Rain Delay Theater

Big moment for the podcast this week: the guys welcome their very first guest to the studio! Podcaster/Actor/Musician/Theme Song Composer Mark Rosenthal joins Jack and Jeremy to share their favorite baseball songs! Lots of hot takes in this ep! At the top of the show, we also share our All-Star Ballots and Jeremy catches A LOT of flack for his hipster-centric voting patterns. And stay tuned after the sign off for a very special bonus audio clip!

For links to all the songs discussed in the episode, head to raindelaytheater.com/notes !

WARNING: The guys work a little blue at the top of the show, starting off with a stomach-turning story of an inebriated passenger on the train back from the game. From there they venture into stories about a group of wiseass teens trying to publicly embarrass their friend and a couple of vocal and rule-breaking bathroom patrons...and then eventually get around to talking about the game. They (try to) recap the ridiculous and confusing "Balkgate" situation involving Twins 3rd base coach Gene Glynn, James Shields, Rick Renteria, Paul Molitor, balks, ejections, and wishy-washy and sensitive umpires. Plus, more BEER VENDOR DRAMA!!! It's just business as usual on the southside of Chicago! Jack also gets a 10 second schooling about The Frugal Gourmet from Jeremy. Make sure to tune into for all the off (and on) the field hijinks!

This week Jack and Jeremy run down their lists of favorite players from their childhood, both hometown and out of town. But before that, Jeremy shares a tale of a World Series bet gone wrong(!) and gives a mini-update from the 6/18/18 Dodgers @ Cubs rain out, including a story of how he scared Cody Bellinger! Jack shares a stirring interview conducted with White Sox catching great Ron Karkovice and teaches us all about "The Cougar Train"! The guys also discuss who their NL Rookie of the Year is if the season ended today.

Also(!!!!) Check out the debut of our AMAZING THEME SONG(!!!) written and performed by musical genius Mark Rosenthal of both the "Mike and Mark Love The Cubs" and "Body Counts and Beer" podcasts!

Woo doggies do we have a jam packed episode for you this week! Jack and Jeremy took in two games for this one and are here to bring you the full reports! First up we have the 6/11/18 Cleveland Indians @ Chicago White Sox matchup! We hear about uninspired, generic White Sox fan chants, unlikely Knoxville, Tennessee resident Yan Gomes, and the sordid, secret world of beer vendor drama. Then the guys head to the west suburbs on 6/14/18 to see the class A Cedar Rapids Kernels @ Kane County Cougars. We meet some more ballpark oddballs in the stands, see a breakout performance by Alex Kirilloff, and discuss giving 19-year-old Royce Lewis his first sip of beer. Jeremy also decides to start swearing on the podcast! It's all here for you to check out, so listen and enjoy!

This week Jack and Jeremy share their respective baseball bucket lists with each other and, well, it ends up turning into a bit of a brag-fest about events they actually have seen (at least for Jeremy). They also touch on the 2018 MLB Draft, Jack learns about Morganna - the infamous "Kissing Bandit", and we receive an update about Johnsonville Chorizo sausages from a listener.

Jack and Jeremy make their triumphant return to the great state of Wisconsin to see the New York Mets take on the Milwaukee Brewers. We hear about Jeremy's cheese curd quest, a dark story from Jack's past involving a scarring t-shirt toss fracas, and we meet our newest outspoken fountain of misinformation and mind-numbingly inane anecdotes, "The Eager Leaner"! You're gonna want to stick around for our account of this true original ballpark goofball!

Jack and Jeremy recap their first trip to a minor league game for the podcast as they ventured up to Wisconsin to see the Quad Cities River Bandits take on the Beloit Snappers. The guys discuss being recruited to participate in a pig calling contest, recap their run-ins with some autograph freaks, and talk about meeting Athletics prospects Austin Beck, Lazaro Armenteros, and Nick Allen. Dollar dogs, traumatizing Snappy the Turtle stories, and railing on Zack Cozart - we have it all here for your listening pleasure! (Note: we had some technical difficulties with this one, so forgive the drastically different sounding audio at the end of the podcast)

While in between games, Jack and Jeremy get together to discuss their favorite baseball movies - owners of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie on VHS will want to tune in for this one! They also do a little housekeeping and talk about the food they (Jeremy) ate at the first two games and follow up on some bold predictions and statements Jeremy made last episode.

Jack and Jeremy recap their Monday May 7, 2018 outing to Wrigley Field to see the Miami Marlins vs. the Chicago Cubs. They discuss their encounter with a Cubs Ballpark Operations worker who oddly resembled Oliver Platt and JB Pritzker, the lack of reception for Starlin Castro, and really lay into another unsuspecting player, this time it's Tyler Cloyd. Does this guy deserve the Bill Ripken treatment? Listen and find out! Also, it's Jeremy's turn to quiz Jack in the hit new game "Baseball Resume". We apologize for the sleepiness toward the end of the episode, it was a late night recording session.

No game this week, so Jack and Jeremy recap their viewing of the MLB Network presentation "The Other Streak" about the infamous 0-21 start of the 1988 Baltimore Orioles. They really let Billy Ripken have it in this one, folks! We also get into a little Cubs and Brewers talk, touch on famous staredowns, and get the first installment of the soon-to-be hit game "Baseball Resume".