The Morning After

HOUR 1:

Verizon Wireless is a new sponsor of Team 1380, and Cat is getting a phone and wireless card…..Cat wants a time machine though, and can’t wait to see the “can you hear me now” guy from the commercials.

Cat is sick of people always thinking Kansas City is going to be a great team, and the guys try to think of good players who left the Royals like, Jermaine Dye, Carlos Beltran, and Johnny Damon.

Tim is excited for his trip to Las Vegas…..Producer Joe was disappointed to learn that people voted on Friday’s exit poll that he would be arrested in Las Vegas because he hasn’t been arrested in a very long time……Cat’s wife beat him in poker, which really upset him…..She had a flush and “coffee-housed” him according to Doug….If Cat wasn’t so scared of her, he would’ve done something.

If Anna Kournikova wins, Doug will hold her up in the air like he did last year…….He did it because he got paid…..She winked at him throughout the match, and she actually called Doug night and day till he changed his number…..

Mike Shannon went nuts on Kansas City’s short stop in yesterday’s Cards game for dropping a pop fly because he wasn’t wearing baseball-issued sun glasses. When you sweat while wearing eye black, it makes you look crazy like Tammy Faye Baker.

Keith Law told Producer Joe he will “never come on the show again” because of how his interview went a couple weeks ago…..He said he felt he was treated unfairly. Cat wasn’t there for the interview, but Tim and Doug said they didn’t think the interview was bad at all.


HOUR 2:

Keon Lawrence is leaving Mizzou due to personal reasons……Coach Mike Anderson plays a style of basketball which needs depth because of their run n gun style……Losing him is a huge step backwards…..Coach Anderson hasn’t landed the type of recruits that who can turn the team around…..Mizzou basketball isn’t popular right now because people don’t know the players…...Doug said an important piece of the puzzle is that Mizzou needs St. Louis kids on the team…..The caliber of players was better when Quinn Snyder was the coach……Cat said if the team plays well, it doesn’t matter where the players are from.

Joe Strauss:
Strauss said that the first time Mark Mulder comes in to pitch out of the bullpen will be interesting…..There was a chance for him to come in yesterday, but LaRussa didn’t want to bring him in while the game was so close. Joe doesn’t understand why Mulder is with the big league team…..Albert Pujols is the best right-handed hitter Joe has ever seen in person…..Ryan Ludwick has improved significantly in the past 2 games. Chris Duncan has also shown improvement lately with his swing…..Joe thinks it’s still game by game for Mitchell Boggs because he isn’t going real long in games, but he has good stuff and you have to give him more time……The Cards have serious problems in the bullpen with a lack of left-handers…..Its really hard to say who the Cardinals could get in a trade because it depends what they are willing to give up…..There is no real news on Adam Wainwright, and he isn’t scheduled to be back until after the All-Star break……Joe said maybe Jaime Garcia would be brought up as a left handed reliever instead of a trade…..The team has 15 guys on the DL including 8 pitchers……

The Cougars Next Door contest starts today on InsideSTL.com, with 37 year-old Tracy…..Cougar hunter Jake pulled a couple new recruits from when he went to the Trainwreck Saloon in Westport…..Cougars are all over the place at the Lake, and it’s easy to take your pick….His buddy took a girl below the deck of the boat they were on…..Jake gets $50 per gal he gets in the contest.


HOUR 3:

Producer Joe is sharing a room with Tim Pickett, and Tim is worried that Joe will be so drunk he will pound on the door of the wrong room yelling to be let in……Producer Joe’s buddy went into the wrong hotel room on spring break one year when he was drunk, took his clothes off, and got into bed naked with a couple kids. The kids’ dad came in beat the crap out of his friend.

Mitchell Boggs:
Mitchell said he went deeper in the game Saturday because he is pitching better. Hopefully he can get a little more comfortable and pitch longer in games…..Dave Duncan has been working hard on his change-up with him…….It’s all about confidence when you throw a change-up or you’re just going to lob it up there……Mitchell said that his start in Boston was a big game for him, and he got his nerves out of the way pretty quickly. He said that the Cards scoring so many runs early in the game really helped him ……..Fans for some reason think it’s hilarious if they yell “Wade Boggs” at him…. Mitchell said that it is a lot easier to play with flying each time you go somewhere, instead of riding buses in the minors……The Cards are giving him opportunities to pitch well, and all he can control is going out there and doing the best he can…..He will do whatever he can to help the team win….. Tony wants him to take it day by day and come in and learn…..Mitchell is from Carpet Country in Georgia, and he would rather play on turf than make the turf…...Mitchell knows that the Cubs are a huge rivalry and he is looking forward to an awesome time.


Leftover Riff Raff:
Doug chopped off his son’s finger that usually does the downloading of ring tones and increases his cell phone bill…..Tim’s lopsided head is his trademark—just like Cindy Crawford’s mole…..A birthmark is like a fern according to Doug…...Tim’s cousin sent in 5 cds full of crappy music for the guys to use……Tim was thinking about treating Producer Joe to Cher in Las Vegas, but Cat said they should go see Wayne Newton……Doug has a couch called a Davenport……People feel like they need to go all night in Las Vegas so they overdose on Coke……Doug wouldn’t share a room with someone named “Big Grease”…….Doug guessed a song coming out of break today for the first time ever….. There are some nice looking groupies in Memphis……Sometimes when Cat flies with the team, he helps unload the luggage to help speed up the process so the guys get more rest……

SEGMENT 1--Team 1380 Makes the Switch to Verizon Wireless, Doug Has Trouble With His Cell Phone Carrier, Doug Put Anna Kournikova on His Shoulders the Last Time She Was In Town, Mole Talk, and More Rodent Talk---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 2--Talk About Jason LaRue Leading the Way Yesterday in Kansas City, Albert Pujols Back in the Swing of Things, Brad Thompson Makes the Trip But Is Never Activated, Trouble on the Landing This Weekend, Talk About Crime Overall in the City, and Vegas Talk---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 3--Mike Shannon Goes Nuts During Yesterday's Game Regarding Sunglasses and the Potential Impact Financially On a City Because of Them, and Keith Law Will Never Join the Show Again--CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 4--Mizzou Basketball Talk with All of the Problems in Columbia Now Including Keon Lawrence Leaving the Program, and What Can Be Done at Mizzou to Fix the Problem---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 5--Joe Strauss Joins the Show and He Is Surprised By Timmy Making the WSOP, His Thoughts on the Recent Road Trip, What Can Be Expected From Mark Mulder in the Bullpen, the Return of Pujols, Has Ryan Ludwick Found His Swing Again, Has Chris Duncan Made Some Improvements, When Is Adam Wainwright Going to Return, and What is the Vibe Surrounding Chris Carpenter---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 6--Cougar Hunter Jake Checks In With the Show on the Debut of the Cougar Next Door Today and Cougars Around America---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 7--The Cat is Really Happy With His New Cell Phone Service and Tim Talks About the Restrictions at the WSOP In Regards to Not Allowing Him To Use His iPhone As an MP3 Player---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 8--Mitchell Boggs Joins the Show to Talk About His Start In Kansas City, What He Has Been Trying to Do When He Pitches, Working With Dave Duncan, Pitching In Boston, What Fans Say to Him When They Heckle Him, and His First Long Road Trip as a Big Leaguer---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN 

SEGMENT 9--The Ticket Guys Email of the Day---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 1 – Producer Joe skipped work today after seeing Corey Smith last night, Jim Edmonds might come on the show today, if he wakes up, The Cat visited Memphis, Matt Clement disappoints Tim, Rasmus talked candidly to The Cat, J-Rod still 95% a Cardinal, Doug rode a roller-coaster with Robbie Knievel---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 2 – The Cat wants to cover Robbie Knievel’s jump on FSN, Tim gets pissy over Cardinals bullpen, Blown saves have really hurt the team, The guys discuss La Russa’s decision to walk the bases loaded in the 9^th---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 3 – Tim’s Grandma dragged him out of a movie when he was 12, The guys discuss options for the Would Ya section of the Window World Exit Poll, Sean Young Needs a Weedwacker and has Some Flap Jacks---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 4 – Window World Exit Poll unveiled, Tim’s chances of winning the WSOP discussed, the Guys expect Producer Joe to be arrested in Vegas, The Cat’s bitterness began at Maverick’s Saloon---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 5 – Callers get involved in the Window World Exit Poll, Shawn Chacon released after incident with GM---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 6 – There was a puppy at insideSTL Happy Hour last night, Exit Poll continues---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 7 – In a surprising turn of events, callers are actually getting a chance to give their answers to the Window World Exit Poll for the majority of the show.---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 8 – Norm Chad, WSOP commentator for ESPN, joins the show to discuss Tim’s first trip to the WSOP, He talks to the Guys about playing on the first day, He plays Stud or Omaha rather than Hold’em, Despite Tim being in the field, Norm sticks with his pick of Phil Ivey to win the WSOP---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Segment 9 – Ticket Guy’s Email of the Day and the results of the Exit Poll announced---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Tim wants this show to be the best so Cat asked if they have time to get 3 new hosts in there…..Producer Joe wasn’t at the show today because he stayed up all night partying at a concert at the Pageant…..Apparently the guys didn’t need any guests today except Norm Chad……Jim Edmonds said that he thinks he will be able to call in to the show today.

Cat went down to Memphis with a camera crew and was very disappointed because Matt Clement didn’t want to do an interview…….Doug said maybe there was a plumbing problem in the locker room so he didn’t have time, but Cat said he actually had a tool belt with a crescent wrench so if he had a plumbing problem Cat could’ve helped. At that point, Cat joked that he told the camera guy to “pack it up.”……He interviewed Colby Rasmus, Joe Mather, David Freese (who is openly rooting against Edmonds), Brad Thompson being a yo-yo up and down between the majors and minors……J-Rod said he would do anything to be back with the Cardinals.

Doug wasn’t paying attention during the show because he was trying to come up with a would ya…..Sean Young from Ace Ventura is his pick.

Doug’s friend gave his kid one smack on the but in the grocery store and the next day he got a visit from Child Services because someone got his license plate number and complained.



Exit Poll Questions:

1. Cardinals reliever you most trust to get out of a close game?

2. Love or Hate Steven Jackson?

3. What’s most likely to happen in Vegas----Tim wins, Joe gets arrested, or both end up in a hot-tub with Andy Dick?

4. Worst job you ever had?

5. Judy Tenuta, would ya?

6. First 3 choices if you had to form a posse?



Norm Chad:
Norman said that Vegas is the only place left in the world where everyone else smokes, and you get second hand smoke in your shower……Word got around town that Tim qualified for the tournament and entries picked up because everyone knows that it will be easy to take his money…..A lot of people get tight on the first day because they want to survive…….Cat asked a question for Tim----are the men hot?.......They cap off each of the first 4 days of the beginning of the tournament at 3000 people…..Chad said that a lot of online players have the philosophy of kill or be killed….You can’t win the tourney on day 1, but you can get knocked out……Norman said he plays Stud and Omaha when he plays…..He couldn’t make up his mind last night if Phil Ivey would still win the whole thing now that Tim is in the tournament. He said that it was a coin flip, but the coin flip was actually between Phil winning the whole thing or Tim getting knocked out the first day…….Over the long haul, skill wins out, but there is a big luck factor…..Sometimes people who just started playing 6 months before slip through and almost make it to the final table….. Chad’s advice was to be rested and dress warm.


Exit Poll Results:
No one told Russ the intern that he was supposed to count the votes on the message boards on Tim’s website so there weren’t a lot of votes today.

1. 3 way tie between Izzy, Franklin
2. 9-3 love Steven Jackson
3. 5 votes for in the money
4. 9 votes for Joe to get arrested
5. Majority of votes had to do with maintenance votes
6. 1 person said yes for would ya
7. Tim and Cat received 3 votes, Doug got 2 votes as well as Will Ferrell



Leftover Riff Raff:
The McKernans aren’t fighters…..Tim needs to not “turtle” when he is playing in the tourney in Vegas…..Cat is a loose player…….Rudy can’t believe that Doug broke up his band----the Von Trap Family singers……. Tim is a pickle kisser…….

HOUR 1:

Cat said he feels like he should be on the current road trip because of who the team is playing, but he is very happy he was at home watching on TV during the rain delay last night. He sent Dan McLaughlin a text asking how he was doing during the delay, and Dan sent back curse ridden texts that Cat could not repeat on the air.

Shawn Chacon of the Houston Astros has been indefinitely suspended after getting into a fight earlier this week with GM Ed Wade. Chacon grabbed Wade around his neck and slammed him to the ground in the cafeteria when Wade was yelling at him……..John Mozeliak is a fitness guy, and runs all the time. He does two sets of 50 reps of 50 pound dumbbells…..Jim Edmonds hit another home run last night. Cat claims that he never thought Jim Edmonds was done, but Tim thinks he is lying.

Tim contacted his guy at Lumiere about playing poker and practicing for the big tournament…...Cat said Tim needs a coach who would deal him pocket aces so he can work on not getting too excited and try to bet constantly.

Tim bets not a lot of people watched the end of the Cardinals game last night because it ended so late. Tim thought it was going to be rained out……Albert Pujols said he will play today in the Post-Dispatch even though there is rain in the forecast. The guys talk about who should be sent down to Memphis when Pujols comes off the DL. It will probably be Nick Stavinoha, but the guys agree that it should be Chris Duncan because he isn’t hitting and he is bad defensively……Taking the Duncan name out of the equation, when Pujols comes back, Duncan will have to play the outfield which he doesn’t do well and he isn’t hitting so he should be sent down.


HOUR 2:

Jayson Stark:
Jayson said it is always an issue when a player is the son of a coach, but if you look at Chris Duncan objectively he is really just an extra player…..He should clearly be a DH… Stark just doesn’t see him as a 7 day a week player; he is a part time player…..Power buys you opportunities in baseball, and how he hit the ball the past 2 years has helped the Cardinals cut him slack…..Jim Edmonds looked like he was swinging underwater with the Padres, and everyone thought he was done. Then he goes to Chicago and got an opportunity to play in a smaller outfield and a better hitters’ park…..Stark said he thinks the Cubs are the best team in the league especially if they get Zambrano back and stay healthy. However, they are the Cubs and you have to play the game……Bobby Cox is in a league of his own when it comes to current managers, and Mike Scosia has been great with the Angels, but Tony LaRussa has to be in the conversation of the best managers….. Jayson loves Steve Kline even though he thinks his last name is Starks……Jayson thinks the Cardinals would be a good fit for Erik Bedard if they make a move.

Cat is going to miss the insideSTL happy hour at Maggie O’Brien’s today because he will be headed to Memphis……Producer Joe will be there for a little while, but has to go to a concert.

Steve Kline:
Steve was sitting in his house in Montreal this morning…..He is expecting a baby boy in 2 weeks. He has 2 girls already so he is excited to “have someone to kick around”……Steve said he is retired, but if someone calls his agent he will go back and play……He doesn’t throw the baseball anymore because he is retired. He goes swimming with his kids now because it’s summertime…...Kline got kicked out of a game for the Lehigh Iron Pigs when he bumped the umpire and said some choice words and was suspended for 7 games. The next day he was released and decided to retire….Steve said that he doesn’t understand how people who never played the game can tell him how to pitch. They want everyone to throw as hard as possible, but they don’t realize how important movement on the ball can be……He said that some D-bag wasn’t playing attention and rammed him with a cart in a grocery store, and he wanted to take him outside and beat him…..Steve kept saying he wanted to be a pitching coach, and he would love to do something with the Cardinals. He also has been applying for college coaching jobs. He said he is ready to even coach college football…. He doesn’t want to work at a prison because if he had to tackle an 18 year-old his leg would probably fall off and gravy would come out……Steve said maybe he will become a writer. “How do you spell I?”…..Kline said that the last autograph he got was the Commish---Rick Hummel. Rick wouldn’t sign for him till he put him in a headlock……Steve said that going to the World Series in 2004 was the best memory for him as a Cardinal…..He is looking forward to buying his 6 year-old daughter breast implants…….Steve knows Italians who are executives at casinos out in Las Vegas and said Tim should meet up with them…..Cat said that Steve should grow a mustache and get breast implants…..Steve said he was happy to speak English with the guys because he hasn’t spoken English in months up in Montreal……


HOUR 3:

Bernie Miklasz:
Bernie said it’s almost creepy how many shows are on the station and how many people come in and do shows on the weekend. One night Bernie was there late one night and some guy kept asking Bernie to come on his show and he was annoyed because he really had to finish his column…..Albert Pujols is coming back today and Bernie said he would be surprised if the Cards would send a pitcher down so it would come down to either Chris Duncan or Nick Stavinoha. It is very very likely they will send Stavinoha down because Duncan is picked on so much and apparently has a permanent spot on the roster ……Those who think they are doing Chris a service are really hurting him because they aren’t doing what they could to get him on track. They have no hesitation sending pitchers down and other players down when they are struggling, but they don’t want to move Duncan…..The left-handed relievers in the bullpen is a bigger issue…..You cannot let Ron Villone face right-handed batters, and Randy Flores has really been struggling….. Some managers just forgo having multiple lefties and just have a better right-handed pitcher instead of a struggling lefty……McClellan and Perez are examples of guys who can get left-handers out……Cat has been leaving money out on the console over the weekend……Someone put a post on Bernie’s press box that he hates Brent Stover, and Bernie posted “goodbye clown” and banned him from the Post-Dispatch forum…..Bernie said that on the show they were clearly joking around that Brent was a moron for saying Bon Jovi was the best band out of New Jersey, but this poster would have known they were joking if he had half of a brain.

Brooke Hogan doesn’t understand why people are making a big deal out of her dad Hulk Hogan rubbing her down with suntan lotion but the guys point out that it is pretty weird that he was rubbing it on her but when she was wearing her swimsuit…….The guys ask Producer Joe if he will rub down Tim while they are in Las Vegas if he asks him to. Joe said no and Tim said what if he says please and Joe said NO.

Verne Troyer has a sex tape out and Producer Joe thinks that the new movie Love Guru sucks so the tape is out to gain some publicity for it……The guys question why that would make someone watch the movie and Joe said Paris Hilton’s sex tape made people watch The Simple Life.


Leftover Riff Raff:
Tim has leprosy…..The guys pretend that players like them and listen to the show…….The move would be for Cat and Doug to go to the Caribbean, get a 2 man raft and drink pina coladas while splashing their feet in the water……Steve Kline is possibly going to be Obama’s running mate according to Cat…..Tim would only grab a guy to fight if he was a small skinny guy…... Tim likes saying “iron pigs”…….Rudy said that Hrabosky would make Hungarian goulash with anyone he would get into a fight with……Edmonds actually sent a text to Timmy with only about 8 minutes left in the show to see if he could come on, but it was too late and the guys had to do the Ticket Guys Email of the Day contest…….Jim sent him another text saying they could do an interview after the game at 12:30 if Tim is still awake with LOL at the end of it…..Not only does Rich Gould play cards, but he is a grandmaster of all card games.

SEGMENT 1--Doug Wears Tight White Shorts While Playing Tennis, Tim Has Leprosy, Producer Joe Has Ricketts, and The Cat Has a Heart Murmur According to Doug, The Cat Likes To Text Danny Mac During a Rain Delay, Shawn Chacon Gave His GM A Toss Yesterday, and John Mozeliak is Strong As a Bull---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 2--Tim Wants To Tune Up His Game Before Heading to Vegas, Talk About Congress Trying to Stop Online Poker, Our Callers Have a Hard Time Being An Expert At Anything, and More Online Gambling Talk---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 3--Hannah Montana Looks 37 Now, the Cardinals Lose To the Tigers Late Last Night, Albert Pujols Says He Is Playing Today and You Can Write It Down, and Who Is the Odd Man Out With Pujols Coming Back---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 4--ESPN's Jayson Stark Joins the Show to Discuss Chris Duncan and His Role on this Team, Jim  Edmonds' Power Surge In Chicago, His Thoughts On the 2008 Chicago Cubs, Who Are the Best Managers In Baseball, Is Steve Kline Done In Baseball, and Who Is Available on the Trade Market---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 5--The Governor Steve Kline Joins the Show From Canada to Talk About Having a Son In a Couple of Weeks, He Claims He Is Retired From Baseball, He Has Talked With Woody and Morris The Other Day and They Are Happy Being Retired, What Happened With the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs and the Umpire, He Says He Is Throwing Harder Now Than Ever, Major League Executives Have No Idea What It Takes to Play the Game, People In Montreal Are Urban Gangbangers, and He Is Going To Buy His Daughter Fake Boobs at Age 6---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 6--Roll Home Host and St. Louis Post Dispatch Columnist Bernie Miklasz Joins the Show to Discuss Timmy Going to Vegas with Dan Caesar Following  His In the WSOP, People Call Him To Write in the Bits About Them, There Are Lots of Wierdos In the Team 1380 Studios Over the Weekend, Bernie Is Firing Shots Left and Right, and What Does He Think Will Happen When Pujols Comes Back Today---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 7--Celeb Trash News Including Brooke Hogan Talking About Hulk Oiling Up Her Ass, Verne Troyer Has a Sex Tape, and Lounging At the Pool in Vegas Next Week---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 8--The Ticket Guys Email of the Day---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

HOUR 1:

Cat usually drinks two Red Bulls a day……The guys talk about drinking sweet after dinner cordials, and Tim had a Baileys at Café Napoli the other night……When Jim wants a steak he goes to a steak house; when he wants a cupcake he goes to the Cup Cakery……Doug likes the cherry pies that have a half-life as long as uranium ……Jim Edmonds hit another homerun last night and may join the show today……..

The Cardinals have a way to make good teams look bad, and it seems like the goofier the lineup that Tony LaRussa puts out there the better they play.

The Cat’s Pajamas:
Iggy couldn’t find the open for the Cat’s Pajamas at first and blamed it on someone moving it in the system………Listener Jeff Daniels sent Cat a link to a story about the ascending career of a Ventriloquist who got a $100,000 million deal in Las Vegas. He is making 2 new puppets---a gay one and a Cougar---and Cat said that proves that maybe the Cardinals should open a puppet theatre at Ballpark Village…….Cat honestly felt bad about asking Brad Thompson if he was being sent down last week because he started to tear up. Tony should’ve told the media he was being sent down…….John Cussack is a nice guy to be patient with the film class idiot girl who thought he was in American Pie. She confused him with Kevin Spacey, and John didn’t lose it on her even when she pressed him on it.

Back in the 70s there were 2 Yankees pitchers who swapped wives and families….One of them got divorced almost immediately, but the other may still be married to his new wife.

Tony LaRussa took a shot at Cardinals fans in the paper today. He said what happened to the Cards fans because there are no Cardinals players in the top 2 in terms of votes for the All-Star game. Tony said Yadier Molina should at least be in 2nd place, and he said that the team doesn’t let the Cubs beat them and the fans shouldn’t let them either…….Ryan Ludwick has been in a bit of a slump since he joined the show. Doug thinks Albert Pujols and Kyle Lohse will be the Cardinals representatives.


HOUR 2:

Brent Stover:
Brent said when he asked Nick Stavinoha to do an interview last night, Nick said “the other guy---what do they call him----said that he couldn’t do any interview unless they are with him so Brent interviewed Brendan Ryan…..Ryan said that some radio producer keeps calling him 5 times an hour to come on the air and he is not happy about it…..Stover and Cat compared techniques of asking post-game questions of Tony…. Brent said sometimes he wishes he had some scotch before he had to talk to Tony to take off the edge…..Cat said that Brent wears a suit or the FSN shirt to the ballpark, but then slips on a “I love schnauzers” t-shirt when he goes into Tony LaRussa’s office……You can ride Rick Hummel’s coat tails….You can’t talk much baseball with Wellemeyer because you will get a yes/no answer, but if you ask him about politics or other stuff he is interested in he is a good interview……Yesterday at the FSN staff meeting Cat had to stick up for Brent because of all the complaints of his coverage…… Stover lists his All-Stars as Molina, Lohse, Ludwick, Pujols, and Wainwright, but the guys say they think the Cardinals will only have 2 guys……Albert Pujols looked really good swinging and run the bases pretty hard yesterday so he will probably be back on Thursday even though now first base is Adam Kennedy’s to lose….. Brent told T-Mac to stop blowing sunshine his way until he calls him off the air and invites him out for a cocktail.

Shaquille O’Neal rapped the other night in a New York club and ripped Kobe a few different times…….“Kobe couldn’t do without me.”…..Shaq will lose his special deputy status in the police department. Doug said that this was a stupid thing to do for Shaq because he always had a good image….Shaq said that it was all done in fun; nothing serious whatsoever. “I’m totally cool with Kobe.”

There is a story in the student newspaper of the University of Kansas about a girl who is engaged to the “White Owl” who was visible at the Mizzou/Kansas game…..He went to Target everyday to woo her, and they plan on having kids after they get married…..When asked how they will make money, they said that he gets disability money and they will make a few websites……The guys wonder what kind of websites the White Owl could make…..



HOUR 3:

Tim said that Deandre “the Bull” Latimore was very impressive in his win a couple weeks ago, and he would like to see a fight with Cory Spinks…. Doug wants to see a current score in boxing, but Cat said that would take away suspense from the decision……Tim and Cat talked about having a charity boxing bout, but if Tim beat Cat, he would have to leave the state and change his name to Possum Pete…..Cat could do radio as Possum Pete in the morning and then he would do the weather later in the day, and he’d have to take out the trash……Most heads don’t have corners, but Tim’s does and that is an advantage for him…


Al MacInnis:
Al said he is feeling pretty good coming out of Ottawa after the draft…The Blues first pick Pietrangelo is a great player and has a lot of great attributes….Chris Mason will be a very capable back-up goalie for Manny…..It was very hard to trade Jamal Mayers because he was here for so long…….Al said they need to be aware of how many games Manny plays and look for Mason to fill in a lot…..Pietrangelo is close to 100% right now and has time to prepare for training camp….Al said that with the way the game is played today, Alex can move the puck and the Blues are excited about what he can do….Phillip McRae has played with and against all the top first round guys, and he is a great player……The Blues picked him because he is a great player, not because he is from St. Louis…..Phillip is a very skilled player, and he has a chance of putting up 100 points in the minors next year……Al said they will be looking for David Perron to have consistency this year because young players need to condition and work hard when they make the jump to the NHL……Al doesn’t think they will change how the draft works because when a kid is 18, he can join the army and do many things and that should be an age where guys can make a living in hockey……McInnis said that there aren’t many things he would like to do over again in his life, but if he was 21 years old, he would like to jump in the mix with these kids on this team and grow together and become a great team in the next few years…….Cat asked if the Blues should go out and get another goal scorer, and Al said they aren’t going to trade any of their young guys for an old goal scorer and they can get increased goal production from the guys on the team……There are plenty of guys in the league who have had sophomore slumps, and they believe Lee Stempniak will bounce back and get the scoring touch back……Al said he gets along and enjoys the people he works with and he likes what he is doing with the Blues. A lot of what he does is going out and watching players in the system, and he enjoys it. Al said he wasn’t fortunate enough to win a Cup as a player with the Blues, but he is looking forward to winning one in the position he is in now.



Leftover Riff Raff:
Tim enjoys women with Tats and sometimes track marks and Doug enjoys men’s abs…… Chris Hanson actually had a karaoke machine in his last bust of a guy trying to hook up with a 13 year-old…….Doug said the drop seat pajamas are underrated incase you have an emergency……..Some celebrity gets in trouble everyday in this country because of what they say……A lot of people get engaged at Target……If Iggy can get the White Owl on the show it would be bigger than getting Steven Jackson….. Cat said he needs a hand laceration and a rehab stint in Memphis after the verbal assault from Rudy…People were always afraid Al would shoot at them, and Doug said that if he never got hurt he may still be playing.

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SEGMENT 4----The Cat's Co-Worker and FSN Broadcaster Brent Stover Joins the Show to Discuss Working With Tony LaRussa After A Loss, Working with the Cat and Traveling with the Cardinals---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 5--Shaq's Rap Audio From Earlier This Week and the Trickle Down Effect That Shaq Has Now Gone Through With the Sheriff In Phoenix and Breaking Down Shaq's Lyrics and the Kansas Fan Who Was the White Owl at Football Games Married a 22 Year Old, and Doug Rationalizes Why Women Leave Men For Other Women---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 6--Tim's Neighbors Can See Him Watching Adult Films, Producer Joe Is Back From Big Boy Business, and Bil O'Reilly Acts The Fool With His Statements About George Carlin---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 7--Doug Says the Guys Have Some Musical Taste For Being Pre-Op Trannies, Tim Shadow Boxed During the Break, How Far Has Boxing Fallen When You Don't Know Who the Heavyweight Champion Is, Tim Enjoyed Watching Deandre Latimore Fight A Couple of Weeks Ago, and The Cat Would Fight Timmy For Charity---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 8--An Umpire In Kansas City Got Hit By A Broken Bat Last Night, Al MacInnis Joins the Show To Discuss How He Feels After the Draft and Trades Recently for the Blues, What Will Happen With Chris Mason and Manny Legace, What Does the Future Hold For the Number One Pick, and How the Rest of the Draft Played Out, Plus What Will Year Two Hold for Perron and Johnson---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 9--The Ticket Guys Email of the Day---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

HOUR 1:

Joe Buck was on Dave Letterman last night, and Producer Joe is working on getting the sound in the system so the guys can hear it…..

Tim won a tournament online to play in the World Series of Poker, and Cat sincerely congratulated him…..Jim Edmonds is in St. Louis and he will come on the show if he is awake……Cat is redoing his upstairs bathroom, and he convinced Edmonds that it is a good investment, so Jim is going to give Cat $10,000……Tim has the option of taking the $10,000 and keeping it instead of playing in the tournament, but he would have to pay approximately 35% of that in taxes……Cat said he would end up giving his house away for a $1 if he tried to play poker online……Tim’s marriage anniversary is the first day of the tournament, and she gave him her blessing to play…..Tim would probably do a happy dance if he does well.

Edmonds told Cat that he could sign his name at his restaurant when he eats there…..Tim is going to start harassing Edmonds with texts around 8….The guys didn’t ever think Jim was done and they are impressed that he still handles centerfield as well as he is…..Tim told Edmonds that he is going to miss out by not investing in him because he is going to do well in the tourney……Doug asked Tim to not do any coffee housing when he is playing out there. Coffee housing is when you start talking up when you have a good hand……Tim said if he wears a Poker Stars shirt, they will give him $1000…… The guys wonder if Joe Strauss has a goal of playing in the World Series of Poker…….



HOUR 2:

Derrick Goold:
Derrick stayed in St. Louis on this road trip……It’s a Rick Hummel special…….Cat would rather go to Cincinnati than Detroit......Derrick misses the Pizza Poppalopalis …….The guys talk about how crappy Detroit is and there are really no hotels to stay in downtown…….Cat said what he likes about going on the road is not having to wake up early and come into the studio to see Doug picking his teeth with a matchbook…….Mark Mulder was scratched from playing for Memphis last night in Nashville…….The Cards said it was because of Mulder’s sore back, but Cat wonders if it is a hand laceration……. Cat said he would have him make multiple starts before bringing him up……..Derrick said it seems like every time Mulder is close to coming back he finds a reason to start a new rehab assignment…..Derrick said maybe there is some connection between Mulder’s new windup and delivery and his back pain……The Cards are trying Matt Clement as a reliever to try to get a return out of their investment…..Todd Wellemeyer was supposed to throw last night, and he may make the start on Thursday……Albert Pujols is expected to join the team in Detroit today, and Derrick said he thinks Albert will come off the DL Thursday and will want to play.

Boy George dated a dude in his band back in 1984……Tim’s Aunt Maureen got him a Culture Club album for his First Communion……..

Radio Host Don Imus is in trouble again from talking about black people on his radio show…..His co-host talked about Pac Man Jones being arrested 6 times since being drafted by Tennessee, and Imus asked his co-host what color Pac Man was. When the co-host said that Jones is black, Imus said well there you go……Imus said people want to get him and it is ridiculous. He said that what people should be outraged about is that police target black people and arrest them for no reason……Pac Man said he is praying for Imus……Doug said you can’t kill anybody but white middle-class men…….


John Mozeliak:
John said he didn’t think Cat was on the show…..Wham is not Mozeliak’s favorite song either……Tim keeps getting rumors about stuff and texts John to make sure they are right before he reports on the rumors, but Tim is worried he is texting him too much….Mulder experienced back spasms, and the Cards don’t think it’s too serious…..John said it is frustrating, and the team wants to know what he has to offer….. It is apparent that Mulder isn’t going to give them much so John said that they have to figure out what they are going to do to get more pitching whether it’s internally or by trade……The team is going to have Matt Clement try being a reliever to see how he does throwing 20 to 30 pitches and more often instead of 100 pitches every 5 days…..Albert Pujols is feeling good, but they will have a much better gauge on when he will be back today when he gets on the field in Detroit today……John said they were all really optimistic about Chris Carpenter coming back, and there is no structural damage in this latest set back. It is more likely something that is a common bump in the road in his kind of rehab…….Mozeliak said that no one would’ve thought that the team would be doing this well with all the injuries……John said that he thinks Ryan Ludwick, Pujols, Kyle Lohse, or Ryan Franklin could be the Cardinals representative in the All-Star game.......John said that they are trying to get Chris Duncan to perform like he has for the Cards and to play like he is capable of doing…..They sent him down to get him more at bats so he could try to find his swing….The family ties “of course” influence how they deal with Chris but do not influence if he is on the roster or not.


HOUR 3:

Doug would have Tim in a headlock which explains his mis-shaped head and Cat would be off to the side eating cake if there was a billboard promoting the show.

WWE Wrestling Recap:
Tim missed the WWE last night because he was grilling and watching There Will Be Blood with his wife……Doug watched it and said that part of the stage fell on Mr. McMahon…..The guys briefly played a clip of Vince yelling and then they talked about the stage falling on him…..Vince’s body is huge.


Nick Stavinoha:
Nick said there are so many guys from the minors up here it is easier to make the transition to the big leagues….Nick played middle linebacker in college on scholarship, but decided that baseball was the sport for him…..He called his wife first when he was called up. He’s not sure what he will do with the ball from his first major league hit….It was an awesome environment to get his first at-bat in Fenway…..He said he was nervous but it went away as the game went on, but he was anxious the entire time……Nick led the Memphis team in hitting all year but wasn’t concerned about not being called up yet... He was focused on helping his team win and worrying about performing……It is a lot different to hit at each level…..Colby Rasmus was seeing a lot of different pitching at Triple-A than Double-A so that is why he was struggling earlier this year. However, he raised his batting average considerably now and will do fine…..Nick grew up as an Astros fan, but he wasn’t crushed when Pujols hit that huge home run off of Brad Lidge..….Nick said that when Brent Stover comes over to get him on the FSN pregame show, he will tell him that he only goes on with the Cat.



Leftover Riff Raff:
Jim has to have a smoking jacket on when he is having a serious conversation about poker…..Tim is going to wear the diapers like that astronaut wore driving across the country while he is playing incase it goes late into the night……There is special trace paper you can use to trace your balls……Tim’s I-Pod is full of gay songs because he is gay……When he leaves the studio he checks out guys…… Doug is big on Jesus and Cat is big on waffles…….Wham is not John Mozeliak’s favorite band……Zany is better than Nutty……Nick Stavinoha said the first thing he did when he was called up to the big leagues was call Tim’s wife…….

SEGMENT 1--Joe Buck Was On Letterman Last Night, The Cat Is Proud of Tim For Qualifying For The World Series of Poker Main Event, Will There Be a Jim Edmonds Sighting On the Show Today, and Tim Talks About Qualifying For the WSOP---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 2--Tim's ITunes Is Kind of Suspect According to Him, Talk About Edmonds' House and His Full Gym Downstairs, Talk About Edmonds' Play the Last Week, and Tim's Possible Situations With Playing in the WSOP---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 3--Trouble With Bobby Goldsborough and Trying to Chase Down Jim Edmonds---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 4--The Bobby Goldsborough Trouble Has Been Solved and Friend of the Show Derrick Goold Joins the Show and Says that the Detroit Trip is the Worst, Staying in Detroit, What Happened With Mulder Last Night, and How Long Is It Going to Take To Get Mulder to St. Louis---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 5--Which God Does Everyone Believe In, Tim's First Communion Talk, and Big Audio Tuesday With Don Imus Sticking His Foot In His Mouth Once Again---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 6--Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak Joins the Show and Timmy Asks If He Has Sent Too Many Texts Lately, What Happened With Mark Mulder Last Night, Where Are the Cardinals At With Mulder Right Now, What's Happening With Matt Clement, What Is the Status of Pujols, and Where is Chris Carpenter Right Now---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 7--More Billboards For Crappy Comedians Coming to St. Louis, Possible Nick and the Badger Billboards Coming, and the WWE Wrestling Recap---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 8--The Newest Cardinal Nick Stavinoha Joins the Show From Detroit to Talk About His First Game in the Majors, What He Did When He Found Out He Was Being Called Up to the Show, and What Happened With the Ball From His First Major League Hit---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 9--The Ticket Guys Email of the Day---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

HOUR 1:

Tim’s microphone is going to fall off, but he notices that the pictures of him on the wall of the studio have stuck a pin in his face…..Cat said that Big Z hates him…..Doug has a forensic kit in his car so they may just look for fingerprints…..Doug thinks it is a sign that Tim is going to get whacked….Tim has participated in freestyle raps like in 8 mile at Club Buca…..Doug can’t follow rhymes…..Cat said that all of Tim’s rapping is the same---“if you don’t like it then you can talk to my dad, my dad, my dad.”…..Steve Kline was released….Cat wonders if he is healthy and someone should give him a shot because his career numbers aren’t bad…..

Tim McKernan woke up this morning and was depressed when he read on his website that George Carlin had died. He was one of Tim’s favorite comedians of all time……Cat said last time he saw Carlin, he was bloated…..Doug enjoyed Carlin’s work on Thomas the Tank Engine TV show…..

Tim said he was shocked at what was in the game story of the Post-Dispatch after the game yesterday. Tim was surprised that Tony applauded the team after the loss because of how personally Tony takes losses…..Cat said he is surprised that Tony didn’t give the team cupcakes……The guys agree that it was one of the best games they’ve seen in a long time……Cat tipped his cap to all the great Jewish ballplayers in baseball……Tim said it is disappointing that the Cards were so close to sweeping the series yesterday because they have blown games in the late innings too many times this year……Tim has a tough time celebrating a loss…..The guys agree that if Albert Pujols was in the lineup, the Cards would probably win yesterday.


Ken Rosenthal:
Ken said that the Cards’ performance shows their unusual toughness……The starting pitching is the most impressive thing so far because of all the guys on the DL. A lot will depend on the health of the starting pitching but Ken thinks the Cards are in the race for the playoffs. However, anything can and will happen…..Ken doesn’t buy the strength of schedule argument because catching a good team who is slumping is better than facing a bad team who is hot…….Kyle Lohse has very good stuff, and over his last 6 starts its as good as it gets……JD Drew is well liked by the fans in Boston right now…..Cat said he always though Drew was a good guy, but a lot of people think he isn’t reaching his potential…..Jim Edmonds has awesome power to the opposite field, and Ken thinks Jim working on his batting stance has helped him bounce back with the Cubs. Jim Edmonds is a little of a different personality, but right now he is performing again. At one time, people were thinking of him as a potential hall of famer if he kept playing at a high level for a number of years.



HOUR 2:

Bryan Burwell:
Burwell joined the guys to talk about his column about Steven Jackson……Bryan thinks that everything Steven said was true about fans selling tickets and some home games having the feel of away games…….Burwell isn’t surprised about anything Jackson says, and thinks that Steven’s comments about the receivers not blocking is a little bit of a wake up call…….He doesn’t think a whole lot of people hate Steven Jackson but the fans who do are very vocal……Tim said that they will take calls in the next segment, and they will see how many people hate him because he thinks a lot of people want him to just shut up and play…..Doug thinks a lot of fans appreciate that Jackson says what everybody is thinking, Tim thinks a lot of people don’t appreciate what he says……. Bryan said that a lot of people listen to the radio show, but only some people call in and those people are usually angry and they influence how people perceive the fans’ opinions. Marc Bulger said that sometimes he tries to come up with ways to make Steven pissed off during the game because he plays so much better when he is mad…….Cat said he thinks that St. Louis needs a guy who is outspoken like Jackson…….Doug said it’s interesting that Jackson has become a controversial figure when he is really a great guy, and Marshall Faulk was a saint even though he caused problems with the media, fathered many children out of wedlock, and wasn’t the greatest guy. Bryan said that he thinks it’s because Marshall didn’t say anything, and then Tim asked why Brett Hull was so popular when he spoke his mind many times…..Bryan believes it is because Brett was a hockey player with blond hair and blue eyes, and the guys briefly talk about how racially charged the typical St. Louis sports fan is…..Doug said Jackson’s not a gangster.


The guys took calls from fans about their thoughts on Steven Jackson’s comments for the rest of the hour.


HOUR 3:

NBC Sports’ Johnny Miller issued an apology Friday for what he said about Rocco Mediate looking like the guy who cleans Tiger Woods’ pool…….Middle aged white men who are Protestant and of Irish descent are wide open for criticism but you can’t make fun of anyone else because you would be called a racist…..Tim said that people can make fun of 30 something short guys who have misshaped heads and get away with it…..Cat thinks it’s more racist to take something that isn’t a big deal and to make it into an issue…….The guys wonder if you can get away with making fun of Asians……


John Davidson:
John said that it was really hard to trade Jamal Mayers. Jamal was here a long time, very few athletes can say that. He has been extremely classy about the whole thing. It came down to two things: they knew that they needed another goaltender and the problem is that the free agent goaltenders the Blues were looking at were resigning with their teams. Chris Mason will solidify the back-up goaltender situation. Mason is a great guy in the locker room and community......The Blues will have all their young players in town today for the development camp which starts tomorrow……Davidson said that they feel like they will be successful with their two highly touted young players in Erik Johnson and Alex Pietrangelo ……He’s good in his own zone, can really skate, make plays with the puck moving it up to the forwards with quick passes. He is like a good quarterback who can find a different option to pass to if his first choice is covered……The Blues will give him every shot to make the team this year, but John said he thinks he needs to build his upper body and put 25 pounds on his frame…….The Blues had Basil McRae’s son rated higher on their board than where they got him. Phillip has tremendous upside and they had their eye on him for quite some time. Jake Allen really came on this past winter and won the award for most valuable goaltender in Europe at the World Championships…..John said they are happy with their draft. They tried to move up to have another top 10 pick in the first round to grab Chris Beach who went to Chicago but it didn’t work out……….In free agency, the Blues are going to look at their needs and see if they can make an intelligent move to help the team……..Davidson said they could trade their young players and make the playoffs this year, but they wouldn’t win the Stanley Cup so they would rather be patient and play with the young kids and get better each year with the goal of winning the Stanley Cup. They will try to make the playoffs this year, but they won’t do anything drastic to make them.



Leftover Riff Raff:
The phrase “boss” was popular in the “19 and 70s”……Cat had to break down the door to Martin’s basement one time to free the children……You don’t show a rabbit’s naughty bits on TV……The Communards are the perfect soundtrack for the show today…….Tim bets that the more popular topic today will be the Steven Jackson story instead of the Cardinals…… Doug busted Cat’s balls for not knowing much about technology and YouTube. …..A caller said that no matter what the Cat says, he is the greatest….Tim wondered who is putting tack hole in this pictures on the wall in the studio……Ronnie Belliard’s family was more excited to see Larry Walker than Ronnie Belliard…….Doug asked if the Blues can trade Pietrangelo because no one knows how to pronounce his name……

SEGMENT 1--Someone Has Stabbed Thumb Tacks Through Tim's Pictures in the Studio and All Signs Point Towards the Nighttime Show, The Cat Needed Help Getting Songs On His IPOD Yesterday and He Had to Ask Producer Joe, Rhymes Throw Doug For a Loop and Tim Used to be Hardcore Rapper with the PFG---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 2--George Carlin Has Passed Away, Doug Enjoyed His Work on Thomas the Train Engine with Ringo Starr, Cardinals Take 2 of 3 From the Red Sox and Tim Is Shocked By Joe Strauss' Article Today, and Talk About the Way Things Unfolded Yesterday---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 3--Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports and Foxsports.com Joins the Show to Discuss the Weekend in Boston and His Level of Surprise On the Cards Taking 2 of 3, What is the Most Surprising Things About the 2008 Cardinals, What He Thinks About the NL at this Point in the Season, Does the Schedule Have Anything To Do With the Cards Good Start, Kyle Lohse Raising His Level This Season and Jim Edmonds Performing In Chicago---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 4--Bryan Burwell Joins The Show To Discuss Yesterday's Column Regarding Steven Jackson, How it is Good to Have An Athlete In this Town Who is Not Afraid to Speak His Mind, Were His Comments About Wide Receivers Blocking a Warning Shot Before the Season Starts, and What Is The Breakdown of Lovers and Haters of Steven Jackson and How Much Does Race Play Into This---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 5--The Communards Make the Cat Want to Bake, Istanbul Is Where You Have to Be Very Careful About People Slipping Something In Your Drink, The Cat Just Discovered YouTube, Callers Get Involved With Burwell's Column and Comments---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 6--Doug Is Curious As To Whether Or Not There Are Any Bath Houses In St. Louis and More Callers Get Involved With the Steven Jackson Stories---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 7--Johnny Miller Had To Make an Apology Statement Over Comments Made During the US Open, How Does This Happen Over and Over Again, and More Callers Get Involved on the Show---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 8--St. Louis Blues President John Davidson Joins The Program to Discuss Trading Jamal Mayers, Picking Up Chris Mason As Another Goalkeeper, Did The Cat's Fighting With Jamal Play Into the Trade Scenario, Talk About the Blues Draft and Their First Pick Overall and How Soon Will He Contribute to the Blues---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 9--The Ticket Guys Email of the Day---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

HOUR 1:

Doug could not get in the door this morning because Cat heard him out there while he was shooting baskets and held the door shut for about 6 minutes, listening to Doug murmer…..That 6 minutes was the time Cat allotted to come up with exit poll questions.

Tim ate Golden Crisp with the bear on the front of the box this morning so he was ready for the bear early this morning.

The guys plan the show around Cindy Margolis…..She was a Price is Right girl, and the guys all said they liked Plinko except Doug. Doug liked when people could win “A NEW CAR!!!!”…..He misses Rod Roddy……Tim likes the Yodler game….Bob Barker is a member of Doug’s fraternity and one time they asked him for money and he sent them an autographed picture…….Lots of famous people went to Mizzou including Bob Barker, Brad Pitt, Sheryl Crow…..

Jim Edmonds sent Tim a text and ended it with LOL…..Cat got one from Mozeliak before that said LOL

Cat feels sorry for Brad Thompson being sent back down to Memphis because he pitched well last night and he’s a nice guy………The guys talk about Mark Mulder’s performance last night---6 runs in 3 innings…..Tim thinks its weird how in 15 days the Cards thought he may retire, he changed his arm slot, was rumored to pitch in the majors this week, and now had a start like last night.

The Blues traded Jamal Mayers late last night to Toronto for a 3rd round pick in today’s draft (70th overall)……..Cat wanted him to stay and the Blues didn’t even consult him…..The community will be upset that Cat never got to play Mayers in one on one basketball…..

When the guys start talking about the exit poll questions, Tim said the real question is if a golfer is an athlete on the same level as a boxer? You could make an argument that Tiger is the most dominant, but it depends how you define athlete…..Doug brings up people Tim has never heard of as one of the best athletes of all time (Dan Patch).



HOUR 2:

Window World Exit Poll:

1. Most dominant athlete of all time? Tim: Michael Jordan; Cat: Babe Ruth; Doug: Babe Ruth

2. Most memorable Cardinals playoff moment of the decade? Doug: Pujols’ HR in Houston;

3. Most overrated major leaguer? Doug: Derek Jeter; Cat: Johnny Damon; Tim: Johan Santana

4. Do you think A-B will sell to InBev and will you still buy A-B products? Doug: yes & yes; Tim: yes & yes; Cat: Cat: yes & yes

5. Susan Sarandon, would ya? Doug: no; Tim: yes; Cat: no

6. Best stripper song: Tim: Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes; Doug: Brick house; Cat: Convoy

7. Which pizza do you buy with your $5? Pizza Hut, Dominoe’s, Little Caesar’s, or Papa John’s? Doug: Imo’s which isn’t one of the choices; Cat: Pizza Hut;



Andy Strickland called in to report that the Blues have traded a 4th round pick for back-up goaltender Chris Mason of Nashville Predators.


Jamal Mayers:
Jamal said it’s obviously a shock and he is disappointed but it’s part of the business……He found out after they made the deal……It doesn’t really soften the blow that it was Toronto he was traded to even though that is where he is from…..He said that he is disappointed that he won’t have a chance to win in St. Louis……No athlete has played in St. Louis for a longer period than Jamal……Mayers said he is going to miss all his friends here in the city and he is going to miss his teammates……The phone call with Larry Plaue was pretty short, and there isn’t much he could say except thanking Jamal for what he did for the city……Cat said that of all the athletes who have given Cat a concussion, Jamal is his favorite……Jamal said that his favorite memory would be winning a playoff series with the team because there was nothing better than that….. He hasn’t really thought about how it will feel to play against the Blues.



HOUR 3:

Brad Straubinger of FSN Midwest called in to defend his list of the Top 10 Playoff moments of the Cards, and Cat told him he was making it worse and should hire a PR guy if he ever worked for the big network and had to talk to a real radio show….Doug said maybe he should hire an accountant if he can’t figure out that 11 moments should have been called the Top 11 moments in Cards’ Playoffs this Decade….Tim won’t accept that the Molina HR and Wainwright strikeout of Beltran should count as one moment.


Cindy Margolis:
Cindy was chipper this morning and said she is always chipper…..Listeners could win a date with her if they go to Playboy.com and register…..She said she “wishes she was a slut”…….She said she wishes she could go back in time and take advantage of the opportunities on the “casting couch”…...Cindy said that the famous girls in Hollywood got the star roles (especially Bay Watch) because they went above and beyond on the casting couch…..She wants to enjoy being single and wants to go on a date with a gentleman…..She’s all for a long distance relationship……Doug is a very small man all over but he has a great personality, but she isn’t very interested in that.


The guys wonder how Nick and the Badger would handle that interview, and conclude that the Badger would win the date with her.

Doug’s big line in the retirement home is “Where are my shoes!?!”

Leftover Riff Raff:
Ryan Ludwick called Doug bi-curious yesterday…..Cat was doing show prep halfway through the first hour……..Producer Joe studies ring patterns when he calls someone…… Cat hopes that Cindy Margolis big times the show……The Morning After is the Larry Sutton of sports talk radio shows……Betty Davis Eyes is the best stripper song……9 out of 10 Chinese Buffets have a sign that says “No Wasting”.……Blues fans have one person to blame for the Mayers trade----Tim McKernan…….Cat said Doug is like a 70 year old man because he won’t accept the multiple choice answers…..Cat keeps mocking old timer Doug and yells “where are my shoes?! Has anyone seen my shoes!?!.......Cat was going to ask Cindy if she wastes food at the Chinese Buffet so he could get some hate email.

SEGMENT 1--The Cat Is In a Joking Mood Today, Tim Loves Plinko and Doug Misses Rod Roddy, Famous People Have Attended Mizzou, Apparently in Yesterday's Interview Ryan Ludwick Said Doug Was Bi, Jamal Mayers Was Traded Last Night, The Cat Is Anti-Maple Leaf, and Jim Edmonds Finally Responded to Timmy---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 2--Arguments Have Ensued Over the Window World Exit Poll and the Selection of Questions, The Cat Has Multiple Reasons For Why He Is Upset About the Royals Sweeping the Cardinals, The Cat Says He Is Close to a Stroke This Morning, Mike In South City Was at the insideSTL.com Happy Hour and He Had a Woman Who Wants to be A Cougar, and Also It Was a Gay Night At F15Teen As Well---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 3--Kim Carnes Probably Needed a Sucrets, More Talk About the Jamal Mayers Trade, and the Beginning of the Window World Exit Poll---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 4--The Guys Continue To Run Through the Window World Exit Poll and Give Their Answers and The Blues Make Another Trade For A Backup Goaltender---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 5--Jamal Mayers Joins the Show to Discuss Being Traded Late Last Night to Toronto, He Didn't See It Coming and Found Out When the Trade Was Completed, Even Going Back Home to Toronto Doesn't Soften the Blow, and His Favorite Moment While Playing for the Blues---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN 

SEGMENT 6--Tim Thinks He May Have Been Conceived To an REO Speedwagon Song and Finally the Guys Finish Taking the Poll---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 7--Callers Finally Get A Chance to Get Involved In the Poll and The Cat's Producer Brad Calls in to Defend Himself Against McKernan and Doug---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 8--Cindy Margolis Joins the Show to Discuss Winning A Date With Her to the Playboy Mansion, She Implies That She Is Pretty Easy, Has Not Really Been Dating Since Her Divorce, She Is Getting Lonely, and Not Getting After It On The Casting Couch Plus More Exit Polling---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 9--The Ticket Guys Email of the Day and Window World Exit Poller Results---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

HOUR 1:

Today is the day for Producer Joe to wear the beret in the clubhouse.

Bo Hart and Tim McKernan were born on the same day. “Bodie” is his real name, and he is still playing ball in some independent league because Cat called him to see if Bo could fill-in on FSN.

Cat’s wife was at Lush last night for A-B doing a promotion, and the guys wonder if she found another man. Cat took a shot at Doug and said that there aren’t raccoons and baby giraffes at his house tempting his wife.

Cat wishes he had the money to afford unlimited wings and fries at Show-Me’s.

Jim Edmonds is blowing off Tim’s text messages. Originally he said he would pay the entrance fee for the poker tournament, and come on the show as a guest, but he is now not responding to texts at all.

The guys talk about how disappointed people in St. Louis will be since Tiger Woods can’t play in the BMW tourney this year, and Cat pictured himself becoming friends with Tiger when he interviewed him…….Tim said that Iggy once got Tiger on a local show, and it took a while to hear the story from Iggy because he was outside smoking…… Finally, Iggy came back in, and he said that he pretended to be someone else when he called Tiger’s mom and she gave him Tiger’s cell number.

Mark McGwire hates Tiger Woods because he is friends with Billy Andrade and Tiger wouldn’t sign a golf ball for Billy…..Tiger owes Iggy a favor because back in 1998 he got Tiger an autographed Mark McGwire bat.

The guys talk about last night’s Cards game, and they said that Kansas City left fielder Jose Guillen won the game for the Royals with his defense and arm throwing runners out……Braden Looper pitched well last night----2 outings in a row now, which is a big deal for him because he has fluctuated each start---great and then horrible and then great all year.


HOUR 2:

Joel Goldberg:
Someone blogged in Kansas City that Joel looked irritated when Cat was giving him a hard time. The guy said that Joel shoud’ve beat Cat out, and Doug said he could do it because of his big hands…….Joel established a good relationship with Albert Pujols when he was in St. Louis, and Cat is jealous of that……Joel said incase Albert is listening----“Hi Albert, I love you.”……Pujols came on the Kansas City pre-game show last night…..One time Albert asked Joel if he wanted to buy his house in KC…..The guys think that Pujols likes Joel because he shook hands with him one time and realized how big his fingers are……Joel just works the baseball season so he will be off for around 6 months, and Doug said Joel could go down to Arkansas and soak his phalanges in the hot springs………The Royals are trying to develop their minor leagues because it isn’t where it should be with all the top draft picks they have had……The Royals are trying to change their losing culture.


Mike Shannon:
Mike said that there has been great pitching by all 4 guys the past 2 games, and Brad Thompson just gets it done whichever way the team needs him……Mike thinks that pitchers get hurt more often nowadays compared to the old days because the mound is lowered, pitchers are babied with pitch counts, and they aren’t ready physically or mentally…..Mike always asks people “are you as tough as your grandfather?” and everyone says of course not, and Mike said it’s because back in the day everything was tougher. Mike thinks changes need to be made in the minors, and guys should have high pitch counts when they are throwing well……Mike said that Chris Carpenter should shut it down and heal to be ready for 2009…..Chris Duncan has really performed in the past, and he needs to relax and be comfortable ………Television runs baseball now, and they want to see the Yankees vs. Mets; Cubs vs. White Sox, etc., but Mike thinks the other Interleague games be abolished…….Mike’s plan is to take care of today, and he will worry about tomorrow, tomorrow…..He usually gets 4 hours of sleep and takes naps throughout the day…….The doctor said to keep doing what he’s doing, and Mike told his doctor that if he knew what he did everyday, he wouldn’t say that.




HOUR 3:

Ryan Ludwick:
Ryan said it is a little early for him, but he has his starbucks and banana nut loaf in him and he is ready to go…..Ludwick said that they have to accept the injuries as part of the game and play hard….He pointed out that other teams have to deal with injuries too, and the Cubs may have lost Carlos Zambrano….Ryan said that in the back of his head he always thought he could play at this level, but being considered for the All-star game is surreal. It’s really been a dream come true. Everything is working out almost perfectly …..He said that the older you get in this game, you get less and less opportunities and he worried about never getting another shot when he was in the minors. He said he was very fortunate to be at the right place at the right time, and he enjoys coming to the ballpark everyday……It hurts not having Albert in the lineup because he is on base half the time he comes up to the plate by either walking or hitting doubles or home runs…..It’s been tough not having Wainwright, Pujols, and Molina…..Ludwick said he doesn’t think about how much money he makes. He used to think about it a lot when he was younger, and he thinks that hurt his performance because he put too much pressure on himself…..He said that money is great, but he goes out and plays like everyday like it’s his last…..Anytime you lose the first 2 games of a series, “it sucks.”…..Ryan said they can salvage the series today but they know they can’t win the series…..They have a rough stretch coming up with the Red Sox and Detroit but they have to play hard……


The guys talked about the Top 10 Cardinal Playoff Moments in this decade because FSN is going to have fans vote on the order of the moments: 


The 10 choices are: 

*2001 NLDS Matt Morris pitching performance
*2001 NLCS Edmonds HR in 12th
*2004 Edmonds catch
*2004 Rolen HR off Clemons
*Reggie Sanders’ grandslam
*Pujols HR off Lidge in Houston
*Taguchi HR 
*2006 Eckstein’s double
*2006 Wainwright striking out Inge to win World Series 
*2006 Molina HR and Wainwright striking out Carlos Beltran in New York


Tim said that the NLCS game 7 in 2006 against the Mets was one of the best game 7’s he’s ever seen.



Leftover Riff Raff:
Doug’s wife is not a furry……Suzanne Soranden is 61 years old and has claimed that she will move to Canada if John McCain is elected president…….The best person Joel has ever worked with is Cat…..Doug wants to get Joel some oven mitts as a parting gift…. The guys want to know why Tim doesn’t cook and clean and let his wife play in the poker tournament……..Cat said that Doug is bi-curious…..It will be a stretch for the show to crack the top 30 in ratings again……Everyone loves a slinky.

SEGMENT 1--Apparently Ben Wallace Is Going To Join the Show Today, The Cat Says It Is Going to be A Big Thursday Show, Producer Joe In a Beret Is Going to Happen With a Cards Win, Conflict of Stories With Izzy, and The Cat Is Just Now Figuring Out That Doug Is Very Funny---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 2--What Is Going On With Bo Hart, Tim and Bo Were Born on the Same Day, The Cat's Wife Was Out At Lush Last Night and Doug Is Curious If She Was a Cougar on the Prowl, It Is A WingyWingy Thursday, Edmonds is Not Replying to Timmy At All In the Past Couple of Days, Tiger Is Not Going To Make It To the BMW Championships, and Iggy Once Had Tiger On A Radio Show---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 3--Talk About Last Night's Game and Things That Didn't Go the Right Way, Danny Mac's Call During the Game, The Homeruns In the Eigth Took the Wind Out of the Sails of the Crowd, and Were the Royals Stealing Signs---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 4--Joel Goldberg Joins the Show To Discuss His Meaty Little Fingers, His Problem With Texting Because of His Hands, His Royals Don't Often Win Two Games On the Road, Discussion About a Blog Post About The Cat's and Joel Interaction on the FSN Pregame Show, and Has It Felt Good To Be Back In St. Louis---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 5--Mike Shannon Checks In With the Guys to Talk About the First Two Games Against the Royals, What Does He Expect from Brad Thompson Today, His Thoughts On Pitchers Getting Injured So Often, Changes Mike Would Like to See Made In the Minors In Regards to Pitchers, Shutting Carpenter Down for the Entire 2008 Season, Babysitting Duties Today for Mike, and His Thoughts on Interleague Play---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 6--The Cat Is Being Tickled Today By the Guys On the Show, Would The Cat Drop $10,000 To Play in the World Series of Poker, The Cat Is a Big Stamp Collector Apparently, and Cotton Gin Talk---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 7--Doug Has Been A Bit Bi-Curious Lately, and Ryan Ludwick Joins the Show to Discuss Waking Up Early In the Morning, the Injury Crisis That Is Facing the Cards Right Now, Not Looking To Far Into the Numbers This Season, Does Studying Alot of Video Lead to Being a Guess Hitter, His Journey From Being Called Up Last Year to Being Possibly an All Star This Year, Being Grateful for What He Has Now in the Big Leagues, and the Line Up Without Albert---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 8--Color Me Badd Conversation, Will Steve Guttenberg Make An Appearance at the insideSTL.com Happy Hour This Evening, and Tim Tries to Figure Out What the Top 10 Playoff Moments In this Decade Were and the Show Will Premier on FSN This Evening---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

SEGMENT 9--The Ticket Guys Email of the Day With WingyWingy---CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

HOUR 1:

Big Boss man Tim gave Producer Joe the ok to wear a Beret in the locker room Thursday if the Cards win, and the guys think it might even be better if the team loses….The guys wonder which players would embrace the beret and which ones would be freaked out by it. They don’t think Ryan Franklin would like it.

Cat has seen a lot walking into the studio in the morning including rats, homeless people and puddles of urine, but this morning he saw a fully cooked, unconsumed baked potato…..LaRussa needs to put Cat in the two hole for power. Last night, the Cat tripped a bunch of Royals players when his wireless microphone went out and had to use one with a real long cord for the post-game interview.

Brendan Ryan read the starting lineups as Robert DeNiro on Fox Saturday so Cat made him do an impersonation on the pre-game show last night, and Ryan also did an impersonation of Johnny Carson… Ryan was worried about getting in trouble, but Cat kept encouraging him to do it. Everyone was watching it in the Clubhouse, and gave him grief for it.

Cat suggests everyone to watch the movie: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. He was originally accused of rape from dating an underage girl, and then the charges were lessoned and instead of fighting all the legal battles, he moved to France and became a legend.

The B-52s were on TV the other day, and the band was wearing the same stuff they always wore back in the day. The must be in their 50’s…..Cat said “Love Cat” instead of “Love Shack.”

Jemele Hill has been suspended from writing for ESPN.com and from on-air duties on ESPN…..She wrote that “rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim or that you wanted Gorbechov to reach the little red button before Reagan”……Cat said that the suspension is unwarranted, and Doug agreed……Hill’s suspension came when radio host Fred Toucher branded her a hypocrite because of her attack on Don Imus when he went after the Rutgers women’s basketball team……Tim doesn’t think Imus or Hill should’ve been suspended but he thinks Imus’ comment was worse.


HOUR 2:

Cindy Margolis is now divorced and in Playboy this month. She was once the most downloaded woman in America, and now she is doing a radio tour. She is finding trouble getting dates so there is a contest where you can win a date with her at the Playboy Mansion…..She said she regrets not taking advantage of more casting couches to get further in Hollywood.

The guys wonder what the song “turning Japanese” means and “tig bitty” calls in to say it means pullin on your wanker because it slants your eyes after a while.



Mike Shannon:
The guys had trouble reaching Mike Shannon----guests who don’t come on are sponsored by U-Gas.

The guys try to name the American Film Institute list of Top 10 Sports movies:
Doug and Cat guess a lot of movies that aren’t on the list.

1. Raging Bull
2. Rocky
3. Pride of the Yankees
4. Hoosiers
5. Bull Durham
6. The Hustler
7. Caddyshack
8. Breaking Away
9. National Velvet (from 1944)
10. Jerry Maguire


Top 10 Epics:
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Ben Hur
3. Schindler’s List
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Spartacus
6. Titanic
7. All Quiet on the Western Front
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Reds
10. The 10 Commandments


Cat said to impersonate people from the old days you have to add “I tel