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Speaker 1: Nolan Arnado, after months of trade speculation, is a Saint

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal and Katie wou welcome to Cardinal territory. At long last, Trevor,

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Speaker 1: we have some clarity. Nolan Arnado arrived to Jupiter, Florida

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Speaker 1: this morning around seven am. He reported to Cardinals camp.

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Speaker 1: For the time being, at least the immediate future, he

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Speaker 1: is a Saint Louis Cardinal. What do you got, Trevor?

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Speaker 1: Did you see this as a possible reality for this organization?

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Speaker 2: I was leaning more towards him getting traded, just because

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Speaker 2: that was the narrative for such a long time. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this started as soon as the twenty twenty four season ended.

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Speaker 3: But as time went on. I mean, I think we

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's really all we've had to talk about,

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Speaker 2: because the Cardinals have said all off season our plans

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Speaker 2: hinge on the destiny of Nolan Aeronada. We will not

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Speaker 3: And so here we are. Aeronado is in camp.

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Speaker 2: I guess the coin flip our fifty to fifty coin

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Speaker 3: Landed and now here we are not a bad thing.

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Speaker 2: Nolan Ernado great third basement, definitely makes the team better.

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Speaker 3: Whether or not the priority of.

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Speaker 2: This team being the best it can be is at

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Speaker 2: the top of the list. I think, you know, we

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Speaker 1: You know, you're exactly right. We talked to Alimamo this

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Speaker 1: I'm super excited he's here. John Mozelock said, you know,

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Speaker 1: simply put, Nolan makes us a better baseball team. And

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Speaker 3: They they were able.

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Speaker 2: To smooth things over and get on the right track

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Speaker 3: I've been seeing some live action.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I think we should be excited about it.

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Speaker 3: So I thought that was interesting to see.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully he just kills it, you know.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully he's the Aeronaudo that we saw in twenty two

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Speaker 1: And they are a better team with Nolan Arnado a

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Speaker 2: At least we had something to talk about all off season,

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Speaker 2: you know, not necessarily one thing.

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Speaker 3: We had one thing.

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Speaker 1: We had one thing, one whole thing. Yep, and here

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Speaker 1: we are now finally some resolution on February sixteenth. But

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Speaker 1: the great news is to our loyal listeners at Cardinal Territory,

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Speaker 1: we have lots to talk about now, and we have

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Speaker 1: lots of exciting guests and next week, seeing the Was

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Speaker 1: Cardinals manager Allie Marvel's joining the show. He's going to

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Speaker 1: be our very first guest interview. And if you haven't listened,

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Speaker 1: to all these interviews to start the spring on different

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Speaker 1: various media platforms. I would highly encourage you to. I

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Speaker 1: think he's done such a nice job at explaining the

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Speaker 1: direction of this team and his vision for it. I'm

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Speaker 1: certainly excited to get into it with Trevor to this week,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll have Gordon Grisepo our first player interview.

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Speaker 1: He's scheduled to join the show next week as well.

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Speaker 1: And lots of fun things in the works, so we

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Speaker 1: promised you that it would pick up. Thanks for sticking around.

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Speaker 1: Definitely some good things coming in the works, and of course,

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Speaker 1: first full squad tomorrow, so we'll get a chance to

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Speaker 1: see what this Cardinals team really looks like as early

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Speaker 1: as Monday. That is exciting.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm glad you're there, Katie.

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Speaker 2: You're getting a lot of good feel for what's going

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Speaker 2: on in the organization. I'm excited to talk to these

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Speaker 2: the manager, I mean, Marvel, this will be a lot

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Speaker 2: on too, We're gonna I think that will help us

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Speaker 2: give us like a vibe check, right, like, yeah, how

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Speaker 2: are these guys feeling, what are they talking about? What's

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Speaker 2: the excitement level, so a lot to look forward to.

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Speaker 1: Well, hope you join us. You can like and subscribe

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Speaker 1: to our page on YouTube if you haven't already. If

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Speaker 1: you have, thank you so much, and you can find

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Speaker 1: us on Spotify and Apple. We'll be back with you

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Speaker 1: next week. Lots of fun guests, lots of fun things

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Speaker 1: in store. Baseball is back and we're getting to it.

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Speaker 1: For Trevor Rosenthal, I'm Katie Woo. This is Cardinal Territory

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