Best Podcast in Baseball 9.22: Down to a Two Team Race (for 2022)

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

So what's better -- the adrenaline rush that comes from tanking a few years to try and peak with a great team in a few years, or the steady drumbeat of contention without the flare of high picks and lofty free-agent pursuits? A strange thing has happened in the National League Central within the first few weeks of the season: The next season appears to be over for three teams. With the Cubs ejecting their core, the Reds dropping salary, and the Pirates in another year of their multi-year rebuilding project, the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers are left with what appears, today, like a two-team race for the division crown. Oh, and the Brewers are pondering a trade of their best reliever, All-Star Josh Hader. This must be what Scott Boras meant about the 'race to the bottom.' Gordon Wittenmyer, baseball writer and Cubs beat reporter for NBCSports Chicago, joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick for a Best Podcast in Baseball episode to discuss the division race, tanking, and whether the Cubs are any better than when they started almost a decade ago -- or are they worse? The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closest by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:17.2	I like believing my team's trying.
0:19.1	Put it that way.
0:20.0	So do you think the Cardinals model is better?
0:22.5	I think, yeah.
0:23.4	I think it's not only better.
0:25.2	I think it's obviously got more integrity.
0:27.9	If every team did it, the game, I mean, that would go miles toward fixing what's wrong with the game these days.
0:35.2	Every year a fan can go into a season thinking, you know, if things fall right, you know,
0:41.5	we're not going to be bad, but you're always there.
0:45.9	Of course that's a better model.
0:47.8	Of course it is.
0:49.6	That's extraordinary to be able to have year after year after year where almost every game means something.
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1:03.5	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball.
1:05.8	Brought to you by Closet by Design of St. Louis.
1:08.2	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, coming this week from the general manager's meetings and kind of getting the podcast back up
1:14.6	on the ground after the usual delay because of all the travel around the world series
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