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[thesightless]

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there are about 20+ MLB teams that will give him 12mill.......

the only ones who wouldnt go to him i can think of right now are

yanks, mets, cubs, arizona, philly, and detroit, oh yeah, atlanta

[Jenks]

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i'd really like to see Edmonds back, but the 12million dollar option on his contract is going to make that VERY difficult.

[thesightless]

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i tell ya, i like/hate some of the team. i hate pooholes.. but this picture really made me smile. so glad to see jimmy get it... what a hard nosed player, never opens his mouth, stays clean on and off the feild, and IMHO, you just cant hate the guy.

[Jenks]

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We are on top of our game!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/ap_on_re_us/city_crime_list

[toasty]

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At the risk of stating the obvious, I had quite a night. You could literally feel the upper decks of the stadium moving from everyone jumping around towards the end of the game. Just an unreal experience!!

Gotta go back to bed now and hopefully get rid of this hangover. Well worth every Advil I take today, tho...

[Kobe]

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congrats, way to go NL.

[superdave]

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Congratulations to St. Louis! I'm an Astros fan, but was glad to see the Cards win. They may be an Astros rival, but I respect their team. I'm also glad to see the National League finally beat the American League. The previous two World Series were American Leagues sweeps and we kept hearing about the big superiority of the AL. I still think the AL is a better league, but hopefully we're starting to see it even up with the Cards win.

As for the game itself, that Pujols defensive play throwing out the runner on his back was awesome. And why the hell didn't Kenny Rogers pitch for Detroit?

[Jenks]

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[Jibgolly]

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congratulations st louis. your team played hard. jenks and toast, dont get DUI's tonight mmmkay.

[toasty]

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OK, another weather report from the Lou. Although it's still pretty crappy right now, we're on the back end of a system that should be past us here in the pretty near future, and the heavy stuff is well past us. The intel right now is that it might be a little bit late, but they're playing tonight...

[rewing3]

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Go Tigers. Hopefully they can pull one out tonight to make the series go back to detroit.

[Garrick]

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so i'm going to have to settle for a shitty friday night college football game tonight... oh well. if it lets chris pitch in the next game, thats fine by me.

[Jenks]

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man, this game isn't getting played tonight imo. still just down right nasty outside, and spoke with my guys west, and it's nasty and raining there too...all coming this way.

[Garrick]

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woo, i'm back! philadelphia is cold!

glad to see the cardinals putting up a great fight in the WS this year. makes me feel better that the astros took a close second in that division. and the weather, imo, can only help the cardinals. so if it rains, you might even be able to start carpenter tomorrow. that would be wonderful for st. louis.

[toasty]

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if you're at home and up to it when the Cards play again, 550 KTRS streams Shannon's broadcast online. http://www.ktrs.com/

Mike Shannon rules after a budweiser or ten. He might take some getting used to for out of towners, but around here he's pretty much a legend. I was driving in from out of town last night while the game was ppd, and Mike's broadcast was still running, because they didn't know when if the game was going to start or not, so he basically told old baseball stories for a few hours. All his times with Kofax, Gibson, staying out really late on game nights getting lit...It was awesome. He gets all giggly about old time baseball. Shannon is a throwback.

Had someone forward me this list of Shannonisms, seemed apropos to share it here:

* "This big standing-room only crowd is settling into their seats."
* "It's raining like a Chinese fire drill!"
* (After Brian Jordan was hit by a pitch for the 4th time on a single road trip):
"Jordan must feel like a Ouija Board."
* (Referring to Bernard Gilkey):
"He was originally born in University City."
"He's faster than a chicken being chased by Ronald McDonald!"
* (Referring to Mike Schmidt):
"the longtime, and soon-to-be, Hall-of-Famer."
* (Referring to Hideo Nomo):
"He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since they dropped the bomb on Nagashima!"
* "This game is off to a rather conspicuous start, don't you think. Jack?"
* "Well, folks, this game began as a tiny worm, and is blossoming into a large cobra."
* "That foul tip bounced up and caught him right in the groins...and that'll really clear your eyes out."
* "A hit up the middle right now would be like a nice ham sandwich and a cold, frosty one."
* (Broadcasting from New York under a full moon):
"I wish you folks back in St. Louis could see this moon."
* (On the day before Easter):
"I just want to tell everyone 'Happy Easter and Happy Hanukkah.'"
* "Things are not always as they appear to be as."
* "Well, he did everything right to get ready for the throw, but if ya ain't got the hose, the water just won't come out."
* "Our next homestand follows this road trip."
* (Referring to a home run by Ted Simmons):
"and that's the bread on Simmons' butter."
* "The right-hander is throwing up (instead of 'up, throwing') in the bullpen."
* "I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world...except China where they have all those derelicts."
After a pause, Joe Buck suggested that Mike has meant to say "dialects." Mike responded, "Yeah, dialects! That's what I mean...but they've got a lot of derelicts too!"
* "He ran to second faster than a cat in Chinatown."
* "I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it."
* "Don't bite off your head to spite your nose."
* Joe: "Mike, the Cardinals would like to welcome a group of 19 French foreign exchange students in Section 382."
Mike: "Where're they from, Joe?"
Joe: "Uhh, France, I think."
* A couple of years back, Mike and Joe were discussing the unflattering photographs of players that had been flashed on the screen at another ballpark. Mike's take on the quality of the photo selection was:
"Some of those guys look like the picture was taken while they were seeing their first UFO."
After several seconds of laughter, Joe added, "As opposed to their second or third."
* "The wind switched 360 degrees."
* "Boy, a cold, frosty Budweiser would be great about now"...long pause...then an "ahhh"
* Mike's classic: "Ol' Abner Doubleday has done it again."
* "It's raining so hard I thought it was going to stop."
* "The crowd's on their feet for the Canadian Star Bangled Banner."
* "Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch."