UPDATED! Bernie and Gordo AND JOE STRAUSS ACK! Burwell TOO!

[lukethedrifter]

I'm just gonna lump Slaten in here. I just couldn't help myself yesterday and listened in for a couple minutes of the Christian Kevy Revival Hour. Holy Criminy! It would be impossible to satirize him.

Kurt Warner, not quite but very Jesus like. Albert Pujols, fake Christian into self glorification.

btw has anyone ever seen Centreville and Slaten at the same time?

[Freed Roger]

Burwell's Headline today

Jackson Story is Bad News

future Burwellian Headlines.

Rams Need a Good Draft

Albert Pujols is Good

Cards Need to Sign Pujols

Spags Has Work To Do

[Hungary Jack]

Burwell's Headline today

Jackson Story is Bad News

future Burwellian Headlines.

Rams Need a Good Draft

Albert Pujols is Good

Cards Need to Sign Pujols

Spags Has Work To Do

Add to that:

Blues fight to get back into playoff contention

Holliday makes Cards lineup more potent

NFL labor issues might derail 2011 season

[Freed Roger]

Today's Burwellian headline

McGwire Has a Lot to Offer

[JL21]

Today's Burwellian headline

McGwire Has a Lot to Offer

Add to that:

Blues fight to get back into playoff contention

Holliday makes Cards lineup more potent

NFL labor issues might derail 2011 season

Sportswriters don't write their own headlines. It's done by other people at the paper- sometimes an editor, sometimes it's someone as simple as the person doing the layout/graphic design.

[sighyoung]

Today's Burwellian headline

McGwire Has a Lot to Offer

Add to that:

Blues fight to get back into playoff contention

Holliday makes Cards lineup more potent

NFL labor issues might derail 2011 season

Sportswriters don't write their own headlines. It's done by other people at the paper- sometimes an editor, sometimes it's someone as simple as the person doing the layout/graphic design.

In this case, the finger-painter.

[Hungary Jack]

I know I shouldn't even read anything that Joe Strauss writes, because he is well-practiced at meaningless obfuscation and literally making saying nothing sound like something. But his latest installment of illogic makes we want to eat cigarette butts through a park bench:

Joe Strauss: The front office recognizez the value Holliday offered their lineup and the lack of alternatives on last year's free agent market. In a way, they called Pujols on his oft-stated desire that the club demonstrate a prolonged commitment to winning. The club has dropped hints that if Pujols is indeed determined to become the game's highest-paid player it may not be able to retain him. The Cardinals certainly have not offered Pujols a proposal exceeding Alex Rodriguez' $27.5 million AAV. The guess here is they may never reach that plateau. If not, something will have to give. Does Pujols' representation at Beverly Hills Sports Council -- or Pujols himself -- accept less than top dollar for the game's best player? Remember that Scott Boras represents Rodriguez. It would be hard for Beverly Hills and Albert's lead agent, Dan Lozano, to settle for a deal that does no re-set the salary standard. Of course, the Players Association is also acutely interested. Right now, I'd say there is more than a 20 percent chance Pujols remains. Ultimately I think he wants to play his entire career in St. Louis. But for the club to rely exclusively on that is extremely dangerous. It's been stated previously here that the Cardinals' best chance for signing Albert is before the 2010 season. That's not to say it can't happen later. But I expect it to become much more difficult.

[Leroy]

This probably doesn't belong here, but I found this awesome nugget from a local blog.

At a local gas station in a community between Aberdeen and Rapid City on the day of a home football playoff game, a group of local young men armed with beers attached to belts on big buckles wanted to know if I was that “#**#@*!-bleeping sports editor Roger Toland from the Journal who did not pick their team to win?” I told them I was not, but I did not tell them that I was that #**#@*!-bleeping sports editor from the American News who also did not pick their team to win.

[Maclowery]

Thanks, Joe Strauss. Your inane post that the Cardinals won't offer >ARod is now one of the front page 'rumors' on MLB.ESPN.

In fact, why exactly hasn't ESPN hired away Joe Strauss yet? They'd make a great team, producing lots of absurd over-reactions, misguided statements, and trolling 'reports'.

[Bo Hart]

I know I shouldn't even read anything that Joe Strauss writes, because he is well-practiced at meaningless obfuscation and literally making saying nothing sound like something. But his latest installment of illogic makes we want to eat cigarette butts through a park bench:

Joe Strauss: The front office recognizez the value Holliday offered their lineup and the lack of alternatives on last year's free agent market. In a way, they called Pujols on his oft-stated desire that the club demonstrate a prolonged commitment to winning. The club has dropped hints that if Pujols is indeed determined to become the game's highest-paid player it may not be able to retain him. The Cardinals certainly have not offered Pujols a proposal exceeding Alex Rodriguez' $27.5 million AAV. The guess here is they may never reach that plateau. If not, something will have to give. Does Pujols' representation at Beverly Hills Sports Council -- or Pujols himself -- accept less than top dollar for the game's best player? Remember that Scott Boras represents Rodriguez. It would be hard for Beverly Hills and Albert's lead agent, Dan Lozano, to settle for a deal that does no re-set the salary standard. Of course, the Players Association is also acutely interested. Right now, I'd say there is more than a 20 percent chance Pujols remains. Ultimately I think he wants to play his entire career in St. Louis. But for the club to rely exclusively on that is extremely dangerous. It's been stated previously here that the Cardinals' best chance for signing Albert is before the 2010 season. That's not to say it can't happen later. But I expect it to become much more difficult.

In his defense, if you read through the article that this was in, the question he is replying to explicitly asks if the chances of Pujols staying are over or under 20%.

Later in his chat, he pins the odds of Pujols staying in St. Louis as 75%.