This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, Blake Snell refuses to play baseball in 2020 which begs the question: What happens to players who opt out this year? We talk about how Michael Jordan helped a young man from the Dominican Republic learn English. Bob Watson passes away, and ESPN tells America Trevor Bauer’s phone number. We’ll remember Jackie Robinson stealing home in the '55 World Series and the oddities of playing ball at the Polo Grounds. This week’s movie discussion is Martin Scorcese’s Raging Bull.  Next Week: Michael Mann's Heat.

This week on Peanuts and Popcorn… Will there be Major League Baseball in 2020? Leagues in Taiwan and Korea may show us the way. Many changes are being considered, will the universal DH be one of them. Joe Posnanki teaches us about Walter Johnson and Minnie Miñoso. We’ll talk about the day Ichiro Suzuki met Michael Jordan, and whether or not Pete Rose corked his bats. I also have a trivia question for Tom. We’ll talk about the latest with the Chicago Cubs and our classic movie discussion is on The Big Lebowski.  Next week: Raging Bull

This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we announce the creation of the annual Peanuts and Popcorn PAR Excellence award in Baseball Writing.  Jayson Stark reminds us of why we watch baseball.  Bartolo Colon homers and Manny Ramirez is attempting a comeback at the age of 48.  This week's Top 100 is the legendary Lou Gehrig.  The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is postponed and the Little League World Series is canceled. It’s the anniversary of Cub's manager Lee Elia 1983 rant and we also discuss how the COVID pandemic is affecting Andre Dawson’s funeral home business. Our movie this week is the Alfred Hitchcock classic: Rear Window.  Next Week: The Big Lebowski.

This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, we react to the first episodes of The Last Dance on ESPN. The results of the investigation into the Boston Red Sox sign-stealing activities has been released. There will be pro baseball played in 2020… in Taiwan and South Korea.  We look at the career of Steve Carlton .  The Tigers and the Rockies show that it isn’t always about the bottom line, JLO and AROD are trying to buy the New York Mets.  We  each share a Wrigley Field memory and our classic movie discussion in on Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles.  Next Week: Rear Window.

This week on Peanuts and Popcorn will begin with a prelude to the airing of The Last Dance,  Doug Glanville outlines how baseball players will have to come together to police cheating in baseball; Barry Bonds checks in a #3 on Joe Posnanski’s Baseball 100; 73 years ago this week Jackie Robinson made his debut and we will talk about the man who scouted him; Damaso Garcia, Glenn Beckert, Jim Frey and Brian Dennehy all passed away this week; we’ll look back on the careers of John Tudor and Mario Mendoza and we examine how missing time for strikes and pandemics may impact a player’s chances for enshrinement in the Hall of Fame.  We’ll touch on the Cubs and our classic movie discussion is on The Good the Bad and the Ugly.  Next Week: Blazing Saddles.

This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, MLB tries to find creative ways to get the season started. We talk about Hammerin’ Hank and we remember Fernandomania. We mourn the loss of Tiger great Al Kaline., a former St. Louis Cardinal is stepping up to the plate to fight the Coronavirus.  We reveal our favorite Chicago food joints and we find out where the Cubs rank in terms of overall value.  Our movie discussion this week is on the Robert Altman classic film, Gosford Park.  Next week: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

This week on Peanuts and Popcorn, the two peas in a podcast will talk about Evan Gattis, the first Houston Asterisk to come clean about stealing signs. Meanwhile, his former manager and general manager wonder if they will ever work in baseball again. We’ll delve into Tom’s memory banks as we look back on the career of former Detroit Tiger, Dave Rozema. White Sox broadcaster and former reliever, Ed Farmer passes. Tom will review some of the video baseball games he used to play and Jim Edmonds tests positive for COVID-19. We’ll cover the latest on the Chicago Cubs and our movie discussion is on the Redford and Newman classic, The Sting.

This week on Peanuts & Popcorn,  the two peas in the podcast watches Opening Day come and go without real baseball.  We discuss Satchel Paige, maybe baseball's greatest pitcher as covered by Joe Posnanski's great Athletic series.  The Red Sox will soon learn their fate as Manfred wraps up his sign-stealing investigation.  Does Ken Boyer belong in the HOF?  We discuss the Cubs pitchers 2020 outlook.  All this and our Classic Movie is the Great Race.

This week on Peanuts & Popcorn,  the two peas in the podcast talk about life in Illinois as we hold in place. As we always do, we remain dutifully socially distant as we talk about Chris Sale’s upcoming Tommy John surgery as well as some of the other problems the Red Sox face.  You too can steal the opposition’s signs and The Athletic shows you how.  Would you have Rogers Hornsby on your baseball team?  We talk about the Cubs and the White Sox, and our classic movie discussion is on Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon.

This week on Peanuts & Popcorn, we talk about the COVID-19 outbreak and very little else at this point.  We ask what happened to the digital strike zone? Barry Bonds says he’s in baseball limbo and it looks like Trevor Bauer is learning to be a good teammate.  All this and our classic movie discussion is on John Huston's Key Largo.