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July 30, 2020

Team origins and best fan bases in baseball - Ep. 110

Send us a text What makes a top tier fan base? How about showing up for your team both in the season as well as ALWAYS showing up for playoff games. Baseball has some historically great fan bases you might expect to be near...

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July 21, 2020

2020 Season Preview & Playoff Picks - Ep. 109

Send us a text We each pick three MLB division winners & two wild cards for both leagues. There will be no fans in the stands but photos of fans and piped in crowd noise. We do a quick analysis of all the divisions and teams....

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July 16, 2020

Silver Sluggers of the Silver Screen - Ep. 108

Send us a text We love baseball movies but there have been a lot of bad ones. We try to put together a 'team' of the best players fictional and otherwise to have never played in an MLB game. It is not really possible to have ...

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July 9, 2020

3 jarring new rules for the 2020 season - Ep. 107

Send us a text With the opening of the MLB 60-game season scheduled for July 23. We discuss the impact of the impending changes in the game for relief pitchers, designated hitters, and a revolutionary way to end extra inning...

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July 2, 2020

Baseball Oddballs - Ep. 106

Send us a text Baseball has more unique characters than any of the other major sports. Taking a lighter approach we discuss interesting and oddball players such as Dock Ellis & Bill 'Spaceman' Lee, a maverick and forward thin...

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June 24, 2020

The Steroid Guys - Ep. 105

Send us a text After the MLB strike in 1994 the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in 1998 finally brought baseball back to the top of people's minds. We discuss the players that were associated, accused, and s...

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June 18, 2020

Six Hall-Worthy Plays - Ep. 104

Send us a text Baseball fans know about the most 'famous' plays in the game's history. Babe Ruth's called shot (or was it?) in the 1932 World Series, Bill Mazeroski's WS-winning homer in 1960. And for Met fans, there's Mooki...

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June 11, 2020

Closest to Almost - Ep. 103

Send us a text We talked about players who had one shining moment in their career that could be principally responsible for their enshrinement in Cooperstown. Was it deserved? Even if a player had a great moment could one m...

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May 31, 2020

Furthest From Almost - Ep. 102

Send us a text Our first episode "Nine Men In" covered players that we feel deserve to be enshrined in the HOF. This second episode "Furthest From Almost" covers players on the opposite end of the spectrum. The names are not ...

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May 23, 2020

Nine Men In - Ep. 101

Send us a text This first episode is a discussion of the 18 players (2 for each of the 9 positions) we would put at the top of our list to leave 'Almost Cooperstown' to be enshrined in the HOF. We leave out the alleged steroi...

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