St. Louis Cardinals Wives and Girlfriends (WAGS)
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- Fast Facts: On Friday, November 11th, Mike Matheny was notified that he was being hired as the manager of the World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals, replacing Tony LaRussa, with one caveat. He could tell no one until his introductory press conference the following Monday.
Matheny's already broken one rule.
With his wife sitting next to him when the news came in, he had no choice but to text the mother of his five children(daughter Katie, and sons, Tate, Luke, Jacob and Blaise) with the news. Though on second thought, maybe texting someone didn't violate the rule handed down from GM John Mozeliak.
Mike and Kristin were varsity athletes at the University of Michigan, with Kristin playing field hockey. The couple was married in 1993.
- Quote: Matheny's playing career ended in 2006 following post concussion related issues. Matheny, who was then with the Giants, spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle about his wife's guiding hand through his recovery.
"My wife is very concerned. She knows what I will play through more than anybody else. She knows the things I've been blessed enough to play through that I don't know if other people would play through or not. I think she's afraid I'm going to do that with this. She's being very smart to let me know we have to take this slow, and she's right, but every day it's harder for me because there have been things worse than this to play through."
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- After a world series title with the St. Louis Cardinals (and turning in an arguably MVP performance in the process), the excitement doesn't end there for Allen Craig. On November 12, 2011, just two weeks after the end of the World Series, Allen Craig will marry his long-time girlfriend Marie LaMarca. Allen Craig met Marie LaMarca while they both attended Chaparral High School in Temecula, CA around 2002 when Allen was a senior. The couple is registered at Macy's and, despite our numerous past posts regarding athletes and wedding registries, we will avoid the subject this time around.
Allen Craig and his wife-to-be Marie LaMarca have had a tortoise for five years now. No big deal right? Well, it wasn't - until a fake Twitter account was started for Torty the Tortoise and the team began to adopt Torty was an informal mascot of sorts. Based on the content of the Tweets, the safe bet is that someone else on the team created and runs the account, though no one is saying for certain. Though Allen Craig hasn't exactly embraced the whole situation, we get the feeling that he isn't arguing with the outcome. Craig said of the situation "It kind of just got out and now it's a huge deal. But it's fun and whatever it takes to keep the team close is fine with me". No word on whether the Red Sox will attempt to embrace one of their pets, perhaps a gerbil, as an informal mascot in an attempt to win another World Series get back to the playoffs.
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As we have proven time and time again, we here at PlayerWives.com make it a big priority to keep the public informed in such times of distress. That being said, we have noticed a disturbing trend lately and wanted to shed some light on the situation. Many of our competitors, admittedly those with far less journalistic integrity, have put up posts recently about David Freese's Wife or David Freese's Girlfriend.
These websites know you are watching the World Series. They know you saw David Freese hit a homerun in the 11th inning of game 6 to force a World Series Game 7 and give the Cardinals a chance at another championship. These websites are seeing the fact that you're searching Google for "David Freese's wife" and "David Freese's girlfriend". They know that you want to know if David Freese is married or if he is dating.
Trouble is, David Freese has neither a wife nor a girlfriend. David Freese isn't married and, from what we can tell, he isn't dating either.
We can say this definitively with 95% certainty, because we actually do our research quite thoroughly. We take pride in that and do our best not to post conjecture and unsubstantiated hype. When the Cardinals win the World Series tonight and David Freese is named MVP, don't buy into the hype that these other websites are selling you. PlayerWives.com will never lead you astray (unless Texas wins the World Series, in which case, we just led you astray).
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- Time Together: Kyle Loshe met the former Gabrielle (Gaby) Vernier while attending Butte College in northern California. They have two children together, son Kameron, and daughter Alexis.
Gabrielle has been involved in various charitable endeavors, including modeling for a fashion show benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and making appearances with Kyle at various Children's hospitals.
Beyond that, our research has pulled up very little on the couple. They own homes in Florida and Arizona, and appear to have never claimed their 2009 FL tax refund. Interesting, huh?
I know this picture doesn't do her justice, and feel the need to make a public correction. The only other picture we've ever found online proves that Mrs. Lohse is a bonafide smokeshow, though we are not able to post it here. Trust us on this one,... this is an all day long 10.
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- Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals Tony LaRussa and his wife Elaine LaRussa are huge animal nuts. No, you don't get it. We mean HUGE animal nuts. To the point where they have a rabbit, five dogs, five mice, and fourteen cats at their home in Alamo, CA. Huge to the point where they actually started a 37,000 square foot no-kill shelter called Animal Rescue Foundation. Huge to the point where Tony, Elaine and their daughters (Bianca Tai, a cheerleader for the Raiders, and Devon Kai) appeared together on an Animal Planet show called... wait for it... Housecat Housecalls. Ya, it does sound like something akin to the Bunny Ranch, but I digress.
After his playing career, which was never very successful, was over, Tony became manager of the Chicago White Sox Doube-A affiliate, but not before actually passing the bar exam after attending law school at Florida State University's School of Law. Elaine has actually said that she thought she was marrying a lawyer, not a manager. In 1979, when his wife Elaine (actually his second wife) was mere weeks away from having their first child, the White Sox offered Tony the big league job. Elaine, despite the pending child, encouraged Tony to take the job. He did take the job, becoming the became the youngest active manager in the bigs, at 34 - never to actually practice law.
Tony and Elaine (sounds like an aunt and uncle that everyone has) started the Animal Rescue Foundation in 1991 after a cat somehow managed to wander on to the field in the middle of a game that Tony was managing. LaRussa somehow was able to capture safely contain the animal in the dugout. After attempting to leave the animal with a local shelter, he was abhorred to discover that they would likely kill the animal. He and his wife kept the cat but used the experience as a jumping off point to start their own no-kill shelter.
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- Time Together: Jason and Caitlin met in the summer of 2008, while both were employees of the Memphis Redbirds; Jason was pitching for the club while Caitlin was working in the marketing department. After two years of dating, Jason Motte married his girlfriend Caitlin Motte nee Doyle on November 20, 2010. The ceremony and reception were held in Memphis, TN. Motte had bullpenmates Kyle McClellan and Mitchell Boggs as groomsmen. Motte was given the chance to repay the favor to Boggs, serving in his wedding just 3 weeks later.
Caitlin is a 2007 graduate of Mississippi College. She still works in the Memphis area where she met Jason, as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at St. Benedict at Auburndale.
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- Hometown: after meeting in high school, Yadier Molina married the former Wanda Torres in 2007. The couple lives in Caseyville, IL during the baseball season and Vega Alta, Puerto Rico during the offseason. They have two children together; son Yanuell born in October 20, and daughter Arianna born on July 4, 2010.
- Fun Facts: In 2010. Yadier's brother Bengie was mocked by ESPN's Sportscenter for the length of time it took him to round the bases, while taking a couple jabs at his weight in the process. This time, however, it crossed the line for the normally reserved Bengie. On his own MLB sponsored blog, Bengie wrote about his treatment (and I swear this addresses what this has to do with Wanda...):
“I know I'm a public figure and I just have to take my lumps. But I would like those people at ESPN who, from a safe distance, make fun of players for a cheap laugh, to remember that players are actual people. With wives and mothers and fathers and children and brothers and sisters. My mother saw the clip. She doesn't speak English so she asked (brother and St. Louis catcher) Yadier (Molina)'s wife what the announcer was saying. Yadier's wife didn't want to tell her. My mom was pretty upset. She didn't understand why they were making fun of my running when there are so many other things I do every day to help the team win. I told her I didn't understand it, either."
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