This Day in Baseball History....

[Remembirds]

Just two days after Ozzie Smith inspired St. Louis to “go crazy” with a game-winning home run in Game 5 of the NLCS, Jack Clark finished off the Dodgers with a ninth-inning blast that sent the Cardinals to the 1985 World Series.

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/11/19/ ... 985-nlcs/

[Spider John]

Remembirds, I appreciate your work on this thread.

Reading it in October makes me miss Cardinals in the playoffs.

[Remembirds]

Did Albert Pujols break Brad Lidge in Game 5 of the NLCS 19 years ago today?

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/11/05/ ... 2005-nlcs/

[Remembirds]

Remembirds, I appreciate your work on this thread.

Reading it in October makes me miss Cardinals in the playoffs.

Thanks!

[heyzeus]

Did Albert Pujols break Brad Lidge in Game 5 of the NLCS 19 years ago today?

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/11/05/ ... 2005-nlcs/

One of the greatest baseball moments of my life, and one that more or less ended a casual relationship I had at the time.

[CardsofSTL]

Did Albert Pujols break Brad Lidge in Game 5 of the NLCS 19 years ago today?

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/11/05/ ... 2005-nlcs/

One of the greatest baseball moments of my life, and one that more or less ended a casual relationship I had at the time.

You didn't need that side piece anyway.

[Remembirds]

Cardinals fans who find video of Tom Lawless’s go-ahead, three-run home run off Frank Viola in Game 4 of the 1987 World Series can be excused for thinking that it wasn’t the 30-year-old’s second career home run (video in the article).

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/06/16/ ... -bat-flip/

[Remembirds]

Did Albert Pujols break Brad Lidge in Game 5 of the NLCS 19 years ago today?

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/11/05/ ... 2005-nlcs/

One of the greatest baseball moments of my life, and one that more or less ended a casual relationship I had at the time.

I don't mean to pry, but ... what happened?

[Fat_Bulldog]

Did Albert Pujols break Brad Lidge in Game 5 of the NLCS 19 years ago today?

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/11/05/ ... 2005-nlcs/

One of the greatest baseball moments of my life, and one that more or less ended a casual relationship I had at the time.

I don't mean to pry, but ... what happened?

Yeah, I need to know now too.

[heyzeus]

Did Albert Pujols break Brad Lidge in Game 5 of the NLCS 19 years ago today?

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2023/11/05/ ... 2005-nlcs/

One of the greatest baseball moments of my life, and one that more or less ended a casual relationship I had at the time.

I don't mean to pry, but ... what happened?

Ha so I was living in Houston, and dating a girl from Houston who was a huge Astros fan. It was definitely the early, non-committal stages of the relationship. She was a friend of a college friend. We were watching most of those NLCS games together. During that game 5, she was giving me increasing levels of [expletive] about the Astros winning, the Cardinals run is over, etc etc. The tone was playful rivalry, but also she was getting increasingly chippy as game five progressed. Emboldened.

I remember during that fateful inning telling her "oh look out, if a runner gets on Pujols comes to the plate! He'd be the winning run!" Honestly, I think she was in mid sentence when AP hit The Shot. I just stood up in silence. No taunting. She was silent, i was silent, then I started laughing hysterially.

Anyway, it's not like she stormed out on the spot and never talked to me again. It wasn't the same, and things just fizzled out from there.

She had great boobs though.