Rick Ankiel: One Glorious Night At Busch |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 9:15 am |
| Tags: baseball, busch stadium, rick ankiel, st louis cardinals |
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We're gonna get this out of the way first thing, so we can all move on with our days, OK? Thank you. So, Rick Ankiel. We were scheduled to fly out of LaGuardia Airport to St. Louis about 2:45 yesterday, and once we learned Rick was coming, we called our friends we were staying with and decided to go to the game. We were scheduled to land at 4:30 Central Time. Plenty of time. Unfortunately, thanks to the freaking tornado that landed in Brooklyn late Tuesday night, all the flights were delayed, and we sat on the LGA tarmac for two hours, sitting next to a 94-year-old woman who called us "a handsome boy." We landed at Lambert right before first pitch; we cabbed it directly to the stadium, and, sadly, missed Ankiel's first at-bat. But we hung in, and then the eighth inning came, and then ... well, you saw it. We're not gonna get all emotional here, because we figure we've already exhausted your patience will all this, so just a few notes from the night. • Ankiel is [ Full article ] |
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