In a story about as shocking as the day Rosie ODonnell came out of the closet, today St. Louis Cardinals hitting coach and former home run champ Mark McGwire confessed he took steroids during his major league career, including 1998. Which of course is the year that JD Drew first played major league baseball…oh and he and some crazy black guy hit a bunch of home runs.
[Read More]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’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’d that end up again?
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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!)
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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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If I didn’t recognize the two on the left as St. Louis Cardinals Brendan Ryan and Colby Rasmus, I would say this picture appears to be the start of an amazing douche collection.
It has it all, the guy that throws the peace sign everywhere, the “I’ve been rocking this so long it can’t possibly be ironic any longer” mustache and a straight up classic “Me Play Sports Good” face on young Colby in the middle.
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The one on the right is David Freese…just saying. He isn’t very famous and doesn’t have any distinctive facial hair.
Joe Strauss is reporting on STLToday.com that Cardinals third basemen, and the current leader to be the starter there come spring has been arrested on a DWI charge in Maryland Heights
Cardinals third baseman David Freese was arrested in St. Louis County early Saturday morning on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, Maryland Heights police confirmed Sunday.
Maryland Heights police did not make available an incident report Sunday, but sources familiar with the case confirmed Freese was arrested in the early-morning hours.
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A sweet softball field and a parking lot. That’s the awesome action going on next to Busch Stadium right now, and its here to stay for a little while.
Go St. Louis!
Don’t expect to see the Ballpark Village site humming with construction next summer. The site, which is now home to a softball field and parking lot, will almost certainly look the same during the 2010 baseball season, said Bill DeWitt III, president of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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The whole point of this post over at subtraction.com by Khoi Vinh was to invalidate the “Yankees bought a championship!” argument, and although an interesting read, not really something that this blog gives a crap about. However, in the data he pulled something interesting did pop up that related to St. Louis and our National League Central champ Cardinals.
Vinh pulled the revenue each team made in 2008 and the payroll for the team in the 2009 season and compared the “investment rate” that the team operated on for the 2009 season along with their final record.
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