Bobby Manning and Friends

The summer cruise continues with another dip into the world of media. Chad Finn, famed baseball writer and media coverage man in Boston between the Globe and Boston.com talks about his upcoming and how the landscape has changed. Plus Chris Sale fiasco, meeting Tommy Heinsohn, Dave Dombrowski, and more. Bobby fills you in on the end of his summer and gives some steaming takes on Ichiro, Peyton Manning, and a new wave of 90's nostalgia hitting the air. 

Summer time is baseball time and Boston finally has an entertaining team to watch every night. What has made the Red Sox so great to this point with Tim Britton of The Providence journal who also brings insight on covering a baseball season with a partner and his obsession with The Simpsons. David Ortiz, Sandy Leon, David Price, and the dominant offense among the topics as well as the impending Trade Deadline. 

Doug Santos joins The Bobcast and delivers his invigorating, inspiring story of a difficult home life growing up to being a central figure in the return of Peabody Tanners football in Peabody, MA as a high-level football program. How the his illustrious, record-breaking career paves the way for new opportunities for others for years to come. Also answering your questions in "The Bobcast Questions," looking back at the ESPY's great moments, ripping Pokemon GO, reviewing the Drew Pomeranz trade, and looking down at summer trade rumor mongering. 

Shifting away from sport for a moment, Bobby Manning and his guest steer the weekly tour in a different direction towards today's music landscape. They hit on inspirations for getting into the world of music, the changing landscape of it thanks to the internet, streaming platforms, albums vs. mixtapes, Kanye West's idea of a living breathing album, Chance The Rapper's crusade against record labels, the Grammys opening up to internet music, and more. Manning and Smith take your The Bobcast Questions which will now be a weekly feature of the show before the Impactful Stories in sports are hit on including the NBA's free agency structure, building a team to beat the Warriors, and possible ideas to help the MLB All-Star Game. 

The Bobcast takes on day one of free agency. As money and deals fly across the sky, along with jet planes, Bobby Manning is joined by Tony Capobianco of EnidNews.com who gives his takes on the main attraction of free agency Kevin Durant from an Oklahoma City perspective. Capobianco and Manning also hit on the notorious bill to keep minor league baseball players from getting the minimum wage or overtime pay that other workers do. In important stories across sports/pop-culture the NBA continues to hit the North Carolina bathroom bill hard, the Rio Olympics now are seeing dead bodies wash onshore, Apple is in talks to acquire Jay Z's Tidal, and cookie dough is no good. 

The Bobcast tours through the world of baseball with one of its most informative, passionate, insightful, and more surprisingly youngest reports. After hitting on some early NBA Draft details, Devan Fink a 10th grader who has run his own baseball site CoverThoseBases.com joins Bobby Manning on the tour to talk about how his grandfather's death inspired the fantastic website. Fink hits on the entire baseball landscape from why the MLB continues to flourish, breaking the Billy Butler signing in 2014, what it must do to improve by marketing its young stars, saber metrics, performance enhancing drugs and the hall off fame, MLB instant replay, and the most interesting moments he's had covering baseball. Manning then closes the tour with takes on why this NBA Draft was one of the most intriguing yet and the NHL is the perfect league to "break the ice" in Las Vegas. 

The Bobcast hits its next stop on the tour through sports and pop-culture with one of basketball Twitter's "idols." Snottie Drippen joins Bobby to explain his early relationship with basketball, his infamous name, the "meet me in Temecula" incident that made national headlines, and the improbable upcoming Game 7 in this year's 2016 NBA Finals. Snottie also gives his take on Ayesha Curry, his recent effort to change his ways online (the #BePoliteChallenge), and the legacy Lebron James leaves behind. Bobby and Snottie also reveal their Game 7 picks and share their favorite Jordan face memories. Manning also hits on Ichiro's hit record, NBA conspiracy theories, Eugene Monroe and NFL medical marijuana, along with Chance the Rapper's pioneering Grammy accomplishment. 

The debut of the internet's newest podcast, a tour of sports and pop-culture featuring Bobby Manning. Manning dives into his background in media to this point and introduces the show before he is joined by Adam Kaufman of 98.5 The Sports Hub and Boston.com. With Kaufman; Manning discusses climbing the ladder in the media industry, Syracuse (of course), the complexion of the Boston sports community, Kevin Durant, Paul Pierce, and what makes working in media great. Bobby then hits on the "Big Topics with an impact" from The Finals to PED's in sports to the unwritten rules of baseball.