About turntwo

Welcome! I'm a born & bred Cardinals fan and this is my baseball story... My Dad was born in Fulton, Missouri, west of St. Louis, and he grew up playing baseball under the influence of his idol Stan Musial. And when, as a pre-teen, he and his family moved to Colorado, the Redbird Spirit came with them, thanks to KMOX and the influx of televised games. So, some 15 (or so) years later, when my brother Hank and I were born in Columbia, Missouri (where my dad was the acting pitching coach for Mizzou, after his professional career had been cut short by injury) it was the sublime intervention of paternity and God up above that we should be Cardinals fans too. And when I was eight-years old and MY family moved to Colorado, (this cycle seemingly becoming a rite of passage for the Stallman clan) the Redbird Spirit had no choice but to follow us as well. I have spent my life in and around baseball fields. Daddy coached all through my youth, my brother pitched his way through college, my high school sweetheart was a first baseman and one of my many roommates in college was a pitcher. I've sat in a dugout next to my father's hero Stan Musial and talked baseball with him. I've matched wits with Rick Sutcliffe in a mid-Missouri bar. I go to Spring Training every year by myself. (****, I go to most baseball games by myself because I can't stand to split my attention.) And it is my goal, one day, to start a Baseball Academy (boarding school) for 13-to 19-year olds with the intention of getting those students into college on baseball scholarships. For now, I work in film production as a non-union Assistant Director and Production Assistant. I've worked on such films as "Coyote Ugly," "The Fast & The Furious," "Terminator 3," "Master & Commander: Far Side of the World" and "Skeleton Key" to name a few. Sadly, throughout my movie-making career I've only worked on one baseball movie: the remake of "The Bad News Bears." My baseball blogs, which were once reserved only for a certain circle of friends, chronicle the season as I see it. They follow the Cardinals as the season unfolds before MY eyes. And, as such, the blogs are filled with peripheral subjects such as the films I'm working on, life with my brother (aka my roommate), personal adventures, etc. Please forgive me these indugences. Additionally, it must be noted, that I am not a statistician. It may be the one trait that separates me from most other baseball enthusiasts. I have very little interest-- or use, for that matter-- for the mathematics of baseball number crunchers. I'm a savvy enough person to know a good player when I see one. If you can't tell who's worth his salt by watching him play, then you don't know much about baseball. That's my opinion, anyway. Keep your percentages to yourself and just watch the game. SO, if ever I throw a number into one of my entries (which I do from time to time to prove some sort of point) you can almost be guaranteed that, though it may be close, it's probably wrong. And for that inconvenience, I appologize in advance. Other than that, enjoy! Feel free to mock, discuss, extrapolate, encourage, and respond. All Cardinals fans and Cubs haters will receive special attention. Get dirty, Play hard, Swing Easy. --Mollie