More animal-related delays, Guardians City Connect leak, Skenes debut, and a summer sausage update plus mailbag.Check out patreon.com/battingaround to support the show and get access to bonus episodes.Batting Around Podcast

The sausage fails, Phillies have the best record in baseball, an early May trade, Rays city connects good, Tigers city connects bad, mailbag.check out patreon.com/battingaround for more episodesBatting Around Podcast

We talk about a ton of fun stuff that happened in baseball this week: the Twins' inexplicable home run celebration, Kruk getting weird with it in the booth, Ozzie Albies' aquarium and fish rescue youtube channel, Jays fans booing Ohtani, Aaron Boone getting tossed because a fan yelled at the ump, the AL West usurping the AL Central for crummiest di…

Mets' city connects, Rockies's FAA investigation, all sorts of ball tricks, lots of stuff on this week's episode.Check out patreon.com/battingaround to support the show and get access to bonus episodes.Batting Around Podcast

We talk about how baseball is more important a stupid eclipse then get into the latest in the scandal around Ohtani's former translator with the release of the United States v. Mizuhara document.check out patreon.com/battingaround for bonus episodes and to support the show.Batting Around Podcast

Staffcast's Trevor Hildenberger is back on the show to relay firsthand experience with the Sacramento River Cats stadium proposed as the temporary home of the Athletics. Then we talk about the latest Ohtani controversy around authentication at ballparks, the new uniforms, and then an F1 update.Check out www.patreon.com/battingaround to support the …

We made it to Opening Day!Batting Around Podcast

We talk the Ippei/Ohtani gambling scandal, Peter Angelos's death, how to be a guilt-free ex-Catholic, and Italian cookies.Check out patreon.com/battingaround for our guide to pride nights around the league and lots more bonus content.Batting Around Podcast

Returning guest Mellie Macker is here to explain astrologically what is wrong with the Mets and what is astrologically right with Shohei Ohtani. We also talk about the new Pronoun Mode in MLB The Show.Batting Around Podcast

Ohtani is married, minor league marketing has gone too far, Phillies cancel dollar dog night, Lauren is back into fantasy baseball, we all loved Dune 2.check out www.patreon.com/battingaround for bonus episodesBatting Around Podcast

Players are becoming board game nerds. The A's social media turns off replies and A's fans throw their own fan fest, the uniforms are bad and create an unsafe work environment, and we list all the cities we don't like.check out patreon.com/battingaround to support the show and get access to all our bonus episodes.…

This week we talk about a bunch of things that have gone horribly wrong in baseball that we all saw coming but we powerless to stop.Check out patreon.com/battingaround to get access to our bonus episodes, including our recent one with predictions for the 2024 season.Batting Around Podcast

Indoor barbeque, spring training, new Pschosabermetrics, recent signings and available free agents, lots of other fun stuff. We're so close to baseball being back and it's got our energy back up.Batting Around Podcast

We talked about baseball a pretty good amount on this one but we also talked a lot about sorcery.Check out www.patreon.com/battingaround for more content and to support the show.Batting Around Podcast

We catch up on baseball news including the new Hall of Fame inductees and all the transactions that happened since our last show, and then try to save Joc Pederson's career.Sign up for bonus episodes at www.patreon.com/battingaroundBatting Around Podcast

A lot of New York stuff, then a bunch of talk about airports and sodas.Batting Around Podcast

It's our first episode back in the new year and we talk about baseball and movies and Freddie Freeman at the Golden Globes.Batting Around Podcast

We're still on our holiday vacation so here's another unlocked Patreon episode. Since we'll be doing a Couchin' Around for Brockmire season 2 soon here's one for season one of Brockmire. We'll be back with regular episodes next week.Batting Around Podcast

We're on Christmas break so here's a fun episode that was previously patreon-only. You can also go sign up for our patreon for an episode we released yesterday on the Hallmark baseball movies, which is a lot more fun than it sounds. Anyway here's the description for this one:Nick Babakitis from the Corner Späti podcast guests this week to tell us a…

It's the offseason, that's for sure.Be sure to check out the Wide Strike Zone podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/10NaZyYj7Gj84OCLGn5ncXBatting Around Podcast

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Jane's getting deeper into Ohtani pet trutherism. We also talk about death and the hall of fame.Batting Around Podcast

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FanGraphs managing editor and host of Effectively Wild Meg Rowley is back, and we talked about SO much stuff: cats' buttholes, the curse of the Colonel, the World Series, an extremely deep dive into all things Arizona, Stephen's appearance in an article on gay Phillies fans. Not one to be missed!Batting Around Podcast

Even though it feels like a million years ago already we talked about the end of the LCS series before we get into our critiques of the new stadium foods for the Dbacks and Rangers. Then we recap the putrid vibes at the opening ceremony, the excellent game one, and the less excellent game two.Monday 10/30 we're going to be doing our Watch Along for…

we're talking about the CS games, what else would this be?sign up at patreon.com/battingaround to get our bonus episodes and a spot for our upcoming World Series watch along (date tbd).Batting Around Podcast

Jane, Lauren, and Stephen talk the DS series and all the drama surrounding it on and off the field. We also issue a warning to an upstart podcast trying to muscle in on our turf.The CS Watch Along is going to be on Monday, October 16th for the Diamondbacks/Phillies game. This one is going to be patreon members only. There's still time to sign up at…

Cooper Lund is with us to talk about the Twins breaking their curse, passing the curse onto other teams, and talk about the other previous and upcoming postseason games. We also talk about Blooper getting in way over his head and talk about the sports fan coping mechanisms that become necessary every October.Go sign up for patreon.com/battingaround…

Sean Doolittle is back on the show to talk about how he plans to avoid becoming an online reactionary after his retirement. We also do some postseason hot takes and predictions and arrange a potential Thunderdome type situation in the event of a Twins/Phillies World Series. It's a really great conversation and a look back at a great career. Congrat…

Our good buddy Manu of My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast and NotACast is back for our pre-postseason tradition of taking it easy for a bit before the chaos of the playoffs. We catch him up on the what's going on with the last week of the regular season, then spend some time talking about movies and TV shows, video games and labor strikes, and of c…

It's Big Beer Friday, or it was yesterday anyway.Batting Around Podcast

Our friend Marc Normandin is back to talk about his new project, Doom at 30, which you can go back on kickstarter now! We talk some baseball stuff that we missed during our unexpected week off, get mad at a real guy and a guy we imagined, and talk about what sports we think should cease to exist.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doomat30/doom-at…

We make our glorious return after taking last week off, and oh boy do we talk about a lot of baseball stuff in this one. It's a really fun one even though our audio recording program mangled Jane's track.Batting Around Podcast

PUP guitarist Steve Sladkowski is on the show this week to talk about the Blue Jays, scoring games, stadium renovations, and the Jays winning the 2015 World Series.Batting Around Podcast

We tore ourselves away from Baldur's Gate 3 long enough to talk about baseball fights and a bunch of stuff about the Orioles. I'd write a longer description but I gotta go play more Baldur's Gate 3.Batting Around Podcast

Bobby and Alex from Tipping Pitches are on this episode and we're holding Stephen accountable for his crimes.Batting Around Podcast

Big trade deadline episode! We've got a week until the deadline, so we go over where all 30 teams stand, who is likely to go, who needs what, who should push all the chips in and who should pack up and try again next year. Then we talk Barbenheimer a little bit and do some mailbag.On Wednesday, July 26th we'll be doing a watchalong in our discord f…

NOW AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE! For more bonus episodes, sign up at Patreon.com/BattingAroundI thought I'd do something special for Stephen's birthday, so had a conversation with the original man in the Philly Phanatic and the creator of Gritty, Dave Raymond, This was an incredibly fun interview, and we finally got answers to the questions that keep us…

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Forget the actual MLB amateur draft, here at Batting Around we're concerned with professionals. Professional hot guys. It's back, and this time it's Batting Around (really just Stephen) vs. the guests Lewis, Alyssa, and Jeremy in a head-to-head draft of the hottest of the hot MLB players.Check out https://twitter.com/BattinAround to vote on which t…

Defector's David Roth is back to talk about the Mets (of course), then Lauren hosts a fun game where we have to guess if it's an old MLB player or garbage-tier Stan Lee character. Good mailbag in there, too.go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to help the show and get access to our bonus episodes and watch alongs.…

Bailey of Foolish Baseball is back to talk about Andrew McCutchen's, let's call it "affinity," for furries and playing baseball near furry conventions. We also talk about the other news of the week, like the perfect game tossed Wednesday night, Orioles pride night, and ballplayers' hobbies. Good mailbag questions, too, except the one from Richard S…

I'm gonna be real with you here, this is the least we've talked about baseball on a main feed episode in ages. We mostly talked about the missing submarine and other nautical disaster, but it's really funny and we get around to baseball stuff eventually.Go subscribe at patreon.com/battingaround to hear our bonus episodes, including a great one from…

John Cullen and Stefan Heck of the wonderful Blocked Party podcast are back to talk about sponsoring a stock car, regional accents, a bunch of Blue Jays stuff, Jane handing out passes left and right, some breaking A's news, sad cameos, and our shared dream of Husbands and Boyfriends someday joining the ranks of Wives and Girlfriends.Support the sho…

Patrick Sullivan of The Resleevables is here to talk about the Padres, working for Upper Deck, and baseball from the perspective of an experienced game designer. He also reveals his secret performance enhancing drug for Magic: The Gathering, as well as some tips for the Catholic Church's marketing department. A super fun conversation, you don't wan…

Adam from Hobby Perverts and formerly of South Paws is here to tell us what the heck happened with the White Sox, then we touch on some other little fun things that happened since last week's show, and then we regrettably have to talk more about the Pride drama happening around the league.Batting Around Podcast

Emma Baccellieri of Sports Illustrated is on the show to talk the explosion in organized home run celebrations across Major League Baseball, the Orioles' city connect uniforms, and the Dodgers walking back their disinvitation of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride night. Then we get into mailbag where we conclusively settle a quest…

FanGraphs' Michael Baumann is back to talk about the news of the week, and we made him take point as the only straight man when we talked about the Dodgers' cowardly Pride Night scandal.Batting Around Podcast

We cover Lauren getting into soccer, new international series announcements, the central divisions being terrible, Noah Syndergaard doing hypnotherapy, Akil Badoo getting tagged in the 'nads, and we also talked about what specific parts of the UK we don't like and what planets are bullshit.We're doing a patreon episode of nothing but mailbag this w…

Charles is back to talk about what the heck is going on with the FIRST PLACE ON MAY 2ND Pittsburgh Pirates. Then we check in on the rest of the standings, talk about the Mexico City bombfest, and of course some mailbag.Batting Around Podcast