Curator

My baseball team is the StL Cardinals. They just traded Jim Edmonds to the Padres and I will admit the trade is bitter medicine, but it's necessary. The Cards should have let Edmonds walk last year, or simply picked up his one-year option; the extension was a mistake, and they're acknowledging as much. They're getting on with the overdue business of letting go of the past.

I'm too old to be terribly sentimental about these things; Edmonds was a noteworthy player, and one of my favoriate Cardinals.

But, life goes on. We'll always have the memories, won't we? And the memories with Jimmy are largely of the positive variety. Far too many to count, but despite all the defensive gems, the 2004 NLCS Game 6 HR will always be my favorite Edmonds highlight.

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