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Protect your House this Holiday
Like a lot of us we tend to travel to see family and friends during the Holiday Season. when doing so many of us leave our house as if we were just going to work for the day. While we may think this is a good idea its not according to Fischer and Frichtel, a leading St. Louis and St. Charles homebuilder. This article offers tips on how to keep your home safe this Holiday Season. Happy Holidays everyone!
Record High Voting by US Citizens
How do you feel about Congress men and women getting re-elected? Well with an overwhelming 76% most US Voters believe that the current members in Congress should not be re-elected. What do you think? Check out the poll below!
Friday, December 2, 2011
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St. Louis Cardinals Head to the World Series... Will the Win it All?
Starting off as what some might deam as a rocky season, the St. Louis Cardinals have somehow managed to win the NLCS. With most people outside St. Louis holding no hope the comeback team has struck again. Does this season resemble a certain 2006 season? Will the Cardnials pull off another World Series win?
According to Mark Townsend here are the five reasons the St. Louis Cardinals will win the World Series.
1. Chris Carpenter is available for two starts and possibly more:
2. The offense will stay hot: The Redbirds can't count on getting help from the Rangers defense like they did from Milwaukee's (LCS record nine errors), or at least I hope they can't. That's not all that fun to watch. But I do think they will continue their offensive roll against another pitching staff that has yet to establish itself in this postseason.
C.J. Wilson(notes) is scuffling a bit and, according to everybody, the impending free agent's value seems to fluctuate with every pitch. Derek Holland(notes) has excellent stuff, but is still searching for consistency. That leaves Colby Lewis(notes) and Matt Harrison(notes), a pair of reliable options, but no more intimidating than Shaun Marcum(notes) and Randy Wolf(notes).
The Texas bullpen will keep St. Louis from maintaining their seven-run average from the NLCS, but Albert Pujols(notes) and friends will keep the pressure on Texas to continue scoring.
3. Tony La Russa's masterful maneuvering: I'll never be the president of La Russa's fan club, but I'll be the first to give credit where it's due. He did a tremendous job guiding his squad through the NLCS without a single outing from a starting pitcher lasting into the sixth inning. That's something that's never been done before — at least not successfully.
La Russa stated during his in-game interview in Game 6 that he hasn't enjoyed having to pull so many strings. I don't believe him — he loves being in the middle of the action, and we know he's going to continue being aggressive in creating good matchups for his pitching staff. With that in mind, I'm not convinced Ron Washington can match wits and or keep up over the course of a seven-game series.
Now, If this were a dugout dance-off, I'd give Washington the slight edge. Anything baseball related, I'll go La Russa.
4. Home field advantage: Hopefully, St. Louis left Prince Fielder(notes) a thank-you note on its way out of Miller Park. Of course it was Fielder's three-run home run — ironically against C.J. Wilson in the All-Star Game — that affords the Redbirds home field in the World Series. That's a big advantage should it go the distance, because home teams have won the past eight Game 7's in the Fall Classic. It also gives St. Louis a comfortable setting to start and finish the series, and could play into the following:
5. The pressure is squarely on Texas: The Cardinals are playing with house money. They were left for dead back in early September — as this tweet from Nyjer Morgan(notes) indicates — and have gone on an improbable two-month run to end up here. Obviously they're going to want to win while they're here, but they're not expected to.
On the other side, the Rangers are the favorites and they're looking to avoid losing back-to-back World Series. They come in realizing it's rare enough to get a second chance, and that a third would be an extreme long shot. That gives us two teams with two completely different mindsets going in, which could develop into a mental edge for St. Louis if it starts the series with a couple wins and/or come home with a chance to win it.
I'm not saying the Rangers will fold, but they could press. If so, the Rangers will end up stunned, like Philadelphia and Milwaukee before them.
According to Mark Townsend here are the five reasons the St. Louis Cardinals will win the World Series.
1. Chris Carpenter is available for two starts and possibly more:
There were several advantages to the Cardinals wrapping up their NLCS victory in six games. The most important? Lining up Chris Carpenter to start Game 1. That gives manager Tony La Russa the option of bringing his ace — and the best pitcher in this series — back twice on short rest in Games 4 and 7, or starting him in Game 5 and potentially having him available in relief in Game 7.
It all depends on how things shake out early in the series, but the flexibility La Russa can enjoy with a well-rested (and reportedly healthy) Carpenter is a potential series-changer.2. The offense will stay hot: The Redbirds can't count on getting help from the Rangers defense like they did from Milwaukee's (LCS record nine errors), or at least I hope they can't. That's not all that fun to watch. But I do think they will continue their offensive roll against another pitching staff that has yet to establish itself in this postseason.
C.J. Wilson(notes) is scuffling a bit and, according to everybody, the impending free agent's value seems to fluctuate with every pitch. Derek Holland(notes) has excellent stuff, but is still searching for consistency. That leaves Colby Lewis(notes) and Matt Harrison(notes), a pair of reliable options, but no more intimidating than Shaun Marcum(notes) and Randy Wolf(notes).
The Texas bullpen will keep St. Louis from maintaining their seven-run average from the NLCS, but Albert Pujols(notes) and friends will keep the pressure on Texas to continue scoring.
3. Tony La Russa's masterful maneuvering: I'll never be the president of La Russa's fan club, but I'll be the first to give credit where it's due. He did a tremendous job guiding his squad through the NLCS without a single outing from a starting pitcher lasting into the sixth inning. That's something that's never been done before — at least not successfully.
La Russa stated during his in-game interview in Game 6 that he hasn't enjoyed having to pull so many strings. I don't believe him — he loves being in the middle of the action, and we know he's going to continue being aggressive in creating good matchups for his pitching staff. With that in mind, I'm not convinced Ron Washington can match wits and or keep up over the course of a seven-game series.
Now, If this were a dugout dance-off, I'd give Washington the slight edge. Anything baseball related, I'll go La Russa.
4. Home field advantage: Hopefully, St. Louis left Prince Fielder(notes) a thank-you note on its way out of Miller Park. Of course it was Fielder's three-run home run — ironically against C.J. Wilson in the All-Star Game — that affords the Redbirds home field in the World Series. That's a big advantage should it go the distance, because home teams have won the past eight Game 7's in the Fall Classic. It also gives St. Louis a comfortable setting to start and finish the series, and could play into the following:
5. The pressure is squarely on Texas: The Cardinals are playing with house money. They were left for dead back in early September — as this tweet from Nyjer Morgan(notes) indicates — and have gone on an improbable two-month run to end up here. Obviously they're going to want to win while they're here, but they're not expected to.
On the other side, the Rangers are the favorites and they're looking to avoid losing back-to-back World Series. They come in realizing it's rare enough to get a second chance, and that a third would be an extreme long shot. That gives us two teams with two completely different mindsets going in, which could develop into a mental edge for St. Louis if it starts the series with a couple wins and/or come home with a chance to win it.
I'm not saying the Rangers will fold, but they could press. If so, the Rangers will end up stunned, like Philadelphia and Milwaukee before them.
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