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Do roosters still expand on or around September 1st? If so, why not try to slow play Dickerson. For example, engage him to entertain going on an 3 week "extended" rehab of sorts if and when he heals up. And even if an injury by somebody else does not materialize by September he still figures to be in better shape to contribute for even a late July or August return. Plus his money is spent no matter what the team does here.

Help me understand why Flahrety is starting in Memphis Wednesday and not St. Louis? They say they don’t want him to get hurt but won’t throwing 75 pitches in Memphis be just as harmful as 75 in Busch? The way he’s pitched his first two rehab starts seems like you’d want him in St. Louis even if he is on a strict pitch count.

Commish: Took in an International League game recently and the pitcher has 15 seconds to make his pitch with no one on base, 20 seconds with a runner on. So that rule definitely speeds up what the pitcher is doing. But I don't think games will get to 2.5 hours (except on get-a-way) day because batters look at so many pitches. Apparently the data is not available but it would be interesting to compare the number of pitches thrown in a game in the 1950's and 60's compared to today. An earlier chatter took offense to Yadi swinging at the first pitch. In Don Larsen's perfect game 4 or 5 Dodgers swung at the first pitch. I doubt if those batters were excoriated in the papers the next day. Back then it must have been OK to swing at a ripe pitch over the plate. Now batters take that pitch to work the count. Your comments?

If you could pick one former Cards position player & pitcher from the last 30 years to help this year's team, who would it be?

I thought that Knizner hit pretty well to start the year, when he was getting more playing time due to Yadi not being ready yet. I have the impression that as his playing time has gone down, his hitting has gone down also. Is this correct, or am I misremembering it?

Seems like the cards need some pitching help losing a few games now do to there top bullpen pieces being unavailable for that day. Would you rather see the cards get a starter or just get a late innings reliever in a trade?

Looks like Woodford had a strong outing in Memphis on Saturday. Does he get any chance to play again for the Cards? Or is he just SOL... even though he has done better than many of the current roster pitchers: McFad, Witt, Whitley, Ovi, Van, LIbby, Naugt, Matz.. this is a really long list.

So why did Carp never bunt for a hit here? 90% of the time there was no one on the 3rd base side of second base. He could have had multiple hits a game. He rarely tried. Bad coaching methinks.....looking at you Jeffrey!

They $ for Dickerson and Verhagen should have been used on Joe Kelly.