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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Episode 251 – Baseball vs Pizza
Russell, Rob and Ben get together for another weekly roundup dominated by the amazin’ New York Mets. They also discuss some exciting postseason races (don’t jinx it!), that Jose Ramirez chain, hit by pitch records and how Russell fixed baseball.
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Episode 250 – Don’t Take A Chance On Him
John, Darius and Russell dive into the early findings on the Atlantic League’s experience in moving the pitching mound, the storming New York Yankees and the under-heralded Rays. They find plenty of time to praise and berate Yadi Molina, Vlad
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Episode 249 – Won’t Someone Please Think Of The Billionaires
Russell, Ben and Darius convene for the latest MLB roundup and begin by discussing the latest leaked proposal from MLB: a $100 million salary floor. They can’t help but talk about the Mets, discuss whether they’re having a worse season
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Episode 248 – Grauniads of the Galaxy
John, Russell and Rob round up the first half of the season with some harsh words for the Minnesota Twins, the LA Dodgers and the treatment of Minor Leaguers, but garlands for the SF Giants, Trey Mancini and bae himself,
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Episode 247 – Felix White Joins The Show
A special guest episode as Ben is joined by Felix White of Maccabees and Tailenders fame to talk his new book, falling in love with the New York Mets and what cricket can learn from baseball (and vice versa). Listen
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Episode 246 – All-Star Weekend & Draft Recap
Ben and Russell team up for a two-man spin through the week’s All-Star festivities, from Shohei Ohtani’s eye-popping performances just about everywhere to Charlie Freeman’s adorable cameos. There’s also the usual two good, two bad chat, some MLB draft reviews
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Episode 238 – The Tony La Russa Power Hour
Darius, Rob and Ben band together to review a groundhog week of baseball action as Tony La Russa grabbed the headlines (again) and pitchers threw no hitters (again). There was also talk of the weirdest statistical hitting line ever, the
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