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The Teams Of MY LIFETIME: The St. Louis Cardinals Edition

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I Had A Recent Conversation In Which The Other Person Told Me About Having Made-Out A Lineup Card Based Solely On The Players He Had Actually SEEN PLAY LIVE During His Young Lifetime.

I Found The Subject FASCINATING, As I’d Been Considering Doing A Blog Posting On That Very Topic.

I Can’t Emphasize Enough That This Listing Isn’t Necessarily THE BEST PLAYERS At Their Positions From Their Era…

…But It’s A List Of MY FAVORITE PLAYERS At Their Positions During The Era Of My Young Lifetime.

I Was Born In 1980…

…But Truly Began To Embrace Professional Baseball In 1985.

I’ve Split It Into TWO Lineups.

My “A-SQUAD” And My “B-SQUAD” If You So Choose To See It That Way.

And…

…Since I Know My ST. LOUIS CARDINALS Better Than Any Other Major League Team…

…I Felt They Were THE Place To Begin This Little Romp For Me.

So…

…Here We Go.

LINEUP #1

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1B

JACK “The Ripper” CLARK

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2B

TOMMY HERR

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3B

TODD ZEILE

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SS

OZZIE “The Wizard” SMITH

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C

DARRELL PORTER

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LF

RAY LANKFORD

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CF

JIM “Jimmy Baseball” EDMONDS

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RF

LARRY WALKER

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LINEUP #2

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1B

JOHN MABRY

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2B

FERNANDO VINA

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3B

TERRY PENDLETON

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SS

DAVID ECKSTEIN

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C

MIKE MATHENY

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LF

VINCE COLEMAN

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CF

WILLIE McGEE

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RF

“Hard Hittin'” MARK WHITTEN

(Aka "The Tragedy That Was Mark Whitten"

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Since Any True Baseball Person Knows…

…The Team Doesn’t Function Without…

THE BULLPEN CATCHER

.Period.

So, In This Role, I’m Gonna Go Ahead And Slot In:

C

TOM PAGNOZZI

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As For PITCHERS, I’ve Made It A Short-List.

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SP

JOHN TUDOR

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SP

CHRIS CARPENTER

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SP

ADAM WAINWRIGHT

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SP

MATT MORRIS

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SP

BOB TEWKSBURY

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RP

TODD WORRELL

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CLOSER

LEE SMITH

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How’s THAT For A Little List Of Personal Favorites?

I Can’t Tell You How Much Fun I Had Putting This Little Number Together.

I Simply Didn’t Know Any Other Way Of Doing It Up Than To Just DO IT UP, Ya Know!?!

I’m Sure There Will Be Comments…

…Concerns…

…Arguments…

…Pats-On-The-Back…

…Finger-Wags Of ALL Sorts…

etc etc etc

JUST REMEMBER, Kiddies…

…These Are The Heroes Of My Youth.

When Going To The Ballpark Was The Biggest Deal EVER!

The 1980s AND 1990s Were HUGE For Baseball AND Bradley.

And It’s Carried On.

It’s Been A Long-Term Love-Affair…

…That’s Continued On And On And On…

…Right To This Very Day.

And I’m VERY SURE It’s Going To Continue For A Long-Time To Come!!!

Hope Ya Liked This One, My Peeps!!!

I SURE DID!!!

(hehehehehehehe)

😀

MY 6 All-Time-Faves Of BASEBALL: EPISODE #1: Starting Pitchers

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Shall We Begin???

Then LET’S DO IT, My Peeps!!!

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#1#

BRET SABERHAGEN

Played From 1984 To 2001

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#2#

CHRIS CARPENTER

Played From 1997 To Present

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#3#

GREG MADDUX

Played From 1986 To 2008

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#4#

JACK MORRIS

Played From 1977 To 1994

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#5#

DAVID CONE

Played From 1986 To 2003

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#6#

ADAM WAINWRIGHT

Played From 2005 To Present

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#Honorable Mention#

MATT MORRIS

Played From 1997 To 2008

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That Was Kinda Fun, Actually.

We’ll Have To Do That One Again Sometime.

Stay Tuned For Future Episodes…

Same BRAD Time…

Same BRAD Channel…

😉

😀

Yeah… Well… I Ain’t Ready To Call It “A Season”… yet.

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Pujols decision can wait for Cardinals

(Pieces Of The Article) By R.B. FALLSTROM, AP Sports Writer —

Albert Pujols tried to give away nothing during the celebration, tried to stay in the moment. But what a moment it was.

Getting another taste of that championship feeling surely will tip the scales in favor of the St. Louis Cardinals at least a little bit when it comes time to talk contract.

“Obviously, right now a lot of things go through my head and thinking about the whole season,” Pujols said at the podium after the Cardinals won their 11th World Series.

“Probably like two or three weeks from now, that’s when I’m really going to be sitting down and saying, ‘Wow, where we were, and now we’re the 2011 World Champions.’ It’s unbelievable.”

What remained of Friday after the Cardinals finished off the Texas Rangers in Game 7 was for savoring one of the most unlikely comebacks in major league history. Hundreds of fans peacefully roamed the downtown streets well into the night.

“Truly a dream come true,” manager Tony La Russa said. “It’s hard to really imagine it actually happened.”

On Sunday, the team will bask in adulation once again with a victory parade scheduled for late afternoon. In 2006, the team estimated between 300,000 and a half-milllion people lined the streets.

Five players remain from 2006, when the Cardinals backed into the postseason as an 83-win team and then got hot when key players got healthy. Pujols, Yadier Molina, Skip Schumaker, and Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright remain from that team, which also was lightly regarded.

Can’t top 2011.

“This team is unbelievable,” Carpenter said after beating the Rangers for the second time. “Most amazing team I’ve ever been a part of.”—

 

 

Yeah. I Think We’ll Take That.

Nice Way To Make It All Official.

Following Sunday’s Parade, I Suppose We’ll Have To Call It “A Season”.

It’s Going To Be A Damn Loooooooooooong, Coooooooooooooooooold, Winter.

However, I Do SOOOOOOOOO Love Spring-Time In The Midwest.

I’m Already Looking Forward To MANY MANY MANY Rounds of Mock-Drafting In Preparation For The Ole 2012 Campaign.

I Do Promise To Not Stay Away Tooooo Long, Tho.

How Would The Baseball World Function Without Me?

Parrish The Thought, Eh!?!?!

EXACTLY MY POINT!

😉

Just Some Of The Headlines Floating About The Cyber-World…

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Carpenter sets tone in Cardinals’ Game 7 clincher

After coming so close, Rangers fall short again

 

Hometown boy David Freese is MVP of World Series

 

Cards win World Series, beat Texas 6-2 in Game 7

 

'Nuff 'Ced!

 

If Jaime Wins Game 6 Tonight… Yep… Carp Gets The Ball For GAME 7! ! !

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I’ve waited allllllll year to see this.

Now, we’re down to The Last Two Games of 2011.

PERIOD.

The Cardinals MUST MUST MUST WIN BOTH!

PERIOD PERIOD.

—“I was told by Carp that he would be ready to go,” said Cardinals’ Manager Tony La Russa. “I think I mentioned to somebody he’s very competitive, and he’d pitch Game 7 had we played today. I don’t think that’ll change tomorrow if we win.”

 

“You can’t look for Game 7 before you look at Game 6,” said The Cards Albert Pujols.  “I bet you the players aren’t thinking about that. Our job is to be ready to face whoever is on the mound.”

 

“We’ve got to get to (Game) 7,” said La Russa.—

 

DAMN SKIPPY, BOYS!

We Only Get 7 Chances (at most) to Win The World Series.

The Cardinals Know It.

The Rangers Know It.

We All Know It.

SO LET’S GET IT ON, MY PEEPS!!!

WOOT WOOT WOOT!