November 17, 2015

Episode 77: Dress Like A Seat Day

2 hours 22 minutes

Welcome to Barbecast 77! We have two extremely different but equally special guests this week. First (at 25:30), we talked to Arthur Lenk. Who is Arthur Lenk, you may ask? Arthur is a Mets fan! Arthur is also the Israeli ambassador to South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Mauritius! Naturally, we connected with him and invited him on the podcast for a fascinating discussion about...

the state of Israeli baseball

helping organize the Israel team for the World Baseball Classic

recruiting Jewish pro players to play for Team Israel

being a baseball fan in a country/occupation that doesn't have a lot of baseball'

following the Mets playoff run while living in South Africa and having to wake up and do important stuff the next day

...and more!

After Ambassador Lenk, we brought on recently acquired Pirates minor league pitcher Trevor Williams (at 1:00:00) to talk about...

playing in the Arizona Fall League

getting traded while playing in the Arizona Fall League

the mindset difference between starting and relieving

not giving up any dingers

playing Magic the Gathering

the need for an enormous professional baseball Clash of Clans tournament

...and more!

We followed our two interviews with a relatively brief B-Ref Battle (at 1:38:45) before calling Lana (at 1:51:45) to talk about Peyton Manning for Tales from Logdog. We concluded (at 2:00:00) with some thoughts on the recent Hot Stove action/inaction, a brief Varsity Baseball Update, and a quick highlight from my trip to Prague. Thanks for listening <3

Music: 5,000 Candles In the Wind

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