I recently finished reading 3 Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger. As most Cards fans should know, it's a book about a three game series against the cubs in 2003. Overall, the book was okay; not as good as I had hoped it would be. I learned some things about pitching and little about some of the players' personalities. In the book, the rivalry between the Cards and cubs is described the best way I've ever heard by comparing it to the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. Most Cards fans will appreciate it so I thought I would share it on here. I completely agree with what Buzz wrote and I don't think enough people see it this way.
"The rivalry between the cubs and the Cardinals is probably the oldest and perhaps the best in baseball, no matter how the Red Sox and Yankees spit and spite at each other. That's a tabloid-fueled soap opera about money and ego and sound bites. That's a pair of bratty high-priced supermodels trying to trip each other in their stilettos on the runway. But the Cards-Cubs epic is about roots and geography and territorial rights. It's entwined in the Midwestern blood and therefore refreshing and honest and even heroic. It isn't simply two teams throwing tantrums at each other but two feudal city-states with eternal fans far beyond their own walls, spread throughout not only the Midwest but also deep into the South and the West."
