These are the cold, hard questions 'resetting' Cardinals must answer at Winter Warm-up

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

At the end of year press conference where the Cardinals announced a pivot toward youth and debuted their buzzword "reset" to describe a reduction in payroll and commitment to development, St. Louis' veteran sportscaster Randy Karraker asked what has changed for the club. It was just six years ago that ownership said a .500 team was acceptable in other markets, but just a winning record wasn't enough in St. Louis, where division titles were the goal and National League pennants fly high.

Karraker's question prompted a discussion on whether the Cardinals are changing expectations and their brand.

That is the launching point for a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball as host and baseball writer Derrick Goold asks Karraker what questions fans should ask at the team's annual "kickoff" to the season.

The 28th annual Cardinals Care Winter Warm-up will be over the holiday weekend at Ballpark Village and Busch Stadium, and three times fans will have a chance to ask Cardinals leadership directly about this shift in direction and stagnant winter. Karraker and Goold outline the questions that could be asked, the answers they're likely to get, and what all of this means is at stake for the year ahead. Karraker put it bluntly: The current Cardinals leadership hatched the Golden Goose, nurtured and benefited from it for at least two decades, and now run the risk of losing it.

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. It appears weekly wherever you subscribe or listen to podcasts and is part of the newspaper's Constant Cardinals Coverage.

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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.
0:16.9	The Cardinals on the precipice of turning baseball heaven Cardinal Nation into something that's
0:24.7	pretty unrecognizable. Unfortunately, for all of the good that they've done. And I will never
0:30.8	say that what the family and Mo has done is fantastic. I mean, it's been an incredible 25-year run.
0:38.0	But it's the last thing.
0:39.3	We still remember Willie May is falling out in the outfield.
0:42.2	If this falls apart, the legacy could be that they built, they hatched the golden goose.
0:49.8	They took advantage of the golden goose and then killed the golden goose.
0:53.7	The golden goose and then killed the golden goose.
1:07.7	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis.
1:15.1	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould, joined this week by the Dean of St. Louis radio personalities,
1:21.6	a sportscaster, well, not quite emeritus, but certainly on your way to emeritus here in St. Louis.
1:22.8	Randy Carrier.
1:25.6	Randy, thank you so much for coming on and talking with me.
1:30.9	I wanted to have you on because of a question you asked.
1:40.3	I believe it was, and you can correct me, at the press conference that kind of set the stage for this reset.
1:47.3	And you wondered about the standards that DeWitts had set in the past for what was expected and how they could square the circle of what they were selling now. Can you walk me through
1:53.6	why that was the question you want to ask? And then, of course, the question you asked.
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