I'll chip in from time to time, and I'm pretty sure there's a few others (although perhaps they don't post any more).
I'm always puzzled by British papers writing about baseball - for such a niche pursuit, why not do it right? Perhaps the one guy on the staff who's interested in baseball did it for a laugh.
Last season, I lived within walking distance of Busch Stadium and went to maybe 30 Cardinals games - get on Seatgeek, find a $3 bleacher seat, job done. I looked about a week ago and saw $25 tickets to the home opener, so I thought "I'll wait a week, I'm sure prices will go down" although I might have just been...Going to the last game at Busch last year, when baseball felt like it had something to prove against all those damn black NFL players protesting, felt a little too much like going to a weird rally, so my feelings about going to many more games this year have definitely changed. And now prices are all $50 and above, I doubt I'll be there.
Oh, and you might be the only person on this board to be interested in this, I was off work on Tuesday so went for a haircut. Just a cheap mall place, but they've done good work in the past. As I walk in, the guy behind me...Cardinals legend Jim Edmonds! Seemed like a nice chap, although I'm guessing sneaking into a Great Clips at 10am on a Tuesday indicated he wasn't bothered about some gushing fanboy so I kept my mouth shut.
Stanton has that nice short porch in Yankee Stadium to aim for, so he might break a record if everything falls right for him. It's not like his two major recent injuries were his "fault", so he might be a workhorse. You never know.
Re: my Cardinals, apart from giving speaking space to bigot Lance Berkman and having to be forced to have a Pride Day by press shame (it was a wonderful day, though, same-sex couples getting cheers on the kiss-cam and all), they're really trying to be as dull as possible. As the racketeers who run baseball have figured out, there's no real link between success and profitability, so who cares about the big-ticket free agents? This year's team is shaping up for .500 dullness.