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| Pivotal NFL Moments | 19776 playoff: Raiders @ Colts: "Ghost to the Post" |
| Baseball Season 2025 | Top spending MLB teams |
| Pivotal World Series Moments | 1936 Game 4 - Pearson outpitches Hubbell. |
| Clash of Titans | 1971 Orange Bowl - LSU vs Nebraska |
| Pivotal Saints Moments | 1987 Browns: Two safeties and a field goal spark win. |
| New Saints Coach | Moore the second coming of Payton? |
| Pivotal NFL Moments
1977 Playoff Raiders @ Colts: "Ghost to the Post" |
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Baseball Season 2025
The first half of my life, baseball was my favorite sport with football second and basketball third. By the 1970s, football had overtaken baseball as my favorite. Basketball still remains third. But baseball has lost much of my affection this last decade. My favorite teams are the Cardinals and Yankees (in that order). But the Cardinals have no chance to win the pennant. Why? Because they can't match the payroll of the top contenders. Their best hope is to win the National League Central and make the playoffs. Then anything might happen. My Redbirds are 19th on the current payroll list. Their payroll of $141,455,581 (a staggering sum) is roughly $180,000,000 less than the Dodgers, who are not even the top team — the Mets are slightly ahead at $323,099,999. Anytime you hear someone say the Yankees are "the best team money can buy," tell them that the Yanks are third in payroll at $293,488,972, which is about $28,000,000 less than the second-place Dodgers. Baseball will never regain its position as my favorite sport until the owners agree to a salary cap as you have in the NFL. But the likelihood of the MLB Players Association agreeing to that has, as Dizzy Dean used to say, only two chances — slim and none. I told this to a friend of mine who is a baseball fan, and he replied, "So you want the owners to get more money." My reply, "No, maybe if the players are making less, the owners will reduce their ticket prices so that the average baseball family doesn't have to spend an arm and a leg to attend a game." Last season, I paid $80 (roughly $0.50 a day) to mlb.com to watch any baseball game I wished online. I'll probably pay that again this year in hopes that the Cardinals stay in contention for the division title or a wild card spot in the NL playoffs. |
| Clash of Titans
1971 Orange Bowl - LSU vs Nebraska Charlie McClendon vs Bob Devaney Cornhuskers try to clinch national championship. |
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Pivotal World Series Moments
1936 Game 4: Pearson outpitches Hubbell. |
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Pivotal Saints Moments
1987 Browns: Two safeties and a field goal spark win. |
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