Spring Cleaning: My Videos
Just cleaning some videos out of my Powershot A540 from between the end of the last regular season and now, so there were a lot of 2006 postseason clips. Today we launched our Spring Training area (and countdown clock) on MLB.com, so I guess you could consider this my own spring cleaning.
Let's start with the carousel in Big Cat Country, which is a kids area inside of Comerica Park in Detroit. I took this between innings during Game 3 of Yankees vs. Tigers in the American League Division Series.
Cardinals at Mets, Shea Stadium, National League Championship Series. We would wind up coming back there for Games 6 and 7. It was drizzling when I took this. But it was not one of the four rainouts I enjoyed.
We were in St. Louis during the NLCS, and this was Carlos Beltran heading from the batting cage to the clubhouse to get ready for another big night. Watching Beltran play is a thing of beauty. Hanging around the cage is one of my favorite things. Players go through this same routine virtually every day from late February through September and sometimes through October. The cage is their world. It is where perfection happens.
Cardinals celebrate the NL pennant at Shea, following one of the greatest games I have ever seen. Then it was onto the World Series. At the end of this video, that's Mookie Wilson -- who hit the fabled World Series grounder through Bill Buckner's legs in this very ballpark 20 years earlier -- celebrating with his boy, Cardinals outfielder Preston Wilson.
John Cougar Mellencamp played in the Bluebird Lounge at Indiana University when I was a student there. He was just "Cougar" then. Here, he performs "This Is Our Country" before a World Series game in Detroit on a cold October night.
Memo to my friends at Six Apart: How come there is a 50MB max on video uploads here and twice that on gootube? Most of my videos won't work here at VOX so I had to cancel a ton of attempted downloads that stalled. I'm still trying to fit my midnight/balldrop video from New Year's Eve in Times Square on my gootube page; it's barely over 100MB. Anyway, I would love to post Cardinals World Championship celebration footage from Busch here but it's over 50MB. Here's a typical pic from the parade after the World Series, by the Stan the Man statue.
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