1. Sorry for all the Cards/Pujols love, but all the attention on St. Louis for the All-Star Game has made me appreciate how fortunate I am to be in St. Louis (Baseball Heaven) while a sure-fire HoF’er is in the prime of his career (I hope I didn’t jinx it). As a sports fan, I’ve read plenty of accounts of watching players like Larry and Magic, Bill Russell, Stan the Man, Jim Brown and loads of other all-time greats, but other than the only Bulls game I’ve ever attended (MJ led them to a title that year), I’ve never been able to regularly see a once in a generation player. Call this nostalgia from the future. I just can’t wait to tell my grandkids all my El Hombre stories. Btw, this is a swell article.

    Sorry for all the Cards/Pujols love, but all the attention on St. Louis for the All-Star Game has made me appreciate how fortunate I am to be in St. Louis (Baseball Heaven) while a sure-fire HoF’er is in the prime of his career (I hope I didn’t jinx it).

    As a sports fan, I’ve read plenty of accounts of watching players like Larry and Magic, Bill Russell, Stan the Man, Jim Brown and loads of other all-time greats, but other than the only Bulls game I’ve ever attended (MJ led them to a title that year), I’ve never been able to regularly see a once in a generation player.

    Call this nostalgia from the future. I just can’t wait to tell my grandkids all my El Hombre stories.

    Btw, this is a swell article.

  2. Nah. I’m expecting a Big Mac.

    — Albert Pujols (courtesy of the St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Brian Burwell), on whether he expected the Cardinals to bill him for knocking out the lights in the “I” with a June home run into Big Mac Land.

  3. MVP!

    MVP!