H O W A R D S B E N D

I am watching the seventh game of the World Series this past Friday and my wife comes in early in the game and asks who am I rooting for.  Being a pretty typical American sports fan I usually root for the under-dog or the under-dogish type team.  “I guess that I am rooting for Texas as I feel bad that they have never won a World Series and St Louis has 10 World Championships.”

“What!!!! How can you root for Texas? ”  I thought that I was about to get a lecture about the superior managing ability of Tony Larussa versus the abilities of Ron Washington at a critical moment in the game.  I thought it was going to be pointed out that the Cards can score without getting the ball out of the infield.  Maybe I would hear the praise of the Cards pitching staff over their opponents.  Could be as simple as the color of the uniforms?

“I am not sure that I could root for Texas,” she says. “Didn’t Texas give us George W Bush?  Isn’t Rick Perry from Texas.  Isn’t Texas one of the states lowest in educational performance of its students.  Doesn’t Texas rank lowest or near the bottom in healthcare and air quality?    I would like to see the Cards “execute” the Texas rangers one player at a time.  Didn’t  Texas consider seceding from the country?  Maybe the Rangers can secede from Major League Baseball.

Touche’.

In this country there is separation of church and state.  However, there is no separation of sports and state.  Congratulations Cards.  I was there for you from the middle of the seventh game on.