4.8 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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"See a Different Game" was the motto of The Sporting News for a long time, and for a long time The Sporting News was known as the Bible of Baseball. Like everything, The Sporting News has changed, baseball coverage has changed, but more and more the best coverage remains true to that directive, "See a Different Game." And the best season for telling those kind of stories? Well, it just might be spring training. Stan McNeal, veteran baseball writer and editor and a senior staff writer at Cardinals Magazine, joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to talk storytelling in a brand new BPIB. McNeal details the process of seeking stories for the club's official publication. He discusses going to Stephen Piscotty's hometown to see another side of the former Cardinals outfielder, about getting Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt in a room and see how it goes if the interviewer just listens to two infielders, and, for this year, what it was like tracking down the legend of Sonny Gray, the Cardinals' new leader of the rotation. McNeal spent nearly a decade covering baseball at The Sporting News and years in San Diego as an editor and sportswriter. He has seen the industry shift, baseball writing change -- but for the better? 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. |
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0:14.4 | That's 1-800-by-design. |
0:16.8 | That story isn't about Sunny Gray's sweeper necessarily. |
0:19.9 | It's about Sunny Gray, the high school legend in Samerna, Tennessee. This is the guy that Cardinal fans are going to like. Tell me more. |
0:26.6 | The legend of Sunny Gray. Well, there's several good stories. |
0:36.6 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Closets by Design. |
0:40.4 | I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined today here behind Home Plate at Field |
0:47.1 | 1 of the Cardinals Roger Dean Stadium Player Development Complex, Spring Training Complex, whatever you want to call it. |
0:53.9 | And I'm with Stan McNeil, a long-time baseball editor, baseball writer, sports editor, sports |
1:00.4 | writer. |
1:01.0 | I got it all covered. |
1:02.0 | It was with the San Diego Union Tribune. |
1:04.1 | Most recently was with the sporting news covering baseball. |
1:06.8 | And now is a senior staff writer for the Cardinals magazine. |
1:10.7 | Stan, thank you very much for joining me here. My pleasure. You know, all those things. Just... And now is a senior staff writer for the Cardinals magazine stand. |
1:10.9 | Thank you very much for joining me here. |
1:12.8 | My pleasure. |
1:13.7 | You know, all those things. |
1:14.7 | It just shows that I'm old. |
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