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Report: Cardinals Won't Re-sign Paul Goldschmidt · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What's up, everybody? Charlie Marlow here got to jump
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  on, talk a little Cardinals talk about this news.
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  Katie Wu of The Athletic, who does such a great job covering
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  the Cardinals reporting that the Cards are not expected to bring
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  back Paul Goldschmidt, according to multiple league sources she
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  writes. And I think this is good news.
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  It's bittersweet because, look, everybody likes or loves Paul
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  Goldschmidt. Great guy, great teammate, great
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  baseball player. Hall of Famer probably or darn
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  close to it. Borderline.
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  I haven't even looked up his his numbers in a while career, but
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  he's Dang close. If not a Hall of Fame baseball
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  player, but also look 37 years old just turned.
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  So if you were to say sign into one of these two year extensions
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  that the Cardinals often give to aging players, especially guys
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  they really like, like a Paul Goldschmidt, who they do like,
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  and they should because he's a great guy, as I said.
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  So basically you'd be getting Paul Goldschmidt for his age, 37
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  and 38 seasons and he would turn 39 at the end of that second
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  year if you were to give him a contract extension.
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  I think this is the way the Cardinals need to start doing
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  business. Look, Paul Goldschmidt, he may
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  go somewhere else for the next couple years.
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  He might be really good next year even.
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  But it's not a good value play in my opinion.
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  It it's not, it's not a good bet for whatever type of money he's
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  going to make. Look, he's making $26 million a
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  year right now. What's he going to sign for for
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  a two year deal? Is he going to get, is he going
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  to get 35,000,000 for, for two years, right?
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  He's not going to get 26. Look, his his numbers are
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  falling off a couple years ago, go back to 2022.
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  He wins the MVP with the Cardinals.
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  Unbelievable. OPS plus that year I think was
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  171. Correct me on that.
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  I believe something something like that, right?
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  Something crazy. And then last year, OPS plus, I
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  just looked this up, was 120, so a big drop off, but that's still
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  20% above league average for a guy at the time who's 3536 years
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  old. This year, you've seen a big
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  drop off. I just checked, 97 OPS plus.
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  So we're talking basically right there at league average or
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  slightly below for a guy who just turned 37 years old.
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  But the kicker is he's making $26 million.
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  Look, you can you can be a league average player if you're
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  25 years old and you're making 6700 K per year.
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  But I just don't think it made sense for the Cardinals to bring
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  him back at a high number when he's clearly on the decline due
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  to age. Father Time is undefeated and
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  also This is why going back to even last year, I didn't think
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  the idea of the Cardinals trading Paul Goldschmidt at the
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  deadline was that crazy. But I knew they weren't going to
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  do it because the Cardinals never do things like that.
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  But look at positionally, I don't know if Jordan Walker is
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  going to be an outfielder long term.
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  The dude's 6 foot, what is he, 6667?
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  Probably eventually can walk around at 270, whatever it is,
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  and carry that weight well. Is he going to be a right
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  fielder for his career? Is he going to be a first
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  baseman? Maybe he'll be a first baseman.
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  I don't know. How about Alec Burleson can
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  surely play first base. So you have some other guys,
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  excuse me, who can play first base?
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  Also, even a Nolan Gorman. Could Nolan Gorman play first
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  base? Here's the guy who came up as a
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  third baseman and then he's a second baseman.
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  I mean, surely if you can play third, you can play second.
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  You can play first base. A guy like Brendan Donovan can
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  play first base. I know you don't want him to be
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  your everyday first baseman. You like him as the Super
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  utility guy. I'm just saying the Cardinals
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  have options at first base. Getting back to Katie Wu, by the
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  way, who reported and broke this story about Goldie, but also her
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  article that came out on Friday, which was really interesting.
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  I mean, pretty, pretty scathing indictment of the Cardinals lack
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  of development in the minor leagues.
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  And you saw that John Mosaic and Michael Gersh did not comment,
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  but there was there was quotes from anonymous sources within
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  the front office. And so look, the Cardinals
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  realize they need a full overhaul top down.
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  And really, if you think about it, it's more it's more bottom
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  up than top down. And I say that because it starts
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  at the minor league levels. And so they have to make sure
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  that they can compete in terms of of the arm race, the arms
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  race of ideas and technology and scouting and coordinators.
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  And they need to be there on the same level as these teams,
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  whether it's the Rays, the Dodgers, the Brewers.
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  If you read that article right, the Cardinals have been
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  underfunded in the last several years when it comes to that,
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  that Cardinal way, that George Kissell way that we're all used
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  to because the Cardinals were putting more of their money into
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  the Major League payroll, which hasn't worked out either.
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  The Cardinals in free agency under John Mosaic, they have.
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  They have not been that great at all.
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  Now look this past year, Sonny Gray, you like that go a couple
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  years ago, I mean Wilson Contreras, even Lance Lynn, Cal
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  Gibson, you you like what they brought to the table once they
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  signed him. I I think the argument was more
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  so don't sign both Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson, but I'm talking
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  historically. If you just go to the Dexter
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  Fowlers and the Mike Leakes of the world and the Carpenter
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  extension and this Miles Michaelis extension, and I'm
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  missing some other folks as well.
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  But spending in free agency has not been the Cardinals strength,
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  which is why they need to develop from within.
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  And that's when they were great under Luna and Mosaic and all
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  those great drafts and O 9. And then you saw 11 to 15, the
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  fruits of all that the Cardinals had so many homegrown grown
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  guys, so many homegrown pitchers and we're not seeing that
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  anymore. So I think the Cardinals are are
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  finally they're being forced to change because last year was so
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  terrible. This year, whatever, they're
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  going to end up slightly above 500.
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  But Cardinals fans are also pissed.
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  You can tell not showing up. No 3 million fans, not even
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  close. That's No 3 million tickets
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  sold. We all know that there is way
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  fewer people actually in terms of butts in the seats.
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  But I think the article that came out Friday and then this
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  news on Goldie, the Cardinals are are basically realizing that
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  we have to change, right? We can't just give every player
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  we like a free two year extension at the end, whether
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  that was Carp or Michaelis and everything at the end with
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  Wayno. Wayno was pretty good until that
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  final year where he was terrible.
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  But like the legacy deals, we need to end that.
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  So times they are a change. And what do you think about
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  about all this news, not just Goldie, but what came out in
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  Katie Woo's article Friday where, look, it looks like the
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  Cardinals are are going to take a step back philosophically,
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  they've already taken a step back the last couple years in
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  terms of wins and losses in the standings.
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  But it seems like the next year or so now, look, we're going to
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  regroup. We're going to start at the
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  minor league level. So you wonder, you wonder in
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  terms of trades if you're really not going to try to win next
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  year. Now, I don't think they'll go
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  full tank mode, But but who also could be moved?
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  Just think about knowing Coronado making a ton of money,
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  not as productive. Would you have to eat some of
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  that salary to move him? Is Sunny Gray on the table?
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  I mean, do you want to do you want to just strip it down and
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  be bad next year? I really don't think that's the
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  Cardinals MO. Maybe they should do that.
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  Fans will be pissed. Fans are already pissed.
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  Let me rephrase that. Would you guys actually be
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  pissed because some of you have been asking for the tear down
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  going back to the trade deadline?
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  Hey, let's let's trade Ryan Helsey right now when his values
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  at an all time high, get a haul back and try to set the team up
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  better for the future. I don't know.
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  I don't think Saint Louis Cardinal fans can stomach a full
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  on rebuild, but I also don't know if it if it would really
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  truly be that because there's enough good young position
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  players. I think that the product on the
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  field would still be exciting. Look, it's not going to be a
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  five year rebuild. Even if you said we want to be
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  competitive in 2026. I mean, aren't you holding on to
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  obviously new bar Donovan, clearly Mason Win, Alec
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  Burleson, Yvonne Herrera, whoever it is, You have Victor
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  Scott, you have Siani, you have Jordan Walker hopefully coming
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  back and being good. You hope something happens with
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  Nolan Gorman. All these guys are pretty young.
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  All these guys are relatively inexpensive.
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  It's the pitching where you probably just got to say, OK,
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  we're moving on from as many guys as we can.
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  But look, Sonny Gray under contract, Miles Michaelis under
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  contract, Steven Matt's under contract, Eric Fetty under
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  contract. You like Andre Palante what he
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  did. I don't know, though.
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  The first four guys I just mentioned, that's a lot of
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  aging, starting pitching that's making a lot of money.
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  So do you try to to move any of those guys or eat some salary to
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  get them off the books? If you're going to do this kind
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  of kind of full on youth movement, whatever it is, I
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  don't know. It's fascinating.
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  This is going to be a fascinating offseason for the
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  Cardinals. All right, I'll shut up.
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  My daughter's up there knocking on the door and we'll talk about
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  this. Look, season ends here.
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  I'm doing this during the game, so we'll do the whole season in
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  review coming up in this next week or so.
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  Enjoy your Sunday, everybody. Have a great rest of your
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  weekend and have a great week. We'll see.
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