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On Wednesday, Cardinals legend Stan Musial displayed a rather simple wish-list for the holiday season: “All I want for Christmas is for Pujols to be a Cardinal.“  It was extremely touching (editor’s note: not manipulative, at all) for the sole reason that Stan Musial doing anything is, well, touching. There was also the report that [...]

When news broke yesterday morning of Albert Pujols’ defection from St. Louis to Anaheim, the battle between bitter Cardinals fans and bubbly Angels fans had begun.  It was nothing personal, just two polar opposite reactions to a $250 million deal being struck by a baseball player. And when the battle lines are drawn and the [...]

In the wake of today’s Albert Pujols news, the JoeSportsFan crew headed out to “Pujols 5″, the namesake restaurant of baseball’s latest quarter-billionaire, in Westport Plaza on Thursday afternoon. The plan was to sit down, drink some water, consume some free bread and jet.  After all, who needs to give money to a guy that [...]

As it relates to Albert Pujols and his contract there is no shortage of rumors originating from MLB Network, ESPN, Twitter, the know-it-all assholes in adjacent cubicles and everything in between.  We just can’t get enough. As rumors with very little substance drop into your lives, we might as well have some fun with it, [...]

Things are really heating up in St. Louis right now (+1 point for ironic weather pun) surrounding the Albert Pujols contract rumors that are flying in from Dallas, where MLB Winter Meetings commenced on Monday morning. But how do these little nuggets of insight originate?  It turns out they come from an emerging group of [...]

When it comes to players that are synonomous with their number, Albert Pujols and the number 5 are becoming inseparable.  He’s worn the number on his back for over 1,700 Major League games, he has a restaurant named “Pujols 5″, the royalty-inspired personal logo has the number slipped in there and it will most definitely [...]

On Friday afternoon, the Cardinals added another familiar face to new manager Mike Matheny’s staff.   John Mabry was announced as the team’s new assistant hitting coach just four years after retiring from baseball in 2007. With local familiarity surrounding Mabry’s name, the Cardinals used the signing as an opportunity to teach their respective fan base [...]

When Twitter compadre @Dathan7 made a suggestion this week that perhaps we should write a book based solely on intriguing items that come rolling into the JoeSportsFan inbox, our first thought was: that’s silly, people don’t read books these days do they? Then once that thought passed, we figured giving a peek into some of [...]

…but you can’t take the St. Louis out of the boy.  Or, so they say. The photo below definitely classifies as yet another oddity to hit the JoeSportsFan email inbox. Yes sir, that’s Colby Rasmus cutting a rug on the dance floor at Talanya’s on Hampton – which is a pizza restaurant by day and [...]

You’ve probably never heard the name Bert Bell.   Hell, not many non-NFL historians under the age of 80 have. A quick history lesson courtesy of the internet: Bert Bell was the original owner of the Philadelphia Eagles when they joined the league in 1933. He became the head coach of his team in 1936 and [...]