It's a brand new best podcast in baseball with two riders from the post dispatch.

We're going to talk about the three things we're each looking for as the Cardinals head into a three series homestand.

Their last three series homestand of the season.

And what a doozy.

Bookending a visit by the Colorado Iraqis is a visit from the Chicago Cubs as they try to claw their way back in the division,

and then the New York Yankees as they try to claw their way back to relevance in the AL East.

Sports columnist Jeff Gordon joins me. Cues with the music. Hello, everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis.

I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, joined this week again by our instant offense at SGL today.com.

He's going to be talking fast because he not only has to do a chat and a video and probably

another podcast today, but this one we've drawn in Jeff Gordon for some post-trade deadline,

post-West Coast talk, and a lot of it will be focused on the homestand ahead but

let's get right to the news gordo the news of the day yadier malina back in number four

back with the birds on the bat and is going to be making a cameo in the dugout what do you make

of the return this long awaited, long discussed, and

Oliver Marmull initiated return for Molina, even briefly, to the dugout?

Yeah, Yaddi's such an interesting case. You know, he's got ambitions, and certainly his

managing of an international play has been intriguing, has the aptitude to do this,

but he's been committed to family,

and understandably so after decades

in organized baseball and the long grind

of being a catch at the big league level

of just a tremendous career.

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