Great Seats

Emerson has a Luxury Suite at Busch Stadium where the St. Louis Cardinals play baseball. The Emerson Luxury Suite is right behind home plate and one level below the radio announcers. Since we also get food, drinks and our own bathroom, it is hard to get a better seat. Occasionally, our division has the opportunity to use the suite for a game. Since they typically have more people wanting to go to the game than tickets available, they sometimes ask who wants to go and randomly pick names. This time they gave the tickets away in pairs for last Friday night’s Baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. I was one of 8 people to win two tickets.

I would have taken my sweetheart on a date, but she is in Utah being the best mom in the world, so Joseph agreed to go with me in her place. This was the first game played after the All Star Game. This is a photo of the field in the 1st inning. If you look at the grass, you can see the image of the arch and courthouse in the way the grass was cut.

Chris Carpenter was pitching, so I thought the Cardinals had a good chance of winning. In the 4th inning, Albert Puhols started the scoring with a home run. When he came up in the 6th inning, the first 3 pitches were not even close to the plate. The crowd booed the pitcher for not giving Albert anything good to hit. He then threw the next pitch right over the center of the plate. Even though it is standard instruction for the Cardinals that you let a 3-0 pitch go without swinging, Albert blasted another homerun.The Cardinals scored 2 more runs in the 7th and again in the 8th. Carpenter left the game after 8 innings leading 6-0. The D-backs scored a run in the 9th off a relief pitcher, but it was still a fun game. Since I was there for the win, I can ignore the fact that the Cardinals have lost 3 out of the last 4 games since the one I went to.
At this game, as we filed into the stadium, they were passing out Puhols T-shirts. The only size was X-Lg. Joseph is hoping that washing in hot water and drying them on high heat will shrink them down to fit a thinner frame. Here is a photo showing the front and back of the shirt.