Cincinnati.com put a poll up to their readers to find out who the area’s most disliked sports personalities were. The amount of both former and current St. Louis Cardinals is hard to miss. Here’s the list (so you don’t have to click the source link an then click through the stupid slideshow):

10. Chris Carpenter, current Cardinal pitcher (12)

9. Jim Edmonds, former Cardinal and Reds outfielder (18)

8. Michael Vick, Eagles Quarterback (24)

7. Brian Kelly, Notre Dame coach (26)

6. Yadier Molina, current Cardinals catcher (28)

5. Tony LaRussa, current Cardinals manager (54)

4. LeBron Games, Miami Heat player (55)

3. Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers Quarterback (58)

2. Hines Ward, Steelers wide reciever (72)

1. Mike Brown, Bengals owner (388)

Four out of ten! Pretty good showing for the Redbirds! Other notables are that Jim Edmonds played for the damn Reds not long ago, (but not long enough to curry any favor it appears), and the fact that Tony LaRussa was very close to being more “despised” than one of the US’ most often hated athletes and a accused rapist! How close? Good question, lets get the list with vote totals, which were pulled from the slideshow captions.

10. Chris Carpenter – 12

9. Jim Edmonds - 18

8. Michael Vick – 24

7. Brian Kelly – 26

6. Yadier Molina - 28

5. Tony LaRussa - 54

4. LeBron Games – 55

3. Ben Roethlisberger – 58

2. Hines Ward – 72

1. Mike Brown – 388

Only four votes between TLR and an accused rapist? Lighten up Cincinnati! …wait, 58 votes for #3?!?!? Jesus, it only took 12 votes to get Chris Carpenter on the list! The Bangles coach got nearly 400 votes, but for Cincinnati.com doesn’t appear to have reached statistically significant numbers with their little pole did they?

Well I guess they had no choice to run with their little poll voted on by people in the office, because it was either that or keep making this old bearded guy update his blog post on the timing of Nick Lachey, the fallen star of Cincinnati, and his admittedly hot girlfriend’s wedding. Stay in school kids! …unless you’re studying journalism. If you are, just drop out because you don’t need four years of school to get someone to pay you next to nothing to write about has-been local celebrity weddings and upload photos for the results of a poll no one voted on.

via Cincinnati.com

February 18th, 2011…a day that will live in infamy for St. Louis sports. Well, maybe not…unless you’re really attached to the Rams’ O.J. Atogwe, the Blue’s Eric Brewer and the shell of Jim Edmonds. If you are, go get yourself a coke and try to shake it off! Tomorrow will be better…don’t look at STLToday’s Sports home page though. Actually, just turn away right now, because here it is!

Seriously check this crap out: Every single major sports team in St. Louis lost a player through either trade, release, or retirement.

Throw in an extra point for a mention of Pujol’s eventual leaving and you’ve got one hell of a sports day!

Bryan Burwell wants you to leave professional athletes alone!  Why?  Because you “fans” are all horrible people! …I mean not all of you, but enough that he feels its ok to blame us all for the bad ones.

I have to laugh when I listen to or read the voice of the outraged fan who now believes that he is entitled to more out of Woods than he has already given. Entitlement doesn’t look good on anyone, and the truth is, too many fans are just as guilty nowadays as the players they often scold for the same behavior.

In Jupiter all week, I have witnessed it firsthand. I have watched impatient fans lining up behind the parking lot gates every morning and afternoon. Most of them are well-mannered and grateful to get an autograph, a photograph or even a handshake. But there are others who are not so nice.

They scream at the players, they scream at the manager. From behind the chain-link fences that ring the practice fields, they jockey for position with all the decorum of a rugby scrum.

So we should give a pass to athletes that are horrible people just because other people are horrible too?  That’s akin to saying “Well yeah the guy murdered 15 infants, but he’s not the first!  …get out of here you little scamp!  Are you free to babysit this weekend?”

We wanted more on this issue, so we prodded Burwell and in turn he sent us this video clip to further his case:

We’re not sure that helped.

via STLToday

Steven Jackson has responded to the heinous charges by his ex-girlfriend and mother of his son to TMZ:

The St. Louis Rams running back just released a statement to TMZ saying, “It’s disheartening that I have to address any alleged allegations 10 months later, but I have read the accusations made by Supriya Harris, and they are untrue.”

Jackson continued, “The accusations are especially hurtful because those who truly know me know that those actions would be out of character for me.”

Jackson acknowledged that Harris is the mother of his son, and described the boy as “a son that I love and that I willingly support emotionally and financially.”

Our thoughts? None of this crap is true.

First, beating the hell out of a pregnant girl is something thats so messed up that is usually comes out in the wash right away, not 10 months later.  Only furthering suspicions that this is all bull is the fact that he is already in a legal scrap with Harris about child support.  Sure would help her case if he looked like a pregnant girl beating meanie.

Lastly, wouldn’t this be something the police are interested?  We think so…except if there isn’t any evidence. Granted the Las Vegas police will probably open an investigation on this if it gets enough press because someone is always up for re-election, but if there was something real here, wouldn’t have there be work on this oh say, when it happened, not 10 months later?

Yes, if this is true, even a little bit, it would be bad for St. Louis and the Rams so I have a built-in slant. However, we have never heard even a single bad story about Steven Jackson so until some actual hard facts come to light we are on Team Jackson.

Also we hear that sometimes “bitches be trippin’!”

According to ESPN’s Jayson Stark our very own Albert Pujols is baseball’s MVP of the decade!  …duh.

After all, what didn’t Sir Albert do in this decade, outside of forgetting to get to the big leagues until 2001, neglecting to finish in the top four in the MVP voting once and never quite getting around to winning any Nobel Peace Prizes?

So is there really any argument here? If a man has pretty much been the MVP of his league in every single year of an entire decade, what would be the case that he isn’t the MVP for the decade as a whole? Correct answer: There’s no case. None.

Sounds like a pretty locked up case to me.

In a related note, my Mom recently named me the decade’s MVP of Cuteness.  Sadly I came in third place for the decade’s MVP of Being the Nicest Little Boy to “Josh the Bat Boy” and one of those kids in the Slyman Brothers commercials.  …I don’t even know how she knows them!

Stark goes on to say that not only did Pujols get over 50% of all MVP votes for the decade, and come away with the 00′s Triple Crown, but Alberts farts cure acne. True. Story. One blast to the face and your pock marked mug smooths into silky skin babies are jealous of.

Seriously though, don’t forget when you watch him play here all summer that you are watching one of the top 5 greatest baseball players ever.  Ever!  Pretty amazing and something we probably take for granted here.

Yesterday was a big St. Louis sporting news day!  Tony LaRussa made his decision to return to manage the Cardinals for at least 2010 official and confirmed the rumor that Mark McGwire would be on board as the team’s new hitting coach!

This is a major local news story that broke through the bounds of St. Louis and got national coverage.  Obviously the network synonymous with sports, ESPN, picked up and story and when they needed that local view they turned to the obvious radio station choice…KMOX?!?!

Ouch.  Now that’s gotta sting over the local ESPN Radio affiliate WXOS, 101 ESPN.  Its one thing to have a falling out in private, but to have your old flame have their new slut’s name all over the place?  Wow.  So sad.

Lets relive it shall we?

What do you have to do to not even get a phone call from the company you pay to broadcast their content?