For the second time in the last few weeks the Globe Democrat, St. Louis’ newest (but also totally old) news source, has made themselves look a little silly.

First there was their public tiff with Post Dispatch sports columnist Bernie Miklasz that columnated in an “Why is everyone always picking on me?” post from their sports editor…you know because guys that did nothing wrong always have to explain themselves…

Then today, the very Globe Democrat reporter that came in second place to Miklasz in the “Who is buying the Rams” sweepstakes stepped in it again.  Way to go annoying radio voice, and overly inflated talking head Howard Balzer!

Like most things these days, all the action happened over Twitter.

Step One: Say something that everyone is going to go crazy about but still really vague:

Woah!  Huge scoop there Balzer!  Everyone wants to see Bulger lose his horns, and this is huge.  There is one little detail though… (thanks to Bernie)

Well either the Rams let go of a whole lot of players today, or Balzer jumped the gun.  Lets see how he covers his bearded ass on this one…

Um, ok.  So why did the other 59 guys pack up?  Because they did expect to get back?  Nice try.

In other news, Steven Jackson blew his nose and Coach Spags took a dump.  Interpet those as you wish.

Lets face it.  Hoosiers love football.  Its not like Nascar where only hoosiers like it, but still…hoosiers love football.

Ya think any of these totally liberal and culturally understanding fellas were a tad taken aback by the impeding sale of the Rams to some guy that didn’t look like them?

Here’s a fun game! Go to the first post that broke the story on STLToday.com (here) and count the number of times some STLToday moderator had to remove someone’s comment for being “off topic.” That’s how many douche bag racist ass holes are in our midst!  Fun huh?

Late last night the iconic St. Louis sports reporter, Bernie Miklasz broke the story that the Rams are to be purchased by a relatively late-comer to the Rams sweepstakes: Illinois businessman Shahid Khan.

Awesome!  Big story!  …however all was not right.  As the racists came out of the woodwork to comment horrible things about the likely new Rams owner on the STLToday.com comments section, a Thursday war of words between the media was brewing.

It all started with an article on Fox2’s website where they credited Post Dispatch competitor Globe Democrat with the scoop:

Well that’s just not cool, and Bernie took to Twitter to slap Fox 2 with a rolled-up newspaper:

“I want to thank Fox 2 in St. Louis for giving credit to a competitor on the Rams’ story — which I broke. Wonderful. And so ethical.” #

Followed up with a quick Twitter jab to the ribs of the Globe Democrat by mocking their earlier scoop that proved to be, well, totally wrong:

“By the way can someone tell me when the Richard Chaifetz press conference is? Thought he was buying the Rams. LOL.” #

This by the way is why we love Bernie.

By Thursday night it had gotten to the point where Globe Democrat sports reporter Rob Rains decided to write a whole article about this deal.  In it he defended the Globe Democrat for saying:

Globe-Democrat.com acknowledges that the Post-Dispatch reported the agreement to sell the Rams first on Wednesday night and we congratulate them for breaking the story. Making that acknowledgement, however, does not mean that the other media outlets in town, including Globe-Democrat.com, are going to ignore the story and act like it never happened.

No, it made us, and our NFL writer, Howard Balzer – a veteran of 34 years in the media and one of only 44 media members in the country to serve on the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee – go to work to see if we could get our sources to confirm the story.

That is, in fact, exactly what happened. One of Howard’s sources told him shortly after midnight that he could confirm the story. Howard wrote it, and the Globe-Democrat.com’s story went online about 2 a.m. Our story was based on what our sources told us, and what we found in researching Shahid Khan’s background, not what the Post-Dispatch was reporting. Our story included the price range of the sale, and the fact Khan had some IRS issues in his past.

Ok ok ok.  Everyone take a freakin’ breath.  First, I don’t think anyone has accused anyone else of “stealing” stories. The problem here was fair attribution.  Fox 2 gave the credit to the wrong reporter and we don’t blame Bernie for being pissed after working on a scoop like that for as long as he did.

Oh and Rob can’t take a joke, so he had to reference Bernie swipe:

There were some attempts at humor posted on message boards and twitter throughout the day Thursday referring to a story last week that identified Dr. Richard Chaifetz of Chicago as being a member of a group that was bidding on the Rams. Globe-Democrat.com did not make up that story. We reported what we were told, plain and simple, including from Chaifetz himself.

Ok, cool.  You were still wrong though.  When I was six I was pretty sure Ninja Turtles were real, and I even had a source, but turns out that was moronic.  Note to Globe-Democrat: Please do not source me on your soon to be “Ninja Turtles are Real!” story.

Dear, St. Louis Sports Media:

Chill out. Don’t be dicks. Take a joke. Don’t take yourselves so damn seriously. No one wants to read an article about how you are sad.

We’ve given Kurt Warner a hard time in the past and we still don’t fully understand the people that are so wrapped up in Warner-love that they seemingly forget about just how bad he was at the end of his Rams’ career.  However, Kurt Warner is seemingly a great guy that has had a great career (though not hall of fame worthy) and made the rarely seen choice to end it on top.  Sure he got rocked repeatedly and got whooped by the Saints, but Warner was a solid quarterback this year on a good team.

Don’t be sad though St. Louis, we have no doubt Kurt will be all over the place sooner rather than later. He’ll be on Fox Sports or NFL Network chatting it up, or maybe even have his own late-night tent church program!  We’re hoping at some point he’ll even end up riding shotgun on Becky Queen of Tile’s magic carpet.

But the best thing about Warner retiring?  We don’t have to hear the Hy-Vee stockboy story anymore!

Here’s the ESPN story.

We’ll talk about this on Monday.

I don’t care if you don’t like football.  If you missed Kurt Warner getting rocked on Saturday in his playoff loss to the Saints, then you missed one of the year’s biggest hits.

Let’s see…do I have video of this…oh!  I sure do.  Bam:

After being awaken from that blow Warner he apparently thought he was a spy for the Saints in the third quarter and then after being taken out in the fourth he briefly thought he was Ming Li, a Vietimese prostitute.  It sounds weird, but I heard he really helped the team lift…ahem…their spirits after the tough loss.

But, will he retire?

“A big hit like that makes you think twice about playing this game,” Warner said lightly.

Warner said he plans to get away for a while and talk over his future with wife Brenda. He has one year remaining on his contract.

“I don’t think it will be a long and drawn-out process,” Warner said. “I think it’s something I will discuss with my family and inform the organization about what I plan to do as soon as I have time to think about it.”

Some of the ESPN “insiders” say that sources close to Warner say he will definitely retire this off season, while others later on in Sportscenter say he has one more year in him.  You see, that’s why you can never win against ESPN.  They are always right!  Their plan is perfect!  Take that Fox Sports!

Quote via ESPN

Only the Rams could start a new “Fan Appreciation Day” and in the process, injure two fans while going for stinky gear from a stinky team.

Two “fans” fell out of the stands on Sunday while reaching for shoes that were tossed in to the stands by Rams players.

One left strapped to a gurney, but apparently Coach Spags seemed to think both fans were not seriously hurt at the press conference.  You know because they just use gurneys for things like scraped knees and boo-boos.

Hmmm.  This might explain a lot with the Rams injury situation this year.

via ESPN

Those last three dumb-ass penalties that Rams Guard Richie Incognito earned in his last game as a Ram cost him $50,000 in fines.  When asked about the fines today, Incognito had this to say:

“With the fine of 50 grand, I would have gladly paid more to get out of that situation in St. Louis,” Incognito said Sunday after the New England Patriots beat the Bills 17-10 in Ralph Wilson Stadium. “So I chalk it up to that.”

Nice. Yeah, like everyone sucked but you huh?  New teammates love to see that kind of attitude.

In case you were wondering, “Captain Dipshit” started Sunday for the Bills and promptly committed three more penalties.
“The way I approach the game,” Incognito said, “my intensity level and the way I play on Sundays, not one thing’s going to change. The foolish penalties and the selfishness, that has changed and it’s going to continue to change. That’s something I’ve been working on for a very long time.

Judging by your last comment, it seems you have a lot to work on.

At least everyone on the Bills thinks your #1!  Oh wait.  I think thats the wrong finger…

via ESPN

Kawika Mitchell plays for the Bills and when he heard that everyone’s favorite ex-Rams offensive linemen Richie Incognito signed with his team, he took to his Twitter account to tell the world about how happy he was to play with the man voted the “Dirtiest Player in the NFL”

He later recanted, because he basically had to after his team PR team crawled up his big ass.

Twitter is awesome.

We love it!

Rams running back Steven Jackson tweeted out his love for “Ernest Saves Christmas” while hanging out at teammate Mike Karney’s house last night:

Do we love this so much because we can’t think of a better celebrity pairing than Steven Jackson and the late Jim Varney, or just because its nice to know SJ39 can take a moment and forget what team he plays for?

Answer: Both.