Category: Baseball Podcasts

Tomorrow, Trenton Thunder (AA Yankees) assistant GM Greg Coleman will run the bases 500 times in an effort to raise money for autism research, education and advocacy.

Coleman’s son, Kevin was recently diagnosed with Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD), a form of autism.

Asssuming he’s not too tired, I think they’re going to have him back on again later this week to let them know how it went.

Update: Coleman completed his 500 laps today. He began at 7:;07am and ended at 2:32pm running over 34 miles. No word on how much has been collected so far. My guess is that the donations are still rolling in.

Just the other day, timely Teddy Ballgame brought up the exploits of Fish skipper (and former Cubs catcher) Joe Girardi who seems to be holding his own.

If you’re interested, check out MLB radio’s interview with Joe.

Author Rob Neyer is also interviewed on the same show. His interview focused on historically recognized uneven trades.

Do you think the Brock/Broglio trade was brought up?

You betcha.

Sometimes when I goof up, something good comes of it.

I was on my way out and wanted a good baseball show to listen to on my iPod. Instead of using Juice*, I decided to download a podcast manually. I decided on MLB’s Fantasy 411. I clicked, dragged, and was on my way.

When I eventually listened to the podcast, I realized that it wasn’t Fantasy 411 I downloaded but its companion show, Baseball Today. And boy, I’m glad I did.

I must admit the topics of today’s episode were rather interesting to me. First, they had interviewed Cubs’ bench manager Dick Pole who had some insight on the Prior matter. Oh and host Vinny Micucci did ask Pole about the possibility of moving Kerry Wood to the pen… Pole skillfully dodged that one saying that the Cubs need to get Wood healthy and when he is he’ll be back in the rotation.

The next interview was with Dodger rookie catcher Russ Martin. Martin is one of the Dodgers’ several hot rookies this year. The Canadian import gave a very honest, sincere interview.

For those interested in Baseball Today, this is the rss feed.

Squeeze the Juice

*Oh, Juice. What is Juice? Juice is a podcast aggregator (formerly known as iPodder). Once you initially enter in the rss feed for the podcasts you are interested in, you no longer need manually go to the web page to download the podcast.

I find it to be a very handy utility. In the morning before I leave for work, I click one button and it downloads all the podcasts I like to listen to and then all I need to do is drag them to my iPod. It’s a lot easier than doing it manually.

Juice is free and available for download here.

When I first began listening to MLB.com Fantasy 411, I was a bit skeptical.  Coming from MLB, I suspected something over-polished, toeing the company line. 

You see, that’s what I like about listening to baseball podcasts.  I get the sense that, for the most part, the hosts are baseball fans foremost.  Unlike many of the TV or radio sports personalities who seem to be either entertainers or former athletes.  As a result, ‘casters tend to put out a more intelligent show with better, more in-depth analysis.

 Well, my skepticism is not warranted.  It’s almost as if MLB went out, found two guys who are really into fantasy baseball and hired them to do a show.  Who knows?  Maybe that’s what they did.

Hosts Cory Scharwtz and Mike Siano are involved in fantasy baseball leagues and readily talk about their experiences.  More importantly, they take calls an emails (mostly asking about trade advice). They always do a quick summary of the majors and end their show with “Pitch or Ditch”, a rundown of the pitching probables of the next day.

As the name implies, their focus is fantasy baseball so if that is not your thing, the show may not appeal to you.  If it is though, you’ll get some useful info. 

Here is their rss feed.

I just listened to a podcast by The RotoKings.  They’re new (the ‘cast I listened to was #8) but they were well-informed and probably just as important, interesting to listen to.  This particular episode highlighted the early season and which player was hot, who was not and who might be worth a gamble in your fantasy draft. 

Their website documents their podcasts as well any other interesting news.

Podcast link