STL Today: Dan McLaughlin to return?

Everybody deserves a third shot

chance.

It appears that Dan McLaughlin will find out if he’ll be back in the Cardinals’ TV booth in the next week or so. And while his return looked like a long shot in the weeks shortly after he was arrested in late September on his second drunken driving charge in 13 months, all indications now are that he has a good chance of being retained.

Fox Sports Midwest general manager Jack Donovan was extremely angry when he found out about the latest of those arrests and immediately suspended McLaughlin, although the move was mostly symbolic because he already had finished his Cards schedule and had no other FSM assignments pending.

...Second, working in McLaughlin’s favor is that he has been extremely up front about his situation, not holding back about criticizing himself in a recent STLtoday.com interview when he addressed his troubles and seemed sincere.

“I’m an alcoholic, and I’m not ashamed to say that because I needed help in a bad way,’’ he said in that conversation. “Through what’s happened, it’s turning my life around. That’s the truth.’‘