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BenFred: Cards, Blues step up for STL's MLS hopes

My immediate reaction to the news that some important folks are working together to bring a Major League Soccer expansion franchise to St. Louis?

It says a lot about the Cardinals and the Blues.

Of the nine names that make up the MLS2STL group, these two jumped out:

Bill DeWitt III, Cardinals president

Chris Zimmerman, St. Louis Blues CEO

Remember, if you will, the 29-page relocation application the Los-Angeles-bound St. Louis Rams sent to the NFL a little more than a month ago. Among the many points — some valid, some laughable — that attempted to depict the city as an untenable place for the NFL, a section on page 23, titled "St.