St. Louis Cardinals: Early All-Star break and missing baseball

The St. Louis Cardinals have six games remaining before the All-Star break. The break is usually when baseball goes “silent” save for the regular festivities. I recently took a little break from baseball and boy did I miss it.

The St. Louis Cardinals and baseball are the things that make my summer clock churn. I love the summer for the joy of America’s pastime. That said, my wife and I recently decided to move our family into a new house (to us, the house was actually built in 1903). This little adventure provided me an early All-Star break.

Let me tell you how odd it felt to be away from my St. Louis Cardinals! I missed it. I honestly missed it.

Despite the fact that this season isn’t shaping up to be the wow season of years past, I found myself genuinely lost without the ability to turn on my TV and tune to the St. Louis Cardinals game. My old house was absent the sound of baseball commentary. My new house was absent any sound at all save for us grunting and complaining as we heaved heavy furniture and boxes.

My baseball world went effectively “dark” on June 28 and didn’t see the light until July 3, last night, when the St. Louis Cardinals showed that they actually do have the ability to generate offense.

The likes of Yadier Molina woke his bat that seemed to have gone cold for the better part of this season. The likes of Matt Carpenter and Stephen Piscotty contributed and then the young phenom that is Luke Voit showed that he should never leave the majors again. These were the things that I missed.

Oh, and lest we forget that Adam Wainwright showed that the old man could still muster a win from the mound.

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Finally, there was once again the sounds of baseball in my house. True, I did listen to a few games on the radio while driving from one house to another but that just isn’t the same and those trips were never long enough to really enjoy the game.

Let me add this: I am not a fan of the All-Star break. I always hate the time away from baseball, so imagine my sadness at my recent “forced” (okay, I know, we chose to make this move) absence from baseball!

And boy did I miss some things… I actually missed the Alex Mejia home run. I missed Voit’s first home run. I missed the promotion of John Mozeliak and the promotion/appointment of Michael Girsch as the new GM (that will take some time to figure out how to regularly type that name).

So, long story short, I am glad to be back. That said, let me hope that the St. Louis Cardinals can continue to win as they did last night in their effort to welcome me back to baseball. I sure would love to see them string together some wins as they approach the dreaded “dark” days of the All-Star break.

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What do you love about baseball? What would you miss if you took a few days off? Let me know on Twitter and thanks for reading!