Best Podcast in Baseball 9.28: New Year's Revolution

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

When baseball emerges from its long, cold, inactive winter, and players take the field again in spring, what should the game look like? Start with more improvisation of talent, less calculation of risks. That was the answer given by Kevin Wheeler, broadcaster at KMOX/1120 AM. He tackled the on-field product first, saving the off-field economics for another conversation. As baseball has shifted from probability management to risk management, the product and entertainment value on the field has shifted. Do good teams draw fans, or do teams also have to play an appealing style of baseball, and if every team is drawing from the same numbers does that mean they all play the same? Dullsville. In the final BPIB of 2021, Wheeler and host Derrick Goold, baseball writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, talk about the changing dynamics of baseball on the field, from youth to majors, from development to debut, and how when the lockout ends and play resumes some changes (including one simple tweak that would address tanking, too) will give the team a jolt. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold. Have a happy, healthy holiday season. BPIB will return in 2022.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
0:05.6	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	To me, the expanded playoffs makes all the sense in the world.
0:20.0	Derek, it's hope.
0:20.6	If you're a team that's in the NL West and your job is to catch the Dodgers who are going to spend twice as much as you every year for the next 25 years.
0:30.6	If you're a team that's been a crappy team for 10 years or 15 years, what's more likely that your team will eventually be able to win 85 games
0:40.2	or that they're going to eventually be able to win 95?
0:42.3	People need to have some hope.
0:47.1	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball,
0:49.5	brought to you by Closet by Design of St. Louis.
0:52.6	I'm St. Louis Post-Datch, baseball writer Derek Gould.
0:55.1	Join this week for the last podcast of the 2021 calendar by KMOX's own.
1:04.6	Well, now you're like a recurring guest on this podcast, right?
1:08.6	You're like, I don't know if BPIB has a five-timers club like
1:12.2	SNL, but if we do, the first jacket is, as far as guests go, is definitely going to Kevin
1:19.9	Wheeler. Kevin, great to talk with you. Hope the holidays are going well for you. Thank you for
1:24.3	coming on here again. Glad to do it, man. I'd be, you know, honored to come on anytime.
1:29.9	I mean, you know that.
1:30.6	We have a good time.
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