Seeing as I work nights at the the hospital, I usually catch the interviews on the early morning shows, and then the ones sometimes after the games with Mike shannon half drunk at his restaurant talking about the good old times.  Anyways I just wanted to share some stuff I have heard in the past 24 hours.  With that being said it is 4:50 in the morning central time.

Interview with Dave Duncan on the morning grind.
The interview at first seemed like dave was just going to have a normal mundane response to questions but he perked up quickly once Carpenter came too topic.  Jimmy "the Cat" Hayes asked him whom he though he would see first, Carp or Wagonmaker?  His response was Carp.  When Jim pushed further and asked if it would be 3 rehab outings dave responded with "If that", basically implying that after a rehab outing on friday he thinks Carp has a very good shot at rejoining the team.  After Dave hung up all the guys were in agreeement that Dave thinks Carp will be here soon.
The other intresting thing was that he supported the idea of bullpen help.  At first he started talking about how his bullpen has also helped win alot of games and people don't seem to talk about that but when asked if a arm would be welcomed he responded with a round about yes.

Interview with John Abbamandi, cardinals assistant GM following tuesday nights loss,
The main thing that I took away from this was the following,  when asked about the current situation and trades and so forth this was basically said by john. "we want to make the best move for the team and we don't want to do anything in response to what the brewers and cubs have done but you have to understand something.  Fans keep pushing for us to make a deal but if we showed you some of the offer sheets that we are getting for trades you guys would slam the door shut on them too" (those weren't his exact words, Im just paraphrasing).  Basically it sounds like team are asking for way too much.  Whether this is true or not we will never really know but think of it this way.  Would you really give up Jess Todd and probably another prospect for Eddie Guardado.  I know I wouldn't!  Erik over at future redbirds shares this view so make sure to jump over there and see what he voiced.  Oh, warning there's bad news about colby over there also.

www.futureredbirds.net

Dane perry has some advice for the cards on his wish list,
Cardinals

"Although the Cardinals could use an adequate offensive shortstop, the real need is pitching. Consider the problems ... Mark Mulder is back on the DL, Chris Carpenter is coming off a rough rehab outing, and Adam Wainwright won't be back until next month. Oh, and the St. Louis bullpen leads the majors in blown saves, and ranks sixth in the 16-team NL in relief pitches thrown. So effectiveness and perhaps fatigue are both concerns going forward. What the Cardinals really need is an elite, shutdown closer (Huston Street?), but those are hard to come by. If nothing else, they could use another right-handed arm in the pen."

I thought we needed help on the left side of the bullpen?

Lastly, I don't know if this has been mentioned yet or not but in Ken Rosenthals lates piece he had this too say,
"The Cardinals, whose bullpen has become almost a nightly issue, had two scouts in Baltimore on Tuesday night, presumably to watch Orioles closer George Sherrill. The Orioles want either a shortstop or outfielder for Sherrill, but the Cardinals don't have a shortstop who is close to the majors, and they're not going to trade Colby Rasmus for a reliever . "

Maybe we could package a couple other prospects or something, anyways go cards!