Exciting times in baseball...

Scottypuff, Jr. Warning: This post involves the topic of baseball and may be hazardous to his physical health and mental sanity. It does involve your new home of Houston, though, so you might want to pay attention to know what all the fuss is about locally.

We're getting close to October, and wouldn't you know it that the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros are going at it again. If you haven't been keeping up, the Redbirds had a very comfortable seven game lead over the Astros in the National League Central Division. It seemed like a given that Houston's season was pretty much dead and St. Louis would coast into the playoffs. Of course, no one anticipated St. Louis would have one of the worst meltdowns in baseball history, losing seven straight including getting swept by the Astros in four last week.

But leave it to Albert Pujols to pull out what looked to be their eighth loss last night, and hit a clutch three-run homer in the eigth inning to win the game 4-2 over the San Diego Padres and end the losing streak. If this was Columbus, OH, I think people would be rioting in the streets here in St. Louis. With the Astros continuing on their hot streak, this is looking to be a very exciting time down the stretch, and it's not even the playoffs yet.