Bat Flips And Nerds

Great Britain Baseball's Head Coach joins John to chat about a successful first year of competition as joint steward of the men's team. They cover everything from prepping for two COVID hit European Championships, recruiting the next generation of GB qualified talent and look ahead, the teams' performances in Italy and looking forward to the WBC in 2022.

We have a fantastic guest to kick off the offseason - San Francisco Giants bench coach Kai Correa! Kai joins Russell and Darius to talk about his journey to the Giants, their 107-win season, the nuances of coaching veterans, learning from Brandon Crawford, and much, much more!

Darius, Russell and Ben join forces for a post-World Series wrap (was it any good?), some Awards chat (DeGrom for Cy?!) and a brief tribute to Buster Posey (slam dunk Hall of Famer)

John and Russ chat about the week in baseball, taking a trip to the Arm Barn, a stop for some soft serve, a cakewalk with Albert, kicking it with Ken and the little matter of the World Series being on.

Oh, and the Mayor of London got a bit carried away and forgot about the MLB CBA...

Huge thanks to our pals at Gridiron for sharing the audio for their chat with Sadiq Khan. You should check out the full interview here: https://audioboom.com/posts/7965037-cup-gate-sadiq-kahn-and-the-future-of-nfl-international-games

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 in 2021 and to learn about the sport 'before our time'.

To find out more about the Sports Podcast Awards head to www.sportspodcastawards.com

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 ca change...

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 in our face...

Rob and Russell go for a double header taking on 'Kiermeier-gate', the irrepressible St. Louis Cardinals, the AL Wild Card and the terror of 2021 Jake Arrieta.

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 from team broadcaster Chris Knoblock and second baseman Kent Blackstone about the tournament so far, the feeling in camp and the future of the programme.

#LetsGoGB

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.