….that the fans absolutely loved him, both his personality and his style of play. Remember seeing dozens of Twitter messages about how it sucked that STL had gotten rid of him. Didn’t know the kind of player (and person) we had at the time.

Now I do.

It’s the awesome payoff. That and Sims’ hats.

I didn’t catch it the first time I watched it, but after reading the quote I watched the video again. As he gets up from sliding into third he cheekily checks home too.

And I’m not hearing where your hate could be coming from. I just don’t understand the degree at which people dislike the man.

Watching some MLB.TV free games, I realize we have it fairly good actually.

But he seems to have gotten better now that he has the regular gig with Blowers (who also has gotten better — he used to be good at the after-game stuff but Mr Repetitively Obvious with on-the-fly color). Some of it may be just adjusting expectations in the post-Niehaus world, but I really find the two of them unobjectionable at this point.