Nov 26, 2020
Bad teams will often bring home a prodigal son in an effort to gin up unearned fan enthusiasm. It usually ends badly. But for the Mets, the decision to bring Gil Hodges home to manage 53 years ago this week wound up working on both levels far beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Mike and Bill look back at how Hodges became...
Nov 22, 2020
After skipping the last couple months, we're back with another Zoom hangout with our patrons and with our special guest, Michael Baumann of The Ringer (@MichaelBaumann) to talk about what promises to be a weird and possibly slow offseason, and what that might mean for whether we get baseball in 2022. We also talk a lot...
Nov 18, 2020
Many people who saw him at his peak consider Sandy Koufax the finest pitcher who ever lived. But that incredible peak came to an abrupt end 54 years ago this week when, wracked with constant pain, Sandy decided he couldn't continue to pitch. Mike and Bill look back at the long road that Sandy took before he finally...
Nov 13, 2020
With the Black Sox scandal threatening to ruin Major League Baseball, team owners knew they needed to clean up their sport. And 100 years ago this week, they found the man to do it: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. But the last century has not been kind to the man once credited with saving baseball. Mike and Bill look...
Nov 5, 2020
Ken Caminiti was one of the most tragic and most controversial players of the last 30 years. His rise from perfectly good third baseman to true superstar was fueled by PEDs, and his life was cut short by substance abuse. Mike and Bill welcome special guest Joe Vasile (@joevasilePBP), whose new podcast, Secondary...