Aug 30, 2021
In this episode Tom and Josh discuss the great baseball movie Bull Durham. We question whether Durham is a A or AAA team in this movie (Josh was right). We discuss several Kevin Costner monologues, playing in the sprinklers, minor league promotions, mound conversations, romance, and other fun things this movie brings...
Aug 23, 2021
We fire up the WhatIf Sports simulator again, but we aren't going with speed. We aren't going with power. We're going with a dearth of both -- the best rosters we can assemble of players who in a given season did not hit more than 15 home runs and stole no more than 15 bases. Something that defines nearly every...
Aug 16, 2021
During the summertime podcast lull, we're taking a bit of a break with an episode about MLB's use of walkup and entrance music, going over some of our favorites, some of our least favorites (including a long sidetrack on the TV show Friends) and then decide that we should make our own lists of walkup songs and threw...
Aug 2, 2021
This week Josh takes Tom on a deep dive of the MLB Amateur Player Draft (the drama with the Kumar Rocker signing this week is totally coincidental). Looking in particular at the 1987, 1988 and 1989 drafts, we see how much dumb luck drives the draft. Some Hall of Famers were taken early in those drafts, but there were...