St. Louis Cardinals Involved In Yet Another Unpleasant Incident

Again and again there is a baseball confrontation involving Chris Carpenter and the St. Louis Cardinals.

This time against Milwaukee.  Nyjer Morgan struck out leading off the ninth inning.  While walking to the dugout, Morgan said he heard an expletive from Carpenter, who is a well documented whiner along with his manager and head whiner, Tony La Russa.

Mogan went after Carpenter and was restrained by teammate Prince Fielder as Albert Pujols joined the confrontation.

"He's having a good year for them," La Russa said of Morgan.  "He's close to the edge as far as creating problems and trouble.  It takes away from the player he's been for them with his fuse being so short and looking for things to instigate.  I hope he gets a clue. It's the truth.  He could be the player that he is without instigating."

Excuse me Tony, but what team has been involved with and instigated more problems and trouble in baseball.  Why is it the Cardinals and Carpenter involved in bench clearing brawl against bench clearing brawl?  What team constantly finds something to complain about.  Either a pitcher has too much substance on his cap or the team has a supply of baseballs that are too slick, or a pitcher has too much dirt on his hands when the pitches or the ribbon boards are too bright when the Cardinals bat, or there is too much smoke from fire works after a home team home run.  When a Cardinal star gets hit on the hand on a pitch up and in there is criminal intent.  When Miguel Cairo gets hit in the hand by a Cardinal pitcher as he did last week, it's just hardball.

The Cardinals have bitched, moaned and griped their way through all these mini controversies.  After awhile, you get the idea that one team is instigating trouble and it isn't Morgan's.

Maybe just maybe when it is one team all the time against several different teams, it is the team that hollers most and loudest that creates problems.