Conference 7.286::sports_90

    John Tudor has signed a one-year contract with the Cardinals.  He'll
    make a base salary of about $450,000 with another $900K in incentives.
    
    He'll join Joe Magrane, Jose DeLeon, Bryn Smith and Danny Cox in the
    Redbird rotation for 1990.  If he's back to full strength, he'll add
    some left handed control pitching that will help to balance the
    rotation.
    
    Go Cardinals!
    
    -- FooBear

    Foobear:
    
    What is the latest with Mathews?  Is he going to be able to go full
    strength this year, or is he still having injury problems?
    
    This year looks good for the Redbirds.
    
    jab

    Re: .2
    
    I don't really know; I had heard that Cox was starting to throw at home
    and was feeling pretty good, but I haven't heard anything on Mathews.
    
    I'm curious about McGee as well.  I know that the Cardinals have been 
    shopping him, but I don't know if he's still hurting.  If they could
    get the injuries behind them, the Cardinals would bean excellent
    position to contend in 1990, but Gawd! I'm tired of worrying about
    injuries year in and year out.
    
    Go Cardinals!
    
    -- FooBear

    Just in off UPI.
    
    
    Ozzie Smith has been traded to the NEW YORK METS for Darrl Strawberry
    and a minor league pitcher to be named later.

    >                           -< yeah!  #2000! >-
    
    Congrats Hawk.  You deserve.  Truly a worthy accomplishment, and it
    couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
    
    Dan

Couldn't happen to a nicer note!

   The Denver Post ran a contest in Denver to see which team they would
   adopt (since they don't have, and can't get, a major League baseball
   team [or even an American League team]). The relentlessly dimwitted
   bozos voted for the Cardinals. Now we get constant coverage of the
   filthy birds just as if they were located in Denver, and as if anyone 
   gave a SLOF.

   Mike JN

    re -1
    
    What kind of candy does Ozzies Smith give out on Halloween, then?

    
    A mate of mine is a fanatic Cardinal's fan and he's asked me to try and
    get some info for him on how they are doing this season.  We get
    nothing in the papers over her ein Ireland so any info at all would be
    much appreciated.
    
    Gary.

    He'll be sorely disappointed.  The Cards are in last place in the NL
    East with a 45-57 record (.441).  They trail the Mets by 15 games. 
    Earlier this year, their great manager Whitey Herzog called it quits
    saying, "I can't get the guys to play."
    
    Once-star center fielder Willie McGee has made some terrible errors in
    the outfield this year.
    
    	--dan'l

    
    Re -1, thanks Dan.  I've passed on the bad news.
    
    BTW are there any articles etc on the Cardinals in any notes conference
    or anywhere on the net?
    
    Gary. 

>>    BTW are there any articles etc on the Cardinals in any notes conference
>>    or anywhere on the net?

You can get all you want by tying into USENET and looking at the CLARI.SPORTS.*
groups (especially CLARI.SPORTS.BASEBALL).  For info on how to access USENET
from a character cell terminal, see the conference at CLOVAX::VNEWS (press
KP7).  For information on how to access with a workstation, see UFP::XRN.

You'll also want to check UPSAR::NEWS-BACKBONE for the name of a server in your
neck of the woods.

j.

Here's an example from this morning's articles:

Article 4190 of clari.sports.baseball:
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.sports.baseball
Subject: Mets 6, Cardinals 0
Keywords: baseball, men's professional
Date: 30 Jul 90 03:38:03 GMT
Lines: 26


	NEW YORK (UPI) -- Mackey Sasser lined a fifth-inning grand slam home
run to help Dwight Gooden gain his eighth straight victory Sunday night
and lift the New York Mets to a 6-0 triumph over the St. Louis
Carindals.
	The victory enabled New York to maintain its one-game lead over the
Pittsbirgh Pirates in the National League East.
	Gooden, 11-5, who left the game after seven shutout seven innings
to rest his sore shoulder, allowed six hits, walked one and struck out
four. Gooden has not lost a decision since June 2 at Philadelphia.
	Bobby Ojeda combined with Gooden for the shutout, working two
innings of one-hit relief.
	With the Mets leading 2-0 in the fifth, Jose DeLeon, 6-11, allowed
a two-out double to Gregg Jefferies, an intentional walk to Darryl
Strawberry and walked Kevin McReynolds on a 3-2 pitch to fill the bases.
Sasser followed with a line drive into the right field seats for his
sixth homer of the season and his first career grand slam.
	McReyonlds' RBI single in the first inning put the Mets up 1-0 and
Dave Magadan's run-scoring single in the third made it 2-0.
	DeLeon allowed seven hits and walked four in 4 2-3 innings.
	St. Louis had more than one hit in only one inning, the fourth,
when Denny Walling and Terry Pendelton singled with one out. But Gooden
got Jose Oquendo on a shallow fly to left and Tom Pagnozzi on a grounder
to second to end the threat.
	Willie McGee singled in the sixth inning for the Cardinals to
extend his hitting streak to a career-high 20 games.

    
    Re -1,
    
    Thanks Jeff, I found clari.sports.baseball.  It's very useful.  I'll
    read it occasionally and post the information to my friend.  It saves
    any problems with copyright from notes conferences as well.
    
    thanks & regards,
    
    Gary.

    G'day, Gary! I read your notes all the time in the "Fitba" conference.
    I don't know if it's available in Ireland, but in Europe, the best
    newspaper for American sports is the Paris-based International Herald 
    Tribune, if your friend wants to just grab a newspaper. There's also a
    Baseball conference (ASABET::BASEBALL) that features a note on each
    major league team. 
    
    Cheers,
    
    Tom

    
    Cheers Tom, The International Herald Tribune is available here but
    probably not in the wilds of Ballyduff in North Kerry where my friend
    lives.  clari.sports.baseball gives reports and standings which are
    exactly what my friend wants.  I'll read it every couple of weeks and
    send him printouts or just give updates over the phone.
    
    I've enough on my plate keeping up with the football (Soccer to you
    guys stateside) conference without reading baseball as well. :-) :-)
    
    Now if only I could write an extractor to run dxrn, strip out info
    on the Cardinals and save it to a file........
    
    Gary.

    Terry Pendleton signed with Atlanta.  Four years, $9.8 million.
    
    Willie McGee moved across the bay to SF.  Four years, $13 million.