My Mount Rushmore:
It seems that everyone likes to put together list or Mount Rushmore's of this and that, myself included. Especially at a time when a Pandemic has taken away all things related sports. So here are my Mount Rushmore's, the good and the bad. The one thing I will say is that when I visited the real Mt. Rushmore a few a few years back I couldn't help but feel like "is that it"? So don't blame me if my list make you feel the same way. Everyone wants to list their best or favorite but few understand that the original Mt. Rushmore were men that Borglum picked because they represented in his opinion the most important events in U.S. history so with that in mind I am doing the same with my list.
The Good Mt.Rushmore of my lifetime:
Albert Pujols: When I start with my list I have to start with Albert Pujols. The man in my opinion is the greatest right handed hitter of all time. Few remember that Pujols was promoted to the big leagues when Bobby Bonilla was hurt during spring training of 2001. What a glorious day that was. Pujols is now regarded as maybe the best hitter of all time and the leader of the Cardinals during a highly succesful decade of baseball.
Marshall Faulk:
When the Rams moved to St. Louis they were simply put just not a very good football team. We all remember the great start they had in year one that turned out to be an illusion. Many games I watched some of the worst pro ball ever witnessed. But in 1999 the Rams made a trade for Marshall and along with the other Greatest Show on Turf boys they turned St. Louis on their ear. I will never forget sitting in the stands for their first home game against the Baltimore Ravens and watching in awe and praying that clock didn't strike twelve and they turn into a pumpkin. He will long be regarded as the best football player I have ever seen.
Brett Hull:
Where do you start when you start with the Golden Brett? He scored goals like nobody we had ever seen and was the man both men and women idolized. He single handedly was responsible for more mullets in the St. Louis metro area than hair bands in the late 80's. If not for the Golden Brett the Blues likely wouldn't have been marching that Stanley Cup down Market Street last Summer. They may have been marching it down the streets of another town all together.
Yadier Molina:
The longtime Cardinal backstop is the finest catcher I have seen in my lifetime. Don't come at me with Gary Carter, Mike Piazza, and so on. Yadi has helped to elevate the games of the likes of Chris Carpenter, Adam Wainwright, and young gun Jack Flaherty into league elite status. His knowledge, defense and toughness will be next to impossible to replace.
My Anti Mount Rushmore:
If the first list was made out of granute then this list is made out of cow patty.
Enos Stanley Kroenke:
To this day I don't know if I have disliked an individual more. When the Rams moved to St. Louis I remember literally jumping for joy with my buddies at work as the announcement was shown on television. For twenty years they held a spot in my heart until Enos stole them from St. Louis. I'm a big believer in karma and karma can't be bought so things will even out sometime.
Mike Keenan:
This guy managed to come to town and literally piss off everyone. He traded away or ran off fan favorites left and right. If you can't appreciate a team with Brett Hull AND Wayne Gretzky then what does it take?
Don Denkinger:
In one of the worst calls in sports he took away a World Series victory and ripped the Commisioner's trophy from August Busch's hands
Bill Belichick:
From the filming of the Rams walk through to the gameplan that called for his defense to commit near felonious assaults on nearly every member of the Rams offense in the Superbowl this guy is just too much to stomach. From the first superbowl loss the Rams had to the Patriots until present his success is like nails on a chalkboard. Jealousy? Of course, what can I say?
As always thank you for reading
It seems that everyone likes to put together list or Mount Rushmore's of this and that, myself included. Especially at a time when a Pandemic has taken away all things related sports. So here are my Mount Rushmore's, the good and the bad. The one thing I will say is that when I visited the real Mt. Rushmore a few a few years back I couldn't help but feel like "is that it"? So don't blame me if my list make you feel the same way. Everyone wants to list their best or favorite but few understand that the original Mt. Rushmore were men that Borglum picked because they represented in his opinion the most important events in U.S. history so with that in mind I am doing the same with my list.
The Good Mt.Rushmore of my lifetime:
Albert Pujols: When I start with my list I have to start with Albert Pujols. The man in my opinion is the greatest right handed hitter of all time. Few remember that Pujols was promoted to the big leagues when Bobby Bonilla was hurt during spring training of 2001. What a glorious day that was. Pujols is now regarded as maybe the best hitter of all time and the leader of the Cardinals during a highly succesful decade of baseball.
Marshall Faulk:
When the Rams moved to St. Louis they were simply put just not a very good football team. We all remember the great start they had in year one that turned out to be an illusion. Many games I watched some of the worst pro ball ever witnessed. But in 1999 the Rams made a trade for Marshall and along with the other Greatest Show on Turf boys they turned St. Louis on their ear. I will never forget sitting in the stands for their first home game against the Baltimore Ravens and watching in awe and praying that clock didn't strike twelve and they turn into a pumpkin. He will long be regarded as the best football player I have ever seen.
Brett Hull:
Where do you start when you start with the Golden Brett? He scored goals like nobody we had ever seen and was the man both men and women idolized. He single handedly was responsible for more mullets in the St. Louis metro area than hair bands in the late 80's. If not for the Golden Brett the Blues likely wouldn't have been marching that Stanley Cup down Market Street last Summer. They may have been marching it down the streets of another town all together.
Yadier Molina:
The longtime Cardinal backstop is the finest catcher I have seen in my lifetime. Don't come at me with Gary Carter, Mike Piazza, and so on. Yadi has helped to elevate the games of the likes of Chris Carpenter, Adam Wainwright, and young gun Jack Flaherty into league elite status. His knowledge, defense and toughness will be next to impossible to replace.
My Anti Mount Rushmore:
If the first list was made out of granute then this list is made out of cow patty.
Enos Stanley Kroenke:
To this day I don't know if I have disliked an individual more. When the Rams moved to St. Louis I remember literally jumping for joy with my buddies at work as the announcement was shown on television. For twenty years they held a spot in my heart until Enos stole them from St. Louis. I'm a big believer in karma and karma can't be bought so things will even out sometime.
Mike Keenan:
This guy managed to come to town and literally piss off everyone. He traded away or ran off fan favorites left and right. If you can't appreciate a team with Brett Hull AND Wayne Gretzky then what does it take?
Don Denkinger:
In one of the worst calls in sports he took away a World Series victory and ripped the Commisioner's trophy from August Busch's hands
Bill Belichick:
From the filming of the Rams walk through to the gameplan that called for his defense to commit near felonious assaults on nearly every member of the Rams offense in the Superbowl this guy is just too much to stomach. From the first superbowl loss the Rams had to the Patriots until present his success is like nails on a chalkboard. Jealousy? Of course, what can I say?
As always thank you for reading