Transcendent Moment

We're sitting around the dinner table, eating lemon pepper chicken that's perfectly cooked right off the grill. You know the kind, with the fat slightly crispified around the edges, but the middle is perfectly white and juicy.

The Cardinals are playing on TV. Unbelievably, the Cards are leading the heavily-favored Tigers one game to nil, and Game Two is currently scoreless. After the post-season letdown from some high-powered Redbird teams of recent years, there's a refreshing underdog spirit emanating from this squad. And it somehow makes the chicken taste that much better.

Instead of listening to the usual Tim McCarver droning commentary, we have the Rolling Stones playing in the background. Not a CD. The actual Rolling Stones are playing in Zilker Park tonight, and strains from The Glimmer Twins are intermingling with the chicken aroma and Cardinals spirit in quite a sensory smorgasborg.

Later in the evening, the Cardinals may have fallen behind by three, but Keith unleashes the buzzsaw riff leading into Jumpin' Jack Flash. It is a sublime evening in Austin, TX.