Best Podcast in Baseball 9.07: Tony's Adventures in Second (Guessing) City

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tony La Russa's return to the dugout has not been a breeze in the Windy City, but he's definitely part of the buzz for baseball on the South Side, while the North Side wonders what might have been. David Haugh, longtime Chicago Tribune columnist and now morning co-host at 670 AM The Score, joins the St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold on a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss all things Chicago baseball. La Russa made headlines this week by positioning himself as the arbiter of the unwritten rules of the game when he expressed frustration with his own player for hitting a 3-0 pitch for a home run in a rout of Minnesota. Was he behind the times -- or ahead of the strategy? The Cubs make their first visit to St. Louis' Busch Stadium since 2019, and they are a team at the fulcrum between maintaining their core players, some of whom won a championship in 2016, and moving on without the dynasty imagined. Haugh mentions the Cardinals' role in causing a pivot in the run of championships that wasn't. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, 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.
0:05.7	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.
0:16.8	This Cubs era is threatening to go down like the 1985 Bears,
0:23.8	a team that dominated when it won its championship,
0:28.0	ended years and generations of futility and longing and waiting,
0:32.7	and finally was special when they won,
0:35.4	and suggested that there was going to be another one, at least another
0:38.8	one. And now it could end as just one championship while that window was open. And that to me would
0:45.5	be historically disappointing and indelible because that team seemed capable of so much more.
0:55.2	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by
0:58.0	Clause, by design of St. Louis.
0:59.5	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch, baseball writer Derek Gould, joined this week from Chicago
1:04.5	by the morning co-host of the Molly and Haw show, a friend of mine who we went to Cuba together
1:10.6	back when he was the lead
1:12.9	sports column is there at the Chicago Tribune, outriding all of us on that trip. David Haw,
1:19.6	David, thank you so much for joining me here. I know you've gone radio, so I completely expect
1:25.0	to be not only outclassed as a writer back then, but now outclassed as a podcast.
1:29.9	So here we go.
1:30.4	And surely I'll insult you by the end of this, too, if I'm saying true to character, right?
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