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Juan Gonzalez Is Gone-zo From Cardinals' Camp but May Be Back

When Juan Gonzalez started his comeback earlier this spring with the St. Louis Cardinals, how did you think it was going to end? If your guess was, "with injury," well, unsurprisingly, you would've been right on. As the Cardinals are whittling their roster down for Opening Day, Gonzalez has gone home to Puerto Rico to...

Tony LaRussa Is in Denial

Yesterday Matt Watson told us all that Tony LaRussa wanted the Cardinals to consider signing Barry Bonds for this season. I wasn't exactly surprised by the news, because given LaRussa's past, he's not exactly scared by the prospect of steroids or other performance enhancing drugs.After all, this is the man that oversaw...

Juan Gone Is Gone No More

What seemed like a semi-improbable rumor a month ago is a rumor no more: Juan Gonzalez has signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. Yes, THAT Juan Gonzalez. The 1996/1998 AL MVP that's had his name linked to steroids several times in the last couple years and hasn't played a big league game since 2005...

Is Juan Gonzalez Coming Back?

There was a stretch back in the 90's where Juan Gonzalez seemed like a perennial threat to Hack Wilson's record of 190 RBIs in a single season (random trivia alert: Wilson picked up his 191st RBI in 1999 when an official scorer found an extra RBI on the books that belonged to Hack). He was a one-man wrecking crew in Texas...

International Pastime: Puerto Rico Cancels Winter Ball League Season

International Pastime will look at baseball's influence outside the U.S.This news is, quite frankly, saddening. When I need my baseball fix in November and December, where will I turn? Unfortunately, it won't be to the Puerto Rican Winter Ball League -- their upcoming season has been canceled. The Puerto Rican winter...

JuanGonzalez News From the Web

05/23/12 Rockies Minor League Report: Nelson hits, Brothers... Source: All Things Rockies There was a bit of good-news and a lot of bad-news for Triple-A Colorado Springs in it's 9-5 loss to Oklahoma City on Tuesday.
05/22/12 School baseball: CCA knocks off Randolph Source: Cape Cod Times - Hyannis MA Biehl Longstaff knocked in the eventual game-winning run in the third inning and Cape Cod Academy gained its second in of the year with an 8-4 non-league victory over Randolph.
05/20/12 Man shot outside of southwest Oklahoma City bar Source: The Oklahoman - Oklahoma City OK A man was shot outside of a bar in southwest Oklahoma City after an altercation Saturday night, police said.
05/14/12 NAM Radio: Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez Source: Arizona Informant - Phoenix AZ In over 35 years as an American journalist, Juan Gonzalez has done more than leave his mark -- he has played a pivotal and crucial role in changing the face of American journalism.
05/04/12 Bronx wake for tragic crash kin Source: New York City News - New York NY Heartbroken family and friends joined strangers who lined the street outside a Bronx funeral home yesterday to say goodbye to the seven tragic victims of a crash last weekend on the Bronx River Parkway.