Thanks for the memories

Jimmy Baseball. Hollywood. Jimmy Ballgame. Thanks for The Catch in 2004, the walkoff in 2005, for taking charge in 2006 so we lived your dream and you got your ring.


Thanks for treating St. Louis like home, for stepping to the plate to Nellie, for hanging out at Blues games, and for your respect for the baseball history here.

Thanks for the field in Forest Park Southeast, for texting the Grind even when you should have kept it to yourself, and thanks for the halfshirts.



Thanks for the memories.

Mitchell Report

The nannystate steroid list will be released in a little over an hour. Sixty to 80 former and current baseball players will be named as steroid users past or present. They make enough money for me to not feel sorry for them, but I do hope some of our old favorites and currrent "good guys" are not on the list. I truly do not want to see Albert Pujols, Derek Jeter, Jim Edmonds, or Chris Carpenter named.
Whose name would make me cheery? Curt Schilling. That loudmouth could be silenced in the next hour. That would be nice. Also, I would not mind JD Drew. Roger Clemens with his annual its-May-and-I'm-going-to-announce-coming-out-of-retirement-again speech is really old, so it would be fine with me if he's on it. I suspect Nomar will be there. We already know some of the names- Troy Glaus, Canseco, Sammy Sosa, Palmeiro, McGwire, Bonds, Rick Ankiel, and Giambi. Sixty to 80 is many more, but still a tiny percentage of all the players who currently or in the past played MLB. Some of them I am certain will not be named- Ozzie Smith, David Eckstein, Joe McEwing.

Who will be named?

I wait with baited breath!!

Q: Who do you favor for President in the United States?

A: “I cannot believe that it possible a woman can become Premier of US and A - in Kazakhstan, we say that to give a woman power, is like to give a monkey a gun - very dangerous. We do not give monkeys guns any more in Kazakhstan ever since the Astana Zoo massacre of 2003 when Torkin the orang-utan shoot 17 schoolchildrens. I personal would like the basketball player, Barak Obamas to be Premier.

Like Borat Sagdiyev, I've pretty much thrown my support behind Barack Obama. I did that before Oprah, so its not just because he's trendy. Truth be told, Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate that I feel most represents my beliefs, but Obama can actually win. That makes me sound cynical and perhaps like a sellout, but its self-preservation too. Its hard to keep getting excited about candidates and then watch them crumble and choke and fall apart and lose. Nader, Gore, Dean, Kucinich- all were once supported by this voter. Now I'm with Obama, there's no way I can go 0-for-5. Right?!