On a pre-Thanksgiving Me and Eddie C, Sweeny and Ed discuss: Sandy Alderson atop the Mets power structure, Steve Cohen's tweets, Robinson Cano's legacy and his future, Mets & Yankees pitching pursuits, the DH rule, and defense as a Hall of Fame metric. Plus, a tribute to Terry Collins!
Tampa Bay Rays Owner Stu Sternberg talks about watching his team - and the fateful Blake Snell decision - in the 2020 World Series, as well as new Mets owner Steve Cohen and diversity in the game.
Sweeny Murti and Ed Coleman discuss the Steve Cohen and Sandy Alderson press conferences, Marcus Stroman coming back to the Mets, Trevor Bauer, and more.
Peter King is the preeminent NFL writer of our time, but he actually began his career covering baseball for the Cincinnati Enquirer in the early 1980's. On this episode of "30 With Murti," Peter discusses his childhood days as a Red Sox fan in the 1960's, plus his early days in the business covering the last days of The Big Red Machine in Cincinnati...and covering Ken Griffey, Jr. in Little League!
Mark Simon of Sports Info Solutions joins Sweeny Murti to discuss defensive metrics on the eve of the Gold Glove announcements. Plus, are the 1970s Yankees underrepresented in Cooperstown?
In this clip from a previous '30 With Murti' episode, Angelo Pizzo talks to Sweeny Murti about the Mickey Mantle biopic he's been trying to get made.
Lisa Fernandez is one of the most decorated softball players in history, and as a three-time Olympian, she has had some experience with the international tiebreaker that is being used this year by MLB in extra innings: the automatic runner at second base to start the inning. On this episode of the "30 With Murti" podcast, Fernandez discusses her heartbreaking history with this rule, which helped cost her a perfect game in the 1996 Olympics. And, the longtime assistant softball coach at UCLA also...
WFAN went on the air 33 years ago next month, and the man who brought 24-hour Sports Talk Radio to life in 1987 is Jeff Smulyan, the Chairman of the Board of Emmis Broadcasting. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, Sweeny Murti chats with Smulyan about the early days of WFAN, as well as his three year tenure as owner of The Seattle Mariners from 1989-92.
Minor league baseball's season has been turned upside down and it has nothing to do with the labor dispute on the major-league side. For a look at how the Coronavirus shutdown has affected one of the New York-area minor league teams, Sweeny Murti speaks with Steve Gliner, President of the Hudson Valley Renegades, on the latest "30 With Murti" podcast.
Yogi Berra was one of the greatest Yankees ever, one of the greatest baseball players ever, and lived a classic American success story. His life is the subject of the new biography "Yogi: A Life Behind The Mask," by Jon Pessah and published by Little Brown and Company. Pessah spent nearly four years writing the book and he discusses some of the more interesting parts of Yogi's life with Sweeny Murti in the latest "30 With Murti" podcast.
There are a lot of challenges to scouting and completing a draft after the high school and college baseball seasons were shut down almost three months ago. To discuss the issues surrounding this year's draft, listen here to Sweeny Murti's conversation with the Yankees Vice President of Domestic Amateur Scouting, Damon Oppenheimer, on the latest "30 With Murti" podcast.
Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre, along with his wife Ali, formed the Safe at Home Foundation in 2002, aimed at stopping the cycle of domestic violence. For almost three months now, stay at home restrictions have put countless children at risk due to violent situations in their own homes. Joe Torre joins Sweeny Murti in this episode of the "30 With Murti" podcast to discuss what friends and family members can do to help those struggling at home during the pandemic. Visit JoeTorre.org for more info...
Don Roy King calls Saturday Night Live "an adrenaline rush" similar to a being a quarterback. And he should know. He's the man calling all the plays, the director of SNL since 2006. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, King takes us through a career spanning seven decades, punctuated by becoming just the fourth director in the history of NBC's legendary SNL, a show that's earned him nine Emmy Awards. With a career that began in the late 1960's, King has directed more live television than anyon...
Ricky Cobb is one of the most popular and entertaining sports follows on Twitter. You know him better as Super 70s Sports. Meet the 48-year old man behind the hilarious handle--his story, his life, and his humor--on this episode of the "30 With Murti" podcast.
Going up against Michael Jordan on the basketball court was a challenge to say the least. Staring at him in the batters box--in 1994 when Jordan stepped away from basketball to play baseball for the AA Birmingham Barons--presented a challenge of a different kind. And it certainly wasn't easy. What's it like to brush back the great Michael Jordan one moment and ask for his autograph the next? For that story and more, listen here to to the latest "30 With Murti" podcast as Sweeny catches up with J...
While everyone looks back fondly at Michael Jordan's basketball career, this week on the "30 With Murti" podcast is a look at Jordan's baseball career with former Birmingham Barons teammate, Glenn DiSarcina.
Listen here as Sweeny and Larry Bowa break down the 9180 World Sereies in the latest "30 With Murt" podcast. Hear Bowa talk about some of the key players and plays, many of which illustrate key differences between baseball then and now.
Now in his fourth decade as a New York sportswriter, Peter Botte combines his love of baseball and pop culture in the pages of the New York Post. Now he has written an entertaining history of the Yankees whittled down to "The Big 50: The Men And Moments That Made The New York Yankees." It's available now from Triumph Books. In the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, Sweeny chats with Peter about the book, some reflections on the last Yankees dynasty, and more. Botte also talks about his daily movie ...
Twenty-four years ago he was 12-year old Jeffrey Maier, the kid who reached over the fence and turned Derek Jeter's fly ball into a home run that changed a playoff game and maybe the course of the 1996 Yankees. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, Sweeny chats with 36-year old Jeff Maier, a married father of three, who recounts his brush with fame and what's happened to him in the year since. Maier takes us through the moment and the amazing aftermath. He also shares where the baseball journey...
This episode of “30 With Murti” could be subtitled “Sweeny on Sweeney." Actor D.B. Sweeney has been in some memorable sports movies such as "Eight Men Out" -- in which he played Shoeless Joe Jackson -- and "The Cutting Edge," his most memorable role as hockey player-turned-figure skater Doug Dorsey. Sweeney’s latest project is called “Two Dum Micks,” a short film co-starring Sean Astin (“Rudy”) about a couple of not-so-bright guys down on their luck. The five-minute short premieres Wednesday on ...
What are some of your favorite sports movies? "Miracle"? "The Rookie"? "Invincible"? Did you know that the same man in Hollywood is responsible for making them all and several others? On this episode of “30 With Murti,” a conversation with Mark Ciardi, a former major league pitcher turned movie producer. And his specialty has been making some of the best and most inspirational sports movies of the past two decades. Ciardi shares his thoughts on the magic of sports movies, including the stories b...
What’s your favorite sports movie of all-time? “Hoosiers" is near the top of the list, right? And isn’t March the perfect time to hear all about it since we don’t have real March Madness this year? In this episode of “30 With Murti,” host Sweeny Murti chats with Angelo Pizzo, the screenwriter of “Hoosiers.” You’ll hear tales of making the 1986 classic about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team and how it just might have been George Steinbrenner’s favorite movie ever. And Pizzo -- who...
Bobby Richardson was one of the pillars of the great Yankees teams of the late 1950’s and early ’60’s. A member of 8 All-Star teams and a 5-time Gold Glove Award Winner, Richardson helped the Yankees to World Series Championships in 1958, 1961, and 1962. On the latest "30 With Murti” podcast, Richardson looks back on the most famous moment of his career—catching the line drive off Willie McCovey’s bat for the final out of the 1962 World Series. The only World Series MVP from a losing team (1960,...
Pushing through pain is something we all admire in athletes. Many times it's what gets them to the highest levels. But it can also be what keeps them from ever going back. That was the case with Christian Parker. This episode of “30 With Murti” features the cautionary tale of Parker, who in 2001 broke camp as the Yankees fifth starter. He made his major league debut the first week of the season, then never pitched in the majors again. It turns out Parker had pitched through shoulder pain in orde...
Curt Flood was a seven-time Gold Glove Award winner, a three-time All-Star, and a two-time World Series champion in additon to being a trailblazer for free agency in modern sports. Is all of that enough to make him a Hall of Famer? His family thinks so. In this episode of "30 With Murti," Curt Flood, Jr. tells us about his family's campaign to have his father elected to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. And while free agency helps players earn hundreds of millions of dollars these days, Curt Jr. ...
Lindsay Berra has been a journalist for the last two decades. Baseball is among the things she has covered, and why not? As you may have already guessed by seeing the last name, baseball is in her blood -- Lindsay is the granddaughter of Yankees legend Yogi Berra. In this episode of "30 With Murti," Lindsay discusses some of the interesting hires made by the Yankees this winter, in particular two people who she has known and written about for many years: Eric Cressey, the recently named director...
Phil Hughes has gone from Yankees phenom to YouTube card breaker. The heard-but-not-seen star of "Phil's Pulls"-- which at the moment has about 14,000 subscribers -- is the former Yankees right-hander, who helped the Yankees to a World Series title in 2009 and became an American League All-Star in 2010. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, host Sweeny Murti talks to Hughes about his career and how he feels he never was the same pitcher after a hamstring injury in his second major league start ...
The Baseball Winter Meetings have been full of activity so far. In this episode of the “30 With Murti” podcast, we break down the big stories with a roundtable discussion with the experts. First, Jack Curry and John Flaherty of the YES Network join Sweeny with their reactions to the Gerrit Cole signing. Then it’s a national perspective from ESPN’s Jeff Passan and MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand on Cole, Stephen Strasburg and the explosion of the pitching market this winter.
Kevin Long of the Washington Nationals just won his second World Series championship as a hitting coach. He was previously hitting coach for the 2009 world champion Yankees as well as for the 2015 National League champion Mets. On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, Long joins Sweeny Murti to discuss the Nationals' run to the title. He also talks about the evolution of hitting in the "Launch Angle Era" and where it might be headed next. Also, you'll hear Long's insights into Nationals stars Juan...
The 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame election is upon us. The ballot was officially released this week to voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Results will be announced in January, but the arguments have just begun. Can anyone justify not making Derek Jeter unanimous? Is it time to stop penalizing Larry Walker for playing in Colorado? Can we appreciated a career like Alfonso Soriano's without electing him to the Hall? And what does last year’s election of Harold Baines mean m...
