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Feb. 2, 2023

Baseball Video, Computer, & Card Games - Ep. 343

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...

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Jan. 26, 2023

The Athletic's Daniel Brown discusses his 2022 HOF votes - Ep. 342

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...

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Jan. 19, 2023

Baseball Spring Training will never change - Ep. 341

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...

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Jan. 12, 2023

Team Deep Dive #7 - Los Angeles Angels - Ep. 340

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...

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Jan. 5, 2023

Watching HOF voting and revisiting player descriptions - Ep. 339

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...

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Dec. 22, 2022

Best plays rated by added win % for each team that led to their great…

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?...

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Dec. 15, 2022

Hot Stove Talk & MLB Winter Meetings - Ep. 337

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...

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Dec. 8, 2022

Team Deep Dive #6 - Colorado Rockies - Ep. 336

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...

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Nov. 23, 2022

Why join SABR beyond 'Sabrmetrics are cool'? - Ep. 335

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! ...

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Nov. 10, 2022

2022 World Series Wrap Up & a look forward - Ep. 334

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 ...

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Nov. 3, 2022

Best World Series 'Ever' Candidates - Ep. 333

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 ...

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Oct. 27, 2022

100 Wins in a season - it don't mean a thing! - Ep. 332

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 ...

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Oct. 20, 2022

Team Deep Dive #5 - Texas Rangers - Ep. 331

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...

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Oct. 13, 2022

Did Aaron Judge Have the Greatest Season Ever? - Ep. 330

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...

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Oct. 12, 2022

2022 Mets Season Post-Mortem and Therapy - Ep. 329

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...

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Oct. 6, 2022

2022 Predictions Review & Playoff Preview! - Ep. 328

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...

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Sept. 29, 2022

The definitively MOST successful baseball last names - Ep. 327

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...

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Sept. 22, 2022

2022 Almost Cooperstown 2022 Postseason Award Predictions - Ep. 326

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...

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Sept. 15, 2022

Our quick take on the 2023 MLB rule changes & September Call-Ups will…

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...

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Sept. 8, 2022

Team Deep Dive #4 - Milwaukee Brewers - Ep. 324

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...

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Sept. 1, 2022

100 episodes of this podcast - now what? - Ep. 323

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 ...

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Aug. 25, 2022

Is baseball better on the radio? - Ep. 322

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...

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Aug. 18, 2022

Our pitch - the baseball HOF 'Corridor of Controversy' - Ep. 321

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...

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Aug. 11, 2022

Scoring runs is cool - more for teams than players - Ep. 320

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...

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