What a night… forget the Rams for a minute… have you ever seen ANYTHING like Pujols’ home run last night? I mean that was AMAZING. The single best sports moment of my life. I’m pretty sure I heard the intercom come on in the stadium last night saying “Would the hitter who just stole the heart of the Houston ball club please return it immediately?” Anyway… I would LOVE for the Cards to win the series but this single home run allowed me to feel better about this post season. Those cheap little panzy homers that the Astros hit, that should have been fly ball outs in any other park, didn’t end up mattering at all. Pujols JACKED that thing 400+ feet and it would have been out in ANY park in the league. It was a BOMB. Go Cardinals!

Oh and the Rams got stomped by the Colts. The Colts are a great team and the Rams are not.

590 the Fan is reporting that the Rams will have a 5 p.m. press conference in which they are expected to announce that Martz will be leaving the Rams, at least for a while. Apparently his health is not going to allow him to continue being the head coach. No one apparently knows whether this will be a temporary thing or if Martz will be stepping down for good. We will continue to follow the story and I am sure I will be posting on this later.

Its late, I just got home from Tulsa, and I am TIRED. There is too much for me to possibly cover quickly but here are the topics I will cover tomorrow:

St. Louis Rams LOSE to the Seattle Seahawks… at HOME… to SEATTLE!

Cardinals sweep!! Astro’s win in 18 setting up rematch of NLCS from last year. Go Cards!

The other so-called “professional” team in STL remains winless… still dont give a puck.

I will probably have a post or two about other randon topics which may or may not be sports related but hey, its my blog and if you dont like it you can go to the forums to blast me.

Muck Fartz and Go Cards!!

EDIT: In my haste to get to bed I forgot to thank the DumpMartz.com guys for giving FireMartz.com a write up on their site. If you want to check out the article just click here

Ok well this week has been a busy one in St. Louis sports. The Cardinals are up 2 – 0 and look to finish off the sweep in San Diego on Saturday. For the life of me I cant figure out why Morris is starting over Suppan who ended up with a few more wins and a point lower ERA. Oh well, hopefully it wont come back to bite us. Oh and after most of St. Louis gave themselves ulcers worrying about Izzy, did all of you happen to see what Brad Lidge did last night? He came in with his team down by like 6 runs, obviously a pressure free situation and proceeds to perform poorly. The ESPN announcers mentioned how it is common for closers to come in, in non-save situations and perform poorly. So, what happened to Izzy on Tuesday… was NORMAL! No more worrying (myself included in this).

Now, the Rams… they are the favorites with a 3 point spread. To me that seems like easy money if I were a betting man. However, there are a few wild cards thrown into the mix. The Showtime boys are reporting that Martz might be coaching from the booth this Sunday. What kind of effect will that have on the team and the game? I have NO idea. If nothing else it should cut down on the stupid challenges… you’d hope anyway. Also how much will the team be distracted by Martz’s illness or will they rally round the skipper? Another wild card. All that having been said, I still think that Alexander is going to run WILD over the Rams D. I’m talking to the tune of 150+ yards. That’s just how I see it happening. I don’t give much credence to the fact that the Rams beat the ‘hawks 3 times last year. Its tough to consistently beat a team that is so familiar with you and your schemes. I predict a Rams loss, in the double digits range…

The Blues… I still don’t give a puck. The Blues obviously don’t care if anyone pays any attention to the team this year other than the prospective buyers. Why else would you trade away your captain, who happens to also be your best player, who will benefit GREATLY from the rule changes? I mean shoot, they might as well call the rule that doesn’t count the center line in the two line pass “The Pronger Rule”. Anyway like I said, I don’t give a puck.

I think that’s all I got for now… oh and just for the record… I hope I’m wrong on the Rams game…

The guys of Showtime on KFNS 590, are reporting that Martz has issued a press release concerning his health. Apparently he has what doctors suspect to be a viral infection in his heart valve. As much as I dislike the way Martz talks to the media and HATE the way he coaches the Rams, firemartz.com is only interested in having a good time and talking about Rams football. We would never wish any sort of personal harm coming to Martz or anyone else for that matter. We wish him well and hope he recovers quickly and fully. Football is a game and it is important to keep this in perspective in regards to someones health.

Mike Martz had better be rooting for the Cardinals to not only go to, but WIN the World Series. As most of St. Louis is understandably caught up in playoff fever, the focus has been shifted away from the spanking the Rams got last Sunday at the hands of the New York Giants. Hey, I’m not blaming the public, I am guilty of the same thing. I went to the game yesterday and didn’t think once about how I thought drunk guy next to me could come up with a better game plan against the Giants than the one our mad genious showd us last Sunday. Martz and the Rams, it appears, have gotten away with simply sticking their collective heads in the sand and pretending last week’s game never happened. Martz said that they aren’t going to look at the game tape, they are going to move on. Well, luckily for Martz, the Cardinals have two home playoff games this week, and the Blues open their season after a year off. Now, I don’t really give a puck about the start of the hockey season, but that along with the playoff atmosphere which has engulfed the city, allowed Martz to get away with his McGwire-esque statement of looking forward, not looking back at that embarassment they called a game. Well Mike, enjoy your temporary reprieve from the judgemental observations of an increasingly hostile public, it wont last long. The Cardinals leave town just in time for your game against the also awful Seattle Seahawks. If you lose that game, no amount of Cardinal baseball or Blues hockey (does anyone really care about this? can I just stop even mentioning it?) will distract St. Louis from calling for your head. As much as I HOPE you get your D back in line and find the running game that you seemed to have misplaced last week, I kind of expect the petition to start filling up before long.

Martz in his weekly press conference admitted that “It was bad coaching on my part.” I completely agree!! Martz then said that we need to move on. Once again, I could not agree more. We need to move on! We have got to get a coach that will accept responsibility for the failure of this team. What is it about St. Louis personalities that they think they can just ignore the problems we have? This is ridiculous.

Martz also claimed that the game dictated the 62 passing attempts. He claimed that since they got down early, and Rolland Williams went down with injury, we were unable to run the ball. What??? He said, “If we had run the ball 30 times we would have lost 56 to 2.” Oh really? The cool thing about running the ball is that it keeps the other team’s offense off the field! That would have kept Bulger from having to throw 62 passes (who knows what affect that will have on his arm) and would have kept the score within a manageable range. Sure the passing game scored a few times. But just think of the numbers we could have put up if the Giants hadn’t been able to load up on the pass! We were one dimensional and somehow this is supposed to keep us in the game? Please… Mike… its time to go! MUCK FARTZ!!!

I dont know if you guys listen to 590 the fan or not, if not you should, but we just got a plug from the program Showtime. The movement to FireMartz is taking hold. Apparently I wasnt the only one embarassed by the stomping we took yesterday. We are even getting press now! Be sure to sign the petition and join the forums. Dont allow anyone to call you a bandwagon jumper. Get on board now before the rest of the masses! Oh and thanks again Jay Jr. and Claibs!

I have to give credit to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the quotes in this ranting. Even the Post, which traditionally likes to talk about the positive things when it comes to the Rams, can’t avoid ripping Martz after the embarrassing game yesterday. Anyway, back to the point….

Quote from the Post-Dispatch:"For his part, coach Mike Martz was puzzled by the fact that Jackson was doing the tossing on the trick play instead of Marshall Faulk.

"Marshall always does it, and Marshall wasn't in the game," Martz said. "And that's an issue for me. We've always practiced it with Marshall. And he's supposed to be in the game at that time, so there was some confusion. ... That's a coaching deal all the way."

When asked why he wasn't in the game for the reverse pitch, Faulk said, "I don't know."

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? For the second time in his illustrious career, Martz has admitted he had no idea who was on the field. Well in such a critical juncture of the game don’t you think you would make damn sure you knew who was in the game? Not only that but wouldn’t you make sure you knew who was making the critical pitch? I sure think I would. Then again, I am not Mike Flipping Martz. The play by play guys mentioned it yesterday and I will say it again. We got OUT COACHED! It wasn’t an issue of player performance or lucky breaks or bad calls going against us. We were out coached. The game was lost on the sidelines. “So there was some confusion…” I bet there was. Confusion has become a way of life under this idiot. If you don’t think Martz should be fired, I don’t want to hear you bemoaning the fact that the Rams will be lucky to finish with a winning record and wont even be able to sniff the playoffs…

6 rushing attempts for 0 net yards in the first half… I cant count the number of times the announcers have mentioned that we are “1 Dimensional.” The defense which has been praised as “new and improved” has been owned by the Giants’ offense. Martz challenged an obvious TD catch which of course was upheld. I mean after watching Martz and the Rams for the past few years you start to expect these things and yet I cant help but be caught speechless when it happens time after time… of course we will get the “We’ll fix it” and for some strange reason most of St. Louis, including the ownership, will believe and accept that load of bull… Maybe I should become a bridge salesman…