Milwaukee vs St. Louis - hotels and tickets

I'm done with predictions. Even SI sports writers are 50/50 on all of these series. You just can't tell who's going to win. So I'm just watching the games.

At the same time, I've scooped Milwaukee and St. Louis for tickets and hotels. Yikes. Milwaukee is heavily booked - you can barely get a room in even a crappy downtown hotel and all the good ones are full. Big convention on or something. St. Louis you can get a nice room for reasonable $ right by Busch stadium and the Arch thingie. And Cardinal tickets are cheaper. And Detroit is all cheap. So I booked hotels for Milwaukee and St. Louis. And may get tickets for both teams. Flights are the real stress. Hope someone makes this a definitive series win soon!!!

Edit - I boughts tickets for Oct. 20. Given that this is Dad's birthday, I didn't want to risk missing out somehow or getting stuck with bad seats. So I've bought tickets for Oct. 20 for both the Brewers abd cardinals, and pretty good seats too - I'm very excited. Especially if game is at Busch Stadium we'll be in section 249, which is part of the "Redbird Club" which is attached to a climate controlled (yeah in Late October!) place for food/drink/bathrooms. Will be a nice perk if it's cold or rainy. If at Miller park we'll be in section 227, which is decent and close enough to see the silly beer slide guy. Will go cheaper for a game 1 in either park, or in Detroit (where seats are pretty cheap anyway).

Can't wait for games tonight!!!

Family baseball night

Got to hang out with mom and dad last night for the first time since I told dad about this. Was great! Big feed, kids love to visit them and stayed for a sleepover at cottage. Freddie was a tired dude. Tried to watch ALCS game with him on couch but he was tired. Moved him in to mom and dad's big bed with game on in there, set up on pillows relaxing with hands crossed behind his head. "This is AWESOME" he says. :)

So dad and I had a chat. We're going, just not sure where yet. Going to two games. Good thing is, games 1 and 2 can't be too far, either Milwaukee or St. Louis. Both are do-able in our time frame. I've never been to either place nor likely to for any other reason than this trip so neat!

AL is a different story. Texas Rangers I like, but with our timeline it's too far to be manageable. So let's go Tigers. (Too bad Veralander was less than stellar last night). Dad's a big fan of Jim Leyland.

So the plan is this. If the Rangers advance, we'll do games 1 and 2 in the NL team's park. If the Tigers win (more fun!) we'll do game 2 in Milwaukee or St. Louis and game 3 in Detroit.

Wish I could book flights and tickets now but can't. Getting all my $ back from Stubhub. Small consolation is that tickets for all of these teams are quite a bit cheaper than Phillies or Yankees. We'll see!

Out and out

Well, well, so much for predictions. Phillies and Yankees both out IN THE FIRST ROUND due to poorly timed offensive slumps. (Howard, A-Rod and Texiera = awful)

Think about this. Teams with the top 3 payrolls in baseball (Yankees 202 million, Rex Sox 161M and Phillies 173M) are all out before the LCS. Epic fails all around. That's over half a BILLION dollars of futility.

I want to go to Milwaukee. I like that team. Dad?

Tense game 5's

I couldn't, just couldn't watch and cheer for AJ Burnett to win. So I went to bed.  But they won and I'm glad.  :)

It's absolutely painful watching the Phils bat.  Ryan Howard in particular has been AWFUL.
Cards have great hitting.

Both teams are in game 5's with playoff lives on the line.

Go Halladay. He can do it.

Dad - We'll see this weekend how our travel plans are lookin'. If Phils and Yankees both lose (hard to imagine but you never know), we want Milwaukee and Detroit.  This is all good fun.  :)

Two games in

Phillies are not playing their best. Need to win in St. Louis now. I still think they'll get it done...

Yankees are also tied in their series and this game 3 is huge. Can't wait to watch it tonight.

I like texting with mom and dad during games. :)