For now, all I can remember of the guy is the year when he made 70 home runs.

Other than that, every single time somebody talks about the guy this 2008 MLB baseball season, his steroid problems seem to become the topic of discussion. Yep, just like Clemens, Canseco and the poster boy for steroids, Barry Bonds.

Now, it looks like Mark McGwire wants to give people something else to talk about every time his name is mentioned. Rumor has it that the former St. Louis Cardinals powerhouse wants to make a comeback. You read it, McGwire wants to have baseball in his life again.

Mark McGwire is considered as one of the most famous men in baseball history. However, he hasn’t made a public appearance at a major league ballpark in three years, has declined interview requests and passed on annual invitations to visit his former team, the St. Louis Cardinals, in spring training.

Mark McGwire, who made a record in Major League Baseball 10 years ago when he hit the single-season record of 70 home runs, had his last moment in the spotlight back in 2005 because of issues with regards to steroids use and other performance enhancing substance.

McGwire declined to admit that he is slowly returning to baseball. But…

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Unfortunately for Mets and Dodgers fans, their teams’ respective counterparts in the American League STILL generate more hype.

That’s the way things have been the last couple of years, and in this 2008 MLB baseball season, nothing has changed. Why? Probably has something to do with the way this team from the AL East simply knocked the hell out of the National League’s representative during last season’s World Series.

In the National League, the Philadelphia Phillies lead the East, the Chicago Cubs lead the Central and the Arizona Diamondbacks lead the West. And although they may be regarded as the ‘’weaker conference'’ in baseball, don’t expect that to stop them from proving why people should start thinking otherwise.

The Philadelphia Phillies lead the Eastern division with a 41-29 record, also having the best road record in the National conference with 20-16. Against the St. Louis Cardinals, we all saw how impressive this Phillies team can be after the Phillies won with a whopping 20-2 blast. Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the first inning, and the Phillies added nine runs in the fourth to win the opener of a three-game series Friday at Busch Stadium.

In the Central, division leader Chicago Cubs got a slight bump to…

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For all ya’ll who missed the MLB All-Star game this year, NL manager Tony La Russa benched World Series champ, Albert Pujols.

Yep, Albert Pujols, the only player selected from the MLB World Series champions St. Louis Cardinals, ended the 2007 MLB All-Star game with a DNP after NL manager Tony La Russa absolutely BENCHED him during the game.

Albert Pujols was understandably pissed about it after the game. ‘’If I wasn’t expecting to play, I wouldn’t have come up here,'’ Albert Pujols said right after the 2007 MLB All-Star game in San Francisco. And to think both of these guys are on the same freaking team in St. Louis.

After his somewhat agitated ranting in Cali, Pujols spoke again but THIS TIME, in a rather calmer mood.

‘’People want to start World War III with me and Tony, and I think they’re picking the wrong person,'’ Pujols said Thursday during a workout. ‘’I've got so much respect for Tony, and he’s got so much respect for me.'’

The St. Louis Cardinals star also talked about his tirade after the benching incident in the 2007 MLB All-Star game.

‘’Was I disappointed because I didn’t get in the game? Of course, because…'’

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On July 15, ESPN will announce their own ‘’best athlete awards'’ on TV and whatever you do, please don’t vote for LeBron James.

Obviously, I don’t like the guy one bit. Sorry LeBron fans, if Dwyane Wade was nominated in the 2007 ESPY Awards, I’d pick on him but since the sick fuck is not nominated this year, I’d just screw with my second least favorite athlete of all time. Yep, it’s LeBron.

LeBron James is one of the nominees for the ‘’best male athlete'’ category in the 2007 ESPY Awards. He’ll join the likes of golf icon Tiger Woods, tennis great Roger Federer, last season’s NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson and Super Bowl XLI champion Peyton Manning.

My vote? It’s gotta’ be Peyton Manning. Heck, he had a whopping 4,397 passing yards in the concluded 2006-07 NFL football season. He had 31 touchdowns with only nine interceptions. And to top it off, he led the Indianapolis Colts to the Super Bowl XLI title and was named Super Bowl MVP.

Unlike LeBron James who was swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2007 NBA Finals. He he…

Speaking of the San Antonio Spurs, the 2007 NBA champions are…

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Yep, the defending MLB World Series champions are not looking like champions at this point of the MLB season.

SIX games below .500. Yep, that’s where the St. Louis Cardinals are at this point of the 2007 MLB baseball season. They are trailing only the Milwaukee Brewers in their division of National League standings. Not bad if you’re in a highly competitive group like… say… the West, but being in a dump like the National League Central, it’s definitely not a good thing.

The National League Central doesn’t have a team with a winning record last May and if the St. Louis Cardinals want to ever defend their MLB World Series title, they better start winning games NOW.

Of the 96 playoff teams since MLB baseball had this wild card thing in the playoffs, only the 2005 Houston Astros had as many games below .500 as the Cardinals are now headed for June.

Out of the 103 MLB baseball teams that went on to win the World Series, only three were even a game below the .500 mark after 50 games. That’s the 1914 Braves, the 1924 Senators and the 2003 Florida Marlins.

To make matters worse for the St. Louis Cardinals, NO TEAM has been outscored by more than 60 runs through its first 51 games and went on to…

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Yep, you read it, St. Louis Cardinals icon Albert Pujols taught TNA Wrestling star Kurt Angle a lesson. IN A STEEL CAGE.

As much as I’d want to see Kurt Angle and Albert Pujols in an interesting steel cage wrestling match, seeing Pujols in wrestling tights is definitely not something I’d look forward to.

Albert Pujols did taught Kurt Angle a lesson inside a steel cage, but it wasn’t a wrestling match. St. Louis Cardinals star Albert Pujols and professional wrestler Kurt Angle took turns slugging balls at spring training inside a cage.

Angle visited Albert Pujols in the Cardinals camp as part of Team Eckstein, named after World Series MVP David Eckstein, a lifelong wrestling fan. Eckstein played the role of manager for a professional wrestling match in Orlando earlier last February. Angle was working to promote a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-view event that will be held in St. Louis on April 15.

‘’By the time he retires, he’ll be considered one of the best ever. It was an honor him telling me what to do in there. It would be like me getting him in the ring,'’ Kurt Angle said. ‘’I really admire these guys because of their work ethic and the way they go all year long.'’

For all ya’ll not familiar about…

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Nope, it ain’t that park in St. Louis.

Here’s why. Did you know who was the man who discovered Albert Pujols and knew then that he WILL be a force to be reckon with in MLB Baseball? That’s former St. Louis Cardinals scout, Dave Karaff. FORMER because he doesn’t work for the team anymore.

Now, he stocks grocery shelves at the local Wal-Mart. Five days a week.

What a way to go after discovering the reigning National League MVP for MLB Baseball eh? I guess some people get bonuses and some people get watches. Dave Karaff was, um… fucked. Well, we won’t be talking about Mr. Karaff if it wasn’t for Pujols anyway. And hell, we won’t be talking about Wal-Mart either.

Dave Karaff spent seven years of his life working as a Cardinals scout for MLB Baseball before he was finally let go in 2003. Karaff, a friendly 64-year-old grandfather, doesn’t mind if you come watch MLB Baseball with him, but under one condition.

He’s not gonna talk about Albert Pujols.

Though the slugger is wildly talented, he’s also as sensitive as a junior high cheerleader…

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Dirt? Melted Tootsie Rolls?

OK, forget for a moment what was or wasn’t on Kenny Rogers’ left hand at the beginning of his World Series Game 2 masterpiece.

Last year, a camera caught Rogers’ raging figure at close range as he went after a TV cameraman in Texas and ended up slamming his equipment to the ground.

It took well over a year, but Rogers was finally pitching his way past the specter of that episode, and other career missteps, when the cameras caught him again.

What was that blotch on his pitching hand?

It was all the talk after the Tigers’ 3-1 victory over the Cardinals Sunday night in Game 2 of the World Series, and it continued into the off-day workouts at Busch Stadium, overshadowing a Series and staining Rogers’ three pristine postseason starts.

He said it was a combination of dirt, mud, rosin and spit that collected there in the process of routinely rubbing up a baseball for a bullpen session before the game. But a close look at the video suggested something more useful for helping to grip a baseball - or preserving fossils.

Now you see it. Now you don’t. Whatever was on Rogers’ hand, even after he cleaned it off, the St. Louis Cardinals couldn’t…

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It’s always about New York when it comes to MLB Baseball.

If the oddsmakers are right, there will be, as both the New York Yankees and the New York Mets have the best records in the American League and National League, respectively, and are favored to advance to the 2006 World Series.

Recent history, however, would seem to  be against it. The last time the two teams with the best regular-season records met in the World Series was 1999 (Yankees-Braves). The last Subway Series was in 2000, when the Wild Card Mets had the worst record of the four NL teams in the playoffs and the Yankees had fewer wins than any of the other AL teams that reached the postseason.

Maybe fans are in store for a Tigers-Padres 1984 World Series rematch. Maybe it will be another Subway Series, the way this decade began. Maybe the Cardinals will end their longest drought of titles by avenging their 1987 loss to the Twins. Or maybe we will be reminded of 1988, when…

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The Yankees. Christ. Yes, New York’s overpaid, underachieving goon squad is once again a 6/1 favorite to win the World Series next year according to the oddsmakers at Sportsbook.com. The newly crowned Chicago White Sox and runner-up Houston Astros are at 12/1. Respect. Other favorites include the Boston Red Sox at 8/1 and those plucky St. Louis Cardinals at 7/1. The turd-dweller of the bunch is the always entertaining Kansas City Royals, who now sit at a health 500/1 to win the World Series. Get your season tickets now! Sportsbook.com Posts 2006 World Series Odds [PR News Wire]

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