"This has been a curveball for us and our jobs," begins St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson before discussing how to cover sports in a time without sports when there is a much larger, more serious story. The answer? It's the same as when you're covering a sporting event: Write the people. Find the heroes. The real ones this time. Frederickson rejoins StlToday.com baseball writer Derrick Goold and the Best Podcast in Baseball for a discussion about cake -- the gift of it and whether Major League Baseball is telling minor-league players to go eat some. As what would have been opening day at Busch Stadium approaches, the two sportswriters also discuss the news of the week (agreements between MLB and the union) and what will be missing when there isn't a game downtown on April 2. Tony La Russa offered Frederickson some advice. The Best Podcast in Baseball, brought to you weekly by Closets by Design, is a production of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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