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October 21, 2006
Death, Taxes, and the Sure Thing in the Garden of Good and Evil
For St. Louis, clearly it was all over just two days before the end of the regular season. Then it was all over again, the day before the first round. Every one knew it. And it was really all over heading into New York. A complete certainty.
But the worst team good enough to make the baseball playoffs is in the World Series, because it kept beating teams that were better but not good enough.
The Cards have played every single pitch as if anything can happen. Leads are not leads, whether runs or games, except in the moment before the next pitch. The only thing that can absolutely go wrong, they believe, is that you're behind when the rules say there will be no more pitches. Baseball's beautiful certainty is that the reason a team wins a game is because they actually played it.
Concept: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "I'm not dead yet."
Photo: moi.
Posted by Malcolm Ryder at October 21, 2006 6:01 PM
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