CARDS SIGN A FEW PLAYERS NOT NAMED WARNER

Perusing the flood of e-mails that arrived on Monday while we were dealing with the relatively short and far less stressful outage, I noticed one that came from the Cardinals regarding some roster moves. Even though G.M. Rod Graves complained recently about the inability to transact other business while the Kurt Warner conundrum was hanging over the franchise, the team was able on Monday afternoon to sign three players not named “Kurt” or “Warner.” As reported over the weekend by Jodi Bacon of KHTK, safety Keith Lewis officially has joined the team. The Cardinals also announced that punter Ben Graham and quarterback Brian St. Pierre have re-signed. We vaguely recall seeing a report at some point that St. Pierre signed a one-year, $1 million deal. (A million for St. Pierre? Maybe Warner really is worth $14 million annually.) The main focus continues to be Warner. It’ll be interesting to see whether his visit to the Bay Area will prompt sufficient consternation from the fans to prompt the Cardinals to take the crowbar to the wallet and get the guy under contract.