Oh my! We are being treated to some fantastic baseball in these two championship series. With both matchups poised 3-2, no one knows which teams will line up in Game One of the World Series on Tuesday 26 October? The
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Bonus Episode – Sports Podcast Awards Transatlantic Takeover
In a very special bonus episode as part of the inaugural Sports Podcast Awards, John and Darius are joined by Brandon Warne of That 90s Baseball Pod to chat about their respective baseball origin stories, the state of the sport
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Episode 255 – The Muppets Championship Series
John, Russ and Rob look back on a competitive and fun first two rounds of the playoffs and ahead to two seemingly less well-matched Championship Series. They get mad about bad announcing and Tony La Russa too, obviously. Plus ça
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ALCS Preview: Can Astros Sketchy Stuff Stifle Sox?
On Friday night (well, Saturday morning to be accurate), the Houston Astros pit their sketchy stuff against the Boston Red Sox. Despite scraping into the postseason and progressing to the ALCS via the Wild Card, the Red Sox only won
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ALDS PREVIEW: Houston Astros vs. Chicago White Sox
If anyone listened to either @AstrosFansUK or @WhiteSox_UK this year, then the appearance of these two teams in the postseason as division leaders was never in doubt. The White Sox 93 wins is the most by the franchise since their
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AL Wild Card Preview: Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees
You know that baseball is the greatest sport in the world when the consolation for not getting Game-163 four-way chaos is a loser-go-home showdown between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. With first pitch at around 1:00 am
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Episode 254 – Rays of Light or It’s A Shame About Rays? (2021 Playoff Predictions)
John, Ben, Darius and Russ take turns to stump for each of this year’s playoff field before almost coming to virtual blows as they fashion the official BFN 2021 playoff bracket. We give it 24 hours before this blows up
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Episode 253 – Good Innings, Russell
Rob and Russell go for a doubleheader taking on ‘Kiermeier-gate’, the irrepressible St. Louis Cardinals, the AL Wild Card and the terror of 2021 Jake Arrieta. Link to iTunes podcast feed (rate and review us please) Follow us on Twitter
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Episode 252 – GB Baseball, European Championship Special
GB Baseball’s Men’s senior squad are currently playing out in Turin as part of the European Baseball Championship, and have made the quarter-final stage for the first time in 14 years. Ahead of their clash with the Netherlands, we hear
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Ten Shohei Ohtani Fun facts that you probably already know
Excuse the clickbait title, but Shohei Ohtani‘s 2021 is one of the most exciting campaigns in, well, perhaps ever. According to Baseball Reference, he has accumulated 7.8 WAR, thanks to 91 runs, 94 RBI, 23 stolen bases, and 44 home
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