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Ah, there we go. Why wait for the playoffs for the Blues choke job we've come to expect?

No, see, that was a brilliant performance. If the Blues choke during the regular season, they'll get it out of the system by the time the playoffs roll around. Lulling the rest of the division into a false sense of security, then BAM! Postseason success and the Stanley Cup. That's Lex Luthor in Superman II levels of scheming there. Or they just keep blowing games now and miss the playoffs entirely. Either way, it's the Blues. Best not to get my hopes up past the first round.

They should repackage all of the misfit and weirdo wrestlers as Kurt Angle's various children and assorted relatives. The Angle Family can be the new Addams Family. A wild-eyed Kurt could spend the whole of Raw making bizarre announcements while blowing up electric trains. Plus, The Great Khali would make a perfect Lurch.

It's definitely because of growing up in St. Louis watching Wrestling at the Chase, but I can never picture Brody as anything other than King Kong Brody, the rough-and-tumble babyface who loved the fans and went crazy only when he had to do so. Now Dick Murdoch, he was always pure evil. Comic evil, to be sure, but evil nonetheless.

I also remember The Shadows on TV because of their intro: "from Parts Unknown, weight unknown." I thought it was great that they were so secretive about their identities, they refused to be weighed lest someone do the math and possibly figure out who they were.

Rogers Hornsby did mellow later in life, but he was still very much disliked. When Bill Veeck fired him as St. Louis Browns manager in 1952, the Browns players gave Veeck a trophy to thank him.

Trump did claim he would own the New York team in a third major league back in the late 1980s. I'm actually a bit more intrigued about Pia Zadora's then-husband owning the proposed Los Angeles club. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/17/sports/trump-says-he-ll-own-team-in-new-league.html

It's precisely because both Dick and Sweetan were already plying their trade in St. Louis that Brody was renamed "King Kong" Brody here.

He may not think much of Heath's kids, but at least Brock gives a shit about the censor's kids to keep food on their table for another week.

Well, there is that, but also that version of the U.S. title was technically a Jim Crockett/WCW company title and not an actual NWA-sanctioned championship. But also, that's wrestling for you. For years, the NWA recognized Harley Race as a 7-time World champion, then an 8-time champion, and now he seems to be back at 7 title reigns.

I have no complaints. The Blues actually made it to the conference finals, so this was a wildly successful season in my book.

The thunderstorms knocked out my cable, so I listened to the third period on the radio, nervously pacing even though the Blues' lead was a big one. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what 10-year-old me did back in '86 when the Blues advanced to the Campbell Conference final.

I thought that was some kind of angry, grotesque Betty Boop tattoo when I first saw it.

The prolific voice-over artist Peter Thomas died yesterday at 91. He narrated Nova, Forensic Files, and Nature, among other shows. He also was heard in Paul Hardcastle's 1985 song "19."

The Blues beat the Blackhawks. What a strange feeling this is. I had Florida Evans ready and everything. Oh well, this whole "my team wins a series" thing is fun, too.

Nah, she spelled "traitor" correctly in one of her other tweets. That's a dead giveaway she's a fan of a third club trying to start trouble between Cards and Cubs fans. She probably never even had a smooth Busch Beer or an easy-drinking Busch Light (thank you, Mike Shannon) in her life!

Milt Pappas, who Bruce Froemming screwed out of a perfect game in 1972, died yesterday at 76.

Who was it here who said "I hate the fans of the teams I love," because that's just my regular feeling as a Cardinals fan now.

Did they change the map at some point? I'm seeing Beauregarde for Oregon while the article has a write-up for the aforementioned Billy Jack Haynes.

If the Blues actually make it past the first round, I'll consider their season a complete success.

He may be the Lunatic Fringe, but even Dean Ambrose isn't crazy enough to ride his bike without a helmet.

Tony Burton from the Rocky movies died today at age 78. http://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/index.ssf/2016/02/rocky_films_star_flint_native.html

And R.I.P. North Stars and Golden Seals.

If they did it Arnold-as-Hercules style, I'd be all for it.