April 13, 2015

Segment 2 - Rick Hummel, Jeff Ponder, Brian Haenchen & Fun With Audio 4.13.15

Lot's doing on Home Opener day 2015, Rick Hummel of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch joins the show, thinks that he's covered about 38-40 of these games, did not use to be that big of a deal back in the day, didn't have walk-up music either, baseball adding more pomp and circumstance over the years for various reasons, all about growing the market as well as popularity, time when the Cardinals were happy to have 15,000-20,000 in attendance whereas fans are camping out these days, almost two decades worth of seasons that have provided memorable baseball going back to the mid to late 90s, really have to like what we've seen from Trevor Rosenthal (outside a couple walks on Sunday) so far, ball club playing well for having game every other day, really excited with how Jason Heyward has been swinging the bat, anxious to see his reaction to fans giving him big welcome, bad start for the Brewers coming to town, expecting to see the Brewers do well after choking last season, early season trends including the Braves plus the Royals and Tigers, those Royals rolling to begin the season, that Miguel Cabrera really on fire, our pal Kyle Lohse off to very tough start, really learning things from the air index, catching The Cat up with this valuable information, comparing some ballparks to others, results from the DraftKings contests, Tim won $75, trying to take Doug out to dinner to talk about the show, pick-to-click baseball players for todee, air index at Busch Stadium might blow right into Matt Adams' power area, hearing from Darren Pang that there appears to be about five teams in the Stanley Cup Playoffs that do not belong, definitely believe that Blues or Wild could both make deep runs, shrubbery in the air knocks pucks down, Jeff Ponder of InsideSTL.com joins the show, The Cat finding out there apparently is a problem in the room, Brian Haenchen of InsideSTL.com joins too, blaming his colleague for changing all of his alarm clocks, Doug learning about scheduled tweets, Pondsie up since 3a preparing this segment, now both becoming very complementary of each other, starting with Pondsie this time..., big to have home crowd behind the club to begin the postseason, two of the best teams in the league since the All-Star game, two of the best goaltenders playing right now in Jake Allen plus Devan Dubnyk going to be really tough if Blues do not escape first round, writers countering each other on Wild analysis, citing that other guest from earlier or reading Tim's tweets, finally the truth from Haenchie, concern for Blues will consistency on offense, Wild have one of the top penalty kill squads in the league, looking at the rest of the playoff tourney, guys hitting on each other..., definitely could see some early uspets..., Doug liking burgers..., wiffle ball tourey back in action next month, have not heard from LAWA just yet, Izzy already hoping to get back at LAWA for last year, hearing some fun with audio & anchor having "Anchorman" moment getting fooled by the teleprompter.

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