This past weekend I was in St. Louis. If you read my columns you all know about my Chicago bias. I don’t think St. Louis was ready for me.

The reason I went to St. Louis was because my roommate’s girlfriend invited me and my other two roommates to her sorority formal.

I, of course, agreed to a weekend away from Charleston.

The formal was a good time but you all don’t care about that. This is a sports column so I’ll get to the sports part.

I went to Busch Stadium on Sunday to see the Colorado Rockies flatten the St. Louis Cardinals. Even though it seemed like everyone and their mother was at the Cardinals game, judging by the fact that the rest of the city was a ghost town, it wasn’t the first time during the weekend I’d run into more than 10 people in a group all wearing Cardinal gear.

I am from Chicago and Cubs fans love their team so much they would continue to root for them through years and years of losing. However, Cubs fans cannot compare to Cardinals fans when it comes to wearing team colors.

In the Union Station mall, I must have seen three stores in which they sold nothing but Cardinal gear. I’m sure they have those kind of stores in Chicago, but I haven’t found them.

I remember telling myself that it would be great if all the Cubs fans wore blue and all the Cardinals fans wore red during a Cubs/Cardinals series at Wrigley. All you would see is a mass of blue and red. It would definitely be something to see.

Cardinal fans are too nice. When I went to Busch, my roommates and I were all sporting our Cubs gear and nobody in the stadium said a negative word to us. It wasn’t even a Cubs/Cardinals series and we were walking around Busch Stadium in Cubs gear. Every time the Rockies did something good, we cheered. If a Cardinal fan tried to pull that at Wrigley, they might not be leaving in one piece.

Another thing I noticed during the game is that being 21 years old at a ball game could be the biggest disappointment since finding out Santa Claus wasn’t real. A large beer at Busch Stadium will run you a cool $8.75. Ouch! I think I’ll stick to bottled water. Wait a minute $4.00 for bottled water!

What probably disappointed me the most about my trip to Busch was the fact that during the seventh inning stretch most Cardinal faithful stood up but I didn’t hear many of them singing “Take me out to the ball game.” I watched and sang in awe. I, of course, said ‘root root root for the Cubbies’ in my loudest and most obnoxious voice so Cardinals fans would recognize a diehard Cubs fan had infiltrated their baseball sanctuary.

Another thing that disappointed me was when Todd Helton hit his bomb to right field. His homerun sailed into the upper deck and the Cardinal fan who caught the ball threw it back onto the field. I stood up in anger and yelled “You stole that from us.”

On my way out of the stadium I was yelling “Go Rockies,” in attempt to get some kind of reaction from some liquored up Cardinals fans. I finally got one. These four youngsters, who couldn’t have been over 17, yelled back at me, clad in Cubby blue, “Rockies suck.” They had missed the point. For I am not a Rockies fan, I am just an obnoxious Cub fan. So as they went on and on about how the Rockies would finish the season below .500 and all this other stuff, I simply shook my head in agreement with them.

Cardinals fans are just too nice.