Best Podcast in Baseball 9.27: Big Stories of 2021, Bigger Storylines for 2022

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Should St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson be able to decorate a window at his house with a "major award"? He turns this question -- which definitely has legs -- over to the listeners of the Best Podcast in Baseball. And that's just the beginning. As BPIB nears its 10th year in the podcast game, Frederickson joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss the biggest stories of the past year for the St. Louis Cardinals. The acquisition of Nolan Arenado, a record 17-game winning streak, and the abrupt, confusing firing of the manager -- any of those would have been the biggest story of a non-championship season. And they all happened in 2021. The answer on what was the biggest shapes how the Cardinals should be viewed in 2022, and the podcast explores the rising expectations, the storylines, and who specifically is in the spotlight as the Cardinals also reach a decade milestone. That is, a decade without a title. 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.
0:05.0	Update your closet, garage, office, pantry, and more.
0:09.0	Imagine your home totally organized with closets by design.
0:12.0	Call 1-800 by design. That's 1-800 by design.
0:17.0	The story this season is, okay, what is the front office going to do differently?
0:21.8	Or is this simply going to be a thing now where the manager starts to feel that pressure where he needs to win bigger?
0:28.1	He starts to try to apply that pressure to the front office.
0:31.0	As soon as that happens, he's gone.
0:32.3	Somebody else who's grateful to have the job comes in.
0:34.5	Is that going to be the treadmill now?
0:41.6	Yeah. grateful to have the job comes in. Is that going to be the treadmill now? Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by Claws
0:44.6	by Design of St. Louis. I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball artist Derek Gould. Join this week.
0:48.5	We already know because you heard his voice at the very beginning. So no pressure, Ben, but I need
0:52.5	you to say something snappy that I can use as an
0:55.2	intro. And of course, I'm talking about St. Louis Post Dispatch Sports columnist, man of many podcasts,
1:00.9	man of numerous chats, and man of multiple media outlets, Ben Fredericksson. Happy holidays, Ben.
1:08.0	This can be the part that you used to start the podcast because I'd like to hear from the listeners.
1:14.0	I'm in a dispute with my significant other, and it has to do with Christmas.
1:19.1	I try to be very, I would say, inclusive with my Christmas decorating.
1:25.1	I don't say much.
1:27.2	Whatever she wants goes, for the most part. But I want a Christmas decorating. I don't say much. Whatever she wants goes for the most part.
1:29.3	But I want a Christmas leg lamp from a Christmas story.
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