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Cardinals left-hander Zack Thompson did an admirable job of keeping his internal dialogue to himself during Winter Warm-up last month at Busch Stadium. He probably wanted to emphatically swat away any suggestion of him going to the bullpen the way an older sibling swats their kid brother or kid sister’s jump shot. In his head, he might have said,“Bullpen? Get that crap out of here!” And you couldn’t have blamed him if he let some version of that slip out of his lips. Yet, he didn’t. Instead, the former first-round draft pick (19th overall in 2019) firmly reiterated his focus and intention this…