Ladies and gentlemen, your St. Louis Cardinals won the 2011 World Series.
What??!!
I picked a bad year to stop updating this tumblr.
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Your 2011 World Series bound St. Louis Cardinals.
You all didn’t think I’d really stay quiet through all of this did you?
Daily Recap: David Wright went 4-4, with a homer and three RBI’s, and Chris Capuano made his case for fifth starter with five strong innings
- 03/24/11
- 01:51
I expect game recaps for EVERY single game now guys. Not just ones where you happen to win by 13 runs. No worries, though. This will be the only time it happens all season.
“To watch Pujols interact with the St. Louis diehards is to watch a prototypical spoiled, arrogant 21st century sports star at his absolute worst. During spring training, it is common for players to wave or smile or nod or (gasp!) talk to fans as they trot from one field to the next during otherwise monotonous drill sessions. Lance Berkman is the king of this practice. Gerald Laird isn’t far behind. Pujols, on the other hand, does nothing. When people call his name, he almost never gazes up. When people ask for an autograph, he doesn’t even bother with a “Not now” or “Try me later.” Instead, he resorts to tactics men like Barry Bonds and Albert Belle perfected in the recent decades—the steel-faced, Why-are-you-even-talking-to-me? ignore-the-world two-step. It’s not that Pujols doesn’t say much—neither does Derek Jeter. It’s not that Pujols is intense—Josh Hamilton is certainly right there with him. No, what rubs an increasing number of people wrongly is his galling frostiness. Or, as one longtime Cardinals usher said to me the other day, “How about looking up at people when they talk to you? How about acknowledging that they exist?””—Albert Pujols and the treatment of people - Jeff Pearlman (via sportsnetny)I’m sorry, but this isn’t fair. Albert Pujols does WAY too much for the community to be lumped in with the likes of Barry Bonds and Albert Belle. No way. What if every single day when you went to the movies, to the grocery store, to work, there was a group of people yelling your name and wanting you to acknowledge them. Eventually someone’s going to call you an asshole because you can’t say hi to everyone. What’s he supposed to do, walk over and start up a 10 minute conversation? He’s at work! All athletes ignore fans at times because otherwise they’d never get any work done. To call out Albert Pujols for this is a lame attempt at vilification.
Agreed. I think I’ve said it earlier but this is going to be a tough season for the Cardinals and media. Regardless of what Albert does or what anyone on the team does I have a feeling that certain non-STL folks are going to do what they can to knock him down from the pedestal that they built for him and placed him on in the first place.
holy shit.
two of my favorite cardinals, yadi & waino. what’s that? i love the whole team? you say that like it’s a bad thing. ah, i’m growing more impatient by the second for opening day. GO CARDS!
So, i just got emotional after watching this.
My heart was pounding watching when it was real. Weeks after I had strange heart palpitations, to the likes that I haven’t felt that since.
I think I have something in my eye… God I love baseball.
