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Brian's featured in today's Billy Ball daily newsletter:

Bottom of the 3rd OUR MAN ON THE SCENE Brian Reich filed this report –

I was sitting next to the players wives and I should also note, as an aside, that the rally cap really does work. When the Cardinals were giving away the farm, run after run with no out, I flipped my hat around and inside out, the inning ended. Then, with the rally cap still in place, the Cards started to make a comeback. But I think the baseball gods knew I was a visitor and when only a few rally caps popped up in the crowd, the momentum stopped.

Jim Edmonds fulfilled the ultimate defense/offense great baseball moment... A fantastic over the shoulder, Willie Mays style catch in center, then a homerun the next inning.

The Mets shortstop, Jose Reyes, tried a little trickery - 'flubbing' a liner from, I think, Scott Rolen, in an attempt to force a double play. The umpire used good discretion in calling it an out and we all got a good laugh out of it.

With the rain today, the local news is already saying that the game may not start today until 10pm (11pm EST) - if major league baseball wants to start a game at 10pm. Otherwise they would obviously lose their travel day - play tomorrow then go to NYC.

Good fans, but a lot of them left early when the Cards got down. That's sad - this is the playoffs, not just some ordinary game. Maybe I don't have the perspective these guys in STL have, because my team, the Mariners, aren't in the playoffs every year. But I think every game in October is special, every inning provides new life - even in a game as lopsided as the one last night became. But the stands should have been filled to the end and they weren't.

Thanking you, Brian.

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