[Will the Cardinals dive in and pursue Randy Johnson ?] Absolutely, … Money is the big stumbling block, but we still have to make a run at it.

There hasn’t been that much said about it because Tony, the coaches and the players have made it look so easy.

How many miles to Tokyo? This is what we had hoped for. The role he has here suits him well.

I can say that they thought it was successful surgery, and we expect his rehab should be good. Now, we’ll see what it’s like in January, but right now everything is pretty optimistic.

Believe me, we took a strong effort at Burnett and that was going to be a very significant financial obligation. It got beyond the point where we thought it made baseball sense and business sense...

Spivey is someone we have expressed interest in for the past two or three seasons. He will be a strong candidate in what we envision to be a quality competition for playing time at second...

That’s past history, … He had the surgery. It’s over with. All we can hope for now is a speedy recovery and just go forward.

There’s no advantage for the team that plays the best during the season.

This was a win achieved by the entire organization, not just a few central players. You look at the role players, all the guys from Memphis (the Cardinals’ Class AAA affiliate) and what they did....

It’s allowed us to take our time in getting these guys back. We don’t have to rush.

We’re not looking for someone considered an extra outfielder. We’re looking for someone like we found last season in Larry Walker.

I think we need to sit back and reflect on this year and see where we want to go. But Reggie’s a free agent … So outfield would obviously be an area we’ll have to...

We can go forward like last night and play a nice clean game and hopefully, all this stuff is behind us,

Our guys, I think, feel there’s still more they want to accomplish,

There’s nothing you can really do to expedite the healing process. It takes time to heal, and it takes time to build the strength up. It’s something he hasn’t had before. I don’t know if...

I think we still don’t know for sure where he’s at physically. We know he’s not ready to come back yet. [We don’t know] whether he will be before the end of the season. But...

That’s past history. He had the surgery. It’s over with. All we can hope for now is a speedy recovery, and just go forward.

I think there will be some changes,

It was a very numbing affect to sit and watch what was taking place, … It’s just total disbelief what happened.

I would think it’s a good fit, … but that’s not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he’s obviously one of the top managers in the game that’s not employed...

I think the idea is to go to spring training and have a competition and see. What it does provide is some insurance if we feel Anthony is not ready.

I think they’re looking at [ Miguel ] Tejeda as a comp.

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

The market has gone crazy, but we’re not going to go crazy with it, OK? And if clubs want to spend the kind of money they’re spending on the players they’re spending it on, more...

After a discussion I had with his agent, I think it would be probably less than a 50 percent chance that would happen.

If we had won that game, … the whole Series might have been different.

We ran into a very good team. They were on a roll. I think we eventually just ran out of gas. The head of steam we had going into it, we just were never able...

Everybody deserves a second chance and we’re here to provide that. That doesn’t mean we’re going to let things slide, either.

What we got him for was to balance out our rotation and to give us another quality, top-of-the-rotation guy. Pitching is what wins championships. We gave up some good young talent but we needed a...

There are a number of holes. But there also should be a level of trust with what we’ve done the last few years to give us some credit and benefit of the doubt that eventually...

That first game in Boston was a pivotal point. We got down early, came back and tied it and ended up losing. I think that really knocked a lot out of us.

Sidney has made it very clear to us that he is committed to turning both his life and his career around. He’s a tremendous talent who has made mistakes, but he’s been making huge strides...

One correlation I see between the two tragedies is how this country continues to rise to the occasion and help out their fellow man — whether it is financially, through donations, through time or goods...

We are glad to have Braden back in our system, and he’s glad to be back. He will be a quality setup pitcher in our bullpen and be able to close for us on days...

We just didn’t feel that was appropriate or something we wanted to do. Reggie did a great job for us for two years but we thought it was time to kind of turn the page.

You’d have to ask Scott about that one.

I don’t think it’s a coin flip,

I think we’re all looking for the stud guy, the big specimen.

I think Sidney is a perfect example of the type of pitcher that we feel Dave Duncan can help get better and bring him to the next level.

We signed him with that purpose in mind, based on his past career. It provides more depth to our rotation, more depth to our pitching staff, and that has been the priority of our off-season...

After the year we had, we didn’t want to lose in the first round. It was very important to win this first round.

We like his all-around makeup. He hits for power, runs very well and plays a solid outfield. His addition helps us in getting a little younger in the outfield, yet he’s still a player who...

Bob likes the way we’ve done things in St. Louis. I told him I’ve worked with Mo for nine or 10 years, and he’s been a big part of the operation.