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The Tim McKernan Show

Ep. 40 - Bill DeWitt III

The Tim McKernan Show

TMA STL | Hubbard Radio

Society & Culture, Sports

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The St. Louis Cardinals President sat down with Tim at Busch Stadium in early 2018 to discuss a variety of team, sports, and civic related topics ... including:   Details on what's coming with Phase 2 of Ballpark Village What impact has BPV had on other businesses downtown Reaction to the Rams departure and relationship with Stan What's the possibility of relocation or expansion in MLB Why stability and sustained competitiveness is their goal How does he respond when fans call the ownership 'cheap' Discussing sports talk radio and uniform / hat combinations Wayne Gretzky pairing him up in golf with Dustin Johnson   Please support our sponsors: The Home Loan Expert, Ryan Kelley James Carlton Agency (State Farm) Gateway Buick GMC   Follow us on Twitter: @McKernanShow @tmckernan   Like us on Facebook: Facebook.com/TheTimMcKernanShow   Special thanks to Story of the Year for providing our theme music.  Please rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast.   Feedback is always welcome:  tmckernan@insidestl.com

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0:00.0

Yes, yes. Welcome in to another edition of the Tim McKernan show on the Inside

0:17.8

STL Podcast Network. Live on podcasts from the Home Loan Expert.com studios. I am your host,

0:25.0

Tim McKernan alongside executive producer of the Inside

0:30.0

STL Podcast Network, John Seymour, also known as the C.L. Podcasts. network, also known as the C monster.

0:34.7

So let me do a reveal here.

0:38.5

Assuming you listen to these in order, which really isn't a fair assumption,

0:41.9

because I bet there are a lot of people who are going to listen to this interview with Bill DeWitt the third, the St. Louis Cardinals president, and maybe did not listen to the Dave Peacock interview about the Rams relocation process and the

0:56.0

MLS vote failing in St. Louis.

0:59.8

But I also know a large number of people did listen to it because I see the numbers.

1:03.2

But the point is this, is we drove out to interview Dave Peacock.

1:08.3

I was with the Seamaster and I said, I think this is going to be the first of our interviews that gets some

1:18.9

criticism and this is before we even did the interview And my reasoning was I thought that many people, understandably

1:29.2

so, and I would put, you know, myself and others are so angry about what happened and feeling like it was

1:37.3

a rigged game that you want to hear Dave Peacock get fired up but I know Dave Peacock's style is to be analytical

1:50.5

and take the emotion out of it and then also I believe he may have reserved some of his comments because of the pending litigation.

1:59.0

So the natural response from those who aren't familiar with those circumstances

2:05.0

that I decided would be to get angry that they didn't get blood.

2:09.0

Surprisingly, I have to tell you, the interview didn't get that response.

2:16.5

There were some people that said they could tell Peacock was guarded, but I got a bunch of emails. People really enjoyed it, which was was good because I was kind of like, yeah, people might take it out on me and that comes with the territory. It's fine. You do this for a couple decades, you get used to it.

2:30.0

But I also know when circumstances are under my control and out of my control and

2:37.2

fortunately people recognize it for what it was and they enjoyed hearing the

2:41.6

background of the story. So that was great.

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