Back again for a second week, it’s Blake Finney… Hopefully after a few of you were able to grab some of the players I mentioned last week (even if two of them are now Day-to-Day *facepalm*), After another week of
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Category: Opinion
Twins v Rays? Who Cares? Well, Maybe You Should…
Welcome podcast contributor and Rays fanatic Rob Noverraz to the B&N blog… A couple of nights ago I watched the Rays and the Twins grind into a 15th inning after 6 and a half hours of play and I had
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Introducing the Erie SeaWolves – Official MILB Affiliate of the UK
To those of you following on Twitter, this blog probably feels a little ‘after the Lord Mayor’s Show’. To our new friends and followers in Erie, that’s one of our weirder British idioms – there are a lot and you’ll
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Why that player on your team might be the MVP – NL Central version
We’re four divisions down with two to go, but yesterday, of course, was opening day. In my defense, I’m not sure any series I’ve ever written hasn’t overrun by at least a few days, but believe me when I say
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Why that player on your team might be the MVP – NL East version
Yesterday (March 31st, 2017), SunTrust Park opened its gates for the very first time, as the Atlanta Braves hosted the New York Yankees in an exhibition game to mark the start of a new era at the $1.1 billion ballpark. The
Read moreEpisode 22 – Colin Murray Joins the Show
Broadcaster and British Blue Jays fan royalty Colin Murray joins John to talk getting into baseball, why you need to stick with it, how Roy Halladay and Roberto Alomar have left a mark on his life and to compare Canadian
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Why that player on your team could be the MVP: AL Central
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Those are the prophetic words of Yogi Berra, supposedly, although he would later qualify this – and every statement he ever made – by claiming: “I really didn’t say everything I
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Why that player on your team could be the MVP: AL West
Hope springs eternal. So said Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man apparently, all the way back in 1733, presumably oblivious to the fact his off-the-cuff phrase would become a widely and popularly used idiom. This three-word saying has a
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Why I Watch
It’s Thursday afternoon in March, I’m sat at the desk in the standby room at my place of work. On the desk is a laptop, a half drunk cup of coffee and some podcast notes. Next to me I can
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Five GB Baseball Players to Watch in 2017
Darius Austin is back to introduce the hottest GB talent in the MiLB – a few to keep your eye on this season.
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