Just got back from the game. I want to thank Terry (don't know if I should give his screen name) I bought his seats. We were 2nd row right behind the visitors on deck circle. Around the fifth inning, the family in front of us left, so we moved down to the front row. You -really- need to keep an eye on the ball sitting there- ticks or odd hops come in pretty hot, some lady two rows behind us to our left took one in the melon. Lots of souvenir balls given out to our row. (all kids) the lady to my right had a ball bounce off the dirt, into the bottom half of the railing, off the top of the padding, to the bottom of the railing again and land right in her daughter's glove which was laying on the ground at her feet. I saw things of a game I've never seen before. We saw into the dugout and caught signs. I could hear some of the on deck hitters cut the air with their practice swings. I saw Benji Molina take a pounding behind the plate: man, that poor dude is gonna be hurting later tonight or tomorrow. Mary wished Pujols luck in their playoff run and said she thought the cards would win the World Series, but he didn't respond. I told Grudzielanek I wished him well in the playoffs and he looked back at me nodded his head and said "thanks". Cool. Nothing major, but cool. I hope the Cards rep the NL Central well in the playoffs. I could hear the ump make all the calls, I could really see the pitches come in, and got sight lines and sounds of the game you just don't get in other locations. For the cost of those seats I half expected to hear better baseball conversation, but it didn't quite happen. Oh well, Mary and I totally appreciated what we had. My thanks again to Terry.