I was going to post a diary but I'll just attach it to yours.  My throat hurts this morning from yelling so much and my hands were numb for the last 3 innings from clapping. But I must say that I really don't know what is wrong with these people.  I sat in row 8 of section 335 (there are 9 total rows) for Game 5, the back two rows were the only ones yelling & clapping.  The people in the first 7 rows just sat on their hands the entire game; at least you could clap while you are sitting.  Even the neighboring sections were sitting the majority of the game.  The only time they got up was when the bases were loaded and in the top of the ninth.  Other than that the only cheered for the HR's.  It also seemed like the people higher up in the nose-bleeds were cheering a lot more (mabye bacause they actually follow the cards and know what is going on).  It looked like the bleachers were excited, but again those are usually real fans.  There was even one time when the bases were loaded right after we scored and the people on the lower level in the boxes were sitting, WTF?

Funny story about ushers:  At the beginning of the game everyone in the seats behind us said that they didn't care if we stood for the whole game.  About the 4th or so, my wife's brother and I were getting beer when the usher tells my wife and sister-in-law that that we have to sit down.  I think some people in the SRO couldn't see and complained to the usher.  My wife gets pretty pissed when she gets told what to do and she starts to go off on this usher.  She has her go and get the manager who then proceeds to tell the usher she can't tell us to sit down if we don't want to and that the SRO people need to find somewhere else (my wife claims the manager was pretty pissed at the usher).  Well about 2 innings later the manager brings a bag of free t-shirts (some throwaways from date night sponsored by 101.1 the River, but hey it's a free shirt) to give to our group of four and another group behind us that also got told to sit down.  They also took my wife's phone number and address so they could supposedly issue us an apology, well see when that arrives.    

On a side note, RALLY TOWELS SUCK.  When I wave a towel around it makes no noise, yea it may look cool when everyone does it, but if they had thunder sticks or something that would make noise when used, the place would be a lot louder.  I think most of the fans thought that waving the towel around was all that they needed to do, come-on yell or something.  And most fans have no rhythm.  They played the "everybody clap your hands" song, when it stops no-one can keep it going and its just mumbled clapping.  

All in all, I had an awesome time and was thankful I was in the section with some others that wanted to cheer.  I bet if I was in the first few rows or on a lower level, I prolly would have gotten kicked out though.  

I was in the upper deck for Game 4 (and had SRO tix for Game 5 that I had to sell after the rainout - damn nonrefundable plane tickets). Anyhow, just thought I'd add my two cents that the upper deck crowd was pretty noisy, starting up chants, etc, at least until we were getting crushed.

Also, the playoff ticket policy of making tickets available only via the internet lottery definitely shut out a lot of hardcore fans who normally sleep outside for tickets.  I'd really like to see the Cards make tickets available through multiple avenues in the future.

...game that many of the people in the lower level attended all year.  My family has two season tickets behind the net, when we got our playoff tickets they were in the second tier.  We do get the option to buy four seats instead of our two, but we were pushed out of out season tickets we had all year.  Just saying that the first few rows of the lower bowl aren't even the normal season ticket holders, they are just fair weather fans...

"Tonight," Cardinals closer Adam Wainwright said, "was the loudest I've ever heard anything, ever."

when you are sitting in the cheap seats, the fans are cheering, dancing, and having a good time. When you sit in the expensive seats, fans are quite, reserved and sometimes not even watching the game. I always assumed it had something to do with the fact that those of us in the cheap seats are lucky to get to 6 to 10 games a year so get real excited about it. Those in the expensive seats go to games all the time so get less excited about it.

Think about it, there ARE no cheap seats anymore!