Salutations. Make sure your phone is charged, check those 10-5 rights, and watch the medicals -- it's trade deadline week in MLB, and that usually means the mosh-iest mosh pit of questions in the weekly Cardinals chat. I'll be at the keyboard today. There are a few things going on at the moment -- and I know I'll have to step aside briefly in the middle to tend to something -- so it's going to be that kind of chat. Hopscotch between questions and checking on news. You know the drill after all these years.
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