Former Cardinals Media Rep Dubs Angels New 'Evil Empire'

As Tom Hanks‘ character Jimmy Dugan famously bellows in A League of Their Own, there’s no crying in baseball! Nor, on the real-life flip side many decades later, much superstar player loyalty.

Reacting to the news that the Los Angeles Angels have snagged Albert Pujols away from the St. Louis Cardinals, Jeff Grant, a former media relations rep with the 2011 World Series champs, chimes in at BleacherReport.com under a headline that suggests the Halo’s are now a worthy heir to the Yankees’ “evil empire” throne:

Being a Southern California native and having experienced life in the St.

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