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Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

After a discussion of Scott Rolen's election to the Hall of Fame and the coming parade of third basemen to Cooperstown, the Best Podcast in Baseball dives into a topic looming (huge) on the horizon. As spring training nears, one of the biggest storylines in Major League Baseball is how the game will be played. The bigger story may be how the game is watched. There are rising issues with the current broadcast model. Streaming has to modernize. And the gambling industry is becoming a major presence in professional sports -- and could be at any point for the teams in Missouri. That means betting, even micro-betting on individual pitch outcomes, could be part of the near future. There's a lot of money at stake. To make sense of this, Mark Saxon, baseball writer and former Cardinals beat writer and now reporter at Better Collectiv, joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss how the increasing presence of the gaming industry at games and on broadcasts of games will shape how fans watch games and how reporters cover the games. 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	The teams, they're not putting that genie back in the bottle.
0:20.7	We're where we are and it's moving in that direction, you know, until the Supreme Court does something different, which I don't expect.
0:28.2	This is kind of the world we live in now.
0:41.8	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis.
0:56.9	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined this week just before I had to spring training with a blast from the past, a bit of voice from more recent years of Cardinal coverage is of course mark saxon now a reporter and writer at better collective but you know him well from his years on the baseball
1:02.3	beat with both ESPN and the athletic market's great to catch up and we have we have Hall of
1:09.2	Fame results to talk about oh my my goodness. Always a fun time
1:13.4	a year to talk baseball and it's good to be with you DG. I feel like we're at like a bar near
1:19.2	in Cincinnati or Milwaukee or one of all those cities we traveled around together to and
1:25.7	we're just kind of shooting the breeze so here we are again
1:28.4	those long nights in jupiter right where we would just wander over from the ballpark to one of the
1:33.9	places there um yes so you had roland uh on your ballot rolling uh scott rowland uh eight-time gold glove
1:43.2	winner cardinal for seven years uh champion with the Cardinals in 06, an All-Star with the Cardinals in each of his first four seasons with the Cardinals, elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame off to Cooperstown.
1:59.0	And our mutual friend, Tyler Kepner, made the point that he got in by five votes, which is fitting because five is the number for the score he uses for his position.
2:09.9	An underrepresented position in the hall, as we've discussed a lot on this podcast. He's the 18th third baseman. You voted for him.
2:19.1	Were you, how'd you feel like his chances were as you put pen to paper?
2:24.5	Did you expect this rise to continue for him?
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