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Cheapseat Baseball

Welcome to Cheapseat Baseball, a weekly baseball history podcast from two friends who had the completely original idea of starting a podcast.  We dive into the great teams, great players and great stories... as well as some not so great ones.

Nov 23, 2021

We watched Artie Lange's Beer League so you don't have to.

It's tempting to have that be the entire episode's description, but hopefully our misery about having to watch this is amusing to all of you.  Artie Lange decided to make a movie with Ralph Macchio and a bunch of bit players from the Sopranos who all played bad...


Nov 16, 2021

We discuss identity theft, mention the greatest player of all time, and look at the embodiment of mediocrity before stat geeks turned us onto the fictional "replacement player" -- Mario Mendoza. Mendoza was a glove-first shortstop who made it to MLB from the Mexican Leagues but was most famous for eternally flirting...


Nov 10, 2021

Friends of the pod Todd Van Popple and Bob Uecker! Cliff Politte! Jim Levey! Pat Rockett! These are just a few of the luminaries of the absolute worst rosters Josh and Tom could throw together in an effort to see who could lose a series in the WhatIf Sports simulator, the last of which I promise was not made up.

Come...


Nov 1, 2021

The Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 MLB teams of the World Series era to win a World Series. They were beaten to that achievement by one expansion franchise and was pitted against another in their pursuit of a world title. Join Josh as he tells Tom the story of the 1980 Phillies -- a team...