Cardinals

St. Louis Cardinals
By: Andrew Ewing

             Every architecture student needs some downtime to get a break from graduate school.  This year several of my classmates and myself spent most our free time (some of our work time) watching the Cardinals in the playoffs.  Sorry Cubs fans and thanks Atlanta Braves.  However this was anything but a stress relief. Every game they played early in the playoffs seemed to come down to the wire.  Including Game 5 against the Washington Nationals, where they rallied to score 4 runs in the top of the ninth to come back and win.  The next series against the Giants started out great. Cards jumped out to a 3-1 series lead and then choked it away to lose game 7. So the year ended with no trip to the World Series.

            While the playoffs did cause a distraction from my studies, the St. Louis Cardinals play an important role to my thesis.  The site for my thesis is located directly across the street from Busch Stadium.  How well the Cardinals do effects the attendance rate which would have a direct impact on the site.  Hopefully as this project grows the Cardinals and this "mini-city" can develop a relationship that will benefit each other.  This "mini-city" becomes a destination before and after the game.