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Latest Posts

Home Run Derby X: Meet the sluggers

June 26, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar

Saturday 9 July is a big day for sport. Wimbledon hosts the Women’s Singles Final,

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Five is Back – Part Two: Heartbreaker to Hero?

June 25, 2022 Jennifer Annely

Before the season starts, and no matter what sport you watch, there are always crazy

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Latest Podcast

Episode 288 – Tate Gillespie Joins the Show

June 25, 2022

Latest quiz

So you think you know the Yankees?

January 14, 2022

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Home Run Derby X: Meet the sluggers

June 26, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, London Series, Opinion

Saturday 9 July is a big day for sport. Wimbledon hosts the Women’s Singles Final, the eighth stage of the Tour de France is a punchy section from Dole to Lausanne, the Women’s EURO 2022 continues with a cracking matchup

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Episode 288 – Tate Gillespie Joins the Show

June 25, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

Pitcher Tate Gillespie joins the show to discuss his trip from D1 hyped high-school pitcher to pitching in Europe, taking in recovery from a ball-induced head injury, help from Brock Holt and Brandon McCarthy and his enduring friendship with London

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Five is Back – Part Two: Heartbreaker to Hero?

June 25, 2022 Jennifer Annely Baseball, Team Contributors

Before the season starts, and no matter what sport you watch, there are always crazy trade rumours. Sometimes they are crazy because they are so unbelievable and some of them are just mean. The media links a beloved former player

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San Francisco Giants: Could Luis González be Rookie of the Year?

June 23, 2022 Ash Day Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Team Contributors

It’s the top of the seventh inning and San Francisco ace Logan Webb is setting himself for his next pitch. Webb is in the midst of a gem; he hasn’t given up a run to the resilient Royals and his

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Five is Back – Part One: Hero to Heartbreaker.

June 22, 2022 Jennifer Annely Baseball, Team Contributors

A few months prior to the start of the season, rumours of Albert Pujols returning to St Louis began to swirl, and I surprisingly had quite a measured reaction. Now, as it’s just you and me here, I will be

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: My Belated Attempt to Learn to Play Baseball with the London Mets

June 21, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Learning to Baseball, Team Contributors

Here I am. The top deck (ahem, upper tier) at the London Stadium, watching the inaugural International Series game between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Me: ‘They make it look so easy.’ Friend: ‘It can’t be that hard.’ Me:

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Episode 287 – Charlie Hill (VP International, MLB) Returns

June 21, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

Charlie Hill, the brains behind the MLB London Series, is back for his first appearance in 5 years! We chat about the new partnership between MLB and London, the ideas behind Home Run Derby X and MLB’s renewed commitment to

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The Chicago Cubs do not have the resources necessary to compete in 2022

June 20, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

I’ll admit that I felt a degree of optimism when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts wrote to fans back in October, stating “We have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond, and we will use them.” Like the bulk

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Episode 286 – Home Run Derby X Preview (ft Nick Swisher, Spencer Owen and Paige Halstead

June 16, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

In our mega preview of Home Run Derby X – which is coming to London on Saturday 9 July – John chats to Yankees legend Nick Swisher about renewing the sport’s oldest rivalry, his pivotal role in baseball’s greatest book

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Episode 285 – Little Mr Stroppy Pants

June 14, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

Two podcasts in a week! In this one, Darius is back and joined by Rob and John to dissect the newsworthy elements of the last few weeks in MLB and hear in minute detail how an old woman ruined Rob’s

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