Podcast Audio Episodes
If your team's not in 1st place June 1 it still might be ok - Ep. 412
Send us a text With more than a third of the 2023 MLB season played there's still hope for most of the teams to claim at least a Wild Card slot. Is being in 1st place June 1st a key to a guaranteed playoff spot? Well mostly ...
What do baseball managers actually do? - Ep. 411
Send us a text A question was posed from a listener - Nile A. What does a baseball manager actually do? Besides sit and watch the game? Baseball has managers, Soccer has team managers, but football, basketball, and ice hoc...
Team Deep Dive #11 - The New York Mets - Ep. 410
Send us a text When it comes to doing a deep dive on our favorite team we could have spent hours. But we kept in mind that listeners may not love the Amazin's as much as we do. We didn't even talk about the greatest managers...
Pitcher's arsenals are more formidable than ever - Ep. 409
Send us a text HOFer 'Candy' Cummings is credited with 'inventing' the curveball. But as you'd expect a pitcher's fastball has almost always been the #1 pitch. Pitchers throw more varieties of pitches today than ever before...
Betting on Baseball keeps going further - Ep. 408
Send us a text As long as baseball has been played people have bet on the game and events during the playing of games. Today we see updated betting lines posted during coverage of the games! A far cry from when bets were ma...
Future HOF'ers & Almosts Playing This 2023 MLB Season - Ep. 407
Send us a text We start with the obvious 4 - Miguel Cabrera, Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander. But Mike Trout is already in HOFer in our book. But how about Joey Votto? Zach Greinke? Evan Longoria? Evan Lo...
What would become of Babe Ruth, Shohei Ohtani, & Aaron Judge if they …
Send us a text Of course Shohei Ohtani would not have been able to play in the 1920s. The first Japanese-born player Masanori Murakari appeared in an MLB game in 1964. And it might have been the same for Aaron Judge who is b...
Team Deep Dive #10 - Houston Astros - Ep. 405
Send us a text Established in 1962 (like the Mets) the Astros were originally the Houston Colt 45's and played in Colt Stadium. The Astrodome opened in 1965 as the self-proclaimed 8th wonder of the world. The first 20+ year...
Comparing careers of Yogi Berra, Johnny Bench, Ivan Rodriguez, & Yadi…
Send us a text We spent the entire episode calling him I-Rod without ever mentioning Ivan Rodriguez by name! We didn't mention a few catchers like Carlton Fisk and Gary Carter who were close. We also did not talk about Josh...
Which teams handle Rookies best? - Ep. 403
Send us a text Most baseball fans know the Dodgers have the most Rookies of the Year, 18, since the award now named for the 1st winner Jackie Robinson in 1947. Jackie was the 1st Dodger with Cody Bellinger being the most rec...
It's 2023 Opening Day! Still as cool as it was 50 or more years ago!…
Send us a text All 30 MLB teams will play on Opening Day March 30 - the day this podcast drops! We were lucky to be joined by Michael Ortman to talk about his book Opening Day 50-for-50, One fan, One game, A half century of ...
Season 4 kickoff & 2023 MLB Season Preview - Ep. 401
Send us a text Here we go with season 4! This is our longest episode ever which we really did not expect since we talk fast. But when you talk about all 30 teams it takes awhile. And we make our picks for division, playoffs...