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November 18, 2009 - St. Louis sportswriter Jeff Gordon reacts to the news that both Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright were passed over for the Cy Young award in favor of 15 game winner Tim Linececum.
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File photo—Kansas City Royals pitcher Brad Thompson, center, sells newspapers outside a nickel theater in St. Louis, July 14, 2009. The Indians won 3-1 in fifteen reels.
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Joe Jackson
Nothing exemplifies the Hot Stove season quite like worrying about the Rule 5 draft. Most of the players don't stick it out all year; most of the ones that do are eventually traded for Ronnie Belliard or Blaine Boyer ; and most of the time it would be completely absurd to spend time thinking ...
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Ferris wheels still cheer me up.
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I'm sitting in my living room staring out on a grey and very nasty November morning. Ordinarily, I welcome such inclement weather; I usually love ...
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I got this in the mail last night, and I think it's worth a post. I'll turn this over to VEB-er MikeJGolde, the responsible party:
I took apart Carpenter's (awful) article about Wainwright and reconstructed it into something more appropriate.
His work of art follows the ...
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by Jeff Roberson - AP
Just in case somebody asks you to pick him out of a police lineup, this is Chris Coghlan.
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At the P-D they're taking good advantage of the Cardinals ' dual Cy Young candidates, as they've gotten both Wainwright and Carpenter on record as being Spartacus. (I would have liked one more, maybe PINEIRO: Why Joel Pineiro should win the Cy Young.)
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David DeJesus
The CHONE projection system, created by Sean Smith of THT , FanGraphs and Anaheim Angels all the Way , we're recently released to the public. They are generally considered the best system out there, and has been the most accurate since 2005 in terms of projection team ...
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Chone Figgins
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by Mark J. Terrill - AP
Mark Loretta? REALLY?!?!?!?!!!!!
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This year Ryan Franklin was an enigma. Thanks to a nifty .269 BABIP ...
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Ryan Franklin
St. Louis Cardinals Reliever Ryan Franklin enjoys an off-season snowstorm while vacationing at the War Drobe Mountain Lodge in Spare Oom, Colorado on November 8, 2009.
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by M. Spencer Green - AP
The part of John Mozeliak will be played by John Turturro.
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Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd Pts
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Tim Lincecum
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Chris Carpenter
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Adam Wainwright
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Javier Vazquez
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vivaelbirdos.com - 8 days ago
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More photos » AP Whitey Herzog will be
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winter. I ignored this bit of news in favour of complete rambling nonsense. ...
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Your Type A and B free agents for the 2009-2010 Hot Stove season:
TYPE A
Matt Holliday : This seems pretty obvious. Bad news: the Mets , Holliday's current Media Suitor of choice, have a protected first rounder in 2010, leaving the Cardinals stuck with a second rounder should ...
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I'm going to be honest—the ballots went out a while ago, and until I got the results back I was relatively sure I voted for Cullerton Rasputin, at least in third place. His name must have slipped my mind.
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Tommy Hanson
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vivaelbirdos.com - 11 days ago
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You shoulda come to the first party—we didn't
get home 'til around four in the morning. I
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Signing Most-Valuable Players
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Tony La Russa, right, is about to give a very awkward acceptance speech. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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by Morry Gash - AP
Brendan Ryan: the 2009 Cardinals honorary hacker of the year.
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I just saw "Men who Stare at Goats" last night. ...
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La Russter's Millions
