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I think he missed the mark with this. The Cardinal Way is an organizational blueprint. If he wanted to take people to task for misrepresenting what it is, I would've agreed with that, but he's basically griping about a successful marketing strategy.

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Bill McClellan talking about sports is bad.
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I think he missed the mark with this. The Cardinal Way is an organizational blueprint. If he wanted to take people to task for misrepresenting what it is, I would've agreed with that, but he's basically griping about a successful marketing strategy.

IDK. There are plenty of people who live here in Central Ill that believe that the Cardinals play with some sort of moral superiority or the right way. They run out grounders, dive after balls, hit behind runners and play clean. I think they have thought this way long before there was any marketing campaign.
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I think he missed the mark with this. The Cardinal Way is an organizational blueprint. If he wanted to take people to task for misrepresenting what it is, I would've agreed with that, but he's basically griping about a successful marketing strategy.

IDK. There are plenty of people who live here in Central Ill that believe that the Cardinals play with some sort of moral superiority or the right way. They run out grounders, dive after balls, hit behind runners and play clean. I think they have thought this way long before there was any marketing campaign.

That's how I took it. Living near St. Louis, I felt everybody took "The Cardinal Way" as moral superiority. I equated it with "Grit Factor".

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IDK. There are plenty of people who live here in Central Ill that believe that the Cardinals play with some sort of moral superiority or the right way. They run out grounders, dive after balls, hit behind runners and play clean. I think they have thought this way long before there was any marketing campaign.

 

Sure, but McClellan's point was that the Cardinals, their fans and the media should stop using the "Cardinal Way" because it's about morals and Carlos Martinez and Jhonny Peralta go against that. That's why I said I would have agreed with him had he set the record straight on what it really means (an organizational blueprint), rather than yelling at the media.

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@dsolzman @stltoday Bill McClellan needs to be fired.

 

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@Bill_McClellan Your dream that the Cards over due anything is way wrong. THE WAY BTW is contagious ever since JESUS CHRIST pitched it.

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AmosTheBeard ‏@DolphRudager 2h

@dsolzman @stltoday Bill McClellan needs to be fired.

 

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Valentino Martinez ‏@valentinoBenito 3m

@Bill_McClellan Your dream that the Cards over due anything is way wrong. THE WAY BTW is contagious ever since JESUS CHRIST pitched it.

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He could have just wrote, "Can we rid the Post-Dispatch of Bernie Miklasz?" That guy writes the bulk of this nonsense.

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He could have just wrote, "Can we rid the Post-Dispatch of Bernie Miklasz?" That guy writes the bulk of this nonsense.

Bernie's picture looks like he swallowed a canary

 

That's a big canary

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He could have just wrote, "Can we rid the Post-Dispatch of Bernie Miklasz?" That guy writes the bulk of this nonsense.

Bernie's picture looks like he swallowed a canary

 

That's a big canary

 

http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2012/10/barack-obama-releases-big-bird-themed-campaign-ad.jpg

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He could have just wrote, "Can we rid the Post-Dispatch of Bernie Miklasz?" That guy writes the bulk of this nonsense.

Bernie's picture looks like he swallowed a canary

 

That's a big canary

 

http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2012/10/barack-obama-releases-big-bird-themed-campaign-ad.jpg

Lol

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http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/bernie-miklasz/bernie-oscar-taveras-testing-cards-patience/article_73bb5a90-0c25-5a3e-9bd6-c8afbca9c06a.html

 

Sometimes, greatness is worth waiting for, and it’s advisable to remain patient. The Cardinals are probably reminding themselves of that as rookie hitting phenom Oscar Taveras tries to overcome anxiety to test his surgically repaired ankle in an exhibition game this spring.

 

“I think the hard thing when you’re labeled as a can’t-miss prospect, the expectations are so much higher for you,” Cards GM John Mozeliak said. “Not only are they extremely high for Oscar, but he’s so young. And you look at the success he had at the minor leagues, he really never hit a speed bump. And last year the only negative thing about his season was he got hurt. ‘Cause when he played, he performed very well. So being a perennial prospect is a blessing and a curse.

 

“At some point you want to lose the name ‘Prospect’ because you’re up competing at the major-league level. The other way you lose the ‘Prospect’ tag is you just go away. And I don’t think he’s that type of player.”

 

Taveras, who turns 22 in June, had his first season at Class AAA Memphis cut short by the ankle injury after only 186 plate appearances. The sprain was considered relatively minor at first, but the pain and discomfort lingered. Taveras was eventually shut down, and underwent surgery on his right ankle late last summer.

 

After a fall and winter of rehabbing the ankle, a rollout was planned for spring training, and Taveras was given the green light to participate in all baseball activities. Cleared to play in the games, he has yet to make an appearance. Instead the sensational hitter that Mozeliak compared to an ascendant Albert Pujols works on the back fields, taking it a step at a time, struggling to clear his doubts.

 

Physically, there is technically nothing wrong with Taveras. But he’s reluctant to let loose and go full speed. If there’s pain, it’s in his head. He’s apparently fearful of derailing his career by re-injuring the joint, and has favored the right leg while running the bases.

 

“That’s what we’re seeing,” Mozeliak said. “There is not a physical cause. It’s just more human nature — you want to pull back and not do something that you may feel is going to injure yourself.”

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He didn't get built like that eating Girl Scout Cookies.

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He didn't get built like that eating Girl Scout Cookies.

 

[expletive] swoon

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He didn't get built like that eating Girl Scout Cookies.

 

[expletive] swoon

 

I badly want him to be a Cub.

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I'll take Trout instead, thanks.

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