Deadspin posted a few lovely stories about our big fat basketball coach at St. Louis University, but one just stood out.  Here’s an excerpt (emphasis mine):

“Rick was always a jerk to the managers. Every season he went out of his ways to never learn their names. They were only referred to as ‘manager’. One day, Rick was drawing up a scout in our team room about 2 hours before tipoff. Things were going well, considering he was fully dressed and we hadn’t been referred to as cunts yet. From the white board he started yelling ‘manager, manager, bring a towel over here!’.

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He’s going to be around for 7 years, so we might as well dig in here and get to the real question: How’s Matt Holiday’s wife looking?

Verdict: Eh.  Not bad.

Evidence:

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  After meeting on a blind date in 1998 and getting engaged a year later, Matt and Leslee now have two boys age 5 and 2.
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  She looks pretty cute.  She&#8217;s no Mrs. Heidi (Mark) DeRosa (<a href="http://punchingkitty.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/heidi-derosa2.jpg" target="_blank">ahem</a>), but not too shabby either.
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  Approved!  Kick off  your shoes Mrs. H and make yourself at home!
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  Of course Rolen was supposed to be around for a long time too.  How&#8217;d that end up again?
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Dear Holliday family –

You’re not really new here per se, but I’m sure with Matt’s impending free agency  you really didn’t want to spread out and settle in.  After that big contract though, its time to spread out and learn about your new home!  Don’t be fooled though.  St. Louis can be a tricky and complicated place…

Allow us to help you with a set of 10 rules to live by.

The Cardinals have finally sealed the deal!  It took a lot of dinners and getting their had slapped away from some boobs, but after a weekend of some heavy petting, the finally went all the way and got the deal done with the apple of their offseason’s eye, Matt Holiday.

Holliday announced the deal himself on ESPN Radio yesterday. (No, not the St. Louis version 101 ESPN, the national version.  Bitch slap!)

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.

Good news everyone!  Because of their complete and total suckage, the Rams have managed to grab ahold of 2010’s #1 draft pick!

Oh yeah…they lost the game vs the 49ers though.  Totally got killed.

But now we have the #1 pick in the next draft, which is huge, because we really haven’t done all that well with the #2 pick.  Chris Long?  Eh.  We’ll see.  Jason Smith?  Ditto, though he was screwed up by the Rams bizarre choice to not play him right away and when they did, play him at a foreign position.

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?

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For your wayback-moment of the day, here’s the original.

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.”

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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.