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St. Louis Cardinals fans have been lighting up social media with their wet dreams of acquiring Giancarlo Stanton. It is hard to blame them as it appears Stanton feels like the perfect fit and the club certainly has the prospect and financial resources to make a deal with the Marlins and bring the MVP to the Midwest. Many fans, the forever pessimists, are already calling for the heads of team executives if they can not make a deal, suggesting coming in second again would simply not be acceptable. If this were a normal situation, my feelings would be similar considering the franchise’s desperate need for an anchor and star. But this is not a normal situation. Giancarlo Stanton holds all of the Cards, and that does not necessarily means it’s the St. Louis Cardinals. Stanton can choose exactly where he wants to go, or if he wants to go at all, and there is little that Derek Jeter, John Mozeliak or the San Francisco Giants can do about it. Jeter is desperate to slash p

Saturday was admittedly another wild day, capping off an extended wild weekend in college football. Alabama, previously unblemished, lost to their bitter rival Auburn on the road and in doing so, has managed not even to earn the right to play for the SEC Championship. That privledge belongs to Auburn and Georgia, who will meet in Atlanta next week in Arthur Blank’s (ahem, pardon me, Atlanta’s) fancy new stadium in a rematch from earlier this season. That game was also the only blemish on Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs, which says something incredibly impressive regarding what Auburn has accomplished late in the season. But what has irked me is the pundits treatment of Alabama, who so many believe, still belongs in the College Football Playoff conversation. Sure, at 11-1, they look plenty deserving, but comments like this one from Clay Travis drive me up the wall when it comes to college sports (this happens all the time with seeding in March Madness) as  well. Final tru