Horrible Trend in Game Shirt Wear

Everyone knows the Eighth of Dave's Commandments for the baseball fan. If not, familiarize thine self with it and the other nine presently as a quiz will be mailed to your domicile in the near future.

People of ignorance and rampant stupidity have always annoyed, nay, angered me by wearing jerseys adorned with there own surnames. Scroll through the photos from any Cardinals game for copious examples of this most heinous of game shirt crimes.

Lately, however, lower-rung members of Cardinal Nation have taken this Eighth Commandment breaking crap to a new, and horribly offensive level. These South City hoosiers are not only screen printing, sewing and scribbling their own names in red crayon on the back of their Sam's Club-purchased replica jerseys, they are placing them above the most hallowed of things - retired Cardinal numbers! It's true folks. I had to do a double take to believe my own eyes the first time, but it's true. Not only are they breaking one of the most sacred of commandments, they are also wiping their hairy, yellow butts with more than 120 years of Cardinal lore. It's wrong and they must be stopped.

See the visual proof below. It's going to be difficult for you. I warn you now. Once you've made it past the last photo, immediately run to the lavatory and vomit. It's the right, and only, thing to do. And once you've flushed away the poisonous fluids, write, email, Tweet and skywrite your elected officials and clergy to demand that these wrongs be corrected and subsequently punished!

Really, Bert? Dizzy is rolling over in Bond Cemetery as we speak.

The Wizard and Red should pummel you jokers with a fungo.

I couldn't let this one go with a simple caption. I tried, but I just couldn't. The baseball gods frowned upon me. So here is a wee bit 'o wrath, courtesy of Dave.

Hey, O'Rourke. A) You left the apostrophe out of your own name. Was cost a factor in that decision or was the personalized jersey guy at Johnny Mac's as appalled as I with your order and decided on sabotage? B) Double fail by desecrating a twice-retired number. For shame! What in Stan's holy name is wrong with you? Why don't you just shave Bruce's beard, drink a Milwaukee's Best and give Jackie Robinson the bird? Same thing.

Actually, what you did was worse. I pray for your eternal soul.