Getting back to normal

I'm slowly getting back to normal. It's been a whirlwind month so far. Pretty much non-stop since the 1st. But, now I'm back to work and back to church and back to whatever else I was doing or supposed to be doing. What am I doing? Well us St. Louisans are ready for a World Series. We have possibly one of the best Cardinal teams in history. The 1985 Cardinals were in this category too. They lost the Series to the Royals that year. This year it'll be the Yankees of course. The Cardinals are the only team that Joe Torre used to manage that he hasn't beaten in a World Series. He'll be disappointed this year. I was just looking at Stats from 1985. Vince Coleman was earning $50,000 a year! In 1994, his last good year, he earned $ 3,312,500! He didn't play in the '85 series because he was run over by a tarp. Here's an exerpt from the Baseball Library:
With light rain falling on the field, the Busch Stadium grounds crew prepared to roll up the electronically-operated tarp that covered the Astroturf surface during pre-game warm-ups. Unfortunately, the men didn't notice that Coleman was standing on the first base side of the tarp. Before Coleman knew what happened, the cylinder rolled over his left knee and up his leg. He screamed for help but was trapped for thirty seconds before assistance came.

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