30 With Murti

On a pre-Thanksgiving Me and Eddie C, Sweeny and Ed discuss: Sandy Alderson atop the Mets power structure, Steve Cohen's tweets, Robinson Cano's legacy and his future, Mets & Yankees pitching pursuits, the DH rule, and defense as a Hall of Fame metric. Plus, a tribute to Terry Collins!

Tampa Bay Rays Owner Stu Sternberg talks about watching his team - and the fateful Blake Snell decision - in the 2020 World Series, as well as new Mets owner Steve Cohen and diversity in the game. 

Sweeny Murti and Ed Coleman discuss the Steve Cohen and Sandy Alderson press conferences, Marcus Stroman coming back to the Mets, Trevor Bauer, and more.

Peter King is the preeminent NFL writer of our time, but he actually began his career covering baseball for the Cincinnati Enquirer in the early 1980's.

On this episode of "30 With Murti," Peter discusses his childhood days as a Red Sox fan in the 1960's, plus his early days in the business covering the last days of The Big Red Machine in Cincinnati...and covering Ken Griffey, Jr. in Little League!

Mark Simon of Sports Info Solutions joins Sweeny Murti to discuss defensive metrics on the eve of the Gold Glove announcements. Plus, are the 1970s Yankees underrepresented in Cooperstown?

In this clip from a previous '30 With Murti' episode, Angelo Pizzo talks to Sweeny Murti about the Mickey Mantle biopic he's been trying to get made.

Lisa Fernandez is one of the most decorated softball players in history, and as a three-time Olympian, she has had some experience with the international tiebreaker that is being used this year by MLB in extra innings: the automatic runner at second base to start the inning.

On this episode of the "30 With Murti" podcast, Fernandez discusses her heartbreaking history with this rule, which helped cost her a perfect game in the 1996 Olympics. And, the longtime assistant softball coach at UCLA also talks about the growing role of women in the coaching ranks of professional baseball.  

WFAN went on the air 33 years ago next month, and the man who brought 24-hour Sports Talk Radio to life in 1987 is Jeff Smulyan, the Chairman of the Board of Emmis Broadcasting. 

On the latest "30 With Murti" podcast, Sweeny Murti chats with Smulyan about the early days of WFAN, as well as his three year tenure as owner of The Seattle Mariners from 1989-92.  

Minor league baseball's season has been turned upside down and it has nothing to do with the labor dispute on the major-league side.

For a look at how the Coronavirus shutdown has affected one of the New York-area minor league teams, Sweeny Murti speaks with Steve Gliner, President of the Hudson Valley Renegades, on the latest "30 With Murti" podcast.

Yogi Berra was one of the greatest Yankees ever, one of the greatest baseball players ever, and lived a classic American success story.

His life is the subject of the new biography "Yogi: A Life Behind The Mask," by Jon Pessah and published by Little Brown and Company.

Pessah spent nearly four years writing the book and he discusses some of the more interesting parts of Yogi's life with Sweeny Murti in the latest "30 With Murti" podcast.