The Morning Tailgate
Woo-Hoo!!! The Cards scored over 3 runs last night…and they won!! Gratiutous half-naked Chris Duncan pic here. [Yahoo!]
Manager, Tony LaRussa, bats Chris Duncan in the cleanup spot for the first time this year. [STLToday]
Fungoes.net observes that, “desperate times call for desperate measures”…and even Tony LaRussa seems to be changing in his ways. [Fungoes.net]
With the big-boys struggling, ever wonder how the Cardinals minor league prospects compare to the rest of the National League Central? [Baseball Think Factory]
Damien Nash’s autopsy ruled inconclusive for presence of drugs or unnatural substances. [STLToday]
Post-Dispatch columnist, Bernie Miklasz, questions Tony LaRussa’s vocalization after his own DUI during Spring Training, and how it affected the overall attitude towards alcohol in the Cardinals lockeroom. [STLToday]
No matter how many healthy feet Shaun Alexander has, I still have him running for 120 yards and 2 TDs against the Rams in October. [SeattlePI.com]
Oddly enough, generally cool-calm-and-collected Booby Cox is on pace to break the all-time record for most Major League ejections. This time, statistics show that neither blacks nor white give a damn. [AJC.com]