ワールドシリーズに行っているよ。
Cards beat the Mets to win the National League Championship Series.
The New Busch Stadium, one of the venues for the 2006 World Series. photo by Martin
ジョナはとてもうれしいです。彼の一番チームは勝ちました。彼の二番のチームも勝ちました。そして、彼の二つチームはワールドシリーズに対する。そして、いいと思います。ゲームを見る楽しみにしている。ジョナはいつも野球について話して、新聞で野球について読んで、ウエブサイトで見て、野球を大好きです。 マティんはジョナとボールを投げたり、掴んだりします。夏休みで、三つ野別の町のアメリカで三回野球のゲームを見に行きました。とてもよかったです。
So it will be the St. Louis Cardinals against the Detroit Tigers. Jonah's #1 and #2 favorite teams. How can he lose? It will be a great series no matter what. But not so fast... Jonah likes the Tigers, sure... but he LOVES the Cardinals. I asked him if he could deal with it if the Tigers won. He thought about it for awhile and said, maybe... but not if the Cards got beat really bad. "But they won't" he said... "They'll win!" Die Hard Fan.
Here is Jonah at the Cardinals game last summer with his Uncle Chris, who's a nice guy, great with kids, has a job, not presently married, and always enjoys talking about baseball with Jonah, plus+++ he lives in St. Louis, home of the CARDINALS, so when we visit we always go to a game. 
Yes, during this summer's Homeleave we took the opportunity to see three major league baseball games. I enjoy encouraging Jonah's interest in professional baseball, both the US teams and the Japan teams. Jonah always talks to me about baseball, we follow the Lions here, we check the newspaper and the websites all season long to keep up with the Cards and the Tigers and some of the others. Sometimes theres a game on TV here. It's Martin who always plays catch with him, and takes him to the batting cages to nurture 
the participative, athletic side of baseball.
And here's the other venue for this year's World Series, CoAmerica Park, in Detroit, Michigan. Another brand new ballpark. Since we'll probably live in Detroit some day, Jonah pragmatically chose the Tigers as his number two team. We saw a game there in July with our good friends, Kirk and Vicki and the kids. We had lousy seats, the sun was in our eyes, the Tigers lost, but it was really fun anyway.
I loved these statues of the baseball greats who played for the Tigers. There were many. I grew up in Michigan and still remember Ernie Harwell, the radio announcer for the Tigers games. My Dad would listen to the games on the radio while he worked, building the house. It's a great team. I just might root for the Tigers while Jonah cheers for the Cardinals just to make it more interesting.
We had really good seats for the Cubs vs Brewers game in Milwaukee, thanks to Robert. That was so fun. A tailgater, which I mentioned here some time ago. All these parks were really nice. People that work in the stadiums were pleasant and professional. Fans were orderly and enthusiastic if not particularly neat. The people we went with were always great. Baseball just makes everyone happy, doesn't it! I know Jonah's a pretty happy kid right now.
Go Cards!!!
The 7th Game against the Mets was a classic, it could have gone either way in the last couple of innings. It doesn't get any better than having the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th with two outs and Carlos Beltran at the plate. Beltran is second only to Pujols in terms of talent and to be able to strike him out in that situation shows a lot of grit.
I hope the Cards win, but the Tigers are playing very well, so are favored to win. Can't wait 'till tonight. Kenin has seen all of the playoff games at Busch and has tickets to all of the Series games, I'm envious.
Posted by: Matt Scholl | October 21, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Hi Matt. You know, we saw Kenin in St. Louis. He was wearing a Cardinals shirt. He was at the same game we were at, but the guys hadn't hooked up yet and they didn't know.
Here's some pix from that visit on smugmug.
http://pamelask8s.smugmug.com/gallery/2040371
Well, now the series is 1-1. There's been some good plays. Somehow, Jonah's been watching these games at school with his pals and some of the teachers. Coincides with lunch time, I guess. There's a good mix of fans in the Middle School, as you can imagine, they come from all over the world.
We expected the Tigers to come back strong after that first game. Martin was in Detroit on business for the first game, saw it on TV. Apparently it was a real nailbiter.
Posted by: Pamela | October 23, 2006 at 11:39 AM
Man, at school they play the game on TV and there are hardly ANY Cardinals fans. If a cardinal gets out or a Tiger gets a hit, it's hard to defend yourself from all the teasing. But when Cardinals win the world series, they'll sing a different song.
I think Chris Duncan should get the rookie of the year. He doesn't act like a rookie when he plays, he's in the clubhouse.
Posted by: Jonah | October 25, 2006 at 07:13 AM
Two down, two to go...
I saw Chris Duncan play in Memphis, he is one big guy who knows how to play (which is to be expected as his dad is a coach). He has looked good in the playoffs.
I feel pretty good about the Cards right now, they needed to split in Detroit and got that, they needed to win with Carpenter in St. Louis and got that, now they could finish this thing up in St. Louis. I don't think they will sweep in St. Louis, Detroit is good enough to bring it back to Detroit, but they'll be down 3-2.
Posted by: Matt Scholl | October 25, 2006 at 02:29 PM
Jonah,
I know you are a Cardinal fan, but remember we are from Michigan. So, our hope is, your Cardinal are beat by our Tigers! Last night the Tiger let the Cardinals have their way. Tonight we hope the Cardinals will do the same for the Tigers. I don't know if the Cardinals are equiped to play baseball in the snow, the Tigers are.
Love you, Grandma Barb
Posted by: Barb Knuth (Grandma) | October 27, 2006 at 11:36 AM
Sorry Grandma. But not really. They never had to play in the snow. David Eckstein, the series mvp was amazing.
And Jeff Weaver. Everyone was down on him when we saw the game in St. Louis this summer, but I knew he could do it.
Posted by: Jonah | November 02, 2006 at 08:52 AM