Financially, Pujols is a winner. I think he’s lost something special, the chance to retire as the second-greatest Cardinal of all time, just behind Stan Musial and slightly ahead of Bob Gibson. That’s all gone now. And maybe that’s the way it should be. Now that Pujols has gone to Cali, Musial will permanently own all of the important franchise records. Pujols can’t touch them now.

Pujols willingly gave up his spot as one of history’s inner-circle Cardinals and will be viewed as just another athlete.

Edit: The link was initially to the Los Angeles Times; however, the author of this article is St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz. My bad – Bernie deserves the credit, not the byline-less L.A. Times.

(I’d rather die than root for the Steelers should I spawn a boy.)

Coming up with the idea in San Francisco, when Skip Schumaker wore a mock turtleneck, Lance Berkman and a few other players had an idea to make the entire team wear turtlenecks when they leave for St Louis.

“I don’t necessarily want to take credit for it, but I was involved in the conversation,” Berkman said. “When you have some success, it makes it easier to goof around. It is not too easy to find one though.”

Ferris Bueller and his pals were at the June 5, 1985, tilt between the Cubs and the Braves. The foul ball that Ferris caught was hit by Atlanta rightfielder Claudell Washington (#15) in the top of the 11th inning. The game was tied at two (not scoreless, like the pizza guy claimed) and backup second-baseman Paul Zuvella (#18) was being held on first by Leon Durham (#10) after a leadoff single (the fourth hit of the game, and Atlanta’s first hit since the fifth). Washington would end his at-bat with a flyball to leftfielder Davey Lopes. The next batter, Rafael Ramirez, would wind up hitting a two-run home run and the Braves would go on to win 4-2. The movie, however, cut away before that happened.