I was twelve. I sat on the floor, five feet from the television. The 2005 incarnation of the St. Louis Cardinals was the greatest baseball team I had ever seen, after the 2004 version of the team, that is. The 2005 team won 100 games and cruised to a division crown, besting second-place Houston by eleven games. It was Game Five of the NLCS and the Cardinals were one out from being eliminated by those very Astros. John Rodriguez struck out swinging. John Mabry struck out swinging. But hope still remained in the five-foot-seven-inch form of David Eckstein.
Ten years ago Albert Pujols posterized Brad Lidge - A Hunt and Peck
