Cards make history

The St. Louis Cardinals jut won the World Series, an amazing feat considering they only won 4 of their final 14 games of the regular season to end the season with an unimpressive 83-79 record. Just about a month ago, I wrote saying they might choke in the central division race with Houston. Perhaps it helped that they were playing the Detroit Tigers, who, in the regular season, had won just 19 of their last 50 including their final 5.

Collapse of the Cards?

Are we witnessing the biggest sports team collapse ever?

The St. Louis Cardinals are 1-7 in their last 8 game and are now 81-76. The Houston Astros have won 8 straight and are at 80-78. Both have 4 games left (Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun).

If the Astros & Cards finish within 1/2 game of each other....
(for example, the Cardinals go 2-2 and Astros go 3-1)

Then St. Louis will have to make up a missed game next Monday against San Francisco.

If they are tied following that game, then they play 1 game playoff on Tuesday in Houston.

Xinjiang Food & World Cup

Yesterday Yang Xi "the computer man" came over to help fix some problems with the laptop. Afterwards a group of us went to eat Xinjiang food:



We then made it our goal to stay up late enough to go watch the World Cup together. So after eating dinner we came back over to my apartment and talked and played cards until 3 am. Then we rode our bikes over to McDonalds on Guangdong Lu to watch the 3rd Place World Cup game between Germany and Portugal. Afterwards, I stayed up burning DVDs but the others all took a short nap at my place. Here's Yang Xi trying to sleep...



Germany won the game 3-1 by the way. I was rooting for Portugal, whose Chinese name putaoya translates to grape teeth!