Send us a text It was not as easy to drop the Indians nickname when talking about the team before, well last season! Old habits die hard but we're fine with the team having changed its name as it was overdue. 122 years, an o...
Send us a text We've been asked by listeners about who we'd take out of the HOF since we want to add players and managers. In truth, we don't feel any player elected by whatever means should be 'removed'. Sure there are some...
Send us a text Finally we're getting back to baseball games that actually count! Spring Training games don't and are played like they don't count. But 4 games against pool members followed by one and done quarters/semis/fina...
Send us a text HOFers Brooks Robinson and Carl Yastremski lead the pack playing 23 years for only one franchise. Playing 20 years in MLB surely indicates an excellent player. 15 years with the same one team also contains only...
Send us a text Having completed their Silver anniversary season, the D'backs franchise got off to a quick start winning 100 games in their 2nd season and a WS in their 4th (fastest all-time). While the early years were good...
Send us a text Larger bases, no infield shift, Limits on pitcher throws to 1st. The new rules are radical changes that MLB players and fans will experience in the 2023 season. This does not even include the new pitch clock! ...
Send us a text Baseball video games have been around not quite 50 years. Way back when there was Strat-0-Matic which people still play today. Are baseball video games more realistic than ever? How is all the data crunched to...
Send us a text We are very lucky to have had a great conversation with writer and BBWA writer Daniel Brown join us to discuss his 2022 ballot. He voted for 10 players and feels that the some fellow BBWA voters might be comin...
Send us a text We've wanted to talk about the idea that with all the changes in technology and player year-round training regimens, why does baseball continue to do things the same old way? We explore the history of spring t...
Send us a text We start the podcast talking about Carlos Correa and his finally-ending saga. But then we dive into a team that we didn't know all that much about until we went through the archives. After the Dodgers and Giant...
Send us a text It's our first episode of 2023! With 25% of the votes for the 2023 induction of new Baseball HOF members in we are amazed that there are still voters that vote in zero players. In fact it's possible that the...
Send us a text Of the 30 MLB franchises only one has never even been in a World Series. What would the Mariners greatest moment be that raised their chances the most to win a WS? How about the Rockies who've never won a WS?...
Send us a text We drop normally every other week in the off-season but could not resist the opportunity to talk about the money and the players moving around in and around the MLB Winter Meetings that ended December 8th. As...
Send us a text The last of our deep dives to feature a team that has not won the World Series. Correction: The hockey Rockies were a Colorado hockey team that eventually moved to New Jersey in the 1980s. They were born as th...
Send us a text A day early for Thanksgiving, in this first episode of our 'off-season' we're joined by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) membership ambassador Bruce McClure who's a baseball nut just like we are! ...
Send us a text First correction - the Astros bullpen pitched 26 innings out of the 54 IP by the Astros in the Series not 54. In addition to winning their 2nd World Series in the past 6 seasons, the Astros had the 2nd biggest ...
Send us a text Will this year's World Series be one of the greatest ever? One team won 87 games the other 107 so that's a good start. Do the greatest World Series in history have to be 7 games? It certainly helps! We talk ...
Send us a text The 87-win Phillies are showing the world that winning 100 games far from guarantees a World Series victory. The Mariners in 2001 won a whopping 116 games but did not even reach the WS! This year for the 2nd ...
Send us a text Originally the 2nd incarnation of the Washington Senators, the Rangers moved to Texas in 1972 from D.C. The Rangers are again a team that has never won the World Series. There's only one more team we've yet t...
Send us a text Aaron Judge is 6'7" & 282 lbs. of baseball amazingness. Shohei Ohtani might be the most outstanding player in baseball this season (again) but Judge was most valuable as without him the Yankees would be watchi...
Send us a text This is an extra episode since we will still drop our weekly Thursday episode tomorrow. As we note in the podcast we needed to this as much for ourselves as for our listeners. It's only been a couple of days s...
Send us a text Here's the episode in which we come clean on who we picked before the season. We were right more than we were wrong but had a couple of huge swings and misses. The 2022 MLB playoffs are at the ready and we bot...
Send us a text With the addition of records from the Negro Leagues more than 23,000 have played Major League Baseball. What's the most common name for pitchers and hitters? Hint: it's not the same. How about the most successf...
Send us a text It's too easy to wait until the end of the regular season to pick our winners of this seasons MLB award winners. There is a new award for 'Super Utility Player' in each league. MVP, Cy Young, Rookie-of-the-Year...