The Angel Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks — Jack Clark and His Comment about Albert Pujols

By Scott A. Andresen   Queen Gertrude’s paraphrased line from Hamlet (III, ii, 239) seems a perfect title for this article as it has been used as a figure of speech to indicate that a person's vehement attempts to convince others of something have ironically helped to convince others that the opposite is true by making the person look insincere and overly-defensive.   Our current rendition of Hamlet began on August 2, 2012 on St. Louis sports talk radio show “The King and the Rippe