Dedication

The Boys from Boston are playing the Cardinals of Saint Louis for a three-game series June 6-8. I'd like to get my hands on tickets for at least one of those games. As a result, here I sit, at 8:12AM on a Saturday morning, in the "virtual waitingroom" of the Cardinals box office. Oh yes, even "virtual box offices" have "virtual waitingrooms," complete with "virtual copies of People magazine from October 2002," I would imagine.

So now my time is being divided up into little 30-second chunks of anticipation, followed closely by crushing defeat, only to be renewed with hope 30 seconds later. I'm committed....or rather, I should BE committed....

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Thank you!