mjohnson71

Now maybe the St. Louis media can look into how Roger Clemens gets away with "staying" young. Clemens' production the last few years has made me raise an eyebrow. Sad thing is I'm also getting weird feelings about Nolan Ryan and his stats. :( As do I. I really don't think it was just advil that helped him. Anyone who does well past 36 years old (Clemens, Ryan) or their numbers jump up (D Lee) is now suspect. Very sad. D Lee isn't that old. Many players like Pujols, Helton, and others have been accused of taking this stuff too and I'm curious to see if there is smoke, maybe there's some fire to this. Let's face it, the vets know how and where to get the good stuff and how to keep it quiet. I never said he was old. I said his numbers jumped appreciably in one year. Anyone is now suspect of juicing when that happens.

Now maybe the St. Louis media can look into how Roger Clemens gets away with "staying" young. Clemens' production the last few years has made me raise an eyebrow. Sad thing is I'm also getting weird feelings about Nolan Ryan and his stats. :( As do I. I really don't think it was just advil that helped him. Anyone who does well past 36 years old (Clemens, Ryan) or their numbers jump up (D Lee) is now suspect. Very sad.

Now maybe the St. Louis media can look into how Roger Clemens gets away with "staying" young. Clemens' production the last few years has made me raise an eyebrow. Sad thing is I'm also getting weird feelings about Nolan Ryan and his stats. :(

He didn't come back to the majors until early August 2007. All of 2006 he was in the minors.

That ranks up there with the Theisman MNF leg break replay.

I could not agree more. The last few years Cubs fans seem like they can't help but boo even the most inconsequential things, and it keeps getting worse. If we don't want to be viewed as Lovable Losers that's fine (good, in fact), but it doesn't mean we have to be Ignorant Idiots, or Philly fans. I've also noticed a change at Wrigley the last few seasons. There's just this different vibe that doesn't seem right. It's the same feeling you get at Philly and New York games: that at any moment things could get ugly.

Even though he's a Cardinal I've always liked Scott Rolen. Plays hard yet not flashy: when he hits a home run he puts his head down and runs around the bases at full speed. None of this admiring the hit like Barroid or Pujols, or skipping and hopping down to first like Sammy.

Just reported by St. Louis P-D main sports writer Bernie M: Rolen out for season. Shoulder too messed up.

I'm also heading down and meeting some Illini alumn friends. We're still trying to decide where to meet up at. If the weather's good we're thinking one of the bars in Soulard with a patio.

Like I've said before. If ESPN and Fox had their way -the AL would only be Boston and the Yankees -the NL would be LA Dodgers and San Fran Giants Peter Gammons would be very happy about this set up.

Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson all hope you're joking. Though Sammy probably agrees with you.

Most people just get "MOM". That is his mom. *shudders*

Rumors out of St. Louis: -Spezio already had issues with alcohol and coke. -He then picked up pain killers this season after an injury. Found with stuff not prescribed by team doctor. -Spezio was part of a hard running group of Cardinals. Josh Hancock was a member of this gang. Also included Duncan, Miles and some other guys "from the West Coast".

The main Post writer Bernie M was on the radio hinting other shoes could fall. There's no clubhouse police keeping other players in line.

From the stltoday.com sports forum.

Did I miss whether or not Hancock's dad is suing the estate of President Eisenhower since he was instrumental in interstate highways being created? Plus, who invented cement and made it so hard? I'm sure they could also be sued. :roll:

Why, so Pujols can go yard on him again? Hasn't he blown so many saves against them that he doesn't face the Cardinals?

John Beckwith: Claire's mom just made me grab her h**ters. Jeremy Grey: Well snap out of it! What, a hot older women made you feel her cans? Stop crying like a little girl. John Beckwith: I wasn't crying like a little girl. Jeremy Grey: Why don't you try getting ****** *** under the table in front of the whole d*mn family and have some real problems, j*ck*ss. Hey, what were they like anyway? They looked pretty good, are they real? Are they built for speed or comfort? What'd you do with them? Motorboat? You play the motorboat? [makes sputtering motorboat noise] Jeremy Grey: You motorboatin son of a b*tch! You old sailor you!

BTW: I can confirm from my years of bartending at a downtown Chicago hotel that ARod likes the slightly thicker and taller chicks with the big fake cans. Skinny/shorter chicks with anything less than d cups need not approach him. His teammates liked to pick off the rejects. Also, if he was talking to a girl you made sure her drink was always fresh and made strong. That was the only time he tipped well.

Have you seen the pictures from Playboy of his most recent lady friend? Could those cans be any more fake?

$320 Million of the $365 Million was privately financed. those numbers aren't very accurate. http://www.fieldofschemes.com/news/archives/2003/12/cards_to_financ.html they're especially inaccurate when you take into account that a big part of this whole deal was the ballpark village, which the cardinals eventually decided they couldn't build unless they got all kinds of new tax breaks, which they eventually did. http://www.fieldofschemes.com/news/archives/2006/10/post_12.html the subsidies have become too obvious and people no longer stand for them. nowadays, teams get their public money through tax breaks, construction projects, and free land. it costs the taxpayers just as much, but it's a lot less obvious. The first link was from 2003 and the second one had to do with the village..not the stadium. My numbers came from the 06 yearbook. I think ChiefCardinal is right: those Field of Schemes number are off. As I understand it the Cardinals ownership paid for a lot of the park and that's why the place didn't end up as nice/fancy as they wanted it. IMHO Busch III an okay place at best and the cost-cutting shows. As for the Ballpark Village the Cardinals are in big trouble as they still haven't broken any ground and the main contractor left the project. They're going to loose the 2009 All Star Game while was conditional on the Ballpark Village being done. The only breaks they're getting on the Ballpark Village is TIF money as sales tax revenue generated within the BPV. So basicly part of the sales tax from the BPV will go into repaying the place instead of sity/county/sate coffers. This is common in America today with many shopping malls and plazas.

I dunno, I'm just not excited over stuff like this any more. I guess I would have to say the Twins new place but you never know until the place is built. Great America and Busch III were supposed to be a lot better than they were until (some or all) public money got pulled and the places had to be scaled back. Great America sucks a** and Busch III is kind of "meh". I hate the big deal over Yankee stadium. It the field legends played on, but the stadium was gut rehabbed in the early 70's. Shea is a complete dump. It will be interesting to see if all the animals in NY don't trash the new places.

agreed that catch was only necessary because he was playing 3 steps behind 2nd base at the time If you can play a shallow CF and still get back to make those catches - that is a defensive plus, not something to make fun of as setting oneself up for highlight reel catches. Jim Edmonds was a badass CFer. The problem is the number of doubles he gave up because he refused to just play at average depth in centerfield. I hate that he gets props for making catches that Andrew Jones or Griffey, Jr, or others make look simple. I especially hated some media in St. Louis (namely Frank Cusamano, and others) who have the audacity to say that he's the Cardinals best defensive CF in their history. Particularly since most of the media were alive to see Curt Flood and Willie McGee, who made spectacular Edmonds' catches look like cans of corn. But didn't Flood cost the Cardinals the 68' World Series by misplaying a fly ball?

Exactly: but that's what ends up on ESPN.

He always provided good SportsCenter material. Since St. Louis is in the middle of the country and doesn't get much attention from the national press: that's all they're going to see.