I recently got back from a few days in the great city of Boston. Given
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World Baseball Classic Qualifier Day 1 – Recap
The first day of games in Regensburg were action packed with Spain edging out South
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Boston: One heck of a sports town
I recently got back from a few days in the great city of Boston. Given the history attached to the ballpark, I made a point of going to a game at Fenway Park while I was there, taking in the
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Episode 297 – QUALIFIED
The team go deep on Great Britain Baseball’s historic qualification for the 2023 WBC, including the tensest game of baseball we have ever watched and hat tips for a bunch of new heroes as well as some old ones. Oh,
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World Baseball Classic Qualifier Day 1 – Recap
The first day of games in Regensburg were action packed with Spain edging out South Africa, and Great Britain pummelling France to stay in the winner’s side of the tournament. France and South Africa find themselves one loss away from
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Episode 296 – GB Baseball World Baseball Classic Preview 2022 v2
In this episode we give a bumper intro to GB at this week’s World Baseball Classic Qualifier, including: John and Russ breaking down the rules and the GB roster Chris Knoblock checking in with players Alex Crosby and Vance Worley
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San Francisco Giants: Everyone loves Wilmer Flores
Wilmer Flores is one of my favourite Giants. If you took a poll among Giants fans strolling through the gates of Oracle Park, I bet you they’d say something similar. Flores is undoubtedly a fan favourite these days, and over
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Episode 295 – Rob & Russ In Da Bungalow
In a change to our normal programming schedule, we’ve let the gruesome twosome loose for a two-hander. They pick up on everything we’ve missed during our summer holiday, dig into the news about the MLBPA looking to unionise the minors,
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2022 Playoffs – What if the season finished today?
With around 35 regular season games remaining, let’s look at the playoff situation. As you will recall, the 2022 postseason is a new 12-team format comprising the six division winners and the three wild-card teams for each league. Wild Card
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Fantasy Baseball Eliminator: The Final Cut
It started with 24 teams in March, and with today’s elimination of Rotoballer’s Jamie Steed, the field has been whittled away to create an elite selection of 12 finalists. This dynamic dozen will battle it out over the next five
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Apropos of nothing: The PED All-Star lineup
There are many reasons why I hate drug cheats but mainly because they fuel my scepticism of exceptional sporting performances. I don’t want to doubt the legitimacy of Shohei Ohtani‘s brilliance or Edwin Diaz‘s resurgence, or Aaron Judge‘s power surge,
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Making Sense Of The Willson Contreras Conundrum
Just when you think you’ve got these Chicago Cubs pegged, something happens to blow that perception out of the water. Take last week’s trade deadline, for example. It looked for all the world as if Jed Hoyer would move Willson
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