Sliding Into First Podcast

Our guest this week is Billy Schaeffer, who we talk about fantasy jams, being the lonely optimistic Temple University Football fan, the Sixers Sherman Tank, baseball haircut win probability, drinking on boats, and the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire.

Billy's Top 10 NPR Reporter Names:

10. Korva Coleman (All Things Considered, Morning Edition)

9. Yuki Noguchi (business correspondent)

8. Ira Glass / Terry Gross (This American Life / Fresh Air)

7. Audie Cornish (All Things Considered)

6. Sylvia Poggioli (Senior European correspondent)

5. Cokie Roberts (Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts) (Morning Edition commenter)

4. Lakshmi Singh (Latino USA, midday newscaster)

3. Marty Moss-Coanne (Radio Times)

2. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson (Morning Edition, All Things Considered)

Honorable Mentions: Carl Kassell, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Renee Montagne, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

1. Kai Ryssdal (Marketplace morning report)

Closing Song: Sylvan Esso "H.S.K.T."

Recorded last week, but uploaded this week.

We react to the Baltimore Rebellion, with some special eyewitness reporting from Alyssa.

This week, we have guest Harjit Singh Gill from Oakland California on to give us a plea for Barry Bonds being in the Hall of Fame.

Note: We're working through some technical issues still. Sound quality varies!

Clip: From The Sidelines: An Empty Feeling in Baltimore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dayieDtNjg

Harjit's Top 10 Podcasts:

This American Life

DharmaPunx NYC

Star Talk Radio

Effectively Wild

X Files Files

Washed Up Emo

Effectively Wild

Fangraphs Audio

Fresh Air (forever)

and Productive Outs

James's Top 10 History Podcasts:

1. History of Rome - Mike Duncan

2. Revolutions- Mike Duncan

3. Ben Franklin's World- Liz Covart

4. Hardcore History- Dan Carlin

5. The JuntoCast- PhD students

6. History Chicks

7. Irish History podcast

8. History Extra BBC

9. The Podcast History of Our World

10. Backstory with American History Guys

This week in baseball, life, and other sports!

Top 10 sports podcasts, Phillies complaints, WIP Downfall, East Coast Love.

Follow Brent on twitter @bwalcoff and James @jgeneric

James's Top 10 Sports Podcasts (mostly baseball)

1. Effectively Wild

2. Banished to the Pen

3. Fangraphs Audio

4. Edge of Sports

5. NBA After Dark

6. Baseball Tonight

7. Productive Outs

8. Baseball PhD

9. Outside the Lines

10. Crossing Streams

Brent's Top 10 Podcasts (in no particular order)

- Edge of Sports

- Fantasy Focus Baseball & Football

- Baseball Tonight

- Bar Talk

- Marketplace

- Radiolab

- MLB Trade Rumors

- Freakonomics

- Fantasy Underground

- WTF

- Nerdist

- Crossing Streams

19th Century Baseball, Brent's trip to Cleveland and being ripped off by the football hall of fame, Michael Brantley, and James's 2011 epic southern baseball roadtrip.

Athletic of Philadelphia Base Ball Club- http://www.phillyvintagebaseball.org/

Helltown, OH- http://www.ghostsofohio.org/lore/ohio_lore_36.html

Chippewa Lake Park (abandoned)-

http://www.ohioforgotten.com/exploration/chippewa/

James's twitter- @jgeneric

Brenton's twitter- @bwalcoff

Cleveland rumblings, conference hopping in Arizona and New Orleans, burning tire fires in Philadelphia, fantasy life, and some thoughts on Opening Day.

James and Brent are joined by Bloomsburg Press Enterprise Sports Writer, Dan, and Black Cat Revolution blogger, Alyssa, as they ramble about communist baseball, civil war reenacting baseball league, the Cubs winning the World Series, netflix, beer, while always maintaining a focus on James and Brent's true passion -- baseball.