Sure you’ve tattooed devil horns, and a skeleton hand on your shaved skull, but at least you can appreciate good hitting.

Found this on Deadspin.

The Home Run derby is long and you get sick of Chris Berman really quick, but its been a little easier to get through this year because we are watching everyone in the world talk about the home run derby in St. Louis in real time via FriendFeed.

Make your stuff show up here by using the #hrderby hashtag.

Picture via @BJRains

From the front page of stltoday.com’s sports section:

To the Post Dispatch: Is this really the best photo you could find of Vince Coleman for your update article Post Dispatch?

To Vince Coleman: Are those really the pants you think you should be wearing?

Both of you should be ashamed of yourselves.

According to Matthew Leach, the MLB.com writer that covers the Cardinals, pretty much nothing will be allowed past the gates for the All Star game because of the Presidential first pitch.

Here are his tweets from earlier today:

Working on story on stadium/city/etc procedures for ASG week. One thing mentioned: for the game itself, it’s essentially TSA security. #

“If you can’t take it on the airplane, you’re not going to be allowed to bring it in the building that day. ” – Joe Abernathy, stadium ops. #

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With all this Tony LaRussa Twitter stuff it occured to me we should have an index of all the sports guys (and maybe some of the fake ones too, just for Tony) in one list so you can easily add them to your Twitter account.

Wait.  You aren’t on Twitter?  Watch this then.

We’ve made 3 categories: Press, Athletes, Fakes

Athletes:

Steven Jackson [Rams]

#10 in your press guide, Tony LaRussa has decided to drop his lawsuit against Twitter over the fact someone made a fake Tony LaRussa Twitter account.  No settlement, just Tony putting the bat on his shoulders and walking back in to the dugout.

From Law.com:

Tony La Russa, the famed baseball manager known for his charity work with injured pets, apparently knows when he has a dog on his hands.

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Steve Jackson couldn’t help but laugh at himself over seeing this old clip of him in his college years surface on Twitter:

In the video Steven, with then roommate Lawrence Turner, opines: “A lot of guys brag about their George Forman Grill, well I have the next best thing, a sandwich maker.”

You still using that sandwich maker Steven?  Maybe on the bye week, I can come by and have some sandwiches?  I’ll bring the bread.

Have you seen the All-Star game commercials running on Fox yet?  Here it is:

What did you think?  I thought it was a bit odd.  The Arch as a magnet?  What?!  I just don’t get it.  Can anyone explain why they went this way with a whole world of other, less odd, choices were in front of them?

The one part that was pretty awesome was when Derek Jeter got “yanked” [Editor’s Note: Mental rimshot!] off the field, but Robinson Cano was left standing there like a douche.  Way to be a good sport Cano!

On Sunday July 12th, the traditional softball game of All-Star week will take place in Busch Stadium and like every year the rosters will be filled out by retired baseball greats, various celebrities and Jimmy Kimmel.

The rosters were recently announced they are stocked with St. Louis affiliated personalities.  Some names of note are:

• Nelly (of course)
• Chingy (I think he’s Nelly’s little brother.)
• Carl Edwards (he’s a limo driver or something)
• Billy Bob Thorton (Long time Cardinals fan and general douche bag.)
• Bobby Knight (Long time Tony LaRussa buddy.)
• Ozzie Smith (Duh)
• Bruce Sutter (Also duh)
• Dave Winfield (He’s in it every year.  Seriously.)
• Tommy John (Why not?)
• Goose Gossage (He’s in these a lot too.)
• Whitey Herzog (Duh)
• Vince Coleman (Hopefully there won’t be any tarps on the field.)
• Lee Smith (Duh)
• and my personal favorite: Jenna Fisher, who as we all know, is a hot St. Louisan!

The plans are now that Punching Kitty will be crawling the crowd around the stadium on Sunday (we didn’t get tickets to the game sadly) taking some photos.  If you see us, say hi!