Update

Well, this gives me hope. Today's stlcardinals.com email--which they won't stop sending no matter how many times I unsubscribe--offers half price seats for tomorrow's "film premiere." What, there weren't quite as many suckers, er, fans willing to pony up seventy-five bucks to watch TV as they'd originally anticipated? Thank goodness.

At the moment, though, I feel like paying this local writer to read his birthday tribute to local hero Stan Musial; it's a beautiful essay, as the best sportswriting often is. I'm too young to know if that time and place ever really existed as he remembers it, but I hope it did.

St. Louis Cardinals Stan Musial