I can't believe that MLB and FOX let it go at just 4 games. There was way too much advertising money to be made by stretching it to seven. Guess the Card's couldn't pull it off. That's OK someone else will pay.

Who were you guys rooting for? I was going for Boston Red socks even though I didn't watch the game hehe (I don't even know whether it was on our sport channels).

Rachel, I'm probably the odd man out on this one as I, too, was rooting for the Sox...albeit not very enthusiastically. They represent the American League, which is the league to which the Texas Rangers (my team of choice) belong, and that's my only logic for going with the Sox.

I predicted the Sox would win in 7 games. I never expected them to win in four straight!

Trying to decide how to react to this news. I didn't believe in "fantasy" baseball until tonight (Thursday, 10/28/04):

Hey, fans, it's the bottom of the first, Game 5 of the 2004 World Series and the Cards have just scored their SECOND grand slam in the first inning off Curt Schilling, who has been retired to the dugout ...

No, really, I think the Boston Red Sox fans should pay the St. Louis Cardinals fans for letting them out of this Bambino thing so easy.

Still waiting for my check.... waiting.....still waiting.......Oh, never mind.

How about we call it a pact to keep the New York Yankees from getting another pennant? Then we could be friends. If the Sox don't knock them off every year, the Cards will, OK? Deal?

I don't want to hear any talk about he curse changing venues after this debacle. (Syntactically there had to be a "bacle," before the debacle, right? What's a "bacle?" If there was one, the Cards lost it, too.)

I was at game 3 with my 15 year-old son. First in-person WS for either of us. We'd camped out for tickets twice before, in '00 (see link) and '02, I think they were. Got WS tix both times, but the Cards didn't make the cut.

This year we tried to camp out but were 100 people behind the cutoff, after six hours in line. Missed getting tix on the phone-in, and the internet lottery, and the second-chance phone in, too. So I went to ebay and bought 'em.

About the middle of the game, I leaned over to the person next to me, and whispered, "Who are these guys in our player's uniforms, and what have they done with our team?"

Cut to commercial starring Brad and me: "Two tickets to the '04 World Series from ebay: way too much money. One baseball cap: $38. One T-shirt: $28. Parking: $20. One bottle of designer water: $4 (the O'Doul's was $3.75. Go figure). Sitting in section 328, upper deck, row thirteen along the first base foul line for the third game of the 2004 World Series with my teenage son: Priceless.

The Cards will inevitably be back.

Go Sox! You deserve the title, World Champions.

A truly gracious response, Larry. I suspect that you're in the minority among your fellow citizens...but perhaps St. Louis has more good sports than I'm accustomed to reading about.

If you could just include the Rangers in your anti-Yankee pact, I think you've structured a deal most of us can live with!