Earned Fun Average

Join Johnny and Eric this week for part two of their interview with Paul Caputo.

Paul is an avid ice cream sundae helmet collector and a huge fan of Minor League Baseball logos. Because of his love of logos and team names he has started his own podcast called Baseball By Design. He takes you deep into the backstories with graphic designers and baseball teams to share how exactly these teams come up with their names and logos.

In this episode he shares his thoughts on Dippin' Dots and takes us through the process of creating his own team, filled with coming up with the name, logos and color schemes. He also shares his Proffitt & Loss and dives more into his company Curved Brim Media he helped start with Ed Rivera of The Dad Hat Chronicles.

Follow Paul online -

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-by-design-stories-of-minor-league-logos/id1596699979

Website: https://www.curvedbrimmedia.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baseballbydesign/ (@BaseballByDesign)

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/count2baseball (@Count2Baseball)


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Join Johnny and Eric this week for part one of their interview with Paul Caputo.

Paul is an avid ice cream sundae helmet collector and a huge fan of Minor League Baseball logos. Because of his love of logos and team names he has started his own podcast called Baseball By Design. He takes you deep into the backstories with graphic designers and baseball teams to share how exactly these teams come up with their names and logos.

In this episode he talks about how he came to start the podcast and talks about his love for ice cream sundae helmets and the collection he started.

Follow Paul online -

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-by-design-stories-of-minor-league-logos/id1596699979

Website: https://www.curvedbrimmedia.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baseballbydesign/ (@BaseballByDesign)

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/count2baseball (@Count2Baseball)


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We had the pleasure of chatting with Patrick Noote of BaseballMapper. Patrick and his business partner Cory Nissen created an interactive baseball map of the majority of baseball teams in North America. Patrick talks about how they got started with creating BaseballMapper and what they have for future plans with the map.

Hear his Proffitt & Loss and what he would want to do if he worked in Minor League Baseball.

Make sure you follow BaseballMapper online and use their map for any future baseball travels.

BaseballMapper online -

Website: https://www.baseballmapper.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/baseballmapper

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baseballmapper/ (@BaseballMapper)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/baseballmapper/ (@BaseballMapper)


Curved Brim Media - 

Website: https://curvedbrimmedia.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/curvedbrim (@CurvedBrim)


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Jessie Barton joins us on this week's episode. She is a cashier and bartender for the Richmond Flying Squirrels at The Diamond. In her free time she loves traveling to different minor league stadiums and has visited over 30 stadiums since last season.

She hopes to move up with the Flying Squirrels and would love to do some type of announcing at the ballpark. Make sure you follow Jessie and the Richmond Flying Squirrels online and check out a game in Richmond, Virginia someday. 

Follow the Richmond Flying Squirrels online -

Website: https://www.milb.com/richmond/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gosquirrels/ (@GoSquirrels)

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/gosquirrels/ (@GoSquirrels)


Follow Jessie online - 

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jessie_barton_ (@Jessie_Barton_)


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We had the pleasure of chatting with Ethan D. Bryan on this week's episode. He is the author of "A Year of Playing Catch: What a Simple Daily Experiment Taught Me About Life". He takes us through his 365 days of playing catch and all of the wonderful friendships he's gained along the way. He also shares the story that was covered on ESPN about meeting the father of his namesake and how his book inspired Dan Bryan to start his own play catch journey to honor his late son.

Make sure you order Ethan's book from your local bookstore or you can find it wherever books are sold. Also, follow Ethan on Twitter to keep up to date with his catch playing journey and his Kansas City Royals banter.

Find Ethan's book -

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Playing-Catch-Simple-Experiment/dp/B0864S2GBD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VS31HTC2GIWW&keywords=365+days+of+playing+catch+book&qid=1658103194&sprefix=365+dayS+OF+PL%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1

Follow Ethan online -

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethan_bryan (@Ethan_Bryan)

Website: https://www.ethanbryan.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EthanBryanStories/


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We had TV sports reporter and author George Falkowski on this week's episode.

We discuss at length the story behind George's book "Meet Me At The Bat". He shares some teasers from some of the chapters.

He shares with us his Minor Leaguer For A Day story and also his Proffitt & Loss.

Make sure you follow George online and order his book -

Meet Me At The Bat book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Me-Bat-George-Falkowski/dp/B09PM84KV5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=meet+me+at+the+bat&qid=1656298046&sr=8-1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geosports (@GeoSports)

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/georgefalkowski (@GeorgeFalkowski)

Website: www.yo-georgetv.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/geosports

We had the pleasure of chatting with Dan Vaughan Jr. this week. He is the radio voice of the Kansas City Monarchs.

The Kansas City Monarchs are in their second season in the American Association, a professional independent wood bat league. They were formerly known as the Kansas City T-Bones, before rebranding as the Monarchs for the 2021 season.

The Monarchs won the American Association championship in 2021, their very first year as they rebranded and paid homage to the well-known Negro Leagues team with the likes of Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige amongst others.

Dan shares with us a little about his broadcasting career and also what it's like getting to call the games for the Monarchs. He has the opportunity every day to tell the story of the current team and tie in the former team that played years ago.

Make sure you follow Dan Vaughan and the Kansas City Monarchs online and catch his broadcasts of the games as well.

Kansas City Monarchs -

Website: https://www.monarchsbaseball.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kc_monarchs (@KC_Monarchs)
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/KSCityMonarchs (@KSCityMonarchs)
Radio Broadcasts: https://www.mixlr.com/kansas-city-monarchs-baseball

American Association -

Website for league game broadcasts: https://www.aabaseball.tv
Website for the league: https://www.aabaseball.com

Dan Vaughan -

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/danvaughanjr (@DanVaughanJr)


Earned Fun Average -

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John Southee from Texas joins us this week. Hear about what his company Kaught Looking started as and where he's going with it now. Stay tuned to see his Coolest Minor League Baseball Amenities videos.

He talks about growing up with the Binghamton Mets and now frequents San Antonio Missions and Corpus Christi Hooks games. 

John also shares his Proffitt and Loss with us and what he's grateful for with his Inning-Ending Double Play.

Follow John on social media - 

TikTok: @KaughtLooking
Instagram: @Kaught.Looking
Twitter: @Kaught.Looking 
                   @JohnSouth33


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Charles Dennis from San Antonio, Texas joins us on this week's episode. He's a partial season ticket holder for the Double-A San Antonio Missions of the Texas League. 

He tells us about the meaning behind his Twitter handle 51 Stubs and how his father helped grow his love for traveling and watching baseball. 

He travels a lot for work and for fun and will always get in a baseball or football game where time allows.

He shares his passions of ballpark stamp collecting and getting lapel pins to put on a map showing his sports travels.

Follow Charles online - 

Twitter: @51Stubs

Website: https://www.51stubs.com


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On Episode 14 of the Earned Fun Average podcast, Johnny and Eric discuss alternate identities in Minor League Baseball. From the Wichita Turbo Tubs, to the Lehigh Valley Bacon or even the Fresno Tacos, there are a lot of fun alternate identities that teams play as throughout the season. 

We discuss some of our favorites and even get a little creative and come up with our own alternate identities that some minor league teams should play as occasionally. 

Be sure to share with us on social media what your favorite alternate identities are and what ones you would create.

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