Staffcast's Trevor Hildenberger is back on the show to relay firsthand experience with the Sacramento River Cats stadium proposed as the temporary home of the Athletics. Then we talk about the latest Ohtani controversy around authentication at ballparks, the new uniforms, and then an F1 update. Check out www.patreon.com/battingaround to support the show and get bonus episodes.
We made it to Opening Day!
We talk the Ippei/Ohtani gambling scandal, Peter Angelos's death, how to be a guilt-free ex-Catholic, and Italian cookies. Check out patreon.com/battingaround for our guide to pride nights around the league and lots more bonus content.
Returning guest Mellie Macker is here to explain astrologically what is wrong with the Mets and what is astrologically right with Shohei Ohtani. We also talk about the new Pronoun Mode in MLB The Show.
Ohtani is married, minor league marketing has gone too far, Phillies cancel dollar dog night, Lauren is back into fantasy baseball, we all loved Dune 2. check out www.patreon.com/battingaround for bonus episodes
Players are becoming board game nerds. The A's social media turns off replies and A's fans throw their own fan fest, the uniforms are bad and create an unsafe work environment, and we list all the cities we don't like. check out patreon.com/battingaround to support the show and get access to all our bonus episodes.
This week we talk about a bunch of things that have gone horribly wrong in baseball that we all saw coming but we powerless to stop. Check out patreon.com/battingaround to get access to our bonus episodes, including our recent one with predictions for the 2024 season.
Indoor barbeque, spring training, new Pschosabermetrics, recent signings and available free agents, lots of other fun stuff. We're so close to baseball being back and it's got our energy back up.
We talked about baseball a pretty good amount on this one but we also talked a lot about sorcery. Check out www.patreon.com/battingaround for more content and to support the show.
We catch up on baseball news including the new Hall of Fame inductees and all the transactions that happened since our last show, and then try to save Joc Pederson's career. Sign up for bonus episodes at www.patreon.com/battingaround
A lot of New York stuff, then a bunch of talk about airports and sodas.
It's our first episode back in the new year and we talk about baseball and movies and Freddie Freeman at the Golden Globes.
We're still on our holiday vacation so here's another unlocked Patreon episode. Since we'll be doing a Couchin' Around for Brockmire season 2 soon here's one for season one of Brockmire. We'll be back with regular episodes next week.
We're on Christmas break so here's a fun episode that was previously patreon-only. You can also go sign up for our patreon for an episode we released yesterday on the Hallmark baseball movies, which is a lot more fun than it sounds. Anyway here's the description for this one: Nick Babakitis from the Corner Späti podcast guests this week to tell us all about European baseball and his experience playing in Germany. We also talk a little WBC and why the Autobahn should be abolished.
It's the offseason, that's for sure. Be sure to check out the Wide Strike Zone podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/10NaZyYj7Gj84OCLGn5ncX
What do you think we're talking about this time
Jane's getting deeper into Ohtani pet trutherism. We also talk about death and the hall of fame.
please help us escape nashville alive
FanGraphs managing editor and host of Effectively Wild Meg Rowley is back, and we talked about SO much stuff: cats' buttholes, the curse of the Colonel, the World Series, an extremely deep dive into all things Arizona, Stephen's appearance in an article on gay Phillies fans. Not one to be missed!
Even though it feels like a million years ago already we talked about the end of the LCS series before we get into our critiques of the new stadium foods for the Dbacks and Rangers. Then we recap the putrid vibes at the opening ceremony, the excellent game one, and the less excellent game two. Monday 10/30 we're going to be doing our Watch Along for this series! Go to patreon.com/battingaround to get our bonus episodes and access to our patron-only discord channels for the Watch Along.
we're talking about the CS games, what else would this be? sign up at patreon.com/battingaround to get our bonus episodes and a spot for our upcoming World Series watch along (date tbd).
Jane, Lauren, and Stephen talk the DS series and all the drama surrounding it on and off the field. We also issue a warning to an upstart podcast trying to muscle in on our turf. The CS Watch Along is going to be on Monday, October 16th for the Diamondbacks/Phillies game. This one is going to be patreon members only. There's still time to sign up at Patreon.com/BattingAround if you want to join the fun.
Cooper Lund is with us to talk about the Twins breaking their curse, passing the curse onto other teams, and talk about the other previous and upcoming postseason games. We also talk about Blooper getting in way over his head and talk about the sports fan coping mechanisms that become necessary every October. Go sign up for patreon.com/battingaround if you want in on upcoming Watch Alongs. the one we did for the wild card round was a ton of fun and we'll be doing at least two more of them.
Sean Doolittle is back on the show to talk about how he plans to avoid becoming an online reactionary after his retirement. We also do some postseason hot takes and predictions and arrange a potential Thunderdome type situation in the event of a Twins/Phillies World Series. It's a really great conversation and a look back at a great career. Congrats, Sean. Help the show by signing up at Patreon.com/BattingAround to get bonus episodes and access to the watch alongs we'll be doing all through the ...
Our good buddy Manu of My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast and NotACast is back for our pre-postseason tradition of taking it easy for a bit before the chaos of the playoffs. We catch him up on the what's going on with the last week of the regular season, then spend some time talking about movies and TV shows, video games and labor strikes, and of course the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Go to patreon.com/battingaround to get bonus episodes and access to postseason watch alongs.
It's Big Beer Friday, or it was yesterday anyway.
Our friend Marc Normandin is back to talk about his new project, Doom at 30, which you can go back on kickstarter now! We talk some baseball stuff that we missed during our unexpected week off, get mad at a real guy and a guy we imagined, and talk about what sports we think should cease to exist. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doomat30/doom-at-30
We make our glorious return after taking last week off, and oh boy do we talk about a lot of baseball stuff in this one. It's a really fun one even though our audio recording program mangled Jane's track.
PUP guitarist Steve Sladkowski is on the show this week to talk about the Blue Jays, scoring games, stadium renovations, and the Jays winning the 2015 World Series.
We tore ourselves away from Baldur's Gate 3 long enough to talk about baseball fights and a bunch of stuff about the Orioles. I'd write a longer description but I gotta go play more Baldur's Gate 3.
