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ST. Dave Hollins Jersey . LOUIS - Even with an ever-shifting roster, the St. Louis Cardinals have a chance to reach the NL Championship Series for the fourth straight year.When we show up at spring training every year we set our goal to win the World Series, ace Adam Wainwright said Wednesday. Anything else is silly. What else are you playing for if thats not the goal.The Cardinals repeated as NL Central champions and made it to the post-season for the 11th time in 15 years by overcoming a sputtering offence and injuries to Yadier Molina, Michael Wacha and Jaime Garcia. The profile is one of resiliency heading into an NL Division Series against the Dodgers that starts Friday at Los Angeles, which will start two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw.Im pitching against the Dodgers. All this me vs. Kershaw stuff is blown way out of proportion, Wainwright said. I understand its good TV.Molina missed two months with a torn ligament in his right thumb, Wacha missed two months with a shoulder injury. Garcia lasted just 12 starts before surgery to relieve nerve compression.Molinas injury had the potential to be devastating but A.J. Pierzynski and Tony Cruz filled the void, and the Cardinals moved into the division lead for good two days after Molina returned in late August.I thought our guys did a nice job considering all of baseball said we couldnt win a game without him, manager Mike Matheny said. Thats a knock on the rest of the guys. They realize that this stuff happens and youve just got to figure out a way to keep going.Four straight postseasons is a franchise best for the 90-win Cardinals, who won the 2011 World Series in Tony La Russas final season.Though the team expects to be a contender, Mike Matheny said theres no arrogance in the clubhouse.The conversations we had as we were popping champagne was, Dont take this for granted because theres some guys who had incredible careers who have never done it one time, the manager said. This will be the last time for somebody in here. Thats just kind of the facts. The game will humble you if you start taking the perspective that this is just going to happen all the time.This time last fall, Pat Neshek was looking for work, Jhonny Peralta was rebuilding his reputation with the Tigers, Randal Grichuk was a future throw-in in a deal that sent former October hero David Freese packing and John Lackey was about to augment his reputation as a big-game pitcher by beating the Cardinals twice in the World Series.All four figure to play key roles against the high-spending Dodgers.We battled through the ups and downs and we got there, first baseman Matt Adams said. I think what helps us is knowing the core group of guys on this team have been in the playoffs basically every year.Peralta hit a team-high 21 homers and has been smooth at shortstop. Grichuk batted .320 the final month with two homers and four RBIs, playing his way into a platoon with top prospect Oscar Taveras. Grichuk likely will start the opener.I really just try to go up there and play with confidence, Grichuk said. I looked terrible when I first was up here. I decided, Hey, Ive got to play my game.The 35-year-old Lackey went deep his last two starts and will start Game 3 Monday in St. Louis.Neshek, 34, signed a minor league deal in February and the side-armer morphed into a first-time All-Star. Nesheks ERA was under 1.00 until late August, and he had six saves on days off for closer Trevor Rosenthal. Tim McCarver Jersey . So much so that even a simple foul pop up to the first baseman turned into a run. Houstons four-run rally in the ninth inning to beat the Seattle Mariners 6-4 on Monday night was capped by a bizarre play that started as Crowe fouled out to first baseman Justin Smoak with runners on second and third. Aaron Nola Jersey .Y. -- In a span of three days, Shabazz Napier and Connecticut knocked out both Philadelphia schools in the NCAA tournament. http://www.baseballphilliesofficial.com/pat-neshek-jersey-c-33/ .S. Olympic hockey management team have been making what he called "ghost rosters" since August.KAPALUA, Hawaii - The reward for winning on the PGA Tour is a trip to the west tip of Maui for the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, where the course was built on the side of a mountain, overlooks the ocean and evokes a response from players that is different from other weeks.My first reaction was, Do we get a cart for the week? Canadian Open champion Tim Clark said.J.B. Holmes can spend all day looking out at the Pacific, where he can see the occasional breach of a humpback whale and the island of Molokai appearing to be close enough to swim there. The Plantation Course at Kapalua is on an amazing piece of property.Perhaps even more amazing is that they play golf on it.You wouldnt walk out onto it and say, We should put a golf course here. But they did a good job, Holmes said. Its a fun course to play.Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw created this golf course, which looks like a beast because of the expansive fairways cut through canyons, the stunning drops (and rises) in elevation and enormous greens that are difficult to gauge because of the grain.Hideki Matsuyama of Japan is still working on his English, though he had the right word when he smiled and said, Big.Looks can be deceiving, however. Zach Johnson, a pea shooter in this era of power, won last year at 19-under 273. Steve Stricker won and was runner-up the next year. Geoff Ogilvy won twice in a row and attributed it to his chipping.One thing is clear — it might be the most interesting course on the PGA Tour.The Tournament of Champions gets started on Friday when the 34-man field of PGA Tour winners — making this the most difficult tournament to get in — stick a tee in the ground and look some 500 yards out and 600 feet down to the first green.Off the first tee, I was like, Whoa, because of the views. Its just way different than I imagined watching on TV, Russell Henley said. The undulation is unlike anything I had seen anywhere else. The thing about it is it looks downhill, but its even more downhill than it looks.There are 12 players who are playing Kapalua for the first time. Pete Rose Jersey. In the 16 years the Tournament of Champions has been held at the Plantation, only David Duval (1999), Sergio Garcia (2002) and Daniel Chopra (2008) won on their first try.I was intimidated, Zach Johnson said of his first trip. Not necessarily because of the yardage, though — because of the greens. Theyre just so hard to putt. Theyre big. Theyre undulating. A flat putt is pretty slow. The ones down grain are super fast. ... Its just hard. Youre going to hit a lot of fairways. Youre going to hit a lot of greens. And youre going to miss a lot of putts.Robert Streb, who won the McGladrey Classic last year to qualify for his trip to Kapalua, was reminded quickly that hes not in Kanas anymore. At least he has been watching this tournament on TV for years, and he knew what to expect in terms of vast changes in elevation and endless views of the Pacific.Its really pretty. And its really big, he said. They said the fairways are wide, and they are. They said its usually windy, and it is.Perhaps its greatest appeal is the width of the fairways — nearly 80 yards on some holes — which is good for the ego when players are coming off their short winter break and are trying to shake off some rust. The greens take experience, but with a Friday start, there is plenty of time to get used to them.Ogilvy, perhaps the most astute among players when it comes to golf course architecture, recalls his first reaction to the Plantation Course.I thought it was ridiculous that we played golf on a piece of land like this, he said. It was just absurd. From the 17th tee to the first green, what is that, 1,000 feet? You think 10 (tee) at Augusta to the 11th green, thats not even half of 17 here. I though the course was cool to not have a scorecard in your hand. Nobody plays really well their first time, I dont think. Its pretty extreme.It takes a bit of getting used to, he said.Now, Ogilvy cant think of a better place to be — mainly because he gets to play. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '