La Russa asks Cards fans to be nice to playoff goat Matt Holliday

ST. LOUIS — Unlike most men in his line of work, Tony La Russa also earned a law degree. It's helpful, theoretically, in making sound arguments with umpires.La Russa does share another, much more useful side discipline with other baseball managers: Psychology. He's Carl Jung good at it. On Friday, La Russa said he wants St. Louis fans to help him massage the psyche of Matt Holliday(notes), who was victimized — by the lights, or the white towels, or the moment — in the bottom of the ninth inning of Thursday night's devastating Game 2 playoff loss against the Dodgers.Hey, Cardinals fans felt victimized, too. One catch away from their team breaking even in the NLDS, their hearts were broken by an excruciating ninth-inning horror show. Realizing this, La Russa politely offered a preemptive block for anybody wanting to boo or otherwise harass Holliday when his name is called in Game 3 at Busch Stadium on Saturday night.Taking the form of a latter-day Jack Bu...