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Cardinal News, Items and Thoughts

Misc items related to the Birds:

 -  Erik Bedard is now on the DL , and reported to be out until mid-August at least.  This news would seem to put to rest any possibility of the Cards acquiring him, which may be a good thing.  Any possible AJ Burnett deal also appears to be dead.   From comments Mozeliak has made recently, it doesn't appear that any deal for a starting pitcher is on the radar.

 - When the Cardinals beat San Diego on Thursday behind 4 solo HRs (one by Ankiel, two by Glaus and one by Joe Mather), it marked only the second time in 50 years that the Cardinals scored 4 runs on four solos HRs.   The last time was April 14, 2001, with the HRs coming from Jim Edmonds, Bobby Bonilla, Albert Pujols and J.D.Drew.  The ironic twist??    The starting pitcher for the Cardinals that day......was Rick Ankiel.

New Cardinal Priority.....

I know I am going to be accused of over-reacting to a single game with this post, but after last night's debacle I have been giving this some thought, and I think the priority for Mozeliak should be the bullpen.  Forget more bats and more starting pitching......if this team is going to stay in the post-season race, the bullpen needs upgraded......and now.   Called on to protect a 10-4 lead in the 7th last night, the bullpen couldn't get it done.   It was an equal opportunity failure, though, as Ryan Franklin, Jason Isringhausen, Kyle McClellan and Chris Perez all threw gasoline on the Pirates' fire.

A Possible Trade?

Not a blogger, but since i figured this was long enough i copied and pasted it from a post I made on the T&R about Tony "calling out" GM John Mozeliak.

"Mozeliak is no schmo off the street, he's very similar to Walt especially in the way he adresses the media, remember he was basically Walt's apprentice so odds are he's already out their shopping. Now we do have an excess of OF and Anderson isn't going to be taking Yadi's spot so Mather and Anderson going elswhere could happen, and dont forget... if it's an American League team looking for pop in the order Duncan has been better of late and with him as a DH he could focus fully on his hitting and not worry about the OF.