JUPITER, Fla. • To pass the time this morning while teammates took physicals and coaches held meetings, several Cardinals broke out the paddles and took advantage of their new toy.

Matt Holliday, the man who brought flat-screen TVs to the Cardinals' clubhouse, worked with St. Louis-based company Amini's to provide a brand-new, bright-red Ping Pong table for the clubhouse.

It has replaced one of the tables on the prospect end of the room.

Holliday is taking all-comers.

Seth Maness is the favorite to win any tournament so far.

While it's not the snow that has hammered areas of the country or the cold that persists in St. Louis, the weather has turned this morning in Jupiter, Fla., as the Cardinals get ready for their first workout. Rain lashed the area overnight and continued this morning. A chill has settled and the Cardinals aren't going to take the field until later than normal. The schedule calls for a first step out of the clubhouse at around 10:55 a.m. local time and an 11 a.m. stretch.

The clubhouse meeting has been pushed up 30 minutes so that could also mean an earlier stretch.

Physicals and meetings more than the weather have pushed back the start time.