Best Podcast in Baseball 9.18: The Cardinals' Fantasyland for 2022

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The morning after a historically ugly loss in Pittsburgh for the Cardinals of 2021, Drew Silva, senior Major League Baseball writer at NBC Sports Edge and self-described "pessimistic" Cardinals fan, grabs a cold coffee and joins Best Podcast in Baseball host and baseball writer Derrick Goold to talk about the moves the club could make to reignite excitement by the start of the 2022 season. Silva, who last joined the podcast at Urban Chestnut in St. Louis, home of the Fantasyland IPA, writes about fantasy baseball and has a biting presence on Twitter when it comes the Cardinals. He explains how he became a fan of the team, how their notable successes came notable times in his life, and how this year's team got to where it is -- drifting from the playoff race, if only the other teams would let them. In addition to writing for NBC Sports Edge, Silva also hosts the podcast Circling the Bases. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored weekly 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.
0:16.9	I think they can get this off-season really right and bring back the fan interest.
0:23.6	And I don't think it has waned as much as it looks like it has by the attendance.
0:28.6	In recent games, I think there's a lot of factors that go into that.
0:32.6	And yeah, looking ahead, I, and again, I'm a pessimistic Cardinals fan.
0:36.6	That's how I started this show.
0:38.9	But they're in a position to really do something special this winter
0:43.4	and to build a lot of excitement around the team moving into 2022.
0:58.5	Hello everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, to you by closet by design of St. Louis.
1:11.2	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined this week by Drew Silva, senior major league baseball writer at NBC Sports Edge, a name that people are probably familiar with from all your fantasy writing through the years.
1:16.2	Not that you wrote like fantasy, like books, but like fantasy sports.
1:20.6	I guess I kind of led that in as if you were like J.R.R. Tolkien of the St. Louis set.
1:30.6	I wish. I'm the J.R.R. Tolkien of Twitter and fantasy baseball with my weird post sometimes. But yeah, it's great to be with you outside, actually, too. If people hear trash trucks running by, we're at Calde's on
1:35.9	Dumont. Shout out to Caldies. Maybe we'll get some free coffee. But yeah, we haven't seen each
1:41.3	other in a while. And I always have looked up to you.
1:45.1	I remember, like, the first time I was ever in a press box was in the 2013 All-Star Games in the city.
1:52.2	I remember, okay, yeah.
1:53.7	And I was very nervous.
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