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The Seven Worst Pictures of Mark McGwire on the Internet

Posted: 26th October 2009 by Aaron Hooks in MLB
Mark McGwire, Big Mac himself, has returned to baseball in the form of hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. This appears to be somewhat newsworthy. Most articles being worked up about the return of Baseball's Savior nee unscrupulous scum bucket are of the entertainment variety. And inevitably these authors are going to need embarrassing/awful photos to accompany the words. Problem solved: The 7 worst Pics of Mark McGwire out there on ...

Mark McGwire Returns To The St. Louis Cardinals? Wow.

Posted: 25th October 2009 by Aaron Hooks in MLB
Mark David McGwire. He of 583 home runs, 1,414 runs batted in and 1 painfully unwatchable testimony before Congress is coming back to the Cardinals? The Cardinals off-season just became roughly 34,000 times more interesting. Joe Strauss of the Post-Dispatch is reporting that Tony LaRussa will be returning as the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010 and that he will, barring a last minute change ...

An Open Letter From Cardinals President William O. DeWitt

Posted: 20th October 2009 by Aaron Hooks in MLB
This week, the Cardinals President William O. DeWitt III decided that Cardinal Nation needed a little pick-me-up after a disastrous end to 2009. So he had a lackey put together a knob slobbing note and pressed send:ááá To Our Great Fans, (ThatÆs right, we are pretty great arenÆt we?) Thank you for another great season! (Whoa. Hold on here. A total collapse down the stretch and a brutal first round exit ...

Albert Pujols Doesn’t Want To Play in St. Louis?

Posted: 16th October 2009 by Aaron Hooks in MLB
Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak was already in a poor mood when he got the call. Not even a week removed from a highly disappointing postseason exit and fielding all sorts of questions about the fallout of trading his best prospect for Matt Holliday and getting a LF who confused his glove with his scrotum and his bat with a prop for a photo shoot, he answered.á What he heard on the ...

St. Louis Rams: Can It Get Any Worse?

Posted: 14th October 2009 by Aaron Hooks in NFL
The Rams are big winners. Big winners when it comes to losing.á This week the most pathetic group of paid athletes anywhere in the world sunk to new lows on the field, losing their 15th straight game.á But the real clown car emptied out all over the national stage with the revelation that bloviating blowhard and habitual Oxycontin abuser Rush Limbaugh had entered a bid to buy the NFLÆs version of the small ...

Dodgers Vs Cardinals NLDS Super Breakdown

Posted: 6th October 2009 by Aaron Hooks in MLB
The St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers have played a combined 226 seasons of professional baseball. They have won 16 World Series, 38 NL pennants, and almost 20,000 games. Over 100 players and managers that have worn either uniform are enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Both franchises are widely considered the crown jewels of the National League... And come 8:07 p.m. CST Wednesday night, none ...
It's over. Finally, mercifully, the regular season is over. The St. Louis Cardinals have completed 162 baseball games for 2009. And calling their 7-14 finish since September 11th "limp" would be like saying Jon Gosselin is "under-qualified" to father eight kids. Or Lamar Odem "kind of rushed" to the alter. You'd be technically right, but woefully underestimating the stank emanating from this clubhouse. The Cardinals backed into the playoffs with a brash attitude. A ...

St. Louis Cardinals 2009 Team Awards

Posted: 29th September 2009 by Aaron Hooks in MLB
The St. Louis Cardinals have won the NL Central division title in 2009 after being picked to finish somewhere between third and the stench wafting around Lindsay LohanÆs crotch.á Cheers to the entire organization for making October roughly 58 percent more enjoyable for the city. We questioned your commitment to winning after serving up the poo poo platter of Trever Miller and Kahlil Greene in reaction to get getting blown out of ...

The Seven Greatest St. Louis Cardinals Post-Season Heroes

Posted: 24th September 2009 by Aaron Hooks in MLB
The St. Louis Cardinals have clinched the NL Central and are on an 11 game quest for the franchise's 11th championship- the most in the National League. In honor of their 2 year absence from extra curricular baseball, let's look back on the 7 biggest post season studs in St. Louis Cardinals history. Begin Slideshow

Baseball Is Boring, but It Doesn’t Have To Be!

Posted: 22nd September 2009 by Aaron Hooks in MLB
It’s like we’re seven years old again. It’s Dec. 8th and Christmas is just a couple of weeks away. But Jesus Christ, does it feel like 50 years, not 2 weeks. We just want it to get here. We’re tired of waiting...will the playoffs just hurry up and freaking get here already?! All do apologies to the sad sack franchises limping to the finish line, but watching the Cardinals trounce a thoroughly demoralized ...