In the first hour of tonight’s show, Matt Pauley has to be the bearer of bad news as he dissects today’s Cardinals loss to the Giants as they get swept in the three-game home series. Benjamin Hochman, sports columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, joins the show to discuss the ongoing struggle, and what potential changes he’d like to see made to turn this thing around.

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