Best Podcast in Baseball 9.33: The Frustration Before the Frenzy

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In a predictable but poetic twist, the best way to recapture the enthusiasm of a fanbase after the ice-chill of a work stoppage for the Cardinals, that old-school National League ball club, may be through an American League gizmo. Is the DH the Cardinals way to create excitement coming out of a lockout? That question forms the backbone of a conversation between St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson and baseball writer Derrick Goold during a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball. The lengthy delays between negotiations and attempt to create urgency is discussed in the first 25 minutes before Frederickson and Goold explore how the Cardinals specifically can energize a frustrated fanbase. There will be a frenzy of transactions once the lockout ends, but is that enough? There will be questions about the Cardinals' offense, so is answering them with a name-brand DH enough? The Cardinals are keen on their prospects, but is selling the future any way to regain the fans' interest in the present? In its 10th year, the Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, remains 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.
0:17.5	If I go on the 28th, what would that do for you?
0:28.3	Well, I usually go down the first week of March, or usually on my way down on my birthday,
0:35.2	which is March 1st.
0:36.1	So that's been throwing me off
0:37.8	because I, I don't have any plans. And it's, uh, people keep asking me, as I'm sure they are
0:44.1	you, when I'm going down. And it usually go down toward the end of spring training. Yeah.
0:47.8	So now it's like going down for the beginning. If I go down at the same time, I'll be there for the beginning, if there is a beginning.
0:54.4	Yeah.
1:00.3	Or else we'll just be down there, like, I don't know, playing shuffleboard waiting for players to show. Wait, you know where there's a shuffleboard court?
1:02.5	Yeah, if you actually, it's actually a law in Florida.
1:06.0	If you throw a baseball, you have to be able to hit a shuffleboard court.
1:11.9	It's actually, it's somewhere in the laws.
1:16.3	I'm going to get an Airbnb, but I'm going to click laundry, Wi-Fi, shuffleboard.
1:24.1	Maybe we'll actually be able to go to the beach this year.
1:26.8	Nope.
1:27.6	Oh, no, okay.
1:28.6	No, no.
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