http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bird-land/bird-land/2008/12/chris-carpenter-targets-january-to-start-throwing/

Thank god/they better not be lying about this. Who believes this?

In the same article, Mo concedes that they are going to be looking for pitching at the Winter meetings. Given that, I'd like to hear his reasoning for not offering Looper arbitration. I know its been discussed 17,000 times on here, but seriously, he's a smart guy, and it'd be interesting to hear what absurd idea was going through his head at the time.