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McLaughlin will return to Cards' booth
(STLToday.com)
"Danny Mac" is coming back.
Dan McLaughlin, the Cardinals lead television play-by-play announcer, will return for his 15th season in the Fox Sports Midwest booth after spending the offseason trying to rehabilitate his reputation — and more importantly, his life — after being arrested during the final week of the 2011 regular season on his second drunken driving charge in 13 months.
"He has been with us 14 years and is very good at what he does," Jack Donovan, FSM’s general manager, said Thursday. "He’s a very hard worker. We expect him to continue" to be.
McLaughlin is relieved.
"I’m humbled, I’m grateful," he said. "And in the same breath I’m still very, very sorry (for the second arrest). It’s still on the front burner for me. I think about it a lot. ... If it came to that, the point I didn’t have a job, which for a long time I (thought was going to be the case), I wouldn’t have blamed them at all; it was my fault."
McLaughlin, 37, has acknowledged that he is an alcoholic.
"It’s perceived as an illness," Donovan said. "We’re trying to support him."
There has been public criticism when the possibility of McLaughlin returning has been mentioned in recent weeks, and Donovan said much thought was put into making the decision. The call was FSM’s, but Donovan works closely with the team on major issues.
"We took our time, we didn’t rush into it," Donovan said.
Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III acknowledged the odds of McLaughlin being kept probably were low after the second arrest.
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Cards loaded with draft picks in 2012
(FOXSportsMidwest.com) News of Edwin Jackson’s one-year deal with the Washington Nationals helped finalize the Cardinals’ lengthy list of draft picks early in this year’s Amateur Draft.
The Cardinals will have six selections in the top 100 of the June draft, their most since also having six picks in the top 100 in the 2005 draft. Among the selections that year were Colby Rasmus and Tyler Greene.
The Cardinals received the No. 19 overall pick as compensation from the Anaheim Angels for losing Albert Pujols. They will also have their normal first-round pick at No. 23 overall.
In addition to the two first round picks, the Cardinals will pick No. 36, No. 52 , No. 58 and No. 85 in this year’s draft. With a few free agents ... [ More ]
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Albert Pujols' name dropped from St. Louis restaurant
(USA Today) It was a culinary decision. The owners of the St. Louis restaurant that beared Albert Pujols' name, the Pujols 5 Westport Grill, dropped the slugger's name from the establishment.Albert Pujols, right, holding his son, overlooks a 10-foot, 1,100-pound bronze statue of the St. Louis Cardinals slugger.
The bar and grill opened Thursday with a new name -- the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame Bar and Grill -- and will keep its sports theme.
A 10-foot, bronze statue of Pujols' likeness, donated in November, will remain on the grounds of the complex. Todd Perry, chief executive of the Pujols Family Foundation, said there were no plans to remove it. The restaurant does not own the statue.
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