Cardinals catching heat for Willson Contreras decision, a Cubs view

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Where better to go for background and informed viewpoints on the Cardinals decision to reduce All-Star catcher Willson Contreras' time behind the plate than to two of the people who covered him the longest as the man behind the mask for the World Series champion Cubs? Patrick Mooney, baseball writer at The Athletic, and Gordon Wittenmyer, longtime Cubs beat writer for the Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere, join the Best Podcast in Baseball, hosted by St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold, to discuss the Cardinals' choice, how the Cubs developed and managed Contreras at catcher, and how this while kerfuffle feels familiar around Wrigley Field, like a Cubby Occurrence. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, is a production of StlToday.com, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800 by design.
0:16.9	After watching the Cardinals be, you know, professional and competent for so long, like this, from our perspective, I think, looks like some of the cubby occurrences and some of the dark days, I really feel.
0:31.7	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball.
0:37.8	Brought to you by Clauses by Design of St. Louis.
0:39.6	I'm St. Louis Post Dispatch.
0:40.8	Baseball writer Derek Gould.
0:42.3	And I know I know I've been delinquent in this, had a few things going on, namely a road
0:48.8	trip that went awry, an eight game losing street, 10 games out of first place at the end of April,
0:55.9	and then the Wilson Contrars saga.
0:58.0	So there's been a lot of copy to write.
1:01.2	But I thought, who better to go to for perspective on all that has befallen the Cardinals
1:07.4	in the first five weeks of the season than Then the view from Wrigley Field.
1:13.0	I'm here with Patrick Mooney, senior writer at the athletic.
1:16.5	Gordon Whitmire, longtime Cubs beat rider at the Chicago Sun Times and elsewhere.
1:22.1	And what, Twins beat rider.
1:25.4	Angels, Mariners, he's just a nomadic baseball writer you know him he's been a guest
1:30.0	here before so i'll start there with you gordon what do you make from afar of the wilson
1:35.3	contraris saga especially as it happened just before he came back to rigley field well i'm going to
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