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Send us a text As we were getting ready to record an episode about September roster expansions and how they've changed dramatically, the news about the MLB rule changes for 2023 came out. We could not ignore them as those rul...

Send us a text The Brewers have been around for more than 50 years but not always as the Brewers. We talk about the team's history, reason for being, its greatest players and most memorable seasons for this team which has unf...

Send us a text What started as a way to pass time during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic has grown to be something that's bigger than we ever imagined. We owe a huge thank you to all of our listeners! Do we keep ...

Send us a text With the recent passing of Dodger announcer Vin Scully we lost one of the great voices of baseball - be it radio or television. We love to listen to baseball on the radio and once baseball on the radio began in...

Send us a text Joe Jackson, Pete Rose, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and a few others all are not enshrined in Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. But there is no way these are really 'Almost' guys. They were clearly not jus...

Send us a text When a player scores 100 runs in a single season it's considered to be a significant achievement. Yet isn't scoring runs as derivative as stat as are RBI's? Because, it depends - on the other players in the li...

Send us a text If it all it took to be successful only was as simple as changing a team's name that would be smart right? Well the Tampa Bay Devil Rays became the Tampa Bay Rays and they've been so much better ever since! We...

Send us a text There were 8 new inductees into Cooperstown over the weekend. The various committees finally enshrined Bud Fowler, Buck O'Neil, Minnie Minoso, Gil Hodges, Jim 'Kitty' Katt, Tony Oliva, David Ortiz was voted i...

Send us a text Unlike many who offer predictions on who's going to be a playoff team, we divulge what we predicted BEFORE this 2022 season started. We did pretty well by our own admission although we did have a big miss. Li...

Send us a text We're fans of baseball and that includes all levels. Driving past a Little League field seeing kids out there playing baseball makes us smile every time. For nearly all major league players playing baseball s...

Send us a text Catching is hard and debilitating to the body. The famed 'tools of ignorance' may be better than they were in the past but squatting for 150-200 MLB pitches a night is still incredibly difficult. There are onl...

Send us a text Already in this 2022 season 2 managers have been fired. Joe Maddon and Joe Girardi. There are no other Joe's managing in MLB so maybe everyone else's job is safe. Why change managers in-season - early-mid-l...

Send us a text Many baseball fans still feel that Sandy Koufax is the GOAT. At least as pitchers go. Despite his relatively short career, Sandy had a sustained period of excellence (6 years) that is unrivaled. 382K's in one...

Send us a text Our second deep dive we turn to the Senior Circuit and one its more recent entrants the San Diego Padres. There was a AAA team called the Padres in the 1940s. The current Padres came as a result of the 1969 e...

Send us a text All three are 'Almost' guys. All played in different time frames - Bonds from 1968-81, Davis from 1984-2001, and Mauer played from 2004-1018. All were All-Stars and won Gold Gloves. We discussed their eras, ...

Send us a text The Women's NCAA Softball World Series starts June 2. Throwing from 43 feet, the pitchers often dominate but not always. The spirit of the games, the camaradarie the players demonstrate all make for fast movi...

Send us a text Well we kind of did the Mets already but chances are at some point we will be compelled to do them again. This is the first of 30 episodes dedicated to an individual team. It's history, great players, successe...

Send us a text Some teams are better at rebuilding their rosters in ways that allow them to get back to winning faster and more consistently than others. Going all in to win a World Series is worth it and teams like the Roya...

Send us a text We're NL fans since we root for the Mets. There used to be such a thing as 'National League' baseball. It had sacrifice bunts, pinch hitters, pitchers wearing jackets in July on the bases. All that is over now...

Send us a text We asked Adam Korengold who joined us for Episode 302 on the Negro Leagues, to help us compare the very excellent careers of Negro Leagues star 'Cool' Papa Bell and the greatest base stealer in MLB history Rick...

Send us a text Seiya Suzuki is burning it up in his rookie MLB season. Japanese players are making more and more noise with Shohei Ohtani and even NPB league sensation Roki Sasaki. And then there's the KBO - Korean Baseball...

Send us a text We're long past the time of flannel and wool home whites & road grays when it comes to MLB uniforms. There have been changes over the years such as adding numbers and then adding names once baseball began to be...

Send us a text As one of the oldest professional sports, baseball has been 'covered' for more than 175 years. While newspaper accounts of games were the means of communication until radio arrived in the 1920s, today's baseb...

Send us a text We forgot to mention Zack Greinke who is a surefire HOFer - maybe even should be first ballot. There are a number of what we term 'sure things' and then there are others that have a really good chance provided ...