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Deja Boom!

Most people that know me, know that I have a passion, okay maybe an obsession with the St. Louis Cardinals.  I grew up in Missouri and spent almost every night during the summer either watching a Cardinals game on television or listening to Jack Buck and Mike Shannon on KMOX radio call a Cardinals game.  That was life for me growing up!  I lived, breathed, ate Cardinals baseball.  I remember being upset as a 7 or 8 year old when Whitey Herzog broke up the '82 World Series team by trading away Keith Hernandez for Neil Allen.  Most people would be like Neil who?  Keith who?  But that was my life.  I still love baseball and especially the Cardinals.  So much so that my son has been indoctrinated/brainwashed into supporting the Cardinals himself.  Some of the first English he learned when we got him home to the states was 'Ewww....Cubs!'  Why is all this important?  Well it's because as I was feeding my need/addiction to Cardinals ...