Tarps off! BPIB is back on: Have Cardinals found their voice as a contender?
Best Podcast in Baseball
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Keep your shirts on, the Best Podcast in Baseball is back.
And just in time, too.
Good vibes have engulfed the Cardinals after returing from a successful swing through California to an eletrcic weekend at Busch Stadium, thanks to the fortuitous pairing of the Stephen F. Austin club baseball team, a walk-off win Friday night, and a mid-game revival Saturday against Kansas City. For several years, the host of the Best Podcast in Baseball has stumped and advocated for a change in the atmosphere at Busch -- from the need for a victory anthem to the idea of transplanting the supporter section from City SC to Busch, even for a weekend.
Well, it's all happening.
The students from SFA created that section organically, the Cardinals have adopted a victory anthem, and they're playing a style of baseball that is producing wins. Heck, they even have a home run prop.
BPIB asks, have they found their voice as a contender?
Host Derrick Goold, who misplaced his voice for several weeks, welcomes KMOX/104.1 FM star and BPIB fixture Kevin Wheeler discuss what elements of the Cardinals' success and the atmosphere at the ballpark has staying power.
Also discussed:
- Wheeler suggests that the Cardinals have received produuction from Jordan Walker equivalent to a $40-milliion free-agent addition.
- Goold details his breakdown on the three types of statistics: narrative, qualitative, and predictive. And how each applies to discussing analytics for players, fans, and writers, and of course team executives, who camp out in the predictive category.
- The challenge of development when it comes to a character like Grogu as his big-screen debut approaches.
This is the way BPIB returns
In its 14th season as one of the first and most widely heard podcasts on baseball and the Cardinals, the Best Podcast in Baseball has reached a new season-high with 30 episodes. Each episode is sponsored weekly by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and lead baseball writer Derrick Goold.
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| 0:31.3 | podcast and baseball's back and to help me get through it with this scratchy voice of mine i've turned to the best talker i know that's right it's kevin wheeler's return to bp i bp i b to help me get through it with this scratchy voice of mine, I've turned to the best talker. |
| 0:38.4 | I know that's right. |
| 0:39.5 | It's Kevin Wheeler's return to BPIB to help us kind of look at what's happened at Bush Stadium. |
| 0:45.3 | And can it last? |
| 0:47.0 | Cue the music. Hello, everybody, and welcome to a best podcast in baseball, brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis. |
| 1:07.1 | This is sports rider. |
| 1:08.6 | Let me try that again. Sorry. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm out of practice, Wheeler. |
| 1:14.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:15.7 | Welcome to the best podcast in baseball. |
| 1:17.2 | Brought you by Clauses by Design. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm St. Louis Post Dispatch Baseball writer Derek Gould. |
| 1:20.9 | And I apologize for the long absence from BPIB. |
| 1:24.4 | I have a good reason. |
| 1:25.8 | I'm sure it's a shared reason for a lot of folks. |
| 1:28.9 | I got absolutely whacked by allergies and completely lost my voice. I could not carry on a |
| 1:37.1 | conversation for like more than seven or eight minutes or get through a press conference |
| 1:42.8 | without flurries of coughs and sneezes, |
| 1:46.2 | much to the chagrin of a few of my fellow reporters who, |
| 1:51.1 | at least one of whom really took issue with it. |
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