Do you think Edmond's career is over?

I'm still in a state of semi-shock over this.  For the Padres to simply dump Edmonds a little more than a month into the season, when the guy had practically no spring training, and when you were going to have to pay him $6 million regardless, is a real head-scratcher. 

My guess is, Edmonds will resurface.  I think he can still help somebody in a part-time role. 

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Agreed. I was totally shocked by his release. It doesn't make any sense at all. Jimmy Ballgame's release tells me that the Padres really didn't want him in the first place and only made this trade for the pure heck of it. The Padres brass knew that Jimmy had next to nothing left in the tank and to release him so prematurely is to me inexcuseable. Now I could see them removing him as an everyday player - something that he shouldn't have been to begin with - and giving him  a new roll with the club. But to relase him??? C'mon, how pathetic.

Now to answer the big $64,000 question. No, I seriously don't think Jimmy Ballgame's career is over. He needs to take some time off and spend it with his family and relax. Then after the All-Star break I seriously think he will get back into the game. Perhaps with the Dodgers, the D-Backs, the A's or yes even to finish his career where it began, with the Angels.

Go Cards!!!!     68

I always have to give my wife trouble about Edmonds because she'd always wanted to sit where she could see his butt.  His butt aside, he is long out of his prime, I'd hate to see him go out this way but he wants to play full time.  I don't see him in that role anymore.  Go Cards!

What is everyone gonna think of him if he goes to the Cubs like it is rumored?

Me personally i wont like it and i would want his season to continue like it has the past year. i think he needs to retire.

i hated to see him go but it has given the younger players a chance and look how they are performing.  if he was still around Barton would be back in clevland and ludwick and shumaker would not be playing as much. 

the best part about the whole deal is the Padres had to eat 6mil of the contract.

i sure he will finish out the year somewhere and then hopefully retire as a cardinal, but i am not sure that will happen, because after the SD thing i think he was a littled pissed

It appears as though Jimmy is going to sign with the Cubs.  While I hope he does well, I hjust hope he doesn't do well enough to keep the Cubs in first place.

Jim will go down as one of my favorite Cardinals ever.  Not only did he make great plays and come up with big hits, but he always seemed to do it when the game was on the line.  He was about as clutch as they came.

That being said, I don't think he has much left in the tank.  I would hate to see him pushed out of the game because he no longer has what it takes.  Seeing him in a Cubs uniform is going to hurt, bad!!

I love Jim, but he has been horrible at the plate for the last couple of years.  He's still great defensively, so I could see a poor definsive team signing him as a late inning replacement. 

 I'm disappointed that he was released because I had bought tickets to the Cards/Padres series just so I could give him a standing ovation each time he came to bat.  We never really got to say goodbye.....

I hope we end up signing him to a 1 day contract so he can retire as a Cardinal.