RIP Stan Musial

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One night after his longtime friend and teammate Red Schoendienst was honored on his upcoming 90th birthday, fellow Cardinals Hall of Famer Stan Musial died quietly at age 92 at 5:45 p.m. Saturday at his St. Louis County home under hospice care.

Musial’s family members who did not live here had gathered in the last day when Musial’s health had deteriorated. A family spokesman made the announcement.

Musial, who turned 92 in November, has been in declining health for the last several years, including being afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. Lillian Musial, his wife of more than 70 years, had died last May 4.

Considered the greatest Cardinal of them all, Musial also likely was the most popular Cardinal of them all, continuing to make his home in St. Louis after his retirement in 1963.

Playing his entire 22-season career with the Cardinals, Musial is the franchise leader in virtually every category, including hits at 3,630, splitting them evenly at 1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road.

Selected to play in a record-tying 24 All-Star Games, Musial won seven National League batting titles.

Signed to a professional contract by the St. Louis Cardinals as a pitcher 1938, Musial was converted into an outfielder, where he made his major league debut in 1941.

At the time of his retirement, Musial held or shared 17 major league records, 29 National League records, and nine All-Star Game records. In addition to overseeing businesses such as Stan Musial and Biggie’s restaurant, Musial served as the Cardinals’ general manager in 1967 and then quit after his team won both the National League title and World Series that year.

RIP Earl Weaver

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Irascible, chain-smoking, umpire-baiting longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver penned his own epitaph.

“On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived,'” he once said.

Weaver, 82, a member of baseball’s Hall of Fame and the winningest manager in the franchise’s history, died late Friday while on a baseball-themed cruise, said Monica Barlow, a team spokeswoman.

The cause apparently was a heart attack, the team said on its website.

Weaver, who piloted the Orioles from 1968 to 1982 and 1985-86, led the team to the 1970 World Series championship, four American League pennants and six American League East Division titles.

His teams won 1,480 games and lost 1,060, and his winning percentage (.583) ranks ninth all-time and fifth among managers in the modern era who managed 10 years or more.

Five times, Baltimore won at least 100 games for Weaver, who was 5 feet 7 but stood mythically tall to his players.

“Having Earl gives us a four-game lead on everybody,” pitcher Sammy Stewart once said.

The Orioles failed to post a winning record under Weaver only once, in 1986. His career was defined by an affinity for the three-run home run and a long-running, public feud with superstar pitcher Jim Palmer that both men jokingly played to whenever they were together.

Nicknamed “the Earl of Baltimore,” Weaver was always a fan favorite. He repeatedly returned to Baltimore to take part in a series of statue unveilings at Oriole Park, including one dedicated to him in June.

Sandy Hook was a hoax – give me a break

It was just a matter of time a group of losers came up with the idea that Sandy Hook was a hoax. These same losers beat the 9/11 cover-up in the ground and nobody cares. So they had to come up with something new. Sadly, they took the murders of 27 people, 20 being children and are blaming Obama that it never took place. How insane can people be?

I am not even going to debate this rubbish. I am going to post some of their “debate” below and let you read it. While they do a decent job making their idiotic points, they prove nothing. We still had 27 confirmed dead bodies and reports from real parents, real teachers, real kids, real medical examiners and real police that they shooting did take place. Read the believe hoax rant and let me know what you think.

Taken from this dumb website

 

Fact # 1: There was at least 2 or 3 shooters that were also in the Sandy Hook school with Adam Lanza . Some of the video was shown on television but only 1 time and have never aired again.

 

Fact # 2: The medical examiner claimed that the children were killed with the rifle. But the rifle was found in the truck of a  Adam Lanza car. So who did all the shooting if the rifle was in the trunk of a car?  and why would  the medical examiner say that the children were killed with the rifle ?

Fact # 3: Emily Parker’s  dad was laughing and smiling right before he gave an official interview on CNN. Let me ask you a question if you lost a child would you be laughing and smiling  24 hours after the death of your loved one?

Fact # 4: Who created the Emily Parker Fan page  on Dec 14th just a few hours before the shooting. I just want to know what kind of a person makes a Facebook Fund Page while their child in in the school on a lock-down yet they still didn’t know the condition of their daughter? she was not even confirmed dead yet…. i smell BS

Fact # 5: Why are all the parents in the interviews are either smiling or have a guilty smirk on their faces days after their children were killed? is that an act of a grieving parent or an actor?

Fact # 6:  This is a REAL Site !!!

Fact # 7: Very strange behavior of the Medical Examiner ( he seems more of an actor then a medical examiner) he seems to find the situation quiet funny.

Fact # 8: What do September 11th  and 7 July 2005 London bombings  and Sandy Hook shooting have in common?

Fact # 9: Victoria Soto Facebook Page was created 4 days before the Sandy Hook shooting. Also “Our Heart are with Sandy Hook” was created 3 days before the shooting. The website “Sandy Hook Elementary Victims Fund” was created 1 days before the Sandy Hook shooting.  Seems as if someone had an open window into the future or this was all pre-planned and people were putting pages up not realizing that it can be traced  back to the creation date of the Facebook page and the  Sandy Hook Heart website. As a professional blogger i know how to trace back dates of origin of a website, its what bloggers do, that is why they want to silence the internet, they do not want people picking up their mistakes and then presenting it to the whole world discrediting the news lies and media deception. Remember if they can controlled what people watch and read and make people feel something that is not true  is called mind control & deception and  people are being controlled with fear and disgusting lies. Why do you think everyday at 5 pm across U.S.A  all the news media run the same top 5 stories ? It does not matter if you are watch NBC, ABC, or CBS, all the top 5 to 7 stories happen to be the same. Its like their are controlling the media instead of giving people the real true stories that are happening across the globe.

Fact # 10:  Media frenzy to ban all guns across the U.S.A destroying the 2nd Constitutional Amendment. I mean lets really think about this one it is the most important one. If our 2nd Constitutional amendment is banned what is next destroying the 1st Constitutional amendment “Freedom of Speech” ?  and what is next this country turning into a socialist or a communist regime. As i write this article it makes me feel as if this country was the last place for freedom of speech and now that also seems to be under threat. I have spend my first 10 years of my life raised in Russia in a big city of St. Petersburg  i know how it is to live in a country where the government tells you what to read, what to watch, and not to speak against any corruption of the government of you get send up to Siberia for a 10 year vacation that many do not come back from. My father spend 7 years in jail for speaking out against the corrupt x Soviet Government and in the middle of the night KGB broke down the door and arrested him. So you don’t have to tell me about freedom i lived it and seen it first hand.

Lance Armstrong finally admits he doped

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AUSTIN, TexasA person familiar with the situation says Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey during an interview Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.

 

The admission — made in an interview to be broadcast Thursday on Winfrey’s network — was first revealed by the Associated Press and later confirmed by CBS News. Winfrey will appear on “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday to talk about the Armstrong interview.

 

After the interview, Winfrey tweeted: “Just wrapped with @lancearmstrong More than 2 1/2 hours . He came READY!”

 

The confession was a stunning reversal for Armstrong after years of public statements, interviews and court battles in which he denied doping and zealously protected his reputation.

 

Just hours before the revelation, Armstrong appeared at the cancer charity he founded and tearfully apologized to the Livestrong charity that he founded and turned into a global institution on the strength of his celebrity as a cancer survivor.

 

Armstrong later huddled with almost a dozen people before stepping into a room set up for the Winfrey interview at a downtown Austin hotel.

 

The group included close friends and advisers, two of his lawyers and Bill Stapleton, his agent, manager and business partner. They exchanged handshakes and smiles, but declined comment when approached by a reporter. Most members of that group left the hotel through the front entrance around 5 p.m., although Armstrong was not with them.

 

No further details about the interview were available immediately because of confidentiality agreements signed by both camps. But Winfrey promoted it as a “no-holds barred” session

 

Winfrey and her crew had earlier said they would film the interview at his home but the location apparently changed to a hotel. Local and international news crews staked out positions in front of the cyclist’s Spanish-style villa before dawn, hoping to catch a glimpse of Winfrey or Armstrong.

 

Armstrong still managed to slip away for a run Monday morning despite the crowds gathering outside his house. He returned home by cutting through a neighbor’s yard and hopping a fence.