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Episode 180: Starting Off Another Season

Season 7!  Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) are joined by Jeff Jones (Belleville News Democrat, @jmjones) to talk about the season that was, the offseason that is, and the season that is to come.  What's it like trying to cover a team during a pandemic?  What are the dynamics around Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina and will they return to St. Louis?  Who is one player to watch in the coming season and what will said season look like?  All this and much more as we start another fun year of talking baseball at the Musial statue!

Episode 179: Good Riddance to a Bad Year

One last show for 2020!  Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) are joined by Jason Hill (Viva El Birdos, @JPHill_Cards) as they look at the limited pool of Cardinal news for the last month.  What are the Cards thinking about with the legends?  Could Kolten Wong return?  Will anyone at all be joining the birds on the bat?  The guys then go through some 2020 awards before handing out a resolution for 2021.  Thanks for joining us this year and we look forward to better days!

Episode 177: Reviewing the Squad

Call this show an audio counterpart to Daniel's (C70 At The Bat, @C70) Exit Interview series.  After some general talk about the quietness of the week, he and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) go through the first part of the interview posts.  What kind of grade should Harrison Bader get?  Is there any hope for Matt Carpenter?  What can you make of Jack Flaherty's season?  All that and much more as we work our way to the holiday season!

Episode 175: The Wong Road

After a couple of weeks off, Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) return to find the agenda stuffed with things to talk about.  Not all of them are Cardinals-related, like Justin Turner's conduct after the end of the World Series, but most of them are.  Kolten Wong's option was declined this week as the Cardinals started their offseason work.  Was that the right move?  What does this mean for the 2021 staff?  Are Yadi and Waino returning or are they going to join up with that fresh face in Chicago?  And is the return of Jeff Albert surprising, disappointing, or neither?  All that and some other topics in an oversized MMM!

Episode 172: It All Comes Down To This....Maybe

We're just three days away from the end of the season.  Or is it four?  Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) try to sort out what can happen and what hopefully won't happen this weekend and possibly Monday in Detroit.  They also get into the current issue of the day, the status of Carlos Martinez, as well as the 2000-hit man Yadier Molina and the pitching staff in general.  Lots of things to cover so come join us!
Theme song by Some Guy Named Robb

Episode 169: We'll Talk About the Cardinals All Night Long

It's Episode 200 of Meet Me at Musial (if you count the predecessor Best Dans in Baseball) and to honor the occasion, Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) debut their new theme song!  They also talk about the ups and downs of Cardinal baseball and there have been a lot of them over the last week.  From being blown out to blowing a team out, from bad losses to Adam Wainwright's masterpiece, there was plenty to discuss.  Plus the guys get into the issues the Cardinals will need to address in the near term.  (Daniel would also like to apologize for sounding distracted at times, but there was a lot going on at his house during this recording.)
Theme song by Some Guy Named Robb (www.sgnrobb.com)

Episode 168: Playing Down To Their Level

It wasn't the best week of Cardinal baseball, but Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) are here to talk about it anyway.  Losing three of five to the Royals and the Pirates doesn't necessarily infuse anyone with hope and the guys talk about the main problem--the lack of any sort of reliable offense.  Is there any hope?  How can you judge anyone in a season as strange as this?  They also talk about the pitching staff and some of Mike Shildt's more questionable recent moves.  Plus a little news about next week's show!

Episode 167: Holding Their Own

The Cardinals have played a lot of baseball over the last week and Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) are here to talk about it!  With nine games--almost double what the Cards had played to this point last week--to discuss, the guys talk about what this past week meant to the club and what the coming week may mean to them.  There's talk about the slow start of Dylan Carlson, which players might survive this crazy 40-man roster carousel, and what the return of some players off the COVID IL will mean for the club.  Lots to talk about so come join us!

Episode 166: Let's Try This Again

One week after it looked like the Cardinals were returning to the field, there's still been no baseball for the St. Louis squad.  That looks to change on Saturday as the Cards will start their exhausting run to October in Chicago against the White Sox.  With Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) away on another engagement, Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) is fortunate enough to be joined by Alex Crisafulli (Birds On The Black, @alexcards79) to talk about all things baseball.  Daniel and Alex talk about what to expect from a team that hasn't even worked out in a week jumping right into a doubleheader, what Dylan Carlson can do and what fans should expect of him, and the strange sensation of having no real idea who is on the roster right now.  There are diversions and discussions along the way as two might-as-well-be 80 year old men discuss a very edgy and untraditional year!

Episode 164: Corona Comes for the Cards

It may have felt like it would happen sometime, but that doesn't make it any more palatable when it does.  Two Cardinals tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, delaying the beginning of the Milwaukee series and throwing a little more fire on an already chaotic season.  Will it be a completed season?  Daniel (C70 At The Bat, @C70) and Allen (Red Dirt Redbird, @amedlock1) discuss that and many other issues coming out of this news, including whether the plans to play Saturday make sense or not.  Then they turn their attention to more bad news, also known as the series in Minnesota.  How much longer will Harrison Bader be out there?  Can the offense get it going and who else might be to blame?  All this and much more!