Are streaking Cardinals ready for their (national) closeup?

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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"The discussion around the Cardinals will be similar to one you and I are having right now," says Rich Waltz, broadcaster for Apple TV+'s Friday Night Baseball. "Who are these guys and where are they headed? Are the pieces they've got good enough?"

The Cardinals reach the nation's capital riding a five-game winning streak, back at .500 for the first time in three weeks, and about to embark on what could be a defining three-city road trip. There to great them is a national broadcast as the Cardinals appear for the first time this season on Apple TV+'s Friday Night Baseball. Waltz will be at Nationals Park with Ryan Spillborghs and Tricia Whitaker to call the game. As he prepared for it, Waltz joined St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold for a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball recorded in Washington.

The discuss the Cardinals' winning streak coming out of a strong home stand and the curse of being stuck in the middle, which one baseball executive once called "quicksand."

Waltz also describes how broadcasting baseball is evolving, not just with the new rules but with new views -- some of which only baseball, of the major professional sports, can provide the viewer.

The Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to you weekly by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is in its 13th season as one of the leading baseball podcasts and among the top-rated for Cardinals conversation. It is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
0:05.6	Update your closet, garage, office, pantry, and more.
0:09.0	Imagine your home totally organized with closets by design.
0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800 by design.
0:16.9	It's a brand new best podcast in baseball.
0:19.1	The Cardinals sweep the Pirates.
0:20.3	The Cardinals sweep a doubleheader from the Mets.
0:21.9	They've won five in a row as they head to D.C. and what could be a defining road trip.
0:27.0	I'm in the nation's capital and I get a chance to talk with Rich Waltz, who will be in the booth calling the game for Friday night baseball on Apple TV Plus. We talk about the Cardinals. We talk about the National View of the Cardinals.
0:38.9	We talk about the National League Central.
0:40.1	We talk about closing the gap on the Dodgers with Rich's experience covering
0:44.1	calling Diamondback games.
0:45.2	And we talk about how as the game of baseball evolves, so too does how people broadcast
0:50.8	baseball.
0:52.2	All of it and the answer to this question, which Rich put so well.
0:57.0	The discussion around the Cardinals will be similar to the one that you and I are having right now
1:00.7	is who are these guys and where are they headed? Are the pieces they've got good enough?
1:06.0	All right. It's a brand new best podcast in baseball. Cue the music.
1:13.6	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought you by closet by design of St. Louis.
1:17.6	I'm San Luis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, joined with this week by baseball broadcaster,
1:22.9	part of the Friday night baseball crew for Apple TV.
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