Gateway to Baseball Heaven: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  There's a week of summer camp in the books but Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) continue to focus on the virus and the testing that goes along with it.  Are cases that pop up now concerning since they come after the environment was sealed?  Should MLB offer its testing facility to the rest of the country?  How accurate are the tests anyway?  Eventually they turn to the play on the field, though no real conclusions can be drawn.  Less than two weeks until Opening Day....if we can get there!

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  We've got players at Busch and Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) are here for it.  Of course, trying to figure out what things are going to look like with the 'rona hanging over everyone's heads is a different story.  Will the Cardinals have enough players ready for Opening Day?  What should the makeup of the Springfield group look like?  Is it surprising that no Cardinal has opted out?  All this and much more as these two grapple with making sense of baseball in 2020.

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  We've taking our first steps into the larger world of 2020 baseball season as the Cardinals have announced the first part of the player pool that the 26 man roster will be made up from.  Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Bat, @tarawellman) talk more about the players that haven't been announced yet, speculating on who might be at Springfield as depth and development.  They also discuss what this season is going to look like and the loss of John Brebbia as well as what the media coverage might look like as well.  Start the countdown, folks!

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  There's plenty of it this week as Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) try to keep up with the breaking news that there will be, from all accounts, a 2020 season starting the last week of July.  Did the players tarnish their case by not accepting the owners' terms?  How invested can we be in this season?  What about all the "health and safety" issues?  Join these two as they try to make sense of it all!

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis about the St. Louis Cardinals.  Well, any week that there is news to bring you, of course.  After this week, Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) might not have much to talk about as baseball looks to possibly shoot itself in both feet.  How did the commissioner go from 100% sure the game was returning to less than that after the players told him to make a schedule?  Can any trust be regained between the two sides?  And it's hard to remember now but there was a draft this week, so Daniel and Tara talk a bit about those guys walking into this sort of situation.  It's a mess, but we hope you'll come discuss the mess with us!

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  Well, when there is news to share, of course.  Right now, baseball seems to be in a holding pattern as the clock ticks louder and louder toward making a decision for both sides.  Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) discuss the possibility of a short season and what that means for the players and fans.  There's also talk of things missed, as the London Series should be coming up this weekend.  Finally, they reflect on the new outspokenness of Jack Flaherty.

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  A little breaking news in this one, as Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) find out about the players' proposal to the owners mid-show.  They try to break that down this new information, but before that they talk about the odds of any sort of agreement happening.  All of that plus what the week was like for minor leaguers.  Spoiler: it wasn't good.

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  This week, Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) get into the latest additions to the Cardinal Hall of Fame.  How do they feel about those choices--both who made it and who didn't--and how is the Cardinal Hall of Fame trending.  Then they discuss (again) the possible return of the game and the hoops that might be presenting this week for both sides to jump through.  Will we see baseball?  And will it have an open stage or will the NBA and the NHL encroach?  Come and find out!

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  As the traditional first marker of the season, Memorial Day, gets ever closer, Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) talk about the released/leaked proposal by the owners that covers all of the health aspects of returning to play.  Is it enough?  Does this lengthy document indicate that maybe the game shouldn't return?  What happens to the players that don't want to return?  So many questions that go around with all of this.  Daniel and Tara don't have the answers, but give the show a listen anyway!

Every week, two of the Best Fans in Baseball (TM) bring you all the news and analysis you need about the St. Louis Cardinals.  This week, Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Tara (Birds on the Black, @tarawellman) probably don't make any friends in the circle of billionaires called MLB owners.  They get after them for their plan to reduce the draft to five rounds and then on the possibility they'd scrap the season rather than pay the players their prorated contract value.  If you like rants, this could be your show!