Let’s just sit back a moment and enjoy what has happened over the last few days. Yes, the Chicago Cubs split a four-game set with the St. Louis Cardinals, but the atmosphere was different. There was an energy in the crowd and for the first time since 2008, the greatest rivalry in baseball lived up to the hype it deserved.
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Even better than games themselves was the enjoyment I had watching the Cardinals lose in ways that are foreign to them. We learned that the Mizzou-Machine was in fact human. Missed opportunities, untimely throwing errors, and a lack of clutch hitting at times cost them.