The Sweet Smell of a Successful Baseball Club (with a Whiff of History)

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The New York Times national baseball writer James Wagner joins the Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss what happens when the writer tasked with covering the biggest story in baseball has the biggest story in baseball in his backyard. The New York Yankees and New York Mets have the best records in baseball -- and the Yankees are on a historic pace -- so can they keep that up, and have they shifted the balance of power in the majors away from Houston and Los Angeles? Wagner talks with St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold about the art of covering history, developing a nose for a good story (especially the most aromatic of stories), and what the view of the Cardinals is from the current center of the baseball universe. Are the Cardinals part of the industry elite, or have they been nudged to the periphery? The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, 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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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800 by design.
0:16.9	Which seems like an identity flip.
0:18.6	I guess I always thought of them, especially the last few years of them making the playoffs driven by their pitching and their defense, obviously. But now it seems like the pitching has taken obviously a few hits with injuries. Yeah, to see the offense, especially the way the tear that Paul Goldschmidt's been on a tear, I should say, sorry, this has been longer than a tear. It's been going on for months now. And then wonder, like, what differences will be, like, changes internally or from the
0:41.1	outside will be needed at the trade deadline to improve the pitching staff.
0:49.5	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball.
0:52.2	Brought to you by Closit by Design of St. Louis.
0:54.0	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould. Join this week, and I'm thrilled to have it. everybody and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by closet by design of st louis i'm
0:54.1	st louis post dispatch baseball writer derrick gould join this week and i'm thrilled to have him um i've wanted to
1:00.3	have him on the podcast for a while because i admired him from afar shared many a press box with him
1:05.8	had great conversations with him past the time in jupiter during the great summits that went nowhere for the labor negotiations with him.
1:13.1	And that is, of course, the New York Times national baseball writer James Wagner. James, great to talk to you.
1:19.0	Great to talk to you on this format, I guess. And, you know, after, yeah, doing the real-life format for a while now for years.
1:26.1	You know, restaurants, standing outside stadiums,
1:29.3	sitting in press boxes standing on fields. So yeah, great to be here. And thanks for thinking
1:34.1	to me. Yeah, I get I had, spent a lot of time maybe talking to you from the row behind you
1:39.8	in Washington, high above, almost like, you know, Wold and Stalder and the Muppets.
1:44.8	I got to sit up there and kind of offer criticism of the Washington beat riders below.
1:49.4	It was an interesting setup.
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