"Red Barber hea in the catbird seat\"  There was nothing better than Mel Allen calling a homer by Mickey a \"Ballantine Blast\".  The Giants Russ Hodges pitched \"My beer is Rheingold the dry beer\"  with hot girls pics in the subway.  Vin Sculley had to push Shaeffer.  Three teams in NY.  Rivalries that forged lifetime friendships or enemies.

[Edgorman]

Good Hit P Dub.  Enjoy the playoffs!!!

[magicnight]

I was born too late to have enjoyed those years, but - with all due respect to our California friends - I\'ve always believed that the \'50s had to have been baseball\'s apex. After Jackie Robinson and before expansion. Three of the top teams playing within a few miles of each other - one in a charming bandbox (that nearly every new stadium is spiritually modeled after), one in a Manhattan oval with a center field destined to be roamed by Willie Mays, and a place that used to be our version of the coliseum in Rome. The baseball may not be quite the same, and Schaeffer, Rheingold, and Ballantine may be long gone, but at least we have some good beers being brewed here (Brooklyn, Sixpoint, Kelso). Cheers!

[P-Dub]

Edgorman Wrote:
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> Good Hit P Dub.  Enjoy the playoffs!!!

Thanks Edgorman!

A great time at the ballpark, great weather, cold beer, awesome seats.  And another fantastic win.  Being in a packed ballpark can\'t be replicated thru the television. Glad I was there today.  Looking forward to the playoffs, maybe now people will take these guys seriously.  Took them long enough.

[shanahan]

Jack Buck is the only Cardinal autograph I regret not having.  And it wasn\'t just for the baseball...anytime STL needed an emcee for anything, Jack was there for them.  A class act if there ever was one.

Now for the horse racing link...remember his son Joe calling the SA Derby?  Indian Charlie.