From Drab to Fab

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It's hard to believe that Busch Stadium III is in its third year. Oh how people howled when they learned that Busch Stadium II would be torn down to make way for a new facility.

I've said it many times before to family and friends and I'm not afraid to say it publicly now: I NEVER liked our old stadium. (pictured here early in the construction phase of the new stadium next to it). It was a big old uninteresting concrete bowl. Sure, the arches in the top made it somewhat interesting, but take those off and you have a clone of every other baseball/ football stadium built in the 1960s.

I was at the game Sunday in the "new" place (and the local media have stopped calling it 'New" Busch Stadium thankfully) and thinking that we are fortunate to have such a beautiful baseball stadium for our Cardinals. And it is so much nicer because except for a $20 million loan from St. Louis County it was built mostly without taxpayer dollars.

And by now the "new" stadium is plain old Busch Stadium in its own right. I haven't heard anyone say that they miss the old ballpark. Go Cards!