Dominant Astros are World Series champs. But are they Fall Classics like great Cardinals clubs?

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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What does it take to turn a World Series or a World Series champion into a Fall Classic? Well, Lance Berkman sure helps. New York Times national baseball columnist and New York Times bestselling author Tyler Kepner joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss his new book, "The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series." In it, Kepner plunges into the stories generated by World Series, revealing the history of Major League Baseball's championship through themes and personalities, not a linear retracing of box scores. With Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold, Kepner discusses the Cardinals prominent place in World Series history, how this year's Astros fit with the all-time World Series teams and tales, and what to make of Jeff Luhnow's influence over their run of pennants under the shadow of a sign-stealing scandal. Oh, and Berkman's role in the 2011 World Series is not to be overlooked. Plus, stay to hear Kepner capture the risk the Cardinals run of not responding to fan pressure and then wow with one of his talents -- instant recall of the final outs of World Series. 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.
0:05.7	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.
0:17.1	It's a much more demanding baseball town than I think that America gives it credit for.
0:22.9	They can't really take the, you know, ease up on that because I feel like, you know, the minute
0:30.0	the Cardinals or the fans, you know, let up on it, then they could, they're in danger
0:35.6	of becoming like the Reds or the Pirates or some
0:37.9	team work, you know, with another great baseball tradition, but that just can't, can't sustain
0:44.4	anything. And the, the Cardinals' ability to sustain what they have is, I think, what makes them
0:51.3	really special there.
1:09.6	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Clasas by Design of St. Louis.
1:12.0	I'm St. Louis Post-Datch Baseball writer Derek Gould.
1:15.4	You know the, what did you call it, jaunty music?
1:19.0	Is that what it was you referred to all those years ago?
1:20.1	Yes, it's very jaunty.
1:21.2	Jaunty, jaunty.
1:26.2	That, of course, is New York Times baseball columnist, national baseball columnist,
1:28.4	author Tyler Kepner.
1:34.5	We've had a chance to talk every so often, I guess, probably pretty regularly at the World Series for the best podcast in baseball.
1:36.3	This is the 10th year of this podcast, if you can believe that, Tyler.
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