Will Softball Fever Dominate the 2009 MLB All Star Game?

We’re quite obsessed with men's softball. We know that. Although, our love doesn’t quite align with a “my team is going to beat your team” perspective. It’s more of a “that fat dude with multiple $600 bats and an incredible mustache is funny” passion.

For the time being, the collective group of city officials and St. Louis Cardinals' brass have abandoned the original plan to transform the previous location of Busch Stadium into a commercial and residential metropolis.  To circumvent the embarrassment of a barren field due North of this year’s MLB All Star Game festivities at Busch Stadium, the aforementioned visionaries are building a softball field.  That’s right.  A softball field.

Literally, 20 yards away from the Cardinals current home.  Beautiful.

While the solution is planned to be temporary until suitable real estate contracts are signed for Ballpark Village, make no mistake about it; softball fever is here to stay in downtown St. Louis.  When a barrage of overweight, mustached men sporting pinstriped ball pants begin making weekly voyages to strut their stuff on the high profile mashing ground, the facades in and around Busch Stadium will become marketing gold mines.

Although the early skeleton of the Busch Stadium softball field embodies a beautiful skyline for ropes, bombs and piss rockets, we wonder what the horizon of downtown St. Louis will look like when it’s overrun by potential advertisers, marketing their products to the everyday, adult softball guy.

God, help our city.

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