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By Randy Gardner

What a way to start off the week by losing one of the cornerstones of the Cardinals pitching group, Adam Wainwright.

It looked like such a simple play as he left the batter’s box after a short hit. This in my mind goes back to players who train specific parts of their body for specific sports and forget about the rest of their body.

I don’t know if that is the case here but I know with other sports athletes who train in specific ways to make them stronger either in the upper body or lower body it doesn’t always fare well.

I know for myself, I always trained my lower body for soccer and didn’t concentrate on upper body and it showed as I always was one of the weakest strength players. That still holds true today; my upper body is very weak. I think they have come a long way in training these days because I was talking with some guys training for those cross fit games and they said that they train every single muscle for strength and fatigue factors.

If I were 30 years younger, I would train like crazy. It makes you feel so good to be in shape. Too bad I’m just getting to be an old man who wants to be in shape but can’t get there. I am hoping that I will be able to get in good enough shape to do a mini triathlon in August–we shall see.

Whose To Blame For The Blues’ Failures?

As far as hockey in St. Louis, it’s over again ‘way to early.

I don’t usually raz a team too much but their playoff performance overall was pitiful. They were in games 2 and 4 totally but the others they played absent-mindedly. How can a team that plays so well all year with excellent individual skills and leadership play like a tiny tots team with no captains? Who is to blame here?

Is it the coach or the players? Who is responsible for the collapse? The Blues have been eliminated the last four seasons in the 1st round. I don’t know where to put blame, and maybe there isn’t any. Maybe the other team just wanted it more and tried harder. That’s how sports work. The Blues will be back, though, and the fans will get over this and move on. We still bleed blue.

Rams Need a Good Draft and a QB Pick

On another local sports subject, it was good to see that the Rams released their 2015 schedule. At least that means that they will be here for one more season. I am so curious to see how season ticket sales and individual game ticket sales go. How will the public and fans support or not support the team this upcoming year? I think this is the biggest pivotal year in St. Louis football sports history.

Let’s go, Rams! Good luck in the draft this week. Hopefully we will get that QB so my call a few months ago makes me look like I know at least something about pro sports.

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