Best Podcast in Baseball 9.17: Milwaukee's Best

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Milwaukee Brewers and their ever-widening lead in the National League Central visited Busch Stadium with, as infielder Kolten Wong said, "a point to make." Consider it made. Brewers broadcaster Jeff Levering, who spent time as a prospect in the Cardinals' organization too while calling games for Class AA Springfield during Mike Shildt's tenure there, joins the Best Podcast in Baseball from the visitors' radio booth at Busch Stadium to talk about Milwaukee's ascension as the best team -- best organization? -- in the National League Central. With two wins in the first two games of the series, the first-place Brewers have widened their lead over the third-place Cardinals to 12 games with 11 head-to-head games remaining. Milwaukee has had the season the Cardinals imagined -- one hinged around an exceptional, deep pitching staff and infused with an aggressive move as a booster rocket up the standings. Levering talks with Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold about watching Shildt's work in Springfield, Mo., and how that plays in the big leagues, and there's also a Bob Uecker story, or two. 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.
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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:17.1	He has brought energy.
0:18.2	He's brought this winning mentality.
0:19.9	Not that the Brewers didn't have it before. He has been part of these Cardinals runs. You're ready for these Cardinals runs in August. They're one of the great August teams in the history of baseball. But Colton knows what it takes to grind through a season. He knows what winning baseball is like. And he has just added to the depth in that Brewer's Clubhouse.
0:39.1	And he's got that energy and just that knack of coming up with big hits and making big plays.
0:49.6	Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball.
0:52.2	Brought to you by Closest by Design of St. Louis.
0:54.1	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch Baseball writer, Derek Gould.
0:56.3	Join this week, fresh from Wisconsin, an on the road with the brewers by Jeff Levering,
1:02.6	broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers.
1:04.3	And first, it's just good to see you in person on the road.
1:08.5	What has that been like after calling games from afar last year?
1:13.5	Well, first, Eric, thanks for having me. It's great to be here in St. Louis. The last time,
1:17.6	as we were talking about on the broadcast a little bit earlier, the last time the brewers were
1:21.8	here, or at least the broadcast team was here, was 2019. And that game was the Ryan Braun Grand Slam in the top of the ninth inning
1:29.0	junior Fernandez which kind of propelled everything for the Brewers of 2019 so it's great to be back
1:34.4	in in St. Louis it's great to be back on the road and after what all the broadcasters have had to do
1:39.3	over the last 18 months the last two seasons I know the television side is still going through that, a lot of them at least,
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