I didn’t think we’d ever hear from Mark McGwire again after his appearance before Congress.  I may be wrong.  From MLB.com:

Tony La Russa was expected to return as the Cardinals’ skipper, but he could have a new hitting coach in slugger Mark McGwire.

According to ESPN.com’s Buster Olney, La Russa has signed a multi-year contract to return. But Hal McRae will not return as the Cardinals hitting coach and will be replaced by McGwire.

You don’t really think of St. Louis as a crazy town, but with LaRussa and McGwire together, you can count on a ton of booze and needles for everyone.  Not that McGwire can’t offer helpful advice on hitting, but I imagine he’ be quite a distraction.  And I don’t even mean because of the steroids or lying before Congress stuff.  How can the players concentrate on the game when there’s this 6’5″ monstrous ginger lurking in the dugout?  It’s jarring enough to see a normal sized ginger walking down the street with alien hair and freckled skin and empty eyes, but a behemoth like McGwire would be too much to handle.  What I’m trying to say is that Mark McGwire doesn’t have a soul and LaRussa should be butchered for even thinking about bringing him near Pujols.