Our friends at Joe Sports Fan have launched a very interesting idea: asking the St. Louis fans to help fund their new all local relaunch and podcast with a Kickstarter campaign. The goal is $5,000, and while they’re off to a good start, we’d hate to see this brillant idea stall after the glow of the Deb Peterson press release article fades.

If you’ve never heard of Joe Sports Fan, here’s all you need to know: Occasionally we can’t help ourselves, but we try very hard to not cover sports stories because the guys over there have St. Louis sports covered. Hopefully that resonates as well as we think it should. That was a difficult statement to make because, you know, we’re awesome and we know we’re awesome, but in the case of local sports news we defer to the JSF guys and take the rest of the news (read: crime) for ourselves. They deserve your support, so go throw $30 bucks their way and enjoy what happens next.

It’s been a while since we’ve done a proper link post, highlighting some of the best things being said around town, so we’re gonna do one. Right now.

**Joe Sports Fan: **A word (give or take a thousand) about JC Corcoran…

JC Corcoran has dug himself a hole over this Pujols thing and has chosen to just keep digging, and Joe Sports Fan is calling him on his shit. Good for them! A rare moment of clarity from a media website about how much they suck…written by someone that’s not actually on the radio…hmm. Never mind about the self awareness, but still a great piece.

Yesterday Cardinals closer, and recent discoverer of Twitter, Ryan Franklin tweeted out a photo of some country star or something who visited the team’s spring training site. The tweet, since removed, said “Got a rookie on the team @davidnail” with a link to this photo:

We didn’t even notice the awesomeness that this picture held in it’s background, but the guys at Joe Sports Fan.com did and it may have brought the wrath of the Cardinals and Albert Pujols, big bad #5, down on them. Do you see it? Allow us to help you…