Segment 2 - Ping Pong & Stan McNeal 5.5.15

Some ABBA to celebrate Cinco De Mayo, hearing from the Cardinals manager again about ball club having every excuse to give up..., that door sound from the Cardinals press conference room, "they just won't go away", teams begin to believe at a certain point, another wonderful stat from Brian Hoffman on Cardinals' opponent scoring nine runs, most of the ball club not even that well-known besides a few, sound from Mark Reynolds involving The Cat muddled by ping pong, Yadier Molina playing some table tennis, comparing this ball club to others with historical starts, what defines a great team, off the rails..., Stan McNeal of Cardinals Magazine joins the show, his new book "If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the St. Louis Cardinals Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box", big focus on the past four seasons, lot of credit goes to Bill DeWitt for the recent success, obviously give credit to Tony La Russa plus John Mozeliak, type of success goes back nearly a century when Branch Rickey was always able to adapt to the business climate of the game, do not think the current Cardinals will run away with the division, things will have to average out at some point, wonderful early success at Busch Stadium, not judging Jason Heyward too early, comparing Heyward to someone starting out like Randal Grichuk, Doug setting the scene at Rosalita's Cantina for the holiday, DraftKings doings & sign up to play with us using the PROMO CODE "920".