This is a test of the new Fanshot-posting system. (It's also a Japanese new-wave band.)

In the long run, Albert defecting will be positive for the Cardinals

The 2011 World Series was so dramatic that it was right out of a Hollywood movie. Well if they ever DID make a 2011 World Series movie, we have our ideas of who to cast in it

Ron Washington's Game 7 Clubhouse Pep Talk. He's got quite the dirty mouth, and some not so nice things to say about Carpenter.

Version 1.1 of the SB Nation iPhone app is nearly available pending App Store approval. It features better threaded comments, much faster loading, and what amounts to a software Z-button. So that's neat, if you don't use a dead operating system like I do. Sounds like the Android version is on the way, too, probably by the end of the year.

Don't know if any of you have seen this or not, but my mind is shattered. WILL THE REAL TONY LA RUSSA PLEASE STAND UP

I know that that most of you have seen this, but those of you that haven't, should.

CARDS RALLY SONG!

If Albert Pujols leaves the Cardinals at the end of this season, I better NEVER hear a boo from a Cardinal fan!

Jack Buck's poem "For America". link: http://www.foxsportsmidwest.com/pages/video?UUID=aabcc209-e60a-4359-9150-ed8916a27566