STL Today: O’Neill: Visiting Mets still have the aroma of Pond Scum

But some major triploid grass carping by O’Neill will clean it up pronto!

Those days are gone, a byproduct of realignment that has the Mets in the East and the Cardinals in the Central. But it’s still easy to work up a dislike for anyone and anything that comes from the self-absorbed Big Apple. So for you fans who need motivation, here are some current reasons to dislike the visiting Metropolitans.

...The Curse of Keith: The Cardinals have not won a World Series since 1982, or since they traded Keith Hernandez to the Mets in the 1983 season. If you scramble the names of the people involved in the trade - Rick Wayne Ownbey, Neil Patrick Allen and Keith Hernandez, you can spell “Won’t Win Any,” or “Won’t Catch Any Break.”

You can also spell “Draw Another Beer.” - not sure about the significance of that.

Thanks to Can’t Stop the Bleeding.