Can Cardinals change their 'narrative' with another 'shirsey worthy' addition?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When asked at the end-of-season preview/review press conference whether he had any frustration with the Cardinals lack of wins and appearances in the National League Championship Series since 2014, John Mozeliak pushed back: "That's your narrative," the president of the baseball operations told St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Benjamin Hochman. So, let's discuss narrative. In a brand new edition of the Best Podcast in Baseball, Hochman joins baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss the facts behind his "narrative" and what Mozeliak's comments about adding a catcher, adding a bat, and adding payroll say about the Cardinals' willingness to augment their time-tested strategy in order to hang with the high-spending contenders in the National League. One answer? Add a "shirsey-seller," says Hochman. That is a player who will sell merchandise the day after he joins the team. Is there a "shirsey worthy" player out there? BPIB takes a look before concluding with a conversation about the coming changes at coaches and whether it's a trend that should alarm the Cardinals. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, 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.
0:05.6	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.
0:17.1	There would be a simultaneous pride in the way the team plays in the regular season and the flip side, the simultaneous, I don't know if the word is anger or frustration, how the team continually doesn't make the NLCS or even win a game in the NLCS since 2014?
0:36.6	I think that's your narrative. It's not mine. Mine is that we win baseball games. We get a chance to play in October. A lot of teams can't say that. And we'll continue to try to put together a roster that gets us there and we hopefully, you know, have more success
0:55.6	in the future.
1:02.4	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Clause,
1:05.5	by Design of St. Louis.
1:06.5	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, joined this week by the guy who asked one of the more compelling questions and got one of the more probably memorable answers, if not compelling answers, of the Cardinals postseason preview, review, review press conference.
1:25.0	And that is, of course, San st louis post dispatch sports columnist
1:28.2	benjamin hockman benjamin thank you for taking the time um what take us through the question
1:36.1	and sort of the thought you went into the press conference with john mcle mrs
1:41.1	president of the operative yeah honestly dick i the I, you know, sometimes you can't sleep, you're thinking
1:48.5	about the next day at work.
1:49.7	And I just started writing different mindsets I had and different questions I wanted to ask
1:54.3	the night before.
1:55.8	And it was just one question.
1:58.9	And basically, it's acknowledging that, yes, the St. Louis Cardinals are always good.
2:05.1	They're over 500 every year.
2:08.0	But if, as Oliver Marmoul has stated, the plan and the goal is to win the World Series,
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