[picappgallerysingle id="9379347"]Does Tony LaRussa really think hitting the stage with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin isn’t political?

“I made it clear when we were approached: I said, ‘If it’s political, I wouldn’t even approach Albert with it.’ I don’t want to be there if it’s political.  I don’t know who’s going to be there, who’s going to accept it. But the gist of the day is not political. I think it’s a really good concept, actually.”

Glenn Beck is “restoring honor”.  And, he’s doing it on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the same date that Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.  Beck says his ”honor” gathering on this day at this site was an “accident“.    So, we are to believe that Beck is absent-mindedly stupid?

I get that the St. Louis Cardinals are conveniently in Washington to play the Nationals.  Tony LaRussa is a good baseball manager.  Albert Pujols is a baseball player who doesn’t need to put his name with controversy.  He already must fight off suggestions that his “youngest t0 400 home runs” feat is possibly tainted with performance-enhanceing drugs.  Why would these two baseball names put themselves on-stage with Beck and Palin?  Play baseball.  Leave the political arena to the numbskulls that already dominate it.