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Battery Mates - the Podcast

Battery Mates•www.battery-mates.com
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A Brit and an American explore their beleaguered baseball fanhood and discover nothing all that groundbreaking about life itself while they're at it.
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Episodes

Episode 153: A Debate

Matthew and Toby square off on whether this season does or does not totally stink.

Sep 08, 2023

Episode 152: I Was Rude About T*ylor Sw*ft

Matthew and Toby revel in the bizarro standings at the halfway point, check in our (mostly bad) teams, and go from very mad at Rob Manfred on behalf of A’s fans to downright unhinged when it comes to the “controversy” of MLB Pride Nights.

Jun 29, 2023

Episode 151: You Can't Say Sausage to an Englishman

Matthew and Toby honor the king's coronation by reviewing the first month of the baseball season for the Royals (among other teams), taking a spin through the effects of the new rules and how the players feel about them so far, and pouring one out for Oakland fans.

May 06, 2023

Episode 150: The Chair Would Win

Matthew and Toby welcome film critic and Mets fan Noah Gittell to the show — mostly to vent about the pitch clock, but also to serve up hasty takes on the young season, marvel at an elite minor league no-hitter, and discuss the glory of Little Big League and why baseball movies have seemingly disappeared from modern culture.

Apr 12, 2023

Episode 149: Sex Noises

Matthew and Toby bask in the glow of another Opening Day, and Battery Mates Nation submits their predictions for the season ahead.

Mar 31, 2023

Episode 148: Presumably His Father Filled Out the Birth Certificate

Matthew and Toby ostensibly gather to talk about the World Baseball Classic, and eventually that happened. But mostly Toby just wanted to dish about his fantasy baseball camp experience. There’s also some chatter about the new rules and how they’re playing out in spring training and a friendly wager on the U.S.-G.B. match-up.

Mar 11, 2023

Episode 146: Haggis is an Animal

Matthew and Toby play some greatest hits in recapping the playoffs so far: Yankees schadenfreude, Big Papi’s imminent retirement, filthy-mouthed post-home run taunting, filthy-mouthed senator taunting, and bittersweetness about Cleveland baseball.

Oct 27, 2022

Episode 145: PEDs Are Bad and Don't Do Drugs, But

Matthew and Toby take a spin through the first-round postseason match-ups, get pretty worked up over the “real” home run record debate (before arriving at a solution everyone should be happy with), take a victory lap for youths getting back into baseball, and walk through the impending rule changes for 2023. Finally, Toby makes a direct appeal to Battery Mates Nation.

Oct 07, 2022

Episode 144: Hugs and Whispers

Matthew and Toby check in on their teams’ respective “disgusting brands of baseball,” while Matthew discusses the overlapping interests between him and Brewers’ owner Mark Antonaccio. And the boys dive deep into the biggest ghost story in all of baseball.

Aug 27, 2022

Episode 142: People Who Wear Tank Tops and Fight With Their Neighbors in the Street

Matthew and Toby check in our teams (and Matthew’s fantasy team) and go around the horn on ESPN’s Manfred puff piece, the high drama surrounding Joe Maddon’s firing, MLB players’ penchant for massive amounts of cologne, some momentum in finally reining in MLB’s antitrust exemption, and the proper technique for muddying your balls pregame.

Jun 30, 2022

Episode 141: Pretty Sure He Saw My Shirt

Matthew and Toby are joined by J.D. Scholten, Democratic candidate for the Iowa House and former professional baseball player to discuss his career as a pitcher and how the sport, specifically MLB blackouts, has emerged as an issue in his latest campaign. And of course, the Joc Pederson-Tommy Pham Affair is covered at length.

Jun 02, 2022

Episode 139: Definitely on Water Skis

It’s Opening Day, which means it’s time for Matthew and Toby to ring in this should-be national holiday by wading through all the preseason predictions from Battery Mates Nation and making their own prognostications on what the 2022 season holds.

Apr 07, 2022

Episode 138: Grey Doesn't Quite Cover It

Matthew and Toby take batting practice with the latest news around MLB and open up the 2022 Preseason Predictions Contest. Here’s how to enter — use your Voice Memo app to answer these six questions: 1. What's your name? 2. Who's your team? 3. How many games will your team win in 2022? 4. Will they make the postseason? 5. Which two teams will play in the World Series? 6. Who will win the World Series? Then, and this is the critical step: Send that audio file to [email protected] by 5 p.m...

Apr 02, 2022

Episode 137: No Fungibility Without Representation

Matthew and Toby get a bit slap-happy now that the lockout is over — going around the horn on the terms of the new CBA, the evolving media coverage, the owners’ tactics, and what comes next in the sprint to Opening Day.

Mar 14, 2022

Episode 136: The Commissioner Had a Duty

The MLB season might be in doubt, but Battery Mates is back for its record-breaking seventh season. Matthew and Toby kick off the campaign with a discussion of the CBA negotiations and how baseball is letting its fans down.

Feb 28, 2022

Episode 135: The Feast of Stephen Strasburg

Matthew, Toby, and Father Christmas gather for a very special yuletide episode. The 2021 preseason prediction contest winner is revealed, the World Series is remembered (ish), and the conversation turns to the ongoing MLB lockout and why both sides think the other will blink.

Dec 23, 2021

Episode 134: Sometimes Eddie Rosario Shows Up

The October Classic is underway! Matthew and Toby are joined by Addisu Demissie, an Atlanta fan who also managed Cory Booker’s presidential campaign, and Ross Morales Rocketto, a Houston fan who also co-founded Run for Something. No one outside of those teams’ two cities is particularly thrilled by this World Series match-up, so Ross and Addisu break down how their clubs got here and do their best to get Battery Mates Nation to root for (or against) them.

Oct 29, 2021

Episode 133: Not How the Doctor Described It

Matthew and Toby are joined by Steve Krupin — former White House speechwriter, current SKDK managing director, and longtime Nationals fan — to preview the final weekend of the regular season and the playoff picture, recap how the year went for the Clevelands and the Nationals, gawk at the feats of Shohei Ohtani, examine the pitch clock tests in the minor leagues, and send happy birthday wishes to Chief Hollywood Correspondent, Kate Stayman London.

Oct 01, 2021

Episode 132: Try Harder Duda

Matthew and Toby are joined by Seth Reznik to discuss the New York Metropolitans. Other topics are covered, sure.

Sep 03, 2021

Episode 131: Young Young Prospects and Old Old Dudes

For a special Trade Deadline edition, Matthew and Toby are joined by Kelly Kreft — Orioles fan, data scientist, and 2012 Obama vet — to discuss first and foremost the breaking news that the Cleveland baseball franchise has a NEW NAME (no spoilers here!). Other discussions include wish lists for Trade Santa, the first all-female broadcast of a MLB game, and whatever Javy Baez just did to taunt the Reds.

Jul 29, 2021

Episode 130: PKs as They Are Known in America and Nowhere Else

For a special All-Star Game edition, Matthew and Toby are joined by Jeff Gabriel (who’s frustrated he can’t get in a clean hit over Euro 2020). The ball is flipped around the horn about the emptiness of the All-Star Game, the incredibleness of Shohei Ohtani, the stickiness of the stuff, and the awfulness of Trevor Bauer. Everyone checks in on how the 2021 season is treating their team.

Jul 14, 2021

Episode 129: Thirsty Thursdays with the Nuts

Matthew and Toby are joined by Brent Colburn, Obama alum and VP for communications and public affairs at Princeton University, to go around the horn on Pittsburgh’s allergy to first base, the crackdown on Sticky Stuff™, MLB teams’ role as leaders in the community, and pitchers getting hurt being hitters.

Jun 14, 2021

Episode 128: Playing a Bit Rubbish

Matthew and Toby are joined by Run For Something co-founder and Astros fan Ross Morales Rocketto, who dishes on his ballpark routine, why he hates the Rangers, and why he’s embracing being the haters this year. All three go around the horn on the Tomahawk Chop still being a thing in Atlanta, the Manfred-aided plot to strong-arm the city of Oakland on a new ballpark site, what’s up with all these damn no-hitters, and of course the ongoing saga of Tony LaRussa and the White Sox clubhouse.

May 27, 2021

Episode 127: The Most Sarcastic of the Double Plays

Matthew and Toby check in quickly on how things are going across the pond after the implosion of the Super League and go around the horn on fans being in the stands… players being vaxxed… hitters being historically bad… Angel Hernandez maybe being worse… the Astros getting sad about fans getting mad… and the rule that prevented John Means from having a perfect game. Toby dives deep on baseball’s antitrust exemption, and Matthew promotes a very good cause ....

May 07, 2021

Episode 126: Soccer Is Actually an English Word

Matthew and Toby turn to Chief Over-There Correspondent Matthew McGregor to explain what just happened with the proposal and rapid collapse of a European Super League, and then go around the horn on COVID outbreaks, players’ vaccine hesitancy, new rules being tested in the Atlantic League, and the latest political fallout from the relocation of the All Star Game.

Apr 23, 2021

Episode 125: The Absence of the Feeling of Shame

It’s the first actual breaking-news episode of Battery Mates, as Matthew and Toby react to the news that MLB will move the 2021 All-Star Game in response to Georgia’s new voter suppression law. Breaking News music from Fesliyan Studios (https://www.FesliyanStudios.com).

Apr 02, 2021
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