Cardinals hire Mark McGwire as hitting coach

Will he also be the team chemist and Juice Tester as well as hitting coach? Will he also show them the ins and outs of hiding steroid track marks and other nifty little hitting tricks? Just wondering....

While we're at it and feeling all nice and gooey inside, why not go all the way and let Pete Rose back in the game while they're at it? I know there is of course such a big difference between the two,(wink wink) after all Rose bet on the outcome of games, while McGqwire and his roid friends actually "changed the outcome" of games and baseball's most beloved records basically through drug abuse.

 

Don't worry coach, they'll never find out, I promise!! I'll just deny it. Hahahahah..

...(forearm bump from the Bash Brothers days in Oakland)

Although McGwire was never banned from baseball like Rose was .. he's just basically been in hiding  ever since it was discovered he hit most of his middle and later career homers while juiced up like every other major home run hitter of the 90s and into the new millennium... like Sammy SO-SO ( I mean Sosa although without 'Roids all he was was So so)  and a long list of others topped off by Barry Counterfeit Bonds.

King of the Juicers are all he and McGwire mean to me.

Above was a pic of Tony Larussa and "Juice" McGwire* as I call him (along with an asterisk that should always be beside his name as it was next to Roger Maris for far too long) back in the days when McGwire was basking in the glory of his hitting accomplishments in St Louis, which again were later diminished by his testimony in congress seen below, where his main concern at the time was to make sure he didn't  purjer himself in front of the nation and a congress full of sanctimonious crooks.

The Commercial Appeal: "Mark McGwire is back in baseball, reunited with Tony La Russa as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitting coach.

As expected, La Russa agreed to return for a 15th year as manager Monday with a one-year contract, the first time he hasn't had a multiyear deal with the team. All of his coaches will return except for Hal McRae, who will be replaced by the former star."

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NJ teens sue over 'God Bless America' ejection

I'm not into forcing people to sing the National Anthem, God Bless America or anything else for that matter..

However, that doesn't mean I didn't get a kick out of seeing these punks getting the boot from Private Property mind you for refusing to sing God Bless America at a minor league baseball game..

What I do mind, is then of course comes the frivolous lawsuit being filed by the whiny bitch teens through the opportunistic ACLU I'm sure who never misses a beat when it comes to whizzing in the eye of America and what it stands for about 80% of the time.

In a nutshell.......

"Nobody sits during the singing of 'God Bless America' in my stadium," the lawsuit quotes Cetnar as saying. "Now the get the (expletive) out of here."

Cetnar denied saying that: "Never, never did that ever happen."

Cetnar said he hasn't seen the lawsuit, but called the boys' account "a huge fabrication."

Whatever they did, I'm betting they deserved to get the boot because 5000 other people didn't get shown the door.

My Way News "TRENTON, N.J. (AP) TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Three teenagers who say they were tossed from a New Jersey ballpark over their refusal to stand during the song "God Bless America" are suing the minor league Newark Bears.

The boys argue that their constitutional rights were violated when they were asked to leave Newark's Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium on June 29 by Bears' president and co-owner Thomas Cetnar.

Cetnar acknowledged the boys were asked to leave but declined to say why. He also has denied making some statements attributed to him in the lawsuit.

The boys - Millburn High seniors Bryce Gadye and Nilkumar Patel, both 17, and junior Shaan Mohammad Khan, 16 - sued in federal court on Friday seeking unspecified damages.

According to the lawsuit, the boys were seated behind home plate when the song began playing. Once it ended, they say Cetnar approached them yelling.

"Nobody sits during the singing of 'God Bless America' in my stadium," the lawsuit quotes Cetnar as saying. "Now the get the (expletive) out of here."

Cetnar denied saying that: "Never, never did that ever happen."

Cetnar said he hasn't seen the lawsuit, but called the boys' account "a huge fabrication."

The boys are being represented by Bryce Gadye's father, Ross, who said the boys weren't protesting the song and no one asked them to stand.

"The boys weren't trying to make any political statements, they just didn't get up," he said. "No one gave them an ultimatum. The song was sung, it was finished, then they were thrown out."

"God Bless America," written by Irving Berlin in 1918, was played at big league ballparks throughout the country when baseball resumed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and has remained a fixture at New York Yankees games.

In July, the Yankees and New York City settled a lawsuit with a fan who said he was ejected from Yankee Stadium by police after he left his seat to use the bathroom during the playing of "God Bless America." The city did not admit liability in the settlement, but agreed to give the fan $10,001 and pay $12,000 in legal fees. The Yankees changed their policy, and fans at the team's new stadium are allowed to move freely during the song.

Gadye declined to let his son be interviewed, saying he was concerned about his safety over reaction to the lawsuit, which was first reported in The Star-Ledger of Newark.

"They've been getting all kinds of mixed reaction," he said. "Both gung-ho and 'We want to kill you.'"

"I think what makes it so horrible is that they were publicly humiliated for exercising a right that was guaranteed to them by the United States Constitution," Gadye said.

The sides differ on talks they had after the incident.

Ross Gadye said he met with general manager Mark Skeels and James Wankmiller, a co-owner, following the incident. He said they apologized and offered and free tickets, but Gadye said the boys wanted an apology from Cetnar, who was not at the meeting, and sued when there was no resolution.

Wankmiller, who declined to talk about whether the boys were asked to leave the ballpark and why, said they offered to meet with Gadye's son and the other boys and never heard back from them. He said it boiled down to money.

"We offered to sit with him and find out what his beef was and he asked for money," Wankmiller said. "That was about it."

Neither side would respond to the other's version of how the talks played out.

Even if the boys win their lawsuit, it's unclear if they'll get much money from the minor league team. Developer Marc Berson sold the team to California-based Bases Loaded group last year after the team filed for bankruptcy.

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Booze and Babes? How Does Alcohol Effect The Female Libido? Video

Here's some interesting chatter from Fox's overnight show Red Eye as they discuss any connection between women's sexual appetites and alcohol consumption with Ann Coulter on the set and entertainment reporter Jill Dobson....funny I thought

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Today The Hammer Falls On Mad Money Madoff, Expect de facto life and A quick death

A person like this will most certainly not thrive in a prison environment to say the least, and the way the hammer of fate has been falling lately on celebrities of both the Angel variety and the not so angelic he might even drop dead at his sentencing hearing this morning, which might make many of his so called "victims" a little happier than they wake up today.

However, you can count me among the people who aren't exactly shedding tears for most of but not all the participants, because at the end of the day everyone involved in this entire pyramid was looking the fast and quick buck short and simple. And for the most part, anyone who lost a great deal of money was part of a select group of people who thought they were better and smarter than the rest of us pee ons, and simply made money off other people's hard earned money, and in most cases never earned a hard dollar in their high society lives.

With the only exception to the rule being the far off in the distance mutual fund Joe's and Betty's who lost everything they worked for only because greedy fund managers saw big bonuses with unrealistic and suspect returns, thus putting charities and other innocent people's life savings at unnecessary risk, when all should have known this was a scheme that was more than dirty.

So those selfish fund managers also bear much of the guilt in this entire greed filled pot of gold turned to coal scheme, so lets all hope at least some hard lessons were learned all around, and next time they will all collectively keep these two age old adages in mind;

If it seems to good to be true, than the chances are, somewhere down the line it is.

And never risk more money in any one investment than one can afford to lose. I learned those two phrases in the fifth grade as did most of these people as well, so their innocent Sargent Shultz 'I Know Nothing" routine is all bunk.

So today the civilized world says goodbye to Bernie Madoff and some prison somewhere gains a new playtoy for the caged up animals and it'll be funtime and would make a great reality show called:

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Reuters: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Admitted thief Bernard Madoff will leave his jail cell and be taken under guard to court on Monday morning to hear his punishment for running Wall Street's biggest and most brazen investment scheme.

A U.S. judge is expected to sentence Madoff, 71, to an effective life term in prison during an emotional court hearing starting at 10 a.m. EDT, in which some of his defrauded investors will describe the shock of losing their life savings.

The swindler, who pleaded guilty to a slew of crimes in the same Manhattan federal court in March, will 'speak to the shame he has felt and to the pain he has caused,' said his lawyer, Ira Lee Sorkin, who has suggested a 12-year prison sentence.

'Given the enormous amount of funds he has stolen and the number of victims, the sentence is going to be very, very high,' said Paul Radvany, a law professor at Fordham University in New York and a former federal prosecutor.

The 100 or so letters sent to the judge from customers and what 10 will say at the hearing could have 'a great impact' at the sentencing, Radvany said." more

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Don't Miss Barney (Elmer Fudge) Frank on O'Reilly Tonight !! Remember the last time?

Who could forget this memorable smackdown of youtube history, Barney was crying for a month after this attack, one he deserved and still should be wearing a striped suit for his participation in this still ongoing banking crisis. He is "the banking queen" alright, as Rush has coined the criminal queenie senator.

He should be called the "cell block queen" after all the shi^ he's pulled on America.

In addition as if we already haven't been down this road with the criminal Elmer Fudge he want's to relax the new rules put in place that caused all this banking mess in the first place.

WTF is going on in this country!!!???

THIS MAN SHOULD BE IN PRISON AND YESTERDAY FOR THE LAST TIME, NOT TOMORROW...and here he want's to do it all over again.. Enough of this person, I've had it with this moron.

Fannie, Freddie asked to relax condo loan rules: report

Reuters: "(Reuters) - Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the Wall Street Journal said.

In March, Fannie Mae (FNM.N)(FNM.P) said it would no longer guarantee mortgages on condos in buildings where fewer than 70 percent of the units have been sold, up from 51 percent, the paper said. Freddie Mac (FRE.P)(FRE.N) is due to implement similar policies next month, the paper said.

In a letter to the CEO's of both companies, Representatives Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner warned that a 70 percent sales threshold 'may be too onerous' and could lead condo buyers to shun new developments, according to the paper." more

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