Best Podcast in Baseball 9.25: The Game's Caretakers Must Take Care

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Fans want baseball's caretakes to take care of the game they love, argues The Sporting News baseball writer Ryan Fagan, a stack of baseball cards nearby and a work stoppage all around. With Major League Baseball's lockout entering its second weekend, two baseball writers meet at a local St. Louis comic book shop to open some baseball cards and talk about the precarious spot the game and the card industry find themselves in, both on the brink on significant change, and possibly not for the better. Fagan joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer and Best Podcast in Baseball host Derrick Goold to talk about the goals of the owners and players in the stalled negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The two writers discuss changes to the draft, to the on-field rules, and to the economy of baseball that could rise from a new CBA. They also discuss baseball cards -- best designs, favorite individual cards -- and the similarity between the game on the field and what's happening with wax packs as Topps, after 70 years of making cards, is on the verge of being replaced by Fanatics. This episode was recorded on location at Apotheosis Comics on Grand Boulevard in St. Louis. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, 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.
0:17.2	What you're afraid of is that the people in charge are going to, for lack of a better word, ruin it.
0:22.6	You know, these people, these people that love baseball and love baseball cards, they want to stay there.
0:26.6	They want to stay involved and they want to stay passionate about it.
0:29.6	And the only way they're going to deviate from that is if they're given a reason to go away.
0:34.6	And a reason to go away could be a lockout that extends into the All-Star Break. A reason to go away. And a reason to go away could be a lockout that extends into the All-Star
0:39.4	Break. A reason to go away from that would be, you know, a fanatics company that changes everything
0:45.6	and alienates its base, right? So what you want to see is the caretakers take care of baseball.
1:00.0	Yeah. The caretakers take care of baseball. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closet
1:03.2	by Design of St. Louis.
1:04.3	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatched baseball writer Derek Gould, joined this week by Sporting News
1:09.6	baseball writer Ryan Fagan, and we are recording on-site.
1:14.2	This is very exciting. We got out of our homes. We got out of the press boxes, and we are at
1:19.4	Apotheosis Comics on Grand Boulevard in St. Louis. We've been opening some baseball card packs.
1:25.7	We've been talking about baseball cards, and we're going to record a podcast here where we talk about baseball.
1:31.1	I thought it was very interesting that one of the early packs that we opened had only the positions.
1:36.1	So it said, like, Cardinals' third baseman, and it's Met's first baseman, and it's Dodgers' number one pitcher.
1:43.8	So basically it was a lockout pack right
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