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Another Octobr, Another Postseason

The rivalry continues between the Cardinals and the Cubs.

Mariah Monkman
Oct 12, 2015
Eastern Illinois University
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Another Octobr, Another Postseason

Ever since I was a little girl I grew up around baseball. My father played it. My brother played it. My uncles and cousins played it. But I never would have thought that I would grow up to love the game like I do now. Some might say, "You're a girl, you can't love baseball." And to those people I say, "pish-posh." I was raised to love the Cardinals. My dad loves them, my uncle loves them, and we get pretty intense about it.

Cardinal Nation is pretty intense. Our fans are loyal. Some may say that we have quite a few bandwagon fans, but who wouldn't when you make the playoffs so many times?

We got Stan Musial, Bob Gibson, Rogers Hornsby, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith, Willie McGee, Red Schoedendienst, Mike Shannon, Jim Edmonds, Yadier Molina, and the list goes on and on. Those are the just some of the greats coming from the cardinals.

In 1926, the St. Louis Cardinals won their first World Series Championship. Since then, they have won 10 other times. They won in 1931, 1934, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1964, 1967, 1982, 2006, and 2011.

This year in 2015, the NLDS is probably going to be the most watched NLDS series in years. The Chicago Cubs vs. the St. Louis Cardinals. One of the biggest rivalries in baseball. Now on my end of things, I'm usually not one to automatically throw the Cubs under the bus and point out their losing streak for the last 107 years, but this year it's different for them with their rookies. I'm not going to be that Cardinal fan who's superior to others and think we have this championship in the bag. It's the MLB for a reason. All the players are good, or they wouldn't be in the MLB.

Don't get me wrong, when I'm sitting in front of that TV screen and the ump makes a bad call, you bet your butt I'll be calling out those Cubs. And when I'm at Busch Stadium, I'll be the one jumping up and down screaming my head off when someone gets a single. I'm even the one who actually participates in the wave, but that's just the Cardinal fan in me coming out. I was raised that way.

It's October again and for us Cardinal fans that just means it's time for another postseason. Welcome to October Cubbies!

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