Bat Flips And Nerds

John chats to Andy Brown, the Korean based British baseball artist about how his passion for painting found a muse in the sport of baseball, his artistic career to date, his current quest to document all 30 MLB ballparks during the 2019 season and the role of artists like him in recording the history of the game of baseball.

John chats to former Brewers, and current Rangers pitcher - and social media pro - Tim Dillard about making the most of your talent, 'doing something' every day, the importance of kindness and his role as creative mentor to generations of minor league talent. This is a hoot.

Tom returns from his two weeks in Italy and begins by rambling about computer games.

Darius then agrees they really should talk about baseball and Tom rambles about the epic start from Steven Matz against the Phillies.

The guys talks about the potentially juiced balls, before solving the "During this break in the action..." problem, once and for all!

The guys get to grips with the weirdness of the new baseball season, in which Tim Beckham is apparently better than Chris Sale...

ESPN Wednesday Night Baseball play-by-play guy Boog Sciambi joins John to reminisce about his time calling the Marlins and Braves, to look forward to the new season and MLB London, and offer some reflections on the state of the game.

Mark and Ben offer insights into the birth of BT and ESPN's new UK baseball show 'Caps Off', including some behind the scenes stories from Spring Training, which players are obsessed with which Premier League teams and some familiar faces popping up on the show.

It airs this Thursday at 3.45pm on BT Sport 2.

The whole team gets together to predict season records for all 30 teams. Darius makes up player names, Ben continues his bizarre Mets love-in, Tom references... erm 'older' adult dating websites and John gets sick of it all (but wants the Reds to know he loves them).

 

Oh and the predictions? Awful. Tell us why we're dead wrong about your favourite team.

John is joined by Jake and Jordan or Cespedes Family BBQ to discuss their path from the wilderness to MLB, and their enduring love of minor league ball, shared experience of watching baseball from the UK and answer some listener questions.

Emily Waldon of The Athletic Detroit and The Athletic MLB joins Tom to talk about her start in Baseball writing and Minor League Players rights.

They talk about Ken Rosenthal and his Slack messages, juggling two jobs of Baseball writing and Customer Experience Manager at Mercedes, finally they discuss the struggle Minor League Baseball players face when trying to reach the big leagues.

Outsoken veteran Aussie reliever Peter Moylan joins John to discuss his career, and to get a few things off his chest about the state of employment for baseball players, and the impact of front office dominance and thirst for new things on consistent, dependable performers. Hold on, he doesn't hold back...