All About Baseball with Byron Copley

All About Baseball with Byron Copley

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All About Baseball with Byron Copley episodes

  • What Were the Pittsburgh Pirates Thinking?
    Just recently, the Pittsburgh Pirates removed a logo honoring Pirates' legend Roberto Clemente that was placed in the right-field corner of PNC Park and replaced it with...an alcohol ad. Thankfully the blow back from baseball fans prompted the Pirates to undo their mistake, but how this idea ever was even mentioned remains a mystery.
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    Music: "Field Grass" by Sergei Pavkin
    15 min
  • Will the Torpedo Bat Sink Major League Pitching?
    In a word: No. It may adjust they way pitchers approach hitters who use the torpedo bat, but, ultimately, the torpedo bat will be an after thought by the All-Star Break. However, I would expect the marginal hitter, looking for any possible edge, to give it a serious tryout.
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    Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin
    15 min
  • Kirk Gibson: Hockey Player?
    It seems timely to share several anecdotes about the years that Kirk Gibson and I, with a select group of other great guys, played hockey together on Thursday nights at a local ice arena in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Gibson was as tenacious on the ice as he was on the diamond.
    Gibson recently stepped down as a television baseball analyst for the Detroit Tigers to focus on helping others battle the same disease that he has battled for 10 years: Parkinson's.
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    Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin
    12 min
  • The Head-First Slide is Not a Heads-Up Play
    In this podcast, I offer three reasons why a head-first slide is not recommended by me, an alternative that is far more effective and safer, and a description of an my makeshift office-studio and the book that inspired this specific podcast.
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    Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin
    MLB Sliding Injuries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8xV5C387Lw
    Siding Photo on the cover of Bill James Historical Abstract: https://www.catchershome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Mickey-Cochrane-dive-1536x1201.jpg
    12 min
  • “Wilson! I’m Sorry!”
    This podcast reflects on a couple of memorable heckling experiences that I witnessed 40 years apart. The first was at Tiger Stadium in 1971 with my girlfriend. The second was at Comerica Park in 2011 with my daughter.
    Both were highly entertaining and perfect examples of what imaginative heckling can do to enhance the experience of attending a major league baseball game.
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    Brian Wilson dugout meltdown 7/1/2011
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkFOgF9Mmdo
    Music: "Field Grass" by Sergei Pavkin
    13 min
  • The Rundown on Rundowns
    We learned how to execute rundown situations during neighborhood games of pickle. Having watched several random videos of major league baseball players failing to retire trapped runners on the basepaths, I was inspired to promote a solution that retires a runner caught flat-footed between bases with a single throw.
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    Music: "Field Grass" by Sergei Pavkin
    14 min
  • The Automated Ball-Strike System is Not Perfect
    The Automated Ball-Strike system (ABS) has intruded into Major League Baseball Spring Training games. In this podcast, I refute the wisdom and necessity of using it at this level of play, because it will not necessarily guarantee 100-percent accuracy in calling balls and strikes. And the way that selected players can challenge an umpire's ball-strike call introduces an element in the game that reverses the relationship between the two and supplants the umpire's primary function on the field.
    And, because it does so, why not just replace human umpires with this infallible machine?
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    Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin
    14 min
  • Alex Bregman is Not Worth 40 Million Dollars a Year
    In this podcast, I apply the numbers that, in my opinion, prove that the performance Alex Bregman is expected to produce at the plate in 2025 is not proportionate to his $40,000,000 salary, especially when compared to other third basemen in the league. Even though Bregman is projected to play second base for the Red Sox, another team that offered him a substantial contract, the Detroit Tigers, would have put him at third base, and they are better off without him -- this year or any year.
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    Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin
    13 min
  • Missed Opportunities
    The 50th podcast of All About Baseball recalls two encounters I had when I was 14, in the summer of 1971. The first was a brief phone call with Detroit Tiger outfielder, Jim Northrup, who, out of left field, called me at home, with the assistance of my father. The second encounter was a face-to-face conversation with Tigers' General Manager Jim Campbell in the Executive Lounge in the recesses of Tiger Stadium. I wish that I could say that these two conversations were rich in detail and insight, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Because I uttered only a handful of words in each, both were eminently forgettable, save for the lasting lesson that I learned and still apply.
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    Music: "Field Grass" by Sergei Pavkin
    14 min

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A podcast where baseball is the main character, a supporting player, or a silent partner. The possibilities are vast and varied.