SO BLUE

I've been in shell. As in shell shocked.

I can hardly function. But I predicted it. I didn't have a good feeling. Sometimes I hate it when I'm dead on.

It's hard to put a label. Hard to pinpoint. But it was there even though it was covered up. Hidden. Masked away.

The St. Louis Cardinals were lost. And they couldn't re-coup.

For nearly two months they were baseball's best team. Maybe the Cardinals best team ever. But it wasn't at the right time. Not if they wanted more than a divisional championship. Which is all they achieved this season after being swept by the Dodgers in the first round of the NL playoffs.

As I was finishing the last piece of a a doctored up frozen California (irony) pizza at the end of Game 2, I was all set to arise and announce to my wife "Now who has home field advantage?"

It didn't happen because Matt Holliday dropped a fly ball that glanced off his gut. The writing was on the proverbial wall. The Birds on the Bat lost and succumbed (does suck come from that word?) on Saturday night 5-1. One (series) and done.

So, I'm blue. Some losses are harder to get over than others. This was one of those kinds. Hopefully it won't last as long as the 1985 World Series or 2002 Super Bowl loss, but it could.