It’s a sad day, Cardinal Nation. While scouring Twitter yesterday for any St. Louis Cardinals’ Spring Training news, I came across news that one of the big pieces of the 2011 World Series winning Cardinals has decided to retire.
That’s right. Former Cardinals utility man Nick Punto, A.K.A. — “Shredder” — is hanging up his cleats. To me, it seems that Punto missed a golden opportunity in how he could have announced his retirement — a video telling the world and then shredding his A’s jersey before signing off. That would have been quite epic.