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We’re quite obsessed with mens softball. We know that. Although, our love doesn't quite align with a “my team is going to beat your team” perspective. It’s more of a “that fat dude with multiple $600 bats and an incredible mustache is funny” passion.

For the time being, the collective group of city officials and St. Louis Cardinals brass have abandoned the original plan to transform the previous location of Busch Stadium into a commercial and residential metropolis.  To circumvent the embarrassment of a barren field due North of this year's MLB All Star Game festivities at Busch Stadium, the aforementioned visionaries are building a softball field.  That's right.  A.  Softball.  Field.

Literally, 20 yards away from the Cardinals current home.  Beautiful.

St. Louis Softball Field

While the solution is planned to be temporary until suitable real estate contracts are signed for Ballpark Village, make no mistake about it; softball fever is here to stay in downtown St. Louis.  When a barrage of overweight, mustached men sporting pinstriped ball pants begin making weekly voyages to strut their stuff on the high profile mashing ground, the facades in and around Busch Stadium will become marketing gold mines.

Although the early skeleton of the Busch Stadium softball field embodies a beautiful skyline for ropes, bombs and piss rockets, we wonder what the horizon of downtown St. Louis will look like when it's overrun by potential advertisers, marketing their products to the everyday, adult softball guy.

St. Louis Softball Field

God, help our city.
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TheMayor, June 22, 2009 10:06 PM
Francis Slay Stadium!!!!
BigPapi'sGoldenDip, June 11, 2009 02:06 AM
I just found this site absolutely hilarious. Finally something different than si.com and espn.com. Us Mizzou kids need something else to read in boring lectures.
Dave, June 9, 2009 08:06 PM
A normal billboard will not do for the skoal ad. No, that bad boy has to be flown behind a plane! Also not pictured: boombox blarring The Scorpions. Nothing beats the Scorps.
Marlins Fan, June 9, 2009 06:06 PM
We definitely have us some Bass Pro in the South. Although I highly doubt the store in Fort Liquordale has even a fraction of the Camaro cuts that you are used to seeing.
Eric A, June 9, 2009 04:06 PM
Favorite one: Bass Pro Shops. Do people on the coasts have Bass Pro Shops? That's a Midwest thing...and it's usually populated with the same demographic as softball fields.
kegler804, June 9, 2009 01:06 PM
No arguments from me. I too am a Bon Jovi fan (I even have the Young Guns 2 soundtrack. And still listen to it). Always have been, always will be.
Softball Guy, June 9, 2009 01:06 PM
Truth be told, I like Jovi because the guy still pulls tail and rocks a borderline mullet. What's not to love about that?
kegler804, June 9, 2009 12:06 PM
You'll want to get Softball Guy's direct opinion of course, but I don't think the "modern" Lost Highway Bon Jovi is on the playlist's of many softball fans. But old school Slippery When Wet and New Jersey most certainly is.
Softball Guy, June 9, 2009 12:06 PM
You got a problem with Bon Jovi?
Sebek, June 9, 2009 11:06 AM
Fixed. I'm a jackass. Although, I like the name "Will Softball". Good Will Softball, staring Softball Guy and Robin Williams.
Rocky Mtn Highball, June 9, 2009 11:06 AM
The headline on the JSF homepage has two Wills in it. Kinda makes it read like there's actually a person named Will Softball. Hmmmm...maybe that's Softball Guy's real name?!!

Dave Bergman

He might have been a .258 lifetime hitter, but Dave Bergman was absolutely dominant when the team sat around the dugout and played "duck, duck, goose".

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