In a recent blog entry, Derrick Goold tells us that Kevin Pollak and Tony La Russa (along with some guy named John Loar) have formed Red Bird Cinema, and begun work on bringing "3 Nights in August" to the silver screen. In honor of this announcement, I thought it only fitting to take another look at the classic Redbird Nation post, "Redbirds: The Movie". Ironically, that entry was posted exactly one month after the end of the series which "3 Nights in August" is based on. Unfortunately for updating's sake, that means the roster of the team in the movie will be that which was already outlined in the original post. But just for fun, let's see what we can come up with for the '06 Team.

Now, there are only 5 players left from the '03 team: Jim Edmonds (John Ritter), Albert Pujols (Franky G), Scott Rolen (Julia Stiles), So Taguchi (Ming Na), and Jason Isringhausen (Jimmy Cagney). Also remaining with the team are all three coaches which were cast in the original RBN post: Jose Oquendo (Luiz Guzman), Dave Duncan (Peter Graves), and Tony LaRussa (Neil Diamond).

So, that leaves us with a lot of work to do, which is why I'm asking for the Cardblogosphere to lend a hand. Here's a list of players we need to "cast":

David Eckstein
John Rodriguez
Juan Encarnacion
Yadier Molina
Aaron Miles
Hector Luna
Scott Spiezio
Gary Bennett
Chris Duncan
Chris Carpenter
Mark Mulder
Jason Marquis
Jeff Suppan
Sidney Ponson
Anthony Reyes
Tyler Johnson
Adam Wainwright
Josh Hancock
Brad Thompson
Randy Flores
Braden Looper

What we need here is a matching name, and links to a picture of both the player and the celebrity who could play them. Once we get most of them matched up, I'll compile the list with pictures and make another post here.