It's become a traditional mile marker for the season -- at least when it comes to local St. Louis media. Flag Day. The first day of the baseball season when it's appropriate to check the standings. And that tradition started with one man. Mr. Flag Day. KMOX's Mike Claiborne. In a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to by Lumberlend Co., St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold visits with Claiborne -- and one squeaky ballpark door -- to get a state of the Cardinals union as Flag Day arrives. (This was almost, almost episode 6.14. Imagine that?) Claiborne has a one word description for what he expects to see when he checks out the standings on Flag Day -- and that's about the only easy answer when it comes to the Cardinals and their spot in the standings. The podcast ends with some Red Schoendienst stories as St. Louis prepares to memorialize "Mr. Cardinal."