2026 Winter Warm-Up and Cardinals Caravans

The greed knows no bounds!

At $30 a pop, I bet you’ll be able to hear a pin drop over at the Scott Spiezio table. On the other hand, they may need a couple security guards over at JJW’s table to ward off eager fans trying to do cutzies to gain better positions in line.

As kids, did anyone else here send baseball cards off to players in the mail, seeking to have players autograph their own card and then have them mailed back to you? I had much better luck with basketball teams vs baseball in this regard. The Atlanta Hawks were great at getting players to do this for you. I remember having 3 “Sweet Lou” Hudson and 2 “Pistol Pete” Maravich autographed cards. My Milwaukee Bucks were terrible though. I sent 3 different Lew Alcindor cards off to get autographed and not only did they not get them signed for me, but they never even mailed back my cards. I even had to get larger envelopes for them because his cards were unusually large in length. If one attempted this practice these days I wonder what the response would be?

Wow I missed that one, Brian. That $75 is “So” much more than I’d pony up for his autograph. Gorman at $50 and especially Nooty at $75 are way overpriced too. But JJ Wetherholt at 30 clams is an absolute steal…..well let’s hope it turns out to be the steal of the century.

Oh….thanks, that just saved me $125 big ones.

My view is that if you have to pay for an autograph, it doesn’t count.

I saw some of it online – specifically the Liberatore and Walker interviews. I mean, yeah it was interesting to a point but there weren’t any hard or tough questions asked. Maybe that’s the goal to just create a fun, fan centric experience without any edge to it?

I listened to all but Olo’s. Spring definitely springs eternal.

Many thanks for the recordings and write ups. I’ll have to dig through them soon. When I saw the picture of Blaze Jordan I thought he must have been a 40 year old office worker in the Cards FO. Maybe it is just the picture that makes him look much older. Doyle is the opposite and looks very young. Looking at him, you wouldn’t think he has a very intimidating bull dog presence on the mound like he does. Maybe he should grow a beard. I’m sure 1TD would like the thought maybe Doyle with a Rollie Fingers like handle bar mustache.