Peanuts & Popcorn

Peanuts & Popcorn

By Tom Hockney and Leo FontanaTV & FilmFilm Reviews
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Peanuts & Popcorn episodes

  • In the Wheelhouse (ITW) 03-24-19 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney

    This week  on ITW, we make our predictions as to who will win their respective divisions, we’ll also talk about this recent rash of contract extensions that has afflicted teams of late. Ichiro Suzuki has his final at bats in a Major League uniform.  The Toronto Blue Jays do something teams should have done a long time ago and as always we’ll react to the latest news about the Chicago Cubs.  

    53 min
  • In the Wheelhouse (ITW) 03-17-19 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney

    Today on ITW we talk about how MLB managers will have to submit their lineups to odds makers before the public sees them, the slowest base runner in baseball is about to join some very exclusive company, MLB announces rule changes for this year and the next, AJ Hinch and Angel Hernandez have “issues” all that and the latest with the Chicago Cubs. 

    51 min
  • In the Wheelhouse (ITW) 03-3-19 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney

    This week on the ITW, we will dive into some of the proposed rule changes for the upcoming MLB season; we cover off on the real reason the games are taking so long; Manny Machado and Bryce Harper finally sign; we’ll discuss some articles we read on 538.com and in The Athletic and we will pay our respects to the great Frank Robinson.     

    · Travis Sawchuk from 538.com points out that an increase in foul balls is slowing baseball down. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/foul-balls-are-the-pace-of-play-problem-nobodys-talking-about/?fbclid=IwAR0wddpBXSh1QyQwPABaT5b99KoHBVk1EDKyxmvwHKT1mmO074_OW7a0aQw

    · Kris Bryant speaks out on service time manipulation, Sahadev Sharma writes in the Athletic  https://theathletic.com/837222/2019/02/25/its-awful-kris-bryant-on-how-baseballs-service-time-rule-needs-to-change/?fbclid=IwAR0f3AciexeEHh-MWsyTT5y9BvwuRcadt2Gv8Hpsbk6JhhfZboI_yIiUck4

    46 min
  • In the Wheelhouse (ITW) 11-4-18 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney
    This week on the final episode of In the Wheelhouse for the 2018 season, the Boston Red Sox are the deserving World Champions, the Hot Stove League is really heating up, 7 free agents were tendered qualifying offers. Hall of Famer, Willie McCovey passes, we’ll talk about his career, and the Chicago Cubs make some moves.
    53 min
  • In the Wheelhouse (ITW) 10-28-18 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney
    This week In this season's penultimate episode of In the Wheelhouse, the Red Sox and the Dodgers are still battling it out in the World Series. Jayson Stark explains why the Red Sox are so good. https://theathletic.com/611933/2018/10/25/stark-the-red-sox-are-two-out-wonders/ The Twins, Reds and Angels all get new managers and Leo has a proposal to help stem the tide of the True Outcome impacting offense in MLB.
    52 min
  • In the Wheelhouse (ITW) 10-21-18 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney
    This week on In the Wheelhouse, each League Championship Series has ended and we will preview the upcoming World Series. Teams are getting too good at sign stealing. It’s slowing the game down according to Jayson Stark of the Athletic. https://theathletic.com/595389/2018/10/17/stark-welcome-to-baseballs-age-of-ultra-paranoia/ We’ll talk about whether or not Free Agents Bryce Harper or Manny Machado would be a good fit for the Cubs and we also address the idea that Joe Maddon will be managing in 2019 without an extension.
    1 hr
  • In the Wheelhouse (ITW) 10-14-18 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney
    This week on In the Wheelhouse, four teams are out and four teams are still in as the Red Sox, Astros, Brewers and Dodgers take the field this weekend. The Hot Stove League is starting early, and Dodgers are under investigation by the FBI according to Sheryl Ring of Fangraphs. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-dodgers-might-be-in-actual-legal-trouble/ All this and the Chicago Cubs.
    55 min
  • In the Wheelhouse (ITW) 10-7-18 With Leo Fontana/Tom Hockney
    This week on In the Wheelhouse, the Major League Baseball playoffs are under way and for the first time in four years, the Cubs are watching them from their couches. Jason Stark shared some very scary statistics for the 2018 season. https://theathletic.com/562668/2018/10/02/stark-the-numbers-that-define-baseball-in-2018-revisited/ We perform the post-mortem on the Cubs vapid offensive output.
    51 min

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Peanuts & Popcorn. (P&P) is a biweekly movie podcast interrupted by a baseball discussion between two old friends.