Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 27, 2003
Crowded House

Brian Hipp writes me that the Royals are expecting 120,000 for the weekend series vs. the Cardinals.


Even though they're not in our division, this is the biggest series of the year for most Royals fans, as it is our chance to put snobby Cardinals fans in their place and remind them that we won the 1985 World Series, that they haven't won a World Series in 21 years, and that of the 9 World Series Titles they always talk about, we're pretty sure 7 of them came in the 1920s and 30s, so we're not real impressed. Yes, we will concede that the Gas House Gang was a great team and Frankie Frisch was quite a hurler, but let's get real, Cards fans.

We also get to remind Cardinals fans that although Don Denkinger blew that call, it occurred in Game 6, and we did win Game 7 11-0. It's not Denkinger's fault that Jaoquin Andujar had a meltdown and the rest of the Cards folded the next day. The Reds still won the 75 World Series after Fisk's famous shot, but the Cardinals just bitched and whined and gave up in 85.

We might have a bigger rivalry in our division if our closest foe wasn't 8 hours from here.


Any snobby Cardinals fans want to respond?

It's good to see people are starting to turn out for the Royals games. I hope it continues when Cleveland and Detroit come to town.

Update: Shawn Weaver points out that Frankie Frisch was not a hurler.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:32 AM | Fan Rant | TrackBack (1)