BPIB World Series preview: Can Toronto slow Dodgers' dominance as they fortify an NL dynasty?
Best Podcast in Baseball
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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As Toronto prepares to host Game 1 of the 121st Fall Classic, Vanderbilt graduate Tyler Kepner joins Mizzou grad Derrick Goold preview the big game this weekend -- not not the one in Nashville. The one to the north. The World Series.
The two baseball writers discuss whether the Los Angeles Dodgers, who may not be ruining baseball, might just be ruining the National League. The Dodgers are playing for their ninth World Series championship -- a total that would tie them with the Boston Red Sox and Nomadic Athletics. It would also put them three titles shy of leapfrogging the Cardinals' historic trademark trait and overtaking them as the pre-eminent National League team when it comes to trophies.
Author of "The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series," Kepner offers perspective on the Dodgers' chances while also detailing what this World Series means to Don Mattingly and how the Blue Jays can overtake the favorites from Hollywood.
There is a story about an autographed baseball, too.
To quote Kepner: "Cue that jaunty music."
Kepner joins the Best Podcast in Baseball from Toronto, where he's covering the World Series as a senior writer for The Athletic and baseball writer for the New York Times.
In its 13th season as one of the first and most widely heard podcasts on baseball and the Cardinals, the Best Podcast in Baseball has reached a new season-high with 30 episodes. Each episode is sponsored weekly by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and lead baseball writer Derrick Goold.
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| 0:56.7 | I'm sitting here in St. Louis. I'm about to talk to Tyler Kepner there in Toronto. |
| 1:00.8 | And of course, that means we are going to discuss the biggest game of them all, Vanderbilt versus Mizzou. |
| 1:10.0 | All right, here we go. Who you got? That's right. He says one off his Vanderbilt. So, M.I.Z? We got, I don't know, man. We got the, isn't game day on campus in Nashville this week? It is. Yeah. We could intimidate you with a force of our fervor down there on campus. |
| 1:29.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:29.7 | It's pretty amazing. |
| 1:30.8 | It's pretty crazy to think how the Vanderbilt football is, like, legit this year. |
| 1:36.0 | Biggest Missou Vanderbilt game of all time. |
| 1:40.0 | So how about we plunge into the World Series? |
| 1:43.0 | All right. |
| 1:43.5 | Let's go. |
| 1:52.6 | Okay. So how about we plunge into the World Series? All right. Let's go. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design of St. Louis. |
| 1:57.3 | I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatchball writer Derek Gould joined this week by a senior |
| 2:01.7 | writer at the Athletic Longtime New York Times baseball writer Tyler Kepner, who is set up in Toronto |
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